The Hippos
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(1) The Hippos were a third wave ska-punk band from Southern California. Unlike other typical bands of the genre, The Hippos employed heavy use of a Moog synthesizer.
The Hippos’s first full album release was Forget the World, released in 1996. Interestingly, many of the songs on Forget The World were written when Ariel Rechstaid, the band’s primary songwriter, was only 15 years old. This album employed traditional ska-punk songwriting, including upbeat tempos and heavy brass instrumentation. Additionally, various percussion instruments were used, such as bongos and wood blocks. The next album was Heads Are Gonna Roll, released in 1999. A transitional album, a balance of horns and synthesizers is found on this album. Commercially, this album was the band’s most successful; it is the only album to be fully produced by a large record label and thus is assumedly the most circulated and heard of the three albums.
The Hippos, a self titled final release, was released in 2003 after the band’s break-up. This album completed the gradual transition from traditional ska-punk to the unique, orginal synthpop sound exhibited here. Ties to the ska-punk scene from which they began had been all but completely severed. In fact, only one track from this album uses horns at all, an essential element of ska. Much of the Hippos’s fanbase was initially reluctant at such a different sound, but for the most part, this reluctance gave way to admiration. To many fans, the Hippos’s final album was their best written and most enjoyable, despite its limited commercial success.

(2) The Hippos are a blues band from Sydney, Australia. They enjoyed modest chart success with Dark Age in 1988, from the album Hippocracy.
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The Hippos Lyrics


01 Far Behind All I need is a walking cane To guide me on…
01. Lost It Can you see what I am seeing Now that I am…
05. Run Away and Hide Open your eyes Pull up the blinds Today's a sunny day Des…
06. Slow It Down I can give you something to break If you just let…
13. He Said When I was just a young boy I loved to play…
A Groovy Kind Of Love when im feelin blue, all i have to do is take…
All Alone I'm all alone, but my heart is full I'm a sunken…
Always Something There To Remind Me I walk along the city streets you used to walk…
Asleep at the Wheel It's two in the morning, I'm tired as hell. What am…
Asleep at the Wheel (The Boom Shaka Remix) Hippos Miscellaneous Asleep At The Wheel It's two in the mor…
Australia We can make it (We can make it) Yeah we can make…
Bad Grammar I dig you cause your fashion is so keen I dig…
Beats Don't Stop I can hear your sound dripping down my ears Is anybody…



Better Watch The things you claim, I can't accept the blame Better wat…
Better Watch Your Back The things you claim, I can't accept the blame Better watch…
Celebrate You think that you could walk out on me. You think…
Diane I've been in this bind for a while, I can't…
Don So you know that everybody's going to the ska show…
Far Behind All I need is a walking cane To guide me on…
Forget The World I pick you up, we stay out late. My life…
Going Home No man should see what these eyes have seen The mess…
He Said When I was just a young boy I loved to play…
Hold On Lying in my bed today Listening to my records play Nothing s…
I Know You get me going like a wind up toy So pay…
Irie How can I show you that I cannot not see? How…
Los Angeles You've been here forever I've I've been here too They sa…
Lost It Can you see what I am seeing Now that I am…
My Dear Why do I... Always fall in love with the girl that…
Our Lips Are Sealed Can you hear them? Talk about us tellin' lies yeah…
Paulina You think I'm square Don't like the clothes I wear, The way…
PAULIÑA you think I'm square don't like the clothes I wear the…
Paulina ) You think I'm square Don't like the clothes I wear, The wa…
Please Why must you pick on me? Have you no sympathy? I'm just…
Pollution why do you treat me oh so badly oh so…
Run Away and Hide Open your eyes Pull up the blinds Today's a sunny day Despit…
Say You Love Me I've been waiting all this time For you to realize That no…
Slow It Down I can give you something to break If you just let…
So Lonely Well someone told me yesterday That when you throw your love…
So lonley Well someone told me yesterday That when you throw your lov…
Something I hate to say it but your life is not…
Stephen Why did you go so far away? When all I wanted…
Stephen* Why did you go so far away? When all I wanted…
Struggling You think you know who I am But you don't know…
Summertime Got my 1987 yellow Volvo station wagon I got my homies…
The Sand You say neglect is all I understand I know I haven't…
Thinking I can't stop thinking while I'm on the can Your eyes…
Thinking of You In the middle of the night With nothing to do I was…
Wasting My Life Something in the way she never looks my way, I'm in…
We The word gets around From show to shore We've got the sound …
When Will I Learn I bought everything that you asked for, everything but you…
Your Time Has Come It's taken lots of time for me To fuck you over…


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