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(YouTube) Video From the "What the Hell were we thinking?" file: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - "Zoot Suit Riot"   (youtube.com) divider line 75
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zooter [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 11:53:14 AM  
They were thinking "Hey! We're a struggling punk/funk/ska band...let's cash in on this swing craze before it...oh. There it goes. Oh, well."

 
Kiribub [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 12:01:08 PM  
Actually, that's not a bad tune. I can think of much, much worse.

 
SockMonkeyHolocaust 2008-05-11 12:23:10 PM  
Yeah, the late 90s were pretty terrible and proof that music could get even worse than it was in the early 90s.

And this week, uh, rockabilly is making a resurgence AGAIN! Wow, twice in one month... who ever would have guessed that?

 
Tarkus 2008-05-11 01:02:20 PM  
I actually like 'Cherry Poppin' Daddies', I hunted them down after hearing their music in the movie 'Blast From the Past'.

 
AntonSzandorLaVey [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 01:23:08 PM  
I like that song

 
semiotix 2008-05-11 01:28:49 PM  
That it would be nice to get paid? That it wouldn't hurt if more than 0.001% of the population had heard of you? That getting 11 cents every time a pizza chain uses it in a commercial really adds up in the long run?

 
mediaho 2008-05-11 01:49:49 PM  
I just assumed they were a one hit wonder swing band. I had no idea they were a zero hit loser ska/punk band.

 
clancifer [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 02:03:44 PM  
mediaho: I just assumed they were a one hit wonder swing band. I had no idea they were a zero hit loser ska/punk band.

WIN.

 
VictoryCabal [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 02:07:07 PM  
I don't know. I like that song, it's a good tune. Plus, how many top 40 hits do you get about race riots?

 
SockMonkeyHolocaust 2008-05-11 02:18:20 PM  
In case you missed it, glam metal was in from 10:00 am to 11:30 am but then our station managers received an assload of money and apparently for the next hour recordings of whales and dolphins in the ocean are making a comeback. Stay tuned as we bring you the best in major label grunge, glam, ska, punk whale songs!

 
Bhasayate [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 02:40:18 PM  
sucks worse than the mighty mighty bosstones SUCKS I say

crap crap crap

 
mfaby 2008-05-11 02:41:55 PM  
Lousy version of a good song done by the worse of the
'Swing Revival' bands.

These guys suck/ed and deserve to DIAF for their smarmy name alone.

 
nirwana [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 03:09:08 PM  
I know these cats.

/Eugene FTW!

 
strangeguitar 2008-05-11 03:36:06 PM  
Setzer does swing better with smokin' guitar, but I don't mind a song or two from them.

 
Wareq 2008-05-11 03:47:28 PM  
Since it hasn't been posted yet, here's Grapefruit Diet.

 
Telekon 2008-05-11 03:56:43 PM  
i was more a fan of setzer at the tiem but liked some somngs by Squirell Nut Zippers also.

/who comes up with these godawful names anyways

 
Im in ur Fark 2008-05-11 05:09:19 PM  
So money.

 
jj325 [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 05:35:44 PM  
Zoot suit
White jacket with side vents five inches long
I'm out on the street again
And I'm leaping along

Schizophrenic? I'm bleeding quadrophenic...

 
not_an_indigo [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 05:49:51 PM  
Just saw Cherry Poppin' Daddies last night.

/good show
//suck it, haters

 
Teleken 2008-05-11 05:59:12 PM  
Telekon: i was more a fan of setzer at the tiem but liked some somngs by Squirell Nut Zippers also.

/who comes up with these godawful names anyways

Are we related?

(checks profile)

Guess not.

 
Macthulhu 2008-05-11 07:33:18 PM  

Zoot Suit Riot was a so-so song on a crappy album. I used to see them all the time when I lived in Portland, before Swing got Good Morning America'd... and I have to say they were always a total blast. No point to seeing them in a Warped Tour setting, daylight, or a place that held more than a couple hundred people though... They are totally geared for smaller, more intimate rooms.

/Still like Swing.
//Brian Setzer crushes most of them.
///The originals are still the best.


 
TonySoprano 2008-05-11 07:52:37 PM  
First off, that song got overplayed like mad but the album is REALLY good!
Second, for you GWAR fans out there... the lead singer of Cherry Poppin Daddies was also Sleazy P Martini!

/my 2 cents about CPD

 
Macthulhu 2008-05-11 08:14:30 PM  
ps... By the time this song got played to death, CPD had been doing their thing for about 8 years. Then there was that awful period of time where the media gave Swing the grunge treatment... ruining it. First time I saw them, in 92 or 93, I had taken mushrooms and gone to Satyricon to see some punk bands. I had the nights mixed up and stumbled into a room full of punks and gearheads doing the Jitterbug. Mind = blown.

 
Gulper Eel [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 08:29:57 PM  
Was about 13 years ahead of them, and did it way better:

ecx.images-amazon.com

And speaking of the 40's, if you can talk the lady in your life into dressing up like one of the girls on the nose cone of a B-17 and she does it and looks good...that dame's a keeper, sez me.

 
Thresher 2008-05-11 08:30:23 PM  
I had the nights mixed up and stumbled into a room full of punks and gearheads doing the Jitterbug. Mind = blown.
MACTHULHU FTW!

 
TheJoe03 [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 08:35:50 PM  
Wow that song really brings me back, I remember when they always played this crap on the radio, but hey it ain't that bad of a tune. shiat's catchy!

 
calm like a bomb 2008-05-11 09:07:59 PM  
Telekon: i was more a fan of setzer at the tiem but liked some somngs by Squirell Nut Zippers also.

