Song · The Adolescents
“Amoeba” by The Adolescents
From the album Adolescents (1981)
“Amoeba” by The Adolescents appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1981 and 2002. It was first released in 1981 on the album Adolescents. Its best result is #106 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1981. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #106 alternative song of 1981 and #7,291 alternative song of all time.
"Amoeba" is the Adolescents' signature song, eighth in line on the self-titled debut album that Frontier Records released in April 1981. Rikk Agnew and Casey Royer wrote it; Tony Cadena sings, Rikk and Frank Agnew play guitar, Steve Soto plays bass and Royer drums, and Thom Wilson engineered and mixed.
The song had done its damage before the album ever came out. An earlier take, cut in 1980 for Rodney on the ROQ, the compilation KROQ's Rodney Bingenheimer assembled and Posh Boy put out that November, turned into a KROQ hit and got the band signed to Frontier in January 1981. Posh Boy's Robbie Fields even handed them gold singles for it at a Starwood show in West Hollywood, and the label finally issued that version as a single in 1990.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 106 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1981 | 106 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 499 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) | 500 |
| 2002 | 1871 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
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