In my teens, I heard this version first, not knowing at the time it was a cover version. When I heard the sabbath version later, I wondered why it was so slow.....
The Dickies need to be in the hall of fame as thier music was so amazing - thier covers and thier original material ... I'm starting a campaign to get them in the Hall of fame
Nights In White Satin is just superb. It retains all the felling of the original tearjerker even with Graves singing in his typical mocking spirit. Loved their 45s!! So much fun and colorful. I miss my vinyl but it took up an entire room. I mean literally. I had EVERYTHING from 1970 to 1984. Obscure ‘70’s hard rock bands, Hard Rock, Glam, metal and Punk. At least I replaced some on disc and all those great comps with the rarities. I now own 2300 CDs, They only take up a quarter of my room now.😊
Their first two albums were absolute classics Incredible Shrinking Dickies & Dawn of The Dickies....John Peel in the UK loved them & even played the B sides like Got it at the Store & Give it Back etc looking forward to seeing them locally next month proper fun band ...
Just saw these guys on Saturday 7/16/16 and they kicked sooo much ass!!! Seriously! I'd heard of 'em but never'd listened to them, I was at the show to see the headliner but felt like I could have left before they went on cuz' the Dickies were that entertaining that I felt satisfied enough to not stick around for the rest of the show. I did end up sticking around for the rest of the show, but I became a fan that night. A FAN OF THE DICKIES!!!!!
Cheetah Thunders. I saw them with the Queers and Screeching Weasel last year. I had originally gone to go see Screeching Weasel but I was so BLOWN AWAY by the Dickies that I became an instant fan that night. When the Dickies stepped onto the stage, I didn't know what to make of them, everyone in the band and I mean EVERYONE, looked like they were from a different band! I thought the bass player and one of the guitarists were roadies or something. The singer is phenomenal. I'd go see them again in a heartbeat.
they didn't dress that punk (more New Wave), but they sure as hell had the fired up thunder and lightning it took to be punk. To me, one of the most recognizable voices in punk rock history. Kick ass cover, kick ass band. Thanks be to isac1977 for putting this on the 'tube. Rock on, bro...
Dickies - Paranoid 26-7-1979 2322pm 11.12.22 works far better for this band than it did for the guys who originally wrote this track. aye; these lags look like they would be down the prom on a californian beach bumming around looking at the gurls and drinking beer as they posed and paraded about in joggers or sweat pants catching some rays eating some chilli dogs drinking more beers belching and being real and down with it. ahahahahah.. or not. anyhow; fine songs and happier moments listening to these guys who were far far far away from another planet and mysterious...
I just heard them do a set at Warped Tour 2009 in Ventura. They started with an audience of about 100 and finished with an audience of 1,000+ They still got it!
Wow. You would have loved seeing The Rolling Stones at the Fillmore in 73. Charlie Watts came out from behind his kit and vacuumed the entire stage during "Ruby Tuesday".
LOVE, love, LOVE the Dickies--saw them many times, best one was at the Whiskey where The Misfits opened for them as a surprise act. They need to be in a hall of fame somewhere getting their due.
Classic!!!! I had the 45 RPM (maybe it was the EP 33 1/3?) record back then in my early 20's. I can't even remember when the last time I heard this song. Now at 65 I still enjoy this song just as much as I did during my Punk Rock/New Wave days when I was in my early 20's. Now days it is considered "Old Fogey Music" to today's younger kids. "Hey you dirty little punks!! Get off my lawn!!"
not always. I'm 21, going on 22 actually and I own this album on yellow vinyl and Dawn of the Dickies as a cassette. also have a live tape somewhere. I feel like I'm the only Dickies fan that's my age
I didn’t see that at first (got distracted) so I watched it again. I first heard this in 1985 on a college punk radio show. It was the closest to heavy metal that anything on the show got. I’ve always liked this.
Man! This is the first band I ever saw live. Would have ben bout 78/79. They were supporting The Boomtown Rats. What a night! My ears were ringing for days...
