Ugly Kid Joe Whatever Happened To the Band Behind 'Everything About You?'
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- Ugly Kid Joe: Whatever happened to the band who wrote Everything About You and Famously Covered Cats in the Cradle?
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Ugly Kid Joe would be characterized by the media as a relic of the hair metal era while others referred to them as a comic hard partying metal band, but in reality the group’s individual members came from diverse musical backgrounds influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Motorhead and many others. They also weren’t afraid to mix humor with their music they quickly became overnight rockstars and made history. But, whatever happened to the group? Stay tuned to find out!
Ugly kid joe began with guitarist Klaus Eichstadt and frontman Whitfield Crane who grew up in Palo Alto California and formed a band in the late 80s. Initially called Overdrive, before settling on Ugly Kid Joe, The band's name was a goof on the glam rockers Pretty Boy Floyd, for whom the band were supposed to open at one point in time.
Ugly Kid Joe would play gigs around the Santa Barbara area and gave their demo to a local DJ named Will Carlin who then passed it onto an entertainment lawyer who became the band’s manager and got them a deal with mercury records.
Shortly after signing to Mercury in early 1991, the pair realized they needed to round out their lineup with better musicians. During the band’s career their lineup’s core has always centered around Eichstadt and Crane with a revolving cast of characters coming and going.
Their debut release, an EP titled As Ugly As They Wanna Be, was a spoof of the hugely controversial 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. It took a week to record and cost the label around $12,000 to make. Mercury Records was hoping for the EP to sell maybe 15,000 copies and it soon enough became the first debut EP in history to go multi-platinum thanks in large part to the single ‘Everything about you’ which rocked mtv and radio airwaves. The album rocketed to the number 4 on the billboard charts and peaked at number 3 across the pond in Britain. The band also licensed the song to the first Wayne’s World movie.
According to billboard magazine, there was a special way that the label promoted the album. When the band first got signed Mercury records, the label helped get the album into small mom and pop shops where traditionally bigger labels hadn’t sold albums to. According to Bob Skoro, who was the head of A&R at mercury records who would tell Billboard magazine “None of the major distributors sell to mom and pop shops. That’s where the young rock and metal lovers go. That’s where the buzz starts” In addition to that it would be a station in Denver KBPI who moved the single Everything About You from their metal show to regular programming. Within a few weeks, Ugly Kid Joe became the second highest requested song after Metallica. Soon enoughthe band played denver and local retailers could feel the excitement behind the group and MTV followed soon after.
The EP took on a humorous tone with tracks like “Madman” describing an axe wielding man on the lose in Disneyland. The band at one point was supposed to write music for the 1992 film Encino Man, but once Don Eisner at Disney heard the song he axed the deal.
Critics weren’t always fans of ugly kid joe. The Chicago Tribune stated the following about the EP’s single Everything about you “the single, which has a novelty-song kind of appeal, pretty much sums up the entire 25-minute disc, which is a cacophony of funk, rap, lame choruses and old jokes."
Despite critics not being fans of their's, the band did get some high profile touring slots opening for the likes of Ozzy Osbourne and Def Leppard.
The band would soon follow up their EP with their first full length studio record 1992’s America’s Least Wanted. The album featured a surprising cover of Harry Chapin’s Cat’s in the Cradle which was a huge hit on rock radio and became the band’s second top 10 hit. The single Everything About You which was released on their first EP in addition to the song Madman would also appear on the LP. Despite the fact that the album was the band’s most commercially successful of their career going double platinum, it again mostly received mixed reviews from critics with the LA times giivng it 1.5/4 stars claiming ugly kid joe were and i quote "generic MTV-rad-party dud
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@@sstaners1234 thanks! i've been wanting to do this band for a long time
I was 15 years old when this band came out. Holy crap the nostalgia that is running through me. I saw them in 91 at The Roxy with Kik Tracee. Two one hit wonders.
I'm not going to your goofy Google forum or whatever..
Do a video on nickleback getting booed off stage at a metal festival.
