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Haysi Fantayzee

Band United Kingdom Active 1981–1983

Haysi Fantayzee formed in 1981 in the United Kingdom and was active until 1983. Haysi Fantayzee has 9 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1983–2003. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Shiny Shiny”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #58. The station that charted Haysi Fantayzee most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1983.

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Haysi Fantayzee sprang out of London's Blitz Kids scene in 1981 and dressed the part, piling white-Rasta, tribal-chieftain and Dickensian styles into one gloriously extreme look. The trio was Jeremy Healy, also known as Jeremiah, Kate Garner and Paul Caplin, who wrote the songs, produced them, managed the band and was Garner's boyfriend.

The music was every bit as magpie-minded: reggae, country and electro stitched together, with political and social barbs dressed up as nursery rhymes. They sat somewhere near Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Bananarama without sounding like any of them, and made several trips to Top of the Pops.

Four singles came out across 1982 and 1983, "John Wayne Is Big Leggy", "Holy Joe", "Shiny Shiny" and "Sister Friction", before the album Battle Hymns for Children Singing. "Shiny Shiny" is the one that has lasted, a gleeful hoedown of a singalong that sounds like a barn dance staged in a nightclub cloakroom. By 1983 the whole thing was over, which only makes it shine brighter.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Haysi Fantayzee on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Shiny Shiny	429	9	#58	–	1983

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1983Battle Hymns for Children Singing1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2003	770	Shiny Shiny	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	1664	Shiny Shiny	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
1999	293	Shiny Shiny	91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999)
1999	1004	Shiny Shiny	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1995	191	Shiny Shiny	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1994	62	Shiny Shiny	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994)
1992	145	Shiny Shiny	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)
1988	307	Shiny Shiny	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)
1983	58	Shiny Shiny	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983

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