Songoftheday 7/27/19 - Oh she loves me so she hates to be alone, she don't eat meat but she sure like the bone...
from the albums A Different Story and Dumb & Dumber (Original Soundtrack) (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from the alternative rock band Deadeye Dick, who came together in the early 1990s in New Orleans. A trio of lead singer Caleb Guillotte, Billy Landry on drums, and bassist Mark Miller, the band released their debut album A Different Story on the mostly R&B label Ichiban Records in the summer of 1994. But it took until one of its tracks was pulled to be used in the Farrelly Brothers comedy Dumb and Dumber starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did they get their big break. "New Age Girl", written by Guillotte, was included in the soundtrack, and the pop-punk-style song found a home on pop radio...
"New Age Girl" became Deadeye Dick's first and only charting pop hit, reaching the top-40 in January of 1995. Oddly enough, the song didn't make either the alternative or mainstream rock radio charts. The band would never be able to follow up the success of the song, although the soundtrack did, first spinning off a cover of XTC's "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead" that went to #4 in Canada, and #30 in the UK. Reggae singer Willi One Blood also hit the Hot 100 in America at #62 with the single "Whiney Whiney (What Really Drives Me Crazy)". Over the pond, American power-pop act Gigolo Aunts' "Where I Find My Heaven" hit #29 in Britain in 1995 after its inclusion in the movie. The record also included prior hits like "Insomniac" from British pop band Echobelly, which peaked at #47 in the UK, as well as a remix of the Primitives' "Crash", which originally went top ten in #3 on the American Alternative chart and #5 on the regular singles chart in the UK in 1988. Dead Eye released one more album, Whirl, for Ichiban, and in 2015 put out The Vault independently for streaming.
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Here's the original version of the video from the spring of 1994, before the song was tied to the movie...
And lastly, the band rehearsing for a reunion tour in 2013...
Up tomorrow: The reunion nobody thought would happen.
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