Lost It is a great song. I've been working on a ska compilation so I have something new to listen to in my car, and there's at least one Hippos song on it. Cool seeing them featured.

damn good band, they created some killer tracks

Still remember seeing NFG open up for them in '98 at The Shelter in Detroit. Definitely miss those days as well...

wasting my life was awesome

I bought* Heads Are Gonna Roll my 3rd grade year out of a used cd bin.
Almost 21 now, and I can still jam it.
Pretty damn good buy.

I firmly believe that if Heads Are Gonna Roll was released now that it would've done way better than it did originally. The band was ahead of their time.

They stayed at my house a few times in Jersey when they were touring in the area. Always such a great and appreciative bunch and they never forgot me or failed to hook me up with tickets or merch or whatever as a way of saying thanks. I miss those days!

Originally Posted by kidsrdumb

wasting my life was awesome

agreed

what an awesome band

still my favorite album great band

"Something" is such a sick song! I love these guys.

As much as I enjoyed Heads Are Gonna Roll, it paled in comparison to Forget The World. As a ska-punk band these dudes were great, but as a synthpop band they were just above average. I can agree that if they put out HAGR today, it probably would have been much more popular than when it first came out. That last album was a pile of shit though.

It's kinda weird that I remember this, but one of the last updates on their website was made just after 9/11 and was about donating to the Red Cross or something and then they sorta dropped off the face of the earth until they announced their breakup. I always found that a bit odd.

Also, I could be wrong (it's been a long time since I've looked at the liner notes), but I swear they had more than 6 members for their first album. I almost want to say they had like 9 (they were a ska band, after all), but maybe they weren't all "official" members or something. I dunno.

Fun fact: Ariel (The Hippos' lead singer) played keyboards on "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too."

Yep. Still listening to Heads Are Gonna Roll 10 years later. These guys were definitely ahead of their time. Such good memories from these guys.

If you're hard up for a hippos fix, Danny is playing trombone with us on this tour with hanson. I saw the hippos at chain reaction with Limbeck, it was RAD!!!

Heads are gonna roll is and has always been my all time favorite album. I put that on and it's impossible to not happily sing along with each song. That being said Forget the World has so many great tracks as well that it's not even funny. I never got the 3rd album because it was highly recommended against doing so. I remember my friend's band used to cover "Please" by them all the time. God what a great fucking band. Awesome pick!