Where is the love for Zebra?

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"He's Making You the Fool," "Your Mind's Open," "Better Not Call," and "Hard Living Without You" rank as some of the best songs ever written in any regard.

― Jack of Speed, Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

As in these clowns?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IG8.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

.. rank as some of the best songs ever written in any regard.

Ummm...you need to hear more songs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Plenty of love for "Tell Me What You Want" from me. I have no memory of anything else they did. I think Randy Jackson's going for a Mona Lisa smile on that album cover, and failing.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 August 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

i live in bridge city (louisiana), the gumbo capital of the world. every year we have a gumbo festival in the huge backyard of this local church with food, games, and live music. zebra often plays at this festival. it's more than amusing.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 13 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

the only thing that i remember about these guys is their absurdly awful video for the song "bears."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 13 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Re: 'Bears': I'd say we can assume Ted Nugent isn't a Zebra fan.

I'll actually 'fess up to owning the best-of and say that 'Who's Behind the Door' and 'Tell Me What You Want' were two of the better things on AOR radio in the mid-'80s.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Sunday, 14 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i like "who's behind the door" but everything else i've heard is turd city.

― some stockholm cindy talking (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 14 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Zebra make Asia sound like the fucking Velvet Underground.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 August 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

"Wait Until the Summer's Gone" rules!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 14 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I like all their singles actually, but never bought an album.

For years, I always thought they were Canadian. Maybe because of the video for "Bears", or maybe because they opened for Loverboy back in 1983 or so. In 6th grade, I bonded over a love of music with the guy who remains my best friend to this day, when he told about the concert he had seen the night before (his first concert ever): Loverboy and Zebra.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 14 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Started out a Loo-sianna band, translocated and wound up a Jersey-metro-Long Island kind of covers band who packed 'em into the clubs and medium-size theatres similar to Twisted Sister and the Ratrace Choir. Ratrace Choir didn't make it to a major label, the other two did. Zebra's trademark songs had already sold or been hard a bunch as demos on local radio in the metro-northeast when they got signed.

I like much of the first album. They do a fine version of "Slow Down."

― George Smith, Sunday, 14 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Randy Jackson and/or Zebra still play around Long Island all the time, often at a club called The Downtown in Farmingdale. I'm fairly sure that some incarnation of Ratrace Choir still exists.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Sunday, 14 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

I've proclaimed my love for "Bears" many times on ILM - even called it one of my top 10 singles of teh '80s! (An exaggeration, true. Probably among the top MAJOR-LABEL singles tho.) Both No Tellin' Lies singles are great. (The rest mostly blows.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 14 August 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

SEEN ZEBRA ON THE RIVER BOAT PRESIDENT OUT OF NEW ORLEANS. WHAT A AWSOME SHOW IT WAS!!!

― wesley carter, Thursday, 18 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

SEEN ZEBRA ON THE RIVER BOAT PRESIDENT OUT OF NEW ORLEANS. WHAT A AWSOME SHOW IT WAS!

― wesley carter, Thursday, 18 August 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm fairly sure that some incarnation of Ratrace Choir still exists.

I'm impressed and gratified to know that. Yeomen mighty labor ought to count for something as history unfolds.

― George the Animal Steele, Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

And here they are (Rat Race, that is):

http://www.skeletron.com/main.htm

With my buddy Scott on keys.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

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