Everything About You (Ugly Kid Joe song)

"Everything About You"
Single by Ugly Kid Joe
from the album As Ugly as They Wanna Be
B-side "Whiplash Liquor"
Released 1992
Format CD maxi, 7" single
Genre Rock,pop metal
Length 4:06 (radio edit)
4:20 (album version)
Label Mercury
Writer(s) Ugly Kid Joe
Producer Ryan Dorn
Ugly Kid Joe
Ugly Kid Joe singles chronology
"Everything about You"
(1992)		 "Neighbor"
(1993)

"Everything About You" is rock band Ugly Kid Joe's first hit. It was originally on their debut E.P., "As Ugly as They Wanna Be". It gained popularity after being featured in the hit film Wayne's World and was later included on the band's 1992 album America's Least Wanted where a spoken intro was added.

The voice of actress Julia Sweeney, in the role of Pat, the overweight androgynous character that appeared on Saturday Night Live, appears at the beginning of the song, saying "Are you the guys on the beach that hate everything? Is this some sort of hip music that I don't understand?"

The song closes with the well-known couplet, Shave and a Haircut.

The song found its greatest success in the United Kingdom, where it reached #3 in May of the same year, and also reached as high as #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The group became more acclaimed for their cover of Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle".

The music video for the song features the band playing on a beach. Band members pull around sex dolls attached to strings. A sheepdog appears in some scenes.

The song was featured in the Band Hero Nintendo DS soundtrack.

Contents

Track listings

7" single
  1. "Everything about You" (clean edit) — 4:06
  2. "Whiplash Liquor" — 3:40
CD maxi
  1. "Everything about You" (clean edit) — 4:06
  2. "Whiplash Liquor" — 3:40
  3. "Sin City" (recorded live at the Carnaval, Santa Barbara) — 5:05
  4. "Everything about You" (dirty version) — 4:14

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1992) Peak
position
Dutch Top 40[1] 5
French SNEP Singles Chart[2] 25
German Singles Chart[2] 11
Irish Singles Chart[3] 5
Norwegian VG-lista Singles Chart[2] 5
Swedish Singles Chart[2] 15
Swiss Singles Chart[2] 14
UK Singles Chart[4] 3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] 9
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[5] 6

End of year charts

End of year chart (1992) Position
Dutch Top 40[1] 47
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6] 72

References

  1. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1992" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201992.pdf. Retrieved 14 April 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d e "Everything About You", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 26, 2008)
  3. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 26, 2008)
  4. ^ "Everything About You", UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 26, 2008)
  5. ^ a b Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved April 26, 2008)
  6. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1992". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1992. Retrieved 2010-07-30.