They recorded a few originals on their two albums Dawn of The Dickies and The Incredible Shrinking Dickies but their biggest hits (UK charts) were covers,even their record sleeves were covers.Also,their records hardly were on black vinyl.Their biggest hit was Tra La La The Banana splits song which naturally was on yellow vinyl.Peaked at number 7.
fan club, give it back are the originals that are killer...only Paranoid truly slays the original. and most know Pat Smears Golden Boys as a Dickies song, because few know it as the last lyrics Darby Crash wrote. Smear wrote music for it and ended up on an ignored solo album. technically the last Germs song, most Dickies covers are jokes, except Paranoid which makes the original sound slow and lazy. Nothing tops You Drive Me Ape and the frst two albums originals--and they sounded great live up until the last time they passed thru. Getting the kids to protest their Warped Tour shows was fun, especially the bands reaction...
@@TheLarryburns84 its fan mail not club and owned every fkn cover they did. Listen to dog of the hare that bit us. All killer covers Idjit savant had great covers golden boy. Pretty ballerina. Fuk that protest shyt its all good fun im 55 when i was 17 in 84 i saw them 1st time in my denim jacket with manowar and raven gbh and big black patches. They berated me all night. About my long hair my metal style and kept requesting me to come on stage and offer favors for the band 😂 they jammed so hard they were funny and very uplifting frequency from the metal shows i was accustomed to They are an absolute positive high energy band that can only bring joy to ones life And those miserable d)k€$ who splashed pool water on them got chlorine in their eyes
I sat down with Stan Lee in 1993 in Winnipeg and I asked him what his most memorable moment was in his punk rock career. His answer, "Sharing a heroin needle with Sid Vicious, in England, best party in my life". Ha ha ha, awesome
I heard this in 1980 in a 4 dr Fiat, going from Thousand Oaks to Zuma Beach, on Kanan Rd. A case of beer in the trunk on ice, Pretenders and Joe Jackson on reserve cassette. Metal Coleman gallon portable water spigot container full of cold beer. Owner of the Fiat was better skater than any Bones Crew from LA. We just didnt have a photographer at Jungleland in T.O. then. But we had beer👍
hey man u aint the only one. i like all that shit, plus all the metal u like! people like us just know good music when we hear it, and it transcends all genres!
You had to be there...they got signed! Of all of the LA punk bands they were the most commercially viable....RIP Chuck Wagon (Bob Davis...) I knew you and loved you well!
I heard this version first when I was about 17 (29 now). I still prefer this version better, i used to listen to this and lay in my bed wandering what it would've been like to experience the LA punk scene it's prime in the 70s. So cool
Also when they form the guitar line I love how the singer has to look back as if to say "hey man, did you forget we were gonna form a GUITAR LINE" come on man!!!
@UncleSlam81 Amen brother! I would say The Dickies are history's BEST cover band but they wrote amazing originals as well. "You Drive Me Ape You Big Gorilla" is one of early punk's best offerings. Not to mention later stuff a la "Pretty Please Me", "Killer Klowns, etc.
Just saw the Dickies 2 weeks ago. Still fabulous. Gotta see these class of 77 bands before they leave the planet.
Awesome
This deserved to be a bigger hit in GB where they had a stronger appreciation than their homeland. Definitely one of my favorite punk bands
Mine too. Since I was 12.
In my teens, I heard this version first, not knowing at the time it was a cover version. When I heard the sabbath version later, I wondered why it was so slow.....
same happend to me 😂😂 have fun mate
☠️💣☠️
I had heard the Sabbath version first and this was the first or second Dickies song I heard. An amazing cover that makes the original sound lazy.
Try. Comparing their version of the monkees she or nights in white satin
Same here!
Saaaaaaaaaaame
The Dickies need to be in the hall of fame as thier music was so amazing - thier covers and thier original material ... I'm starting a campaign to get them in the Hall of fame
how’s that working out? any updates? @reknowitonii
Made it nowhere as I realized what the hall of fame actually is and who wants to be part of that, lol
@@reknowltoniii respect.
The Dickies are part of my own hall of fame ... Society is over rated, lol
Nights In White Satin is just superb. It retains all the felling of the original tearjerker even with Graves singing in his typical mocking spirit. Loved their 45s!! So much fun and colorful. I miss my vinyl but it took up an entire room. I mean literally. I had EVERYTHING from 1970 to 1984. Obscure ‘70’s hard rock bands, Hard Rock, Glam, metal and Punk. At least I replaced some on disc and all those great comps with the rarities. I now own 2300 CDs, They only take up a quarter of my room now.😊
Their first two albums were absolute classics Incredible Shrinking Dickies & Dawn of The Dickies....John Peel in the UK loved them & even played the B sides like Got it at the Store & Give it Back etc looking forward to seeing them locally next month proper fun band ...
eve of destruction cover vis great
Geat track , remember me and my mate jumping around the frontroom with this playing full blast on the old stereo.Punk!
