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Red Zebra
Band Brugge Belgium Formed 1979 Belgian post-punk band
Red Zebra formed in 1979 in Brugge, Belgium. Red Zebra has 29 chart appearances on 29 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1992–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Can't Live in a Living Room”, which appears on 29 lists with a best position of #36. The station that charted Red Zebra most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 29 appearances.
Red Zebra are a post-punk band from Bruges who got going at the end of the '70s, and in 1980 they hit on the song that has followed them ever since: "I Can't Live in a Living Room", a jittery, wound-up blast that still gets filed among the punk classics.
The lineup was Peter Slabbynck on vocals, Geert Maertens on lead guitar, Vincent Hallez on second guitar and bass and Johan Isselée on drums, a band that sounds all nerves and elbows, taut guitars scraping against a singer who seems ready to climb the walls.
On 6 December 2010 the band and Slabbynck announced they were parting ways, but Red Zebra reformed in 2017, and there's a related project, the John Lennon Rifle Club, running alongside. The song found fresh ears when Asia Argento put it in her 2014 film Incompresa.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Red Zebra on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Can't Live in a Living Room | 29 | #36 | – | – |
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