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“Kong Foo Sing” by Regurgitator
From the album Tu‐Plang… (1996)
“Kong Foo Sing” by Regurgitator appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1996. It was first released in 1996 on the album Tu‐Plang…. Its best result is #15 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #138 alternative song of 1996.
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Regurgitator's "Kong Foo Sing" hit the shops in April 1996, the first single from their debut album Tu-Plang, and it's a love letter disguised as a takeaway snack. Ben Ely has explained that it's about Quan Yeomans sending Janet English of Spiderbait a box of Kong Foo Sing fortune cookies, hoping to talk her into a date. Yeomans wrote the words, the music belongs to Ely, Yeomans and Martin Lee, and Magoo produced, recorded and mixed it with the band.
The sound is heavier than the premise: kung-fu movie samples over a rhythm section built to flatten you, which Andrew Stafford, writing in Pig City, pegged as funk-metal with Lee's kit miked to clang like rubbish bins. It reached number 33 in Australia, and in 2019 The Brag's Tyler Jenke ranked it second among the band's best songs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 15 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 | 100 |
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