
Song · Hot Hot Heat
“Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat
From the album Make Up the Breakdown (2002)
“Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat appears on 40 radio countdowns from 25 stations between 2003 and 2022. It was first released in 2002 on the album Make Up the Breakdown. Its best result is #3 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 alternative song of 2003, #3,537 alternative song of all time and #190 of the '00s.
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"Bandages" was the first single from Hot Hot Heat, the Canadian indie rock band, pulled from their debut album Make Up the Breakdown and sent out in the UK and US on March 23, 2003. Steve Bays, Dante DeCaro, Paul Hawley and Dustin Hawthorne share the writing credit, and it sounds like four guys trying to cram a whole night out into a few minutes: jittery, herky-jerky new wave rhythms, a bass line that won't sit still and a vocal that yelps like it's had far too much coffee.
It climbed to 25 on the UK singles chart, and the video borrowed from the film Brazil, restaging the bit where the hero's mother goes under the knife to look younger. In 2008 it came back around as a download for the Rock Band games.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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