Someone once said this about this brilliant song: "This song accomplishes more in less than 4 minutes than what most people accomplish in their entire life time". I remember seeing them in the early nineties at the Big Day Out in Melbourne, simply brilliant...
They keep removing my comment, it's almost as if Urge Overkill doesn't want you to know that they blatantly stole this entire song from The Testors single from 1980 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IG8wC0U64uM.html
@@booknerd1970 Verse & Chorus chord progressions are the same but with totally different melodies and the middle break parts are completely different. Those same chord progressions are in many songs. No one owns simple chord progressions like these.
This album and band were so shamefully underrated and overlooked. It's one of the best hard rock albums of all time and should have gone at least triple platinum.
Agree, damn good album. Certainly overlooked. One great song after the other. Positive Bleeding is kinda really cool for me, but damn near every song is a banger.
Played this non stop driving around LA in my convertible back in the day. It's a great album because every song is good so you don't have to fumble around driving and changing tracks Crash! I got to see them here in UK they played Reading I think in mid 90s. I was the only English guy who knew their stuff. I could never understand why they weren't bigger. I think maybe their dress sense was too good for the time everyone grungey and low profile and check shirts and that sloppy genx stuff. When I saw them they had glitter suits and werre TOTALLY FUCKIN' ROCK NROLL!!!!!!!!111yEAh
Totally!. Had to buy it twice on account of wearing out the first one. Saw them at the Troubadour in Hollywood early 2000s and it was fucking phenomenal !!.
Blackie O was a great drummer, super aggressive but on point! He passed away last month, but we will remember the talent he had, and they are rocking up above!
Sitting at the PC feeling nostalgic. Still one of my all time favorites. Urge Overkill, one of the greats. Thanks for all the music over the years guys!
Agreed... was a guitarist in a cover band a couple of years after this song came out and was always trying to get the guys to do this one, but nobody else liked it. Losers!
i do not care for the song at all but the guitar tone, especially the solo sections toward the end, holy fuck man it's enough to make it a favorite song lol
UO has the joyful swagger that can make you forget earthly troubles, and revel in the now. RIP Blackie. What a criminally underrated band and "Saturation" is in the pantheon of all time great rock records...
Great comment 👏 Concise, eloquent, expressive. Don't ever apologize if you think someone might want to give you static just for being smart and not afraid to show it. 31 years gone and this song still blows me away.
I'm sorry, but for my money, the 90s were the best time to be alive. The music was awesome. The 70s music was great, but I was too young. I forgot this song existed, and stumbled into it, and it took me right back. My band used to play this song back then, and people just went nuts. What an awesome time.
I've listenened to this song pretty much since it came out & it hasn't lost anything. It holds up as one of the best songs ever written!! The opening riff on the guitar is so memorable & when they all come in together it just becomes legend.
@@gergnotsloh Nah, dude - that's death metal/extreme metal. Bands like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, etc are hard rock. I'm sure you know that though - you must just be trolling.
You know it's a great song when they have the increase of build up to a crescendo, and they can go nuts after that feeling within the band and that's what's fun about playing live
I heard this song ONCE 20 years and never heard it again...stayed stuck in my head all that time. THAT'S how you know it's a good song! Shame these guys didn't get big. AMAZING TUNE!
Absolutely the BEST UO ever. They were wonderful! The whole album rules. I have to admit the line that says, " She comes on like a bicycle army" , I always thought was- "She comes on like a bunch of salami."
is it just me or does anyone else keep replaying the opening of this song? awesome song, but the intro fucken rocks, I always remembered the first time I heard this song just coz of the intro
heard this on my local rock station today for the first time in prolly 20 years, that's why I love that station, the are locally owned and have a lot of freedom, they even have bad hair Fridays which is an hour of 80s hair metal every Friday at noon
Dear Mitchell Schultz: Hi There! Good held memory for a good piece of Hard Rock song! Glad they have nothing alike to this danm 'muzak' stuff of these days. Neverthenless, love about that local radio live station placing, onto the happy hours bad hair day each Friday night time...!
"Sister Havana" peaked at #6 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative chart on August 28, 1993. It also peaked at #10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart on September 18, 1993.
Blackie O was awesome. I saw these guys in 95 and Blackie O came out from behind the drum kit to sing Drop Out. He was swigging from a big bottle of Jack Daniels and at the end of the song he turned around and started smashing it down on one of the crash cymbals. One of the best shows I've seen.
My Pop music interests actually date back to the late 60`s and 70`s; and the "Grunge" period (by my estimation) often had "dull periods" when there wasn`t much that seemed very impressive getting airplay. During those times, when there WOULD be an especially good song, I would actively "hunt" for an airing of it on MTV during cable TV browsing sessions. This was DEFINITELY one of those songs.
i feel ya man this song blew my mind i was working at a small record shop when this came out and i also discoverd ARC Angels at the same time i was like what the fuck
I never knew about this song when they were charting. I remember hearing 'Girl' and thinking "why is a rock band covering Neil Diamond and getting airplay? I didn't get it as a 16 year old. I do remember Nash and his unique look though. Who can forget?
I can relate. I remember seeing UO's video to The Candidate on USA Up All Night thinking that I would never hear from these guys again... And several years later, I was seeing this video on MTV!
Much as I enjoy the song, I get sad listening to it. Maybe because it makes me realize I'm not 19 or 20 years old anymore, and haven't been for a long time...heh. Or because it makes me wish I could go back to that time period and make better decisions. I don't have the budget for a therapist right now so I'm availing myself of the free services from the RU-vid peanut gallery.
Right? I was 19 when this song came out. The future was wide open and far away. Now I'm 43, and I can't figure how it went by so fast.....those were fucking great times for me.......
I'm glad I'm not alone! Fast-forward from going to concerts every weekend (and drinking too much, not wearing earplugs), to the optometrist telling me I'm at the age where my near vision begins to deteriorate...ha!