Yep.
Just saw these guys on Saturday 7/16/16 and they kicked sooo much ass!!! Seriously! I'd heard of 'em but never'd listened to them, I was at the show to see the headliner but felt like I could have left before they went on cuz' the Dickies were that entertaining that I felt satisfied enough to not stick around for the rest of the show. I did end up sticking around for the rest of the show, but I became a fan that night. A FAN OF THE DICKIES!!!!!
same thing happened to me (in 1990)
Cheetah Thunders. I saw them with the Queers and Screeching Weasel last year. I had originally gone to go see Screeching Weasel but I was so BLOWN AWAY by the Dickies that I became an instant fan that night. When the Dickies stepped onto the stage, I didn't know what to make of them, everyone in the band and I mean EVERYONE, looked like they were from a different band! I thought the bass player and one of the guitarists were roadies or something. The singer is phenomenal. I'd go see them again in a heartbeat.
Hell yes! Saw them at a scuzzy club in like 93 or 94 just outside LA. It was such a fun show.
I saw them in 1981 and they kicked ass then too. The show was at a small punk club (Cuckoo's Nest) and they blew away the other bands.
They were treated as a bit of a joke back in the day, but always most amusing.
One of the greatest live bands!
One of the tightest punk bands I've ever seen. Superb.
They were extremely good at what they did. They had the perfect mix of energy and weirdness.
…and melody.
How is it possible to be so cool in 1979? Dickies Worldwide. Ya'll recognize!
Fantastic punk band
It gets better!
they didn't dress that punk (more New Wave), but they sure as hell had the fired up thunder and lightning it took to be punk. To me, one of the most recognizable voices in punk rock history. Kick ass cover, kick ass band. Thanks be to isac1977 for putting this on the 'tube. Rock on, bro...
Dickies - Paranoid 26-7-1979 2322pm 11.12.22 works far better for this band than it did for the guys who originally wrote this track. aye; these lags look like they would be down the prom on a californian beach bumming around looking at the gurls and drinking beer as they posed and paraded about in joggers or sweat pants catching some rays eating some chilli dogs drinking more beers belching and being real and down with it. ahahahahah.. or not. anyhow; fine songs and happier moments listening to these guys who were far far far away from another planet and mysterious...
toured with these cats best version of town without pity ever
whattt? i have never seen this before. this is AMAZING.
The incredible shrinking Dickies! One of my favourite bands, great energy and humour.
It's just cold here.
Just saw them last night in Detroit. They put on an amazing show and still sound great after all these years.
Awesome...me and my mates bouncing around to the dickies , brilliant times.
brilliant ,dickies best song thanks fr posting.
brilliant thanks for this upload
I reckon this band changed my life 79 isolated till I heard this x
Guaranteed to make me smile, The Dickies are one of the best.
A thing of beauty -- this is insanely awesome
Seen then in Newcastle about 38 years ago Brilliant ; )))))
he can really pull off that mullet..amazing!!!
Off to see the Dickies on Monday in the UK cant wait followed them from the start since hearing them on the John Peel show ....
Wow! A phenomenal version, what a sensational singer..
This is really one of the most entertaining videos I have ever seen. Pure fun.
I just heard them do a set at Warped Tour 2009 in Ventura. They started with an audience of about 100 and finished with an audience of 1,000+ They still got it!
The first time that I ever saw a rock band clean up after themselves.
Lol
Wow. You would have loved seeing The Rolling Stones at the Fillmore in 73. Charlie Watts came out from behind his kit and vacuumed the entire stage during "Ruby Tuesday".
@@asusmctablet9180 Well, I was wrong then. I didn't know about Charlie Watts doing that.
That sounds amazing !
@@brucegordon7248makes me like him more
A woefully under-rated band-- never heard them in the states back in the day. Glad the internet remembers them.
A bowl cut AND a mullet? AND SUNGLASSSES?!
This. . . this is awesome!
Reminds me of the Die Antwoord chick's hair
fuk u utube I hate you for forcing me to do a Google image search of that.
AtariMaxiToriyama lololololol you have a good sense of humour. props to you
@ AtariMaxiToryama dude thats what I'm rockin! makes the ladies weaaaaak
LOVE, love, