Biography

The Dickies were the clown princes of punk, not to mention surprisingly longstanding veterans of the L.A. scene. In contrast to the snotty, offensive humor of many comedically inclined punk bands, they were winningly goofy, inspired mostly by trashy movies and other pop culture camp. Their covers were just as ridiculous as their originals, transforming arena rock anthems and bubblegum pop chestnuts alike into the loud, speed-blur punk-pop that was their musical stock in trade. As the Dickies got older, their music slowed down little by little, but their sound and their sense of humor stayed largely the same, and they were an avowed influence on new-school punkers like Green Day and the Offspring. ~ Steve Huey

Top Tracks

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• Banana Splits (the Tra La La Song)

• Cross Eyed Tammy

• Curb Job

• Elevator (in The Brain Hotel)

• Epistle To Dippy

• Golden Boys

• Hideous

• I'm Stuck In A Condo (with Marlon Brando)

• Manny, Moe & Jack

• Monster Island

• Nights In White Satin

• Nobody But Me

• Paranoid

• Poodle Party

• The Banana Splits (the Tra La La Song)

• There's A Place

• Where Did His Eye Go?

Discography

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• All This and Puppet Stew

  Fat Wreck Chords

  2001

• Still Got Live, Even If You Don't Want It

  Roir

  1999

• Idjit Savant

  Triple X Entertainment

  1995

• Second Coming

  Restless Records

  1989

• Gigantor

  A&M

  1983

• Dawn of the Dickies

  Captain Oi! Records

  1979

• The Incredible Shrinking Dickies

  Captain Oi! Records

  1979