Super Rad!
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| Single by The Aquabats | ||||||||||
| from the album The Fury of The Aquabats! | ||||||||||
| Released | 1997 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||||||||
| Genre | Third wave ska | |||||||||
| Length | 3:02 | |||||||||
| Label | Goldenvoice Time Bomb Recordings |
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| Writer(s) | The Aquabats | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Jim Goodwin | |||||||||
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"Super Rad!" is a song by American band The Aquabats which appears on their 1997 album The Fury of The Aquabats!.
Issued by The Aquabats' then labels Goldenvoice and Time Bomb Recordings, "Super Rad!" was the band's first widely distributed single, and what AbsolutePunk called "single-handedly the gem responsible for putting [The Aquabats] on the map". Musically, the song follows in the ska-influenced style The Aquabats were then known for, featuring a heavily brass-driven melody as well as the surf-inspired lead guitar lines which characterized much of the band's early material. "Super Rad!"'s lyrics have been described by reviewers as an introductory "mission statement" of sorts in reference to the band's superhero-themed persona, exemplified in the chorus "We're on our way/Here we go/We're gonna take over".
Despite not attaining any chart success, "Super Rad!" nevertheless received heavy airplay on college radio and stations such as Los Angeles' influential KROQ-FM during the short-lived American ska revival of the late 1990s, bringing The Aquabats their first taste of moderate mainstream exposure. As such, it is considered to be one of the band's most popular songs, and is almost always performed at every one of their concerts.
As The Aquabats started to attract mainstream attention in late 1997, singer Christian Jacobs (The Bat Commander) began to conceptualize adapting the band's superhero mythology for television. In a 2013 interview with the Nerdist, Jacobs mentioned that the video for "Super Rad!" was one of his attempts to show studios that The Aquabats could be "appealing comedic characters in addition to a good band". The video was directed by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, who also worked with the band in developing and directing their 1998 unaired television pilot The Aquabats! for Buena Vista Television.
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