/who comes up with these godawful names anyways

www.theonlinecandyshop.com
bp2.blogger.com

 
emocomputerjock 2008-05-11 09:15:56 PM  
I just want to say that Deke Dickerson does not get the respect or credit he deserves.

 
SockMonkeyHolocaust 2008-05-11 09:22:31 PM  
Nor did Black Velvet Flag.

 
Erom 2008-05-11 09:40:52 PM  
Subby: From the "What the Hell were we thinking?" file: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - "Zoot Suit Riot"

You think this is bad? Have you looked at the Billboard top 20, or turned on TV during last X years?

 
FeedTheCollapse 2008-05-11 09:49:39 PM  
Erom: You think this is bad? Have you looked at the Billboard top 20, or turned on TV during last X years?

Not necessarily bad, but it did all of a sudden come out of nowhere. Not to mention making the music is one thing, dressing in full costume from a certain era just reeks of poseurdom.

/submitter
/somewhere, the Squirrel Nut Zipper are crying.

 
TomServo0 2008-05-11 09:49:45 PM  
Wow. I saw these guys headline a college festival ten years ago. Ozomatli and The Pietasters opened. Drum circles, moshing, and the Lindy Hop all in one show.

 
FiendishFellow05 2008-05-11 09:55:28 PM  
I swear, this has to be some sort of failed subliminal message gag.

It just screams:

OBEY ME

img.photobucket.com

or "BUY OUR RECORDS!!"

 
AthensBoy 2008-05-11 10:03:15 PM  
Can't sleep, clown'll eat me. Can't sleep, clown'll eat me.

 
mikesum32 2008-05-11 10:42:31 PM  
Yeah, I liked it. Suck it haters. Suck it long. Suck it hard.

 
kth [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 11:14:22 PM  
They were fun. My sister and I (and possibly more of our group of girls, I sort of lost track of who all went where on that bar crawl) once made them laugh so hard that the horn section had to stop playing.

It might have been the prom dresses, combat boots and sashes proclaiming our booze of choice. Apparently, that getup also constituted cover charge. Ahh, fairy princess night, that was fun.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2008-05-11 11:29:30 PM  
emocomputerjock: I just want to say that Deke Dickerson does not get the respect or credit he deserves.

this.

actually - these guys weren't too bad. better than the crummy swing band in swingers. the one from the chicago 'burbs was better, though. can't remember their name. from dekalb or downer's grove or some western suburb.

 
Third Day Mark 2008-05-11 11:54:46 PM  
What the hell were people thinking.

I even remember kids going to the Gap and going "swing dancing". Pft. Dumbasses.

 
empres77 2008-05-12 12:26:08 AM  
Suck it, haters. Swing music never goes out of style.

Besides, swing chicks are hot.

 
csi_yellowknife 2008-05-12 12:27:32 AM  
Yeah, what where they thinking? More Nickelback for the popsters and whiny, pretentious indie pop for the scenesters.

I'll take another swing revival before the current crap on both pop and indie/college radio right now. I'll even take 3rd wave ska.

Ricky Martin-era "latin," on the other hand, I'll have to take a pass on.

 
MuckSP [TotalFark] 2008-05-12 12:45:05 AM  
Actually I always thought that was quite badass, and I'm usually quite the douche when it comes to music.

 
novschmozkapop 2008-05-12 01:00:20 AM  
I enjoyed their earlier work and actually enjoyed the swing fad. I've seen far worse fads. At least we learned how to dance, something kids today seem to not be capable of.

// 'Shake Your Lovemaker' FTW!
/// ...and get the hell off my lawn!

 
comoxgirl 2008-05-12 01:21:09 AM  
I saw

Big John Bates & the Voodoo Dollz (new window) live last Halloween and they rocked the bar - um make that the entire block!

and yes, the double bass player really does balance on her bass and play it awesomely at the same time.

 
Bosie 2008-05-12 01:27:44 AM  
Man, I thoroughly enjoyed the random, out of nowhere, neo-swing year. Kind of makes me hope for an upcoming equally random music 'revolution'.

/anyone interested in harpsichord grunge?

 
Teleken 2008-05-12 01:32:55 AM  
comoxgirl: I saw

Big John Bates & the Voodoo Dollz (new window) live last Halloween and they rocked the bar - um make that the entire block!

and yes, the double bass player really does balance on her bass and play it awesomely at the same time.

It's a trick that's been around since the late '40s, but still impressive. Jimbo Wallace (Reverend Horton Heat) pulls that off pretty well too. He's also all of about 5 feet tall and drank me under the table a few years ago, but that's a story for another day...

 
stuartlittle 2008-05-12 01:36:39 AM  
for all the haters, i haven't seen one reason why this song is bad other than it being overplayed ten years ago. anyone care to explain?

 
JJComa 2008-05-12 02:24:44 AM  
AntonSzandorLaVey: I like that song

No you cannot like this song. Even though is really catchy it is not by Rush, Emerson Lake and Palmer or Yes. Remember your music has to be non-commercial and really bad.

/Get with the program!!!
//Tom Sawyer = Exception

 
JJComa 2008-05-12 02:27:14 AM  
not_an_indigo: Just saw Cherry Poppin' Daddies last night.

/good show
//suck it, haters

Amen, brother.

 
Ltar 2008-05-12 02:52:28 AM  
I love that album.

so piss off.

 
DownIncognito 2008-05-12 04:53:48 AM  
Great friggin song. Loads better than anything that's been released recently.

 
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