From a fellow Albertan 👌
Oh!!! I got an idea for a show... the band VAST !!! Now that’s going back.. totally forgot he was from Seattle as well .. LOVED VAST’S very first album ... 2nd one had to grow on me .. which is similar to THE TOADIES .. another band I have in regular rotation still today.. would love to hear a show on these bands .. TOADIES more so.. they have a Long and interesting history.. especially the drama with the scrapped .. re recorded 2’d album.. losing the masters to the orig 2nd major label album .. and then re recording that from memory .. just an awesome band
@@sstaners1234 DEF GWAR LOL.. never forget that show lol.. I got body Splooshed from a certain “stage prop” during my first and only show .. I will never forget it .. and only smile when I hear about GWAR.. just awesome
On their first national tour, in Kansas City, my brother and I hung outside the venue to meet the band. Which we eventually succeeded in doing. We were approached by the bands manager who was wondering where the closest bank could be found. We offered to take him to the bank, which was close. We stood behind him as he transfered 8000$ ( which obviously we had no clue he had on him). He later explained it was the money from merch sales from the previous few weeks on the road. This was at the bands height. For taking the manager we got to hang out with the band, tickets to show, watch sound check ( which was closed to the public) , and my brother and I got tour shirts.The band were all super cool guys.
Good memories.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
AWSOME story man!
A few weeks on tour and only $8000? Just some simple math, if their shirts cost about $30-35 like other bands in the late 80s were that comes to between 205 and 270 shirts sold in the weeks preceding. If you take 3 weeks because OP said few weeks but not month or months that is 21 days. That would come out to between 10-13 shirts a night. Now maybe they weren't working every night, you have to figure 5 nights a week. At the height they are in demand and promoters know bands don't stay hot forever so they are pumping out shows to make the money while it is hot. So 5 days a week in 3 weeks that's 15 days that brings the total to a whopping 15.2 to 17.7 or 15 to 18 shirts a night. That isn't too impressive for the biggest period in their career. Either numbers are off or the manager was either up to no good or not being truthful to OP.
@@TheEWFX29 or maybe they also deposited money at the last stop too. Who knows, I doubt the OP was privy to the inner workings of their financials. The manager obviously gave him a broad stroke of the... nevermind. Probably wired money to their coke dealer
@@barkinghumans Yeah i'm thinking tour shirts sounds plausible to a young fan. Maybe hes depositing money in his account that the band knows nothing about. Could also be innocent but with big money and the entertainment business you don't often encounter innocent. If they do they exploit and drain all they can from it.
Whitfield Crane is a hell of a singer. He has that voice you instantly recognize.
These guys are way better than they ever got credit for.
Yes. A highlight in the generally depressing and too serious 90's rock.
They were often seen as goofy(their mascot didn't help(lol!)), but they were a good band. Saw them open in '93 for Def Leppard. Also, as a fan of Pretty Boy Floyd, I never wondered about UKJ's name. It was too close(and comical) to not be a parody. Same with the debut ep's name, lol! Fan of The 2 Live Crew, knew of the ep's title's inspiration, lol! One thing I always wondered about, though, is why "Everything About You" wasn't on the "Wayne's World" soundtrack. Only thing I can see is the availability of the song. Why would people buy the ep if they can just get the soundtrack? Some people might've (I would've, and actually do have both), but perhaps some might not've.
I disagree. I feel like they got way more credit than they deserved. It's funny how people can have such polar opposite opinions on things like this. But nobody is wrong. It's just two different points of view.
@@mysupersuperglide Things differ from country to country, state to state, county to county, from one circle to another.
It's just how it is.
@@franknada8235 Even Husband to wife, brother to sister, friend to friend it would seem.
How can you not mention their best song "Neighbor!!!"
And perfect video :-)
Absolutely. I love that first album. The second wasn't nearly as good.
@@Xix1326 menace to sobriety was just as strong!
Milkman's Son was always my favorite.
One of my go-to karaoke songs!
I adore this band still today, Whit has an incredible voice
X2
Have you checked out Medication? Whit Crane did and EP and album with Logan Mader from Machine Head. They're pretty good.
