Artist: Presidents of the United States of America
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Presidents of the United States of America
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
The Presidents of the United States of America were one of the well-nigh improbable success stories of the post-grunge alternative rock scene in Seattle. Where the lie of their Seattle brethren traded in heavy guitars and heavy angst, the Presidents rejected bedevilment for wittiness, writing short, simple, and absurd punk rocker songs that relied more than on goofy attitude than sludgy riffs and tortured screams. It was a formula that worked, as the group's self-titled debut album became a double-platinum record a great deal to the surprise of many critics, music industry insiders, and the dance orchestra itself.
Childhood friends Chris Ballew (lead vocals, two-string basitar) and Dave Dederer (three-string guitbass, support vocals) played in a bit of groups and projects ahead forming the Presidents of the United States of America about 1990. The duette recorded a demonstration tape, which began circulating some the Seattle melodic biotic community and, in the work on, earned them a cultus following. Drummer Jason Finn, a member of Love Battery, saw the duet in 1991 and, after a few years of persuading, joined the isthmus in 1993. Within a class after Finn joined, the Presidents became one of the well-nigh popular bands in Seattle. In the bound of 1994, they released their eponymic debut album on Pop Llama Records. The record became an sovereign hit and the band attracted the attention of major record labels; the radical eventually signed with Columbia Records, world Health Organization re-released the Presidents' debut in the saltation of 1995. By this time, Finn had left Love Battery to become a full-time President.
The Presidents of the United States of America became a hit in the summer of 1995, when MTV and modern stone radiocommunication began public exposure "Lump" oftentimes. "Oaf," followed by the tuner hit "Pool" in the hang and the radio/video hit "Peaches" in the outflow of 1996, propelled the album to a surprise Top Ten, double-platinum condition. The stria quickly capitalized on their sudden success by releasing their second album, The Presidents of the United States of America: II, in November of 1996.
In December of 1997, the Presidents called it quits after Chris Ballew left the band to spend more sentence with his kinsperson. A leave-taking concert followed in February 1998 and a rarities album, Thoroughgoing Frosting, was released in March. Rumors of a possible reunification and collaboration with chap Seattle resident Sir Mix-a-Lot (under the collective name Subset) floated about in 1999, just the project never materialized. However, the stria did reconvene in 2000 (without a rapper) under the officially sawn-off soubriquet the Presidents and released their third base album, Freaked Out and Small. Another long hiatus preceded the release of Love Everybody in 2004. That same year the ring reissued their debut album on their have label in "Super Bonus Thrillpack" edition featuring a DVD. Late in 2007 the Presidents proclaimed a new album, These Are the Good Times People, would be delivered in the springtime of 2008.
