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"Banditos" is a song by American band The Refreshments from their album Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy. The song is the band's best-known hit. A music video was produced to accompany the single, in which the members of the band robbed a bank in Mexico and fled in lead singer Roger Clyne's Toyota Land Cruiser.
The Refreshments decided that the writing was on the wall and left Mercury before they were dropped from the label's lineup. The band sold 10,000 units in December 1997, their last month with the label. The second Refreshments album, 1997's The Bottle and Fresh Horses, spent one week on the chart. The band lost its deal with Mercury around the ...
The Vancouver Sun wrote: "Starchy, middle-of-the-road, radio-friendly, four-piece pop, Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy is entirely inoffensive—even fleetingly catchy." [13] The Calgary Herald thought that "while Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy goes down a little flat in parts, most of it is a sparkling affair of songs whose melodies are delightfully down-home, electric geetar-driven and whose characters ...
One Dance, One Rose, One Kiss is a song written by Joakim Anrell, and originally recorded by the Refreshments on the 2001 album Real Songs on Real Instruments. [1] as well as releasing it as a single the same year.
Signed by Mercury months later, the Refreshments grew from garage band to an early contender in the post-grunge landscape. Their first label album from 1996 to 1997 was the well-received Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy , which spawned two radio hits, "Banditos" and "Down Together".
The Bottle & Fresh Horses is the second and final album by the alternative rock band the Refreshments, released in 1997. [3] [4] Production.
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"Popular" is the debut single by American alternative rock band Nada Surf, released in May 1996 from their debut album High/Low, released the following month. Each verse in "Popular" presents, in spoken-word format, sarcastic advice to teenagers taken from the book Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity by American actress Gloria Winters .