@@Khonsu1373 yeah, I have, love some machine head too
Whit filled in for Keith capito of life of agony. Holy shat he did a major awesome job. Seen LOA 6x once as whit up front in vegas. I had no expectations but that dude reached down and grabbed his fortitude and put one hell of a show on. Megadeth was headlining.
Whitfield Crane kind of looked like Seb Bach. Even hits the high notes like Bach.
Completely underrated. Whitfield is one of my fav vocalist ever
These guys are one of my favorite bands growing up. Definitely underrated. And Crane went on to sing for Life of Agony for at least one album.
As a lifetime Hair Metal/Rock fan,i can honestly say these dudes were a breath of fresh air. Much more talented than anything new on the radio today.
I admit they were a good band, but truly great bands last a lifetime…hence why this is called “what the hell happened to ugly kid joe “‘
@@samwarrender7171 true 'dat!
@@samwarrender7171 isn't it called whatever happened to ugly kid joe?.
I think haircmetal was my earliest memory of music. My brother got a discman when I was 8. He then bestowed upon me his Walkman with Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys, the offspring, Wu-Tang. Man I miss the good ol days
@@dwade6322-Speak English and not like you're hooked on Ebonics
I saw them in Germany 2 years ago. Still kicking ass! They had this goofy attitude but they were all very competent. Whit can really sing, to this day
Of musicians I’ve met, Klaus was by far one of the nicest. I was underage, going to the show in a UKJ shirt I printed in art class. I had the luck of meeting them and he was asking questions and telling me about himself, signing an autograph. Seemed really happy to talk to a serious fan 😊
I was in a Ft.Lauderdale bar one night when there was a Superbowl going on. It was the only time that the Superbowl played there. The bar was pretty packed and I knew the band that was playing there that night and the lead singer had just shaved his head where he used to have long hair, and a lot of guys there had the new close cropped look going on except for myself and 2 other guys at the end of the bar where I was sitting where one of the 2 said to me, still sitting at the end of the bar, I was about in the middle, "Looks like we're the only long hairs here tonight" to which I said/yelled "Yeah ain't no one here but us hair farmers" as a joke but the guy just raised his eyebrows and started watching the band, I decided to go over and explain that I was kidding around and that's when he told me that he was Klaus from UKJ and you're right he was a laid back great guy. Turns out the he and a buddy came to town to see the Superbowl we hung out all night chit chatting until they went back to their motel where they were staying because they had to catch a flight out the next morning.
Way underrated band! These guys were metal when the grunge scene was coming in. Let’s not forget that Rob Halford sang on God Damn Devil!! Can’t get more metal than that.
Hell yeah. Rob Halford on God Damn Devil was epic. UKJ rules! Still do!
" Everything about you " , "Cat's in the Cradle " and " Milkmans Son " , still in my play list today .
Panhandlin' Prince
Same here dude. Reminds me of 4th grade.
Goddamn devil!!!
Milkman's Son, C.U.S.T, Cloudy Skys. All favourite cuts off Menace to Sobriety. Great album
Busy Bee, So Damn Cool, Mr. Recordman, Goddamn Devil, I'll keep tryin' , Cloudy Skies...they're all good songs!
America's least wanted is a masterpiece. The singles weren't even the best songs on the album. My favorite is panhandling prince. Whitfield has one of the best voices in rock.
Excellent choice. A LOT of amazing songs on ALW.
@@MB-uw3yu I am the goddamn DEVIL Takes the cake for me... but the whole album is fucking perfect
It's my fave too. I still listen to the album that I've had since 1994 lol. (The only 2 songs on it that I wasn't fond of were Busy Bee and Mr. Recordman).....
It's harder to chose the worst the song than the best song on the album.
@@ukariheasephora8461 wait what..??
I Loved this band. America's Least Wanted is a great album, one of the best of the 90's. Even their FILLER is KILLER. 'Mr Recordman'. This album was a good counter balance to Grunge's melancholy. Who doesn't like Sex dolls on the beach? if you don't, then I hate everything about you
Loved their version of Mr. Recordman!!!
