"Jessie's Girl" by Frickin' A

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This has been listed pretty steadily in Billboard (usually on the singles sales chart or the positive phone-testing chart or whatever they call it, I think) for a month or two. Just noticed that it is the second to last track on *Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 18*. I did not listen to it yet, but I am assuming it is a cover version. Who the frick are Frickin' A, though? Is this actually a hit? Are any radio stations playing it? (Radio Disney, maybe?? They are probably the only station that played Skye Sweetnam's great "Tangled Up in Me", which follows Frickin A on the *Now* album) I am clueless.

― xhuxk, Friday, 11 March 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

I just saw the Frickin' A album today in Circuit City (while buying The Massacre AND Skye Sweetnam)! I was like, you know, frickin' A, that's an awful name for a band, and of course they're going to look like Lil Good Charlotte, and of course the band's going to be on the cover of the CD, because when a band's calling themselves Frickin' A, one thinks to one's self, "What the hell do a bunch of dopes calling themselves Frickin' A look like?" And there they are!

I'm starting a band called STFU! First single is "Swear Jar"! Album title = You Farkin' Icehole! Rising double bass drum action! Who wants to play 2nd rhythm guitar?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

No Frickin' A in the Radio Disney Top 30 this week. Mr. C the Slide Man is in there, though. Who is Mr. C the Slide Man? Also, "Do You Believe in Magic?" by Aly and A.J. is number four. Is that a cover of the Lovin' Spoonful song?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

On Big Egos ... No Ideas, Frickin’ A mixes the brightness of power pop, the attitude of pop/punk and the influence of ‘80s hair bands to deliver a fantastic debut rock album. With a sound similar to mainstream artists such as Bowling for Soup and the Fountains of Wayne on their single “Stacy’s Mom” and their catchy melodies and snotty confidence, Frickin’ A seems destined to succeed in the music business.

Yeesh.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

>Who is Mr. C the Slide Man? <

ha ha, i answer that question here (toward the bottom):

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0117,tracker_writer.inc,23384,.html

― xhuxk, Friday, 11 March 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

That's the same song that's in their Top 30 this week--four years later! I don't know, maybe it's a Radio Disney perennial that makes appearances in their chart now and then.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was in the car with a friend of mine a few weeks ago and we heard the intro to "Jessie's Girl" and we were really excited to have something to bellow along with, but then it turned out to be the Frickin' A version. You certainly cannot bellow along with it. It's all wrong in all of the places Rick Springfield in all right. Loved the band name, though.

― Alicia Pie, Friday, 11 March 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

I saw 'em at a radio concert last spring. It's plain ol' mall-punk. They did run from the main stage of the Tweeter Center (Mansfield, Mass.) all the way to a tiny second stage at the very top of the lawn to do their last song. Too bad it was still boring.

(After which Ashlee Simpson played on the small stage, without lip-synching or autotuning. It was awful, but this was before the album came out and (I think) before the TV show started, so no one could even be bothered to boo or cheer. Everyone was just kinda puzzled as to what this person was doing running around bellowing.)

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

There is only one thing more stupid than Frickin' A as a band name for mall kids and the Disney channel. And that is the remake of Battlestar Galactica's substitution of the word "frack" for fuck on the Sci-Fi Channel. There's nothing more humiliating and awkward to watch the actors as soldiers, stomping around the Galactica which is made up to look like an old aircraft carrier interior, shouting "Don't frack with me!" and "Don't frack up!"

― George Smith, Friday, 11 March 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Disney should try to get Battlestar Galactica to do a product tie-in with Frickin' A. Eddie James Olmos as Cmdr. Adama: Frack! Who put Frickin A on the enunciator this morning!"

― George Smith, Friday, 11 March 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

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