Song · Haysi Fantayzee
“Shiny Shiny” by Haysi Fantayzee
From the album Battle Hymns for Children Singing (1983)
“Shiny Shiny” by Haysi Fantayzee appears on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1983 and 2003. It was first released in 1983 on the album Battle Hymns for Children Singing. Its best result is #58 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #106 alternative song of 1983 and #2,262 alternative song of all time.
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"Shiny Shiny" came off Haysi Fantayzee's 1983 album Battle Hymns for Children Singing, and it might be the oddest party record of the whole new wave boom: a hoedown about the bomb. Paul Caplin, Kate Garner and Jeremy Healy wrote it, then piled fiddles, violins, piano and spoons on top of a bouncy, country-flavored beat and tossed in loops and sound effects like confetti. The words are cheerful nonsense about war, politics and violence, a nuclear nightmare sung like a nursery rhyme.
The British band took it onto Top of the Pops and picked up some MTV play. It reached number 16 at home, went top three in Australia, and gave them their only Hot 100 entry in America, where it stalled at 74.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 58 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 307 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) | 501 |
| 1992 | 145 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) | 500 |
| 1994 | 62 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994) | 497 |
| 1995 | 191 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995) | 500 |
| 1999 | 293 | 91X | 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 1004 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2002 | 1664 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 770 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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