Goddam devil has rob halford on backing vocals
'Panhandlin' Prince' still my favorite guitar solo in this song! 🎸🤘
These guys had SOOOOO many great songs. I still listen to them regularly.
Their song neighbour is sooo underrated
The album is pretty solid
Used to play that in bars with my band when I was a youngster. We did Everything About You too, Neighbor was more fun.
Fuckin awesome song! As well as Madman!
wont you be my funky neighbor
It is. That was my favorite.
Ugly Kid Joe is one of my all time favorite bands!!!
"So Damn Cool" is easily one of the best riffs, ever! Such a great band, and them being able to tap into all of their influences really showed off the talent they have. Love these guys! Great video!
I always liked them. A good skater metal type band. Nothing too deep. Just a fun sound.
PERFECT description
@@devemiller5929 ....Indeed
America's Least Wanted is one of my favorite albums ever
1995 was an Epic year
@@quoththeraven3985 This album came out in 1992.
LMFAO
Yea but I came out in 1995 so excuse us
Awesome album cover too
I still listen to these guys everyday and believe they were highly under rated as musicians, not to mention his vocal abilities! Some of the later stuff missed the mark musically and lyrically, but there’s still some good stuff in there.
I became a substitute teacher after I received my bachelors degree and one of these dudes' kid was my student once.
Under rated, especially when Shannon Larkin joined
So Damn Cool is my favorite tune from Ugly Kid Joe.
The enemy from the stairway to hell comes to mind but check out under the bottom for the more Rock sound the album is excellent 😎😎
Agreed. Panhandlin Prince was another killer track.
@@BrianPremo Yep. ''Sittin' on a rusty park bench Baby. Not much else to do......'' I can relate.
All of them but Undertow is special
Busy Bee
Fun fact: in 1992 (or '93), Whitfield Crane was offered to be lead vocalist for Judas Priest after Rob Halford's departure. He declined because he believes, nor anybody else, can compare to Halford.
hyeah - he's actually way better :D
Didn't he sing with Life of agony too?
@@crucifytheego100 YES!
Also Another Animal & Medication.
Pretty honorable, though I have to say I think Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear/ex-Gamma Ray) sounds pretty identical.
Just seen them live for the first time last night and had no idea what to expect. They put on a kick ass show and didn’t disappoint.
Went to see them live in Dublin, Ireland a couple years ago with my brother, we were the youngest fellas in the venue, it was absolutely class 👌
I was there myself in the Academy. Great gig.
GREAT cover of cats n cradle
And by the way - this band will always remind me of my special deceised friend who died in 2005. Unfortunatelly we never got to see them live together, but we've drank so many beers and smoked so much weed listening to Ugly Kid Joe records and singing their lyrics. I love all their albums but "Amercia's Least Wanted" is trully awesome. Top 10 all time easy pick for me. I could write so many memories about this band. From the first single that we used to sing by this lake when we got drunk in summer 1992 and where I met my first love to highschool years, then in collage 1996 got to see them live only for them to disband later but we would keep their memory alive all the years. And we were so happy to see them live again in 2012 and 2013 in Vienna.... OMG..... there's not enought space in one YT post to write all the memories. I could write a book called Ugly Kid Joe LOL they were such a big part of my life. I sold all my CDs in last 3 years but I still keep UKJ, Stuck Mojo & Faith No More albums LOL I even have UKJ singles...
Maybe write that book 👍
Wow looks like that band fit your personality perfectly. In the 1990s it was the Ramones for me. All of us had a spirit band back then in those wonderful authentic years
Did they die to get away from your boring long-winded stories...???
@Lloyd Christmas He's so damn cool. Probably a Busy Bee being a Panhandling Prince. Wants to be the god damn devil but his daddy is the milk man. He hates everything about you as long as he looks like a madman, he aint hard to find though, being your neighbor and all.
