POOing the Dickies

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I keep reading back, and back and back...this is a huge site. Might I propose that y'all pick the one greatest Dickies song? If you like, you may pick both a cover and an original, there are so many of each and I don't want to see Nights in White Satin over and over. This is my first question so ream me gently, if you must, for any failures in perceived protocol. veal

― Matt Riedl (veal), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rosemary" off STUKAS OVER DISNEYLAND

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amusing choice of band! Er...the demo version of "You Drive Me Ape" or "Fan Mail."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I picked 'em because while they're often touted as a novelty act, they've writ some real classics and obviously have long-term staying power. Once you get past Leonard's voice you're golden, you're in, those tune won't go away.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, by the way, since Ned picked "Fan Mail" (a refreshingly pure look at the rock world/world of fame), mine is "Waterslide", poor recording notwithstanding.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, you picked my two favorites! OK, I'll go with "Stuck in a Pagoda with Tricia Toyota". Whatever happened to Tricia Toyota?

― Arthur, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

POOing the Dickies > Anal sex?

― nathalie, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do you mean "is better than"? i've never pooed my Dickies but imagine it would be a sight worse than the other thing you mention. though one never knows.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you, Tracer, no really. The ending of "Tricia Toyota" ranks up there as another sublime moment.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only Dickies song I know is "Killer Klowns From Outer Space", which is WONDERFUL.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That it is, Dan. We will cure your lack of the other knowledge.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"paranoid"

― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Dickies may have been the first punk band to show up on a TV sitcom playing a punk band, which marked them in my young eyes as sell-out posers of the first order (I think the show was CPO Sharkey, with Don Rickles). It didn't hurt that I already thought they were an unfunny joke band. I've since softened in my disgust, so I'll say "You Drive Me Ape, You Big Gorilla," because I thought that one was actually kind of funny.

― nickn, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Dan, you should dig deeper, really. You're bound to enjoy the Dickies ("Killer Klowns" was a little unrepresentative due to its relatively slow tempo, length and repetitive nature - usually they turn corners like they're being chased by the po-lice!)

― Matt Riedl (veal), Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

"Pretty Please Me" - but "Make it so" from "Idjit Savant" is also great!

― vauweh, Monday, 30 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

I'm going to go for the live version of "Curb Job" from "We Aren't The World" which is viciously brilliant. My favourite studio recording of theirs is "Bowling With Bedrock Barney" cos it's so nuts.

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

There's a flipside video of a live show that's fantastic.
But anyways... the Banana Splits song.

― shieldforyoureyes, Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

vintage paranoid:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_2Q9iYvDmbk

― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

They were also in some teen boobs and angst movie too, I think. Cannot remember which one it was, though I saw it at some point. Attack of the Molemen is my fave!

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Killer Klowns from Outer Space? They appear on the credits.

― everything, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

And it's also the title track of a pretty good, later period EP by the Dickies.

― everything, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for the Youtube link, Scott! Seeing that and The Banana Splits just made my day.

― Dan Peterson, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like the movie I'm thinking of is 18 Again w/George Burns. There's a scene where someone walks into a club and the Dickies are onstage playing "You Drive Me Ape."

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Is that it folks?

Less than two dozen posts in a decade?

I rediscovered this bunch of Ramones on speed mentalists this weekend. I'd neglected them too for more than a decade come to think of it.

I'm sure their Incredible Shrinking album was the fastest ever recorded at the time (1979). OK, That was the Damned in '77 but so what? 'Banana Splits' single was faster than anything.
What a bunch of stupid tits they were. Great stuff. No politics in sight

In no order, thirty years later ffs

Waterslide
You Drive me Ape
Rosemary
Eve Of Destruction
Paranoid ( covered by Slack Babbath ;-))
Manny Moe and Jack
Tricia Toyota
Fan Mail
Hideous
I'm Ok You're OK

Still soldiering on I think but probably should have jacked it in 1983. I did buy an album of theirs in the 90s?
One decent song on it - ' Going Homo' ' Sorry, but I think that's what it is called.

― Fer Ark, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

Hahah I was just thinking about them today -- specifically "Out of Sight, Out of Mind," which is simply a great little song.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

I have this crystal clear memory of going over to visit my girlfriend at her first apartment for the first time - a basement punk rock pad she shared with a couple of other people. We were all just out of high school and it was a great summer. Walking down the alley to the back door, I hear from an open window her saying to her new room-mate, "No way! These guys do Paranoid?" as the Dickies version blasts out of a boombox. It sounds amazing, funny and fast and stupid. Can't think of those guys without thinking about that perfect stupid summer.

― Brio, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

One of my favourite bands ever. It's the 30th Anniversary of both the Incredible Shrinking Dickies (Summer '79) and Dawn of the Dickies (Fall '79). What a year that was for them.

I'm glad they didn't break up in 1983 because then I would never have had the chance to see them live. They were still wild in the 90s and probably still are to this day. Last time I saw them was probably '98 and it was faster and heavier than ever.

― everything, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

This was kinda awesome... The Dickies on an episode of the Don Rickles '70s sitcom CPO Sharkey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqx31g9Mes

― NYCNative, Monday, 7 March 2011 10:34 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

I can't stop watching this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gQF2bicUC0

― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\etc (Matt #2), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:02 (fourteen years ago)

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