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In 2004, Australian alternative rock band Spiderbait released a version of "Black Betty" as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Tonight Alright, on March 15. Produced by Sylvia Massy , this version is a slightly faster re-working of Ram Jam's hard rock arrangement.
Spiderbait is an Australian alternative rock band from Finley, New South Wales, formed in 1989 by bass guitarist and singer Janet English, drummer and singer Kram, and guitarist Damian Whitty.
In May 2024, Spiderbait announced a national tour celebrating 20 years of Tonight Alright (and their version of Black Betty). Alongside the announcement of the tour, they announced that the album's going to be issued on vinyl for the first time.
"Fucken Awesome" is a song by Australian alternative rock band Spiderbait. The song was released in June 2004 as the second and final single from the band's sixth studio album Tonight Alright. The single peaked at number 30 on the Australian chart. The song ranked at number 20 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2004. [1]
A remix of "Black Betty" by Ben Liebrand reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in 1990. [9] Cover versions of the song also appear on the 2002 album Mr. Jones by Tom Jones and on the 2004 album Tonight Alright by Australian rock band Spiderbait. Bill Bartlett still plays guitar, but in the early 1990s transformed himself into a boogie ...
Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Australian rock band Spiderbait. The band decided to put out the compilation after discovering newer fans had not been aware of Spiderbait before "Black Betty". "We'd talk to these excited kids who didn't know our previous albums," recalls Kram. "It was like Tonight Alright was our debut album in some ...
"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is also up for best remixed recording, but that award would go to the remixer, David Guetta. Even outside the handful of nominations, the tune has made history on many fronts. ...
The 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.