Glad you've got some great memories& nostalgia. I seen Stuck Mojo back in '97, they were the cover band for Type O Negative....
These guys had so many hits, it was unreal. I can count the amount of CD's on my hand that I actually loved every single song they created. America's Least Wanted is one of them.
They're more a groove rock/funk metal era (bands like extreme, faith no more, primus, suicidal tendencies, etc) than a hair metal
Don't forget about Infectious Grooves.
they were making a parody of hair metal
Suicidal. Great band!🤘
Stairway to Hell is a pretty heavy album, nothing remotely hair in that. Actually nothing they did after their first record.
Hey Dude, Don't call me Dude & Drunken Milkman
Milkman's Son is one of my favourite tracks from that time. It's such a great song and is surprisingly heartfelt.
MILKMAN’S SON is a GREAT SONG 🎵 :)
Yes!! Totally agree!
When I was a kid. My brother was running a kitchen in a bar. Whit was there every night, and I told him about my band. He gave it a listen and told me, “your on track, keep going man.” Huge inspiration
He lied, give it up.
@@jimmartin7881 Of course he was lying
Huh, no clue Larkin was in the band. That man is a beast behind the drums 🤘
Wooo! My alltime favorite band right there! Saw them live here in 1996, then also in 2012 and 2013. I think they're still active
I'm now 50 and I still love Ugly Kid Joe. I have a whole bunch of songs on my playlist. Whitfield's a terrific vocalist.
Awesome! I wondered when these guys would come up. Their song "Busy Bee" is still a regular in my music rotation.
‘Menace to sobriety’ is actually a really good title/slogan...
I accidentally named one of my solo tracks by the exact same title a few years back. Maybe I remembered it sub-consciously?
I loved discovering them on "America's Least Wanted" as a kid, so many great songs! Also I loved the darker and heavier "Menace to Sobriety" Milkman's Son, Cloudy Skies, Jesus Rode a Harley, God, Tomorrow's World... sooo many great ones with kick ass musicianship and the greatest vocals ever! I didn't like how they started sounding more and more depressed and resigned on later releases, even on the new ones, they still got it live, but the spark/fire/fun got lost.
I know I end up being the most hated guy for not approving an artist's way of delevlopement, but I'd love to produce an album with them that's a mix of America's and Menace! Selfish thought, but I'd love to hear that!
I saw them play in the 90s in a tiny little bar in Buffalo, NY. Riki Rachtman was there filming for The Headbanger’s Ball and me & my buddy were front row! We got a few seconds of fame on MTV!
Everything About You, still one of my favorite songs to play acoustically in coffee shops,
Most underrated band ever
2nd most underatted.
Check out the album "Nude" by Love on Ice. they also had same style as UKJ and Janes Addiction.
They win most underrated band on account that absolutely nobody knows them.
Panhandling Prince is an amazing song
Hell YES!!! Still think of that song anytime I see a six pack of Mickey's Fine Malt Liquor in a store, lol. Haven't the balls to drink it anymore though... 😂
I wouldn't trade no places to be in rat races.
@@eckteckteckk171 No siree!
This is one of the most underrated bands maybe ever. I LOVE this band and listen to them all the time even still. I got the first record Americas Least Wanted from my cousin who didn't really like it... and then I listened to it around 100x in the first month I had it. I wish there were more bands like this around, incredible musicians and the vocals are amazing. Rock on UKJ!
I met Whit Crane with Karen "Duff" Duffy in the 90s. They came to my video store to rent videos and a VCR. We didn't rent VCRs and Blockbuster was already closed. I ended up lending them my personal VCR that night. And they did return it the next day. They were really nice people!
Man good old days. I'm torn. Part of me misses the 90s and another part of me enjoys the future with all the gimmicks we have now. Think about science and medicine. I don't want to give that up. I wish we could have the 90s all over again but with the science and medicine of today lol
Their EP was one of the first things I bought when I was young, cool music especially for a teenager! Still think that Whitfield Crane is totally underrated singer, amazing rock voice!
