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“Buy Me A Pony” by Spiderbait
From the album Ivy and the Big Apples (1996)
“Buy Me A Pony” by Spiderbait appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1996 and 2013. It was first released in 1996 on the album Ivy and the Big Apples. Its best result is #1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #119 alternative song of 1996 and #6,791 alternative song of all time.
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"Buy Me a Pony" launched Spiderbait's third album, Ivy and the Big Apples, as its lead single in 1996, and it's a gleeful bite at the hand that feeds. Janet English, Kram and Damian Whitty wrote it together, sending up the way a record company falls head over heels for a band and then goes cold, a story sharpened by the bidding war that had broken out over the Australian band. Kram later called it a cartoon version of how bad the business can get, and the label, to its credit, loved it anyway. Phil McKellar produced it with the band.
It earned an ARIA nomination for Single of the Year in 1997, losing to Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply", and when Triple J's listeners crowned it in the Hottest 100 of 1996, no Australian act had ever held that top spot before.
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 | 1 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 86 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998) | 100 |
| 2013 | 62 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
Also listed as: Buy Me a Pony.
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