nick berry sang why is everybody always pickin on me.
who sings why is everybody always pickin on me?
nick berry
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"why's everybody always pickin' on me?" is the fifth single off the bloodhound gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album "one fierce beer coaster". the song samples "spooky" by classics iv and "never let me down again" by depeche mode. the title is borrowed from the classic 1959 song "charlie brown" performed by the coasters, in which a school troublemaker complains about being picked upon when his schemes backfire.





























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to create the hip-hop and rock fusions on the album, jimmy pop utilized the standard hip hop technique of sampling. the chorus for "fire water burn" is taken from "the roof is on fire" by rock master scott & the dynamic three and also features the lyrics 'i am white like frank black is / so if man is five and the devil is six then that must make me seven / this honkey's gone to heaven,' a direct reference to the post-1993 stage name of black francis who wrote the pixies song "monkey gone to heaven" to which the lyrics allude. "why's everybody always pickin' on me?" is built around a re-recorded sample of "spooky", by mike sharpe as performed by classics iv and also features a small lift from the bill cosby track "greasy kid stuff." finally, the track "your only friends are make believe" features a chorus melody lifted from the duran duran song "hungry like the wolf." "lift your head up high (and blow your brains out)" is built around a sample from "get up and boogie" by the silver convention.
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