I think the "Goddamn Devil" got em! LOL
My older brothers friends would sing that about me 🤣
Trevor Brown's lil brother is the goddamn devil! 🤣🤣
That is So Damn Cool!
@@LoCoGuitars I was a lil weird as a youngster 😂
and I do it for free.
Duh
Love these guys. Still listen to Cats and the Cradle and Everything often as they are both on my iPod in the Jeep.
I'd forgotten they did a version of Cats in the cradle
@DJT And a Jeep Mfer! The op is a baller!
@DJT iPod classic wifh hard drive none the less......lol
The singer had an amazing rock and roll voice
I saw them open for Def Leppard in the early 90's. They absolutely killed it! Definitely had a harder sound live.
You do such a good job that I’ll watch stories about bands I don’t even like lol. Thanks for your hard work!
me too. this channel got me into The Breeders. but you shuld check out ugly kid joes albums. ignore the singles. UKJ are pure metal with deep roots in Sabbath etc
I’ve seen them a few times in their recent tours of Europe and am due to see them this year if it goes ahead. Still can’t believe Menace to Sobriety is not on Spotify. slower than nowhere, and cloudy skies, busy bee, I’ll keep tryin are all great tracks and there’s more to them than the single Everything about you.
Panhandlin' Prince too...
I hanged out with them in the 90’s in Amsterdam, they came back about 2 years ago.
They are still down to earth dudes. 🤘🏼👍🏼⭐️😁
They were on a show in the U.K. in 1995 called ‘Most Wanted’ hosted by a guy called Ray Cokes. They played Milkman’s Son & God. They were absolutely brilliant & really nice guys. They hung out at the end, talked with us, signed stuff & gave us their picks.
Remember the thing about critics, kids:
Hitler's passion for art was destroyed by critics. Every new major art- or musical- movement too.
What are you talking about? Hitler didn't even get into art school probably because his skill set was more along the lines of a draftsman than that of a artist and he simply couldn't afford or be bothered to get into architecture, which he would of probably been good at if he had applied himself to it rather than bumming around town burning through his inheritance. He never had a passion for art but was quite into architecture and would bore the few friends he had with how he was going to rebuild Vienna to some vision he had in his head.
@@SamiiYou it was a joke above anything else. He did lament not persuing art at multiple times later on. Also got demoralized, but like you said, was his own fault.
The cafes did create his bad views and his gutter runner service in WWI and subsequent imprisonment steered him even further.
At least he designed the swastica very well, based on its original design of the sun symbol.
Really is an underrated band.
45 years old and still skate to these dudes
They wrote some good songs!!!
I'm a fan.
The opening riff to ukj song "neighbor" was one of the riffs that got me in to rock and metal as a kid.
true story here.. so, my family had a bunch of land in Northern Florida and somehow Ugly Kid Joe found the land and asked if they could film a music video on our land and use our family as extras so yep that happened, I was just a baby but my sister can be seen it as can my grandfather, my cousins, etc. Evidently I was playing with the drummers long hair the whole video lol but they paid every single one of us and my family said they all had a fun time and the band was very respectful and nice. My grandfather is the one with the shotgun lol my sister and cousins are all following Ugly Kid Joe around and at the cemetery scenes. Very fond memories (for the rest of my family), it's for the Cloudy Skies music video which I will link in case in one cares to watch lol ua-cam.com/video/cN4OYrKBMEQ/v-deo.html
Wow!!!One of my fav video.
"Rape, DUI, assault and battery. These are the things that'll bring you to me. Murder and theft and all of the above. You can bet your life I know what you're thinking of." Great stuff!
"You can't fool me,
'cause I know fool"
Goddamn Devil ;P
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Thanks for the video! Can't wait to show my pops! (Mark Davis, Original Drummer for UKJ) 🤘
Thanks for covering Ugly Kid Joe. I'm a fan of theirs and have all their albums and hope we will see more music from them. Rock On!
Geez this takes me back.
The last EP Stairway to hell is highly recommended!!!
