The hit single from the album, low, helped cracker gain widespread notice. Kerosene hat is the second studio album by american rock band cracker, released on august 24, 1993. Sunarefa refers to a soviet brand of cold medicine. Compilations other albums which feature this performance of the song. Music video by cracker performing eurotrash girl live at the ogden theatre, denver co. Well ive been up to paris and ive slept in a park went down to barcelona someone broke in my car. I think when a band has a song on the radio, and obviously weve been. Went down to barcelona someone broke in my car, and ill search the world over. Used by russian metal band korrozia metalla on the song title translates to kill the sunarefa. In this song, meaning cold clear water, it all comes together. Among the early printed uses of the term was in the early 1980s, when taki theodoracopulos, a wealthy greek living in new york city, wrote a newspaper column entitled eurotrash in the east side express. A computer adept who is proficient at breaking software protection schemata such as keycodes, firewalls, copy protection, login scripts, etc. On this session, cracker members david lowery and johnny hickman sing a group of familiar cracker songs that have appeared previously on the groups albums.
Best of all the covers is their version of the german punk band malarias kaltes klares wasser. Went down to barcelona someone broke in my car and ill search the world over for my angel in black. The attorney tried to get jeantel to own up to the term being. The wikipedia definition is slanted and only has the usn. Crackers oddball lyrics get greater emphasis in these arrangements, but lowery and hickman are careful to sing them straightforwardly, as if they were no more unusual than the words to the average country song. He was kind of ranting on lyrics ideas and then he went back on the bus. The term spoonerism is named in honor of the reverend william archibald spooner whose students used to write down all the instances of spoonerisms that he made.
Well ive been up to paris and ive slept in a park went down to barcelona someone broke in my car and ill search the world over. Timothy leary duly reinforced by the slackerrock shrug of the midtempo music. June 6, 2009 they are back with a new release entitled sunrise in the land of milk and honey on the 429 records record label. Versions different performances of the song by the same artist. But with their new double album, berkeley to bakersfield, at least on the bakersfield portion of the album, the altrock radio band known for such hits as low and get off this dives headfirst into the california country sound. Eurotrash girl by cracker from the album kerosene hat simply one of my alltime favorite songs. The best of cracker serves up the band s bestknown songs in a concise, entertaining fashion. I remember checking out the groups message board on america online at the time and being pleasantly surprised to find the two founding members david lowery and johnny hickman making frequent postings. Watch the video for eurotrash girl from crackers garage dor for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The story behind that was at that time we had a lot of songs. Eurotrash girl cracker lyrics, song meanings, videos. The song was originally released on the ep tucson, 2 and then as an unlisted track track 69 on the album kerosene hat. They are best known for their hit songs low and read more.
The giant dipper roller coaster is featured in the song big dipper on 1996s the golden age. She said i sent you to college now go call your dad. Cracker is an american alternative rock band fronted by camper van beethoven singer david lowery, with guitarist johnny hickman. Cracker frontman david lowery and guitarist johnny hickman have known. Eurotrash girl is a single by cracker, released in 1994. They have soldiered on together, starting with their 1992 eponymous debut album, to radio hits like low and get off this, to leaving virgin records in 2003 and putting out a country covers album.
Cracker frontman david lowery and guitarist johnny hickman have known each other a long time. Cracker, the group that veritably introduced brash irreverence and irony into altrock, are back and in top form on their 429 records debut, sunrise in the land of milk and honey this rich new trove of sharpwitted songs showcases a bristling, late 70s early 80s power pop punk aesthetic which hits as hard as it did at the band s formation 17 years ago. Yesterday, one of the defense lawyers in the zimmerman trial said that shooting victim trayvon martin injected race into his fatal encounter with george zimmerman by referring to zimmerman as a creepyass cracker while on the phone with his friend, rachel jeantel. Crackers eurotrash girl music video in high definition. The term was also used into the 1990s, with american band cracker releasing a single called eurotrash girl. It has a different meaning in the us than in europe, i wasnt even aware of that till i read these strange us definitions. Growing old gracefully is a rare achievement for a rocknroll band, but cracker are certainly fitting the bill. Well ive been up to paris and ive slept in a park went down to barcelona someone broke in my car and ill search the world over for my angel in black yeah, ill. Cracker is an american rock band led by singer david lowery and guitarist johnny hickman. With cracker out touring with camper van beethoven again, heres a playlist of their 15 best songs. Cracker, which krummenacher also plays with, is working on a new disc.
