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"Flagpole Sitta" is a song by American rock band Harvey Danger from their 1997 debut album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? It was released as the band's debut single in April 1998 and was met with critical and commercial success, peaking at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number nine on the Canadian RPM ...
The second song on the album, "Flagpole Sitta", received extensive airplay in the United States and resulted in the band's fame. As the song gained national attention, the album was picked up and reissued by Slash Records , a label associated with London Records .
In August 2019, "Flagpole Sitta" was ranked No. 25 on Rolling Stone's "50 Best Songs of the Nineties" list. [22] The band had wanted to release the song "Carlotta Valdez" as the follow-up single to "Flagpole Sitta", but they were overruled by Slash Records, who released "Private Helicopter" as a single instead in the fall of 1998. [19]
It’s almost impossible not to bob your head and sing along to Harvey Danger’s 1997 hit “Flagpole Sitta,” with that unmistakable drum intro, the steady, quarter-note downstrums of electric ...
And finally, "Flagpole Sitta" By Harvey Danger "Everyone knows that song when it comes on, but few know how great that album by Harvey Danger is."
The All-American Rejects believe that if an idea survives a hangover, it’s probably a good idea. After fooling around with Harvey Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta” after a few drinks on the bus ...
Pole sitting is predated by the ancient ascetic discipline of stylitism, or column-sitting. St. Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388 –459) of Antioch (now Turkey) was a column-sitter who sat on a small platform on a column for 36 years. [1] 14-year-old William Ruppert breaking the pole sitting record of 23 days, in 1929
In 1997, Harvey Danger released their debut studio album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?, through the Arena Rock Recording Company.Although the album was not a commercial success, major labels engaged in a bidding war to sign Harvey Danger after the album's second track, "Flagpole Sitta", began receiving airplay from several college radio stations and Los Angeles-based KROQ. [4]