HELL YEAH IT IS 🤘😎😎
It totally rocks! Seen them in 2013 in Belfast, duffs loaded supported them. Absolutely killer man.
This band IS cool!
Another beer 🍺
Still listen to Stairway to Hell. Good shit.
Glad to hear they are still making music and hopefully I will be able to see them live. I love that band.
Super Talented, Super underrated, and Super entertaining too. Loved them as a kid and listening to them still to this day.
Richards/Crane worth checking out.
Also Whit sang in Another Animal. If I remember correctly is pretty much Godsmack with Whit singing.
This band done some really amazing stuff later in their career. Check these tracks out and see if you haven't already.
From Stairway To Hell - No One Survives (both versions.)
- I'm Alright.
From Uglier Than They Used To Be. - My Old Man
- Nothing Ever Changes
- Mirror Of The Man.
Please give the message to these critics. When Everything About You was released my country was at the beginning of the civil war. Me, my sisters and my boys were all in agreement about dark, existential or deeply artistic music, that is what we were listening to. Every once in a while one of us would introduce a piece of music that would help us to occasionally brighten up a little lol. We could never agree on any of it except on Ugly Kid Joe. They are way too underestimated. All I can say is thank you for being with us at so many parties!
Most underrated band of all time
EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU....& THIS 🤘
The singer went to Life of Agony
I still love this band.
UKJ = Criminally Underrated.
I went to jr high and Covington High School here in Louisiana with one of their Guitar Players named Dave Fortman. His 3 piece band named SX went to LA to make it and he went into UKJ there. I still have his black model 2 Charvel guitar that I bought when he traded it in at our local music store at the time named the Music Corner. Dave later became a big league music producer and has a long list of multi platinum selling albums that he produced. Check his wiki page for list of some music credits as producer.
What about Theo Von?
(Great story BTW) 🤘🏼❤️
Well Ugly Kid Joe had the same issue as Jackyl (another group I'd like to see a "Whatever happened to" video on): Their sound was too heavy for alternative/grunge; their image didn't fit the hair metal look.
Their cover of "Cats in the Cradle" made a sad song even more depressing. Also, the humor in their lyrics and album titles/artwork is worth a giggle.
One of my friends was lucky to see them and Motorhead open for Ozzy in 92.
UKJ's version of "Cats In The Cradle" does NOT follow the chorus the way the late Harry Chapin did. HC answered the part in the chorus "When are you coming home...Dad...I don't know when..." for the first two chorus stanzas, then changed it to "When are you coming home...son...I don't know when..." for the remainder of the song. OTOH, UKJ did "When are you coming home...son...I don't know when..." in the chorus throughout the entire song.
I thought the same thing. Both band's first albums were hits but by the second album music trends were changing.
@@mambodoom7653 Jackyl's sophomore album "Push Comes To Shove" actually charted higher at #46 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart than their S/T debut did - and the band's S/T debut peaked at #76 on the albums chart. Regardless, their debut went platinum, while the sophomore release only went gold.
Menace to sobriety is a great album,still holds up today,great band,they were also good friends with my favorite band snot.
I went to their concert in 1992, in Melbourne, Australia, and remember thinking they were a great live act.
Anyone remember when Whitfield Crane was the touring vocalist for Life of Agony? Dude was nailing those songs.
wow now thats interesting. didnt know he sang for them. they need to make a true stories about life of agony
@@davidmorse3532 I think it was only for 1 summer tour. I caught them at Ozzfest.
“I hate EVERYTHING about YOU!!!!” 1992 Senior years memories
I blasted that song I didn't like my roommate.
Absolutely!! Lol (fellow class of '92 kid here)
@@jimmyjennings5343 man...I miss those days. That was such a heady time
Yep it was my last year of school too
Yeah!!!!!
I've seen them 3 times in the last 8 years. Always a fun gig. Fav song Panhandlin' Prince!🤘🏻❤️🤘🏻
I seriously watched like 15 of your videos over a matter of a couple week before I freaking realized I wasn't subbed. Great channel my dude, your videos are loaded with great little facts and iconic imagery. Keep up the quality!