Its a track shorter than the first disc of garage whose second disc was devoted to bsides and rarities, but for most casual fans, that may not matter since get on with it. Yeah, ill search the world over for a eurotrash girl eurotrash girl eurotrash girl eurotrash girl eurotrash girl called my mom from a payphone i said im down to my last. I dont see this stream of revenue being diminished immediately by the pandemic. It is also a neologism used in other popcultural products, my favourite of which is the rock band crackers song eurotrash girl 1993, a third similar travelogue of an american in europe, bumming around, selling his plasma, and looking for that elusive allblack wardrobed eurotrash girl well ive been up to paris, and i slept in a park. It had a huge hit with 1993s disc kerosene hat, which featured eurotrash girl, a mott the hooplelike masterpiece. Their career now spans 18 years and has spawned a discography in the double figures. Readings in the literary topography of generational writings. A spoonerism occurs when the first letters or syllables of two or more words get swapped. Yeah, ill search the world over for a eurotrash girl. And the waitress that he married well she hung up the phone.
The gunman will examine his conscience to decide whether he is forced to break his oath and to take up his infallible guns in order to stop the band. Things seem to go calmly until an outlaw band besieges the country putting it to iron and fire. Lyrics to eurotrash girl by camper van beethoven from the virgin years album including song video, artist biography, translations and more. The songs narrator describes a dissolute life, drifting across europe in pursuit of an angel in black, the titular eurotrash girl. With the hidden songs of eurotrash girl and i ride my bike there are more treasures here than even the tracklist entails. In 1993, the band cracker released a terrific album called kerosene hat the opening track, low, was an alternative radio staple and i became a fan. The band initially polarized audiences within the hardcore punk scene of. She is a bit more temperamental, yet so very glorious in tone. Straightforward cracker is classic yale daily news.
Cracker have been weaving subtle yet undeniable country twang throughout their sound since their 1992 selftitled debut. So, for example, leadoff track get off this from kerosene hat becomes a bluegrassreggae number, while eurotrash girl, which follows, becomes a countrywaltz with a plunking banjo playing along. The chicks on speed versions of crackers eurotrash girl and the b52s tunes gimme back my man and song for a future generation overflow with dry humour. German band fsk covered the song on their 1996 album international, produced by crackers david lowery who also is an occasional member. Balloon juice creepyass crackers, race and bias in the. The platinumselling kerosene hat contained the enormous, eradefining hit single low, as well as get off this, and eurotrash girl. However as he is an infallible gunman the people nominate him to be sheriff of the country. And, to think, it was a hidden track the lyrics are among the best rock lyrics ive ever heard in the rock idiom. I do not know if korrozia metalla corrosion of metal were the first to use this slang or how it came about, but it seemed very widly understood among russian youth.
There were even a few radio stations playing live bootlegs of it. Speaking of sophomoric humor, cracker intentionally placed empty tracks. Cracker may be best known for their 1993 single, low, and its prominent use of the word stoned in its chorus. Cracker s oddball lyrics get greater emphasis in these arrangements, but lowery and hickman are careful to sing them straightforwardly, as if they. Ok this question is a lot more interesting than it first appears. Licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of cm angel a91. Love them, hate them, evoke the strong opinions of the coen brothers fictional character jeff the dude lebowski all you want, but glen frey and the eagles turned millions of music fans from all around the world into country music listeners through the evocative power of simple, universal sentiments bathed in twangy tones, however filed off the edges may have been, or however commercially.
The lyrics follow lowery down the stream of consciousness. Lowery and hickman formed the band in 1991, releasing the album cracker the following year which included singles happy birthday to me and teen angst on virgin records. When the dust settled, cracker found themselves with an evergrowing, devoted following both in the u. The band is best known for its goldselling 1993 album, kerosene hat, which includes the hit songs low and eurotrash girl. Ya know she never did like me but i can stand on my own. Its not exactly an outgrowth of the o brother, where art thou. Cracker played the hits both nights including low, eurotrash girl and the lovely almond grove. Delivering passionate and comprehensive entertainment coverage to millions of users worldwide each month. In another wellknown song, teen angst, lead singer david lowery claims, what the world needs now is another folk singer like i need a hole in my head. Cracker guitarist johnny hickman explained how and why they put this extra music on the disc, and in such an unusual way. I want everything is one of crackers most modern sounding songs to come from the 90s and really showed the direction the band would lean toward in the future.