Blubber Boy

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"Blubber Boy"
Blubber Boy by Regurgitator.png
UK CD single cover
Single by Regurgitator
from the album New
Released1995
Recorded1995
Studio Red Zeds
Length2:43
Label Warner Music Australasia
Songwriter(s) Quan Yeomans
Producer(s) Magoo, Regurgitator
Regurgitator singles chronology
"Track 1"
(1995)		"Blubber Boy"
(1995)		"F.S.O."
(1996)

"Blubber Boy" is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released as a radio single in Australia in 1995 promoting the band's second EP New (1995). The song was released in the UK as a CD and 7" Single. The song ranked at number 17 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1995. [1] A remixed version of the song (Riding the Wave of Fashion Mix) was released on the band's debut studio album, Tu-Plang in 1996.

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Yeomans had been inspired by a book on feminist fairy-tales give to him by Kiley Gaffney. Ely said, "Quan brought the song into practice and Martin and I were going, "Are you sure you want to do this?' To us it was uncool because it wasn't in 7/8 time. But it felt good. And he said the word 'cunt' in it quite a lot. So then we were like, he's swearing, it must be OK." [2] Of all the Inuit-based fairy tales in that book, "Blubber Boy" was the tamest one, according to Yeomans. [3]

Reception

In 2019, Tyler Jenke from The Brag ranked Regurgitator's best songs, with "Blubber Boy" coming it at number 3. Jenke said "It's not often that bands get their start by singing a song based upon an Inuit fairytale about drowned boyfriends and blubber… replacements, but Regurgitator aren't exactly a normal band. A prime example of their early talent, 'Blubber Boy' is still a tune whose chorus commands a massive singalong during a live show." [4]

Andrew Stafford, in Pig City , called it "Unabashed pop, instantly memorable, with a lyric as ribald as it was eccentric." [2]

Live performances

In support of their album Tu-Plang, Regurgitator performed "Blubber Boy" (alongside singles "F.S.O." and "Kong Foo Sing") on the Australian music show Recovery. Looking back at that performance in a 2019 interview with the band, Dylan Lewis, the show's host, was surprised at how they got away with performing the song on a Saturday morning TV timeslot, considering its lyric. Yeomans considers the Recovery performance to be "one of my proudest moments from the early days [of Regurgitator]". [3]

Track listings

UK CD Single
No.TitleLength
1."Blubber Boy"2:43
2."Power Tool"2:02
3."Gravey"3:18

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia1995Radio promo EastWest, Warner n/a
United Kingdom1995CD Single, 7" SingleCoalition RecordingsCOLA 017CD

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References

  1. ↑ "Hottest 100 1995". Triple J . Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 Andrew Stafford (2016). Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden . University of Queensland Press. p. 278. ISBN   9780702235610.
  3. 1 2 Lewis, Dylan; Yeomans, Quan; Ely, Ben (21 November 2019). "Quan Yeomans and Ben Ely - Regurgitator: Recovery Reunion" (video). youtube.com. Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "The 10 biggest hits from Brisbane alt-rock legends Regurgitator". The Brag. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
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