Zoot Suit Riot (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Zoot Suit Riot
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Cherry Poppin' Daddies


Released = July 1, 1997
Recorded =
Genre = Swing Revival
Length = 51:28
Label = Mojo
Producer = Steve Perry, Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Reviews =
*Allmusic: Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:omktk60xqkr3 link] |
Last album = "Kids on the Street"
(1996)
This album = "Zoot Suit Riot"
(1997)
Next album = "Soul Caddy"
(2000)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Type = Compilation album
Upper caption = Alternate album covers


Lower caption = Japan release

"Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies" is a compilation album by American rock/swing revival band Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released in 1997 by Mojo Records.

Once the swing revival movement started to blossom (sparked by bands such as Squirrel Nut Zippers), the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, who until then, had thrived in the already successful third wave ska scene, started gaining a larger, more swing-oriented fan base. After fans would ask which albums had the most swing songs on them, Mojo Records compiled most of the straight swing tracks from the band's last three albums into one compilation disc, along with four brand new songs, including the titular track, for which an accompanying music video was filmed. The album, their major label debut, became the band's first nationally released record.

'Zoot Suit Riot', and its subsequent music video, launched the band into the Top 40, sending the album to #1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers and nominating them for 'Best New Artist in a Video' at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards (despite the fact that the band had been active for nearly a decade). In addition, the Daddies made constant appearances on television, including "The Tonight Show" and "The Late Show", and headlined the 1998 Warped Tour.

Two additional singles were released from the album: "Brown Derby Jump", for which a music video was filmed, and a faster rerecorded version of "Here Comes the Snake", which was originally included on the album "Kids on the Street". Both singles failed to chart.

The swing revival, along with the Daddies' mainstream popularity, quickly fizzled out by the turn of the century, but 'Zoot Suit Riot' still remains a staple of '90s pop culture and arguably the defining song of the movement.

"Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a parody of 'Zoot Suit Riot', entitled 'Grapefruit Diet', on his 1999 album "Running with Scissors".

Track listing

#"Zoot Suit Riot" (Steve Perry) – 3:53
#"Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line" (Perry) – 3:31
#"When I Change Your Mind" (Perry) – 2:29
#"Here Comes the Snake" (Perry) – 3:18
#"Mister White Keys" (Perry) – 3:07
#"Come Back to Me" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:39
#"Brown Derby Jump" (Perry) – 2:58
#"Dr. Bones" (Perry) – 3:34
#"Pink Elephant" (Perry) – 3:40
#"Master and Slave" (Perry) – 4:04
#"Drunk Daddy" (Perry) – 5:10
#"No Mercy for Swine" (Perry) – 4:02
#"Cherry Poppin' Daddy Strut" (Perry) – 3:05
#"Shake Your Lovemaker" (Perry) – 5:50

Bonus track

Japan release has bonus track 15 "2:29" (Perry) – 3:43

Some American versions include a hidden version of "Zoot Suit Riot" in Spanish after a long period of silence in the same track as "Shake Your Lovemaker." The hidden song starts at 6:20.

Previous availability

ingles

ee also

*Zoot Suit Riots
*Zoot Suits