Scooby Snacks (song)

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"Scooby Snacks"
Fun Lovin Criminals Scooby Snacks.jpg
Single by Fun Lovin' Criminals
from the album Come Find Yourself
ReleasedAugust 5, 1996 (1996-08-05)
Studio Magic Shop, New York City
Length3:02
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Fun Lovin' Criminals
Fun Lovin' Criminals singles chronology
"The Grave and the Constant"
(1996)		"Scooby Snacks"
(1996)		"The Fun Lovin' Criminal"
(1996)
Music video
"Scooby Snacks" on YouTube

"Scooby Snacks" is a song by American band Fun Lovin' Criminals from their debut album, Come Find Yourself (1996). The song was written by the band and contains several sampled quotes from Quentin Tarantino films, so Tarantino is also credited as a writer. Most of the song is rapped, with the exception of the chorus, which is sung. The "Scooby Snacks" in the song is a reference to diazepam, also known as Valium. [1]

Contents

"Scooby Snacks" is the band's biggest hit single to date, reaching the top 40 in Australia, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, the song originally peaked at number 22 in August 1996, but after being reissued with a cover of the 10cc song "I'm Not in Love", it reached a new peak of number 12 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1997. In 1996, it was voted number 14 on the list of the Hottest 100 songs of that year by listeners of Australia's Triple J radio station. [2]

Background

Instrumentalist Brian Leiser would practice sounds and samples in his Brooklyn apartment with movies playing in the background. He sampled the tremolo guitar sound from the 1984 song "Movement of Fear" by Tones on Tail, and was putting the song together while Pulp Fiction played on his TV, inspiring him to put its quotes in his song. [3]

Leiser was working at a club called The Limelight, where he met bandmate Huey Morgan. The owner of the Limelight had another club called The Tunnel, known for its brawls at Sunday night events. In an effort to calm down clubgoers, one of the security guards would hand them valium capsules as they entered, calling them "Scooby snacks". Leiser said, "That’s where I got the idea for the chorus from: what if this dude and some of his meathead friends were robbing banks, all high on these scooby snacks?" [3]

Samples

The song contains samples from Quentin Tarantino's movies Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs . [4] Tarantino demanded 37% of the song's royalties and a co-writing credit, which he received. [5]

Chart performance

"Scooby Snacks" reached the top 40 in Australia, Iceland, the Netherlands and on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. [6] [7] [8] It reached the top 20 in New Zealand, peaking at number 18. [9] The song initially peaked number 22 on the UK Singles Chart but was re-released as a double A-side with their cover of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" on 23 June 1997, [10] reaching a new peak of number 12 the following week. [11] This version also reached number 27 in Ireland. [12] In July 2022, the song was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales and streams exceeding 200,000 units. [13]

Track listings

1996 release

1997 release

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the 1996 UK CD1 liner notes. [14]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [13] Silver200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United KingdomAugust 5, 1996
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
 [30]
United StatesNovember 5, 1996 Contemporary hit radio EMI [31]
United Kingdom (re-release)June 23, 1997
  • CD
  • cassette
  • Silver Spotlight
  • Chrysalis
 [32]

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