Frogstomp
Silverchair (1995)
The debut album from Australian rock band Silverchair was released thirty years ago today. This was a fairly big deal to be at the time because it's the first time that a band that I was seeing on MTV was my age. I was 14 years old when this album first appeared in stores. The band's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, bassist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies were all 15 years old.
The hit single that brought them mainstream attention in the United States and around the world is called Tomorrow. It played all the time on MTV and although I liked the song then and still do today, I had no idea what the lyrics meant. The only thing I knew is that every time I heard Daniel sing the word "fatboy", all I could think of was Conrad Bennish from the Last Days episode of Sliders that aired at around the same time that I first heard the song.
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| The Aquarian Weekly (January 17, 1996) |
According to an interview that Daniel had with The Aquarian Weekly, Tomorrow was inspired by a television show that he saw. I have no idea what show he's talking about, but it's a great song regardless.
It's twelve o'clock and it's a wonderful dayI know you hate me but I'll ask anywayWon't you come with me to a place in a little townThe only way to get there's to go straight downThere's no bathroom and there is no sinkThe water out of the tap is very hard to drinkYou wait until tomorrowYou say that money isn't everythingBut I'd like to see you live without itYou think you can keep on goin' living like a kingOoh babe, but I strongly doubt itVery hard to drinkYou gonna wait too fat boyFat boy wait until tomorrow
