Ethyl Meatplow was an American alternative/industrial music

Industrial music

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 band best known for their sole album, Happy Days, Sweetheart

Happy Days, Sweetheart

Happy Days, Sweetheart was the 1993 debut and only album for Industrial music dance group Ethyl Meatplow. The album was released on Chameleon Records, distributed by Elektra Entertainment and produced by Barry Adamson...

, released in 1993 by Dali Records, a division of Chameleon Music Group and distributed by Elektra Entertainment. The album's songs "Devil's Johnson," "Queenie" and "Ripened Peach" were made into music videos.

Ethyl Meatplow toured nationally with Nitzer Ebb

Nitzer Ebb

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 and gained coverage for its sexually explicit, burlesque

Burlesque

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-inspired live performances. The band played Lollapalooza

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 and attracted criticism from Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

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 and Julia Cafritz

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 of Free Kitten

Free Kitten

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 for its naked dancers and recorded music. The band attracted a cult following and was reviewed positively in Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, who described Happy Days, Sweetheart as a "smorgasbord of unbridled lust and dance-floor fun." The video for "Devil's Johnson" featured on the Beavis and Butthead episode "Young, Gifted & Crude" and was aired on MTV

MTV

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's 120 Minutes

120 Minutes

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. Their cover of "(They Long to Be) Close to You

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" was featured in a Season 2 episode of Daria

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.

The album label lists band members as Carla Bozulich

Carla Bozulich

Carla Bozulich is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known for her work as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of both The Geraldine Fibbers and and as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow. Her 2006 album, Evangelista, was released by Constellation Records, that label's first release by a...

, Harold "Biff" Barefoot Sanders III and Wee-Wee (John Napier). Bozulich later went on to found the band Geraldine Fibbers

Geraldine Fibbers

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 and Biff Sanders was a founding member of Eric Avery

Eric Avery

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's side project Polar Bear

Polar Bear (rock)

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. Napier was in the band E. Coli which released an album, To Drool on Triple X Records

Triple X Records

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in 1996.
Wee Wee received his Masters in Social Work from Humboldt State University and is currently a mental health clinician intern in northern California, in addition to playing three-string cigar box slide guitar for the amusement of those close to him.

Discography

• "Dancing With Pork Face: Bump and Grind Mixes - 7" (1990, Motiv Communications/Spasm)
• "Colored Maxi" - 12" (1991, Piece of Mind Records)
• "Queenie" - 7"/12" (1992, Sympathy for the Record Industry/Dali Records)
• "Ripened Peach" - 12" (1993, Elektra)
• "Happy Days, Sweetheart" - CD (1993, Dali Records)
• "Betty Boy / Queenie" - 7" (1993, Dali)
• "Devil's Johnson" - CDS (1993, Dali Records/Festival Records)