Madman is loose
In Disneyland..
He''ll take no shit but he'll take your head
Love both you guys! Hadn't heard these guys in almost 30 years, saw they were the topic, then came to the comments for this. You guys know "Pirates life" by The Vandals, right? The other great twisted rock song set at Disneyland
The lyrics for this song are epic.
True story: I went to a record store as a teen with the express intent of buying either Ugly Kid Joe's EP or first album. I can't quite remember which, but I loved Everything About You. While walking around the shop, Smells Like Teen Spirit came on the house system and I walked out with Nevermind instead. Never listened to them again.
you did the right thing
Anyone remember "The Crusher"? It was a nationally syndicated AM radio station back in the early 90's that played nothing but metal. Great morning listening at work, especially for AM radio. This was back in the day before AM radio was taken over by sports talk. The Crusher took on-air requests from all over the nation and it was fun listening. That was where I first got my taste of Ugly Kid Joe and many others. And now I have a request for ROCK N' ROLL TRUE STORIES please. One of your future projects should be a "what happened to" video on The Crusher. I'll bet it would get a lot of views and I'd be one of them. Thanks for your great work.
These guys are still in heavy rotation at my joint. Sand which, would you like to be there, undertow, these cloudy skies, funky fresh country club, milkman’s son, Jesus rode a Harley-Davidson, c.u.S.t,godamn devil, same side, panhandling’ prince, too many great tracks. The inclusion of Shannon Larkin on drums on Menace to sobriety just supercharged their sound moving forwards. And a quick FYI: All 3 90sLPs and the one EP have been re-released on vinyl and are stunning vinyl editions. Americas least wanted is a double LP with side D being Their ugly as the wannabe EP. There’s also Menace to sobriety and for first time Evers non Stardog records pressing of Motel California. These are getting hard to secure now but I know a place that still has the vinyl bundles for sale. Great re-release. I should make a brief vid on em .... but I wont
Want a song to be stuck in your head? Crank out "everything about you".
I believe Ugly Kid Joe is by far one of the most underrated and unappreciated bands of all time... I think their humor overshadowed their talent and recognition they deserved.
Whitifeld Crane's vocals are nuts. The layers of distortion he can lay on blow me away. Listen to "Clover".
Such an underrated band
I really don't know this band. I only listened their two hits.
Motel California was a kick-ass album
She was a good witch!
@@JackBealeGuitar She was a bad witch!
Yeah well ukno what I want
Literally one of my absolute favorite bands. Listened to Americas Least Wanted soo many times growing up.
Excellent ~ thank you so much for connecting all the dots! Love UKJ and love this vid - well done!
I remember them as the original Steel Panther. They came out at a time when metal was at a tipping point and many folks felt they helped bury it by making it a big joke. I'm not saying that's what they intended, but with grunge hitting hard and on the other side you had Ugly Kid Joe, it wasn't pretty for metal bands.
Not dread zeppelin then
Exactly right! They were a big middle finger to 80's metal bands. Change agents for sure!
Crazy thing is, the band should have found a place in the Grunge movement as they dressed "grunge" and their music wasn't traditional "hair Metal". Their name was also so "un-Metal" that they would never be taken serious by the Heavy Metal community.
you should check out a band called Love On Ice.
they were like UKJ / Janes Addiction, but they didn't survive grunge. they did the song Showdown on bill & teds bogus journey. their album "Nude" is a forgotten masterpiece.
Crane had another project during UKJ hiatus called Medication, pretty good stuff imo.
You're right,Inside is awesome.Try Another Animal.Crane with members of Godsmack,pretty good.
prince valium is one kick ass of an album, too bad that they didn't tour to support it, it would have blown up
Saw them on the UK tour they done. Had Logan Mader from Machinehead in the band aswell.
I loved this band.
I bought Ugly as they wanna be from a small Video rental/album store in my small town. Then I saw then open for Slaughter and Ozzy in Phx. I was stoked to see them live, and they didn't dissapoint.
What a great line up! 🤘🏼