Biography

Formed in the late 1980s by the famously outspoken Ben Weasel (né Foster) and John "Jughead" Pierson, Chicago's Screeching Weasel were one of the most popular and influential bands of the early 1990s pop punk explosion. The band's mix of hardcore fury with sweet, Ramones-inspired melodies, and a relentlessly goofball image would provide a blueprint for numerous bands to come, including chart-toppers such as Green Day, Blink 182, and Fall Out Boy. Though their forever-a-teenager demeanor was ripe for mass appeal, Screeching Weasel never achieved the success of so many bands that followed in their footsteps--due in no small part to Foster's relentlessly principled (some might argue annoyingly so) take on the punk lifestyle. They remained a popular cult band for years, though, recording and touring on and off into the 2000s.

Top Tracks

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• (she Got) Electroshocked

• 99

• Acknowledge

• American Suicide

• Ashtray

• Breaking Point

• Cool Kids

• Count To Three

• Creepy Crawl

• Crying In My Beer

• Frankengirl

• Friday Night Nation

• Gotta Girlfriend

• Guest List

• Handcuffed To You

• Hey Suburbia

• I Can See Clearly

• I Was A High School Psychopath

• I'm Gonna Strangle You

• Inside Out

• Joanie Loves Johnny

• Kamala's Too Nice

• Molecule

• My Brain Hurts

• Phasers On Kill

• Planet Of The Apes

• Sidewalk Warrior

• The Scene

• Time Bomb

• Totally

• What We Hate

• Your Morality

• You're The Enemy

Discography

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• First World Manifesto

  Fat Wreck Chords

  2011

• Teen Punks in Heat

  Lookout / Lookout

  2000

• Emo

  Lookout

  1999

• Beat Is on the Brat

  Lookout

  1998

• Television City Dream

  Fat Wreck Chords

  1998

• Bark Like a Dog

  Fat Wreck Chords

  1996

• Boogadaboogadaboogada!

  Asian Man Records

  1988

• Screeching Weasel

  Liberation

  1987