"Buy Me a Pony" is a song by Australian alternative rock band, Spiderbait and was released in September 1996 as the lead single from the band's third studio album Ivy and the Big Apples. "Buy Me a Pony" peaked at number 45 on the Australian chart.
| "Buy Me a Pony" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Spiderbait | ||||
| from the album Ivy and the Big Apples | ||||
| Released | September 1996 | |||
| Studio | Studios 301 | |||
| Length | 1:44 | |||
| Label | Polydor Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Janet English, Kram, Damian Whitty [1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Phil McKellar, Spiderbait | |||
| Spiderbait singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Buy Me a Pony" on YouTube | ||||
Details
editThe track satirises the initial enthusiasm a label has for a band, and its subsequent reversal, inspired in part by the bidding war that took place to sign Spiderbait. In a 2016 interview, Kram said the song, "was kind of like a comic book version of how bad it can be, and the song still resonates with people today. But the label loved it, even though it was about them and everyone else - they had enough of a sense of humour to get it."[2]
Reception
editAt the ARIA Music Awards of 1997, the song was nominated for Single of the Year, losing out to "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden.[3]
The song ranked at number 1 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1996.[4] It was the first song by an Australian artist to top the charts. Triple J Music Director Richard Kingsmill said, "After three years of doing year-specific Hottest 100s we were still sitting back waiting for an Australian song to reach number one, and we were thinking, 'Oh, it's still years away for a Hottest 100 song that's Australian'. But it wasn't!"[5] It was also the shortest song to ever win.[6]
Track listings
edit| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Buy Me a Pony" | |
| 2. | "Should Have Done What My Mum Always Told Me To" | |
| 3. | "The Road to Urana" | |
| 4. | "Beauregard Bennett" |
Charts
edit| Chart (1996/97) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[7] | 45 |
Release history
edit| Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | September 1996 | CD Single | Polydor Records | 5757572 |
References
edit- ^ "ASCAP Repertory entry for this song". ASCAP. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ Patrick Emery (17 February 2016). "Fucken awesome". Beat. No. 1512.
- ^ "Winners by Year 1997: 11th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Hottest 100 1996". Triple J. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "In The Beginning". Triple J.
- ^ David James Young. "We Made You A Gigantic List Of Hottest 100 Trivia So You Can Impress Your Mates". Junkee.
- ^ "Spiderbait – Buy Me a Pony". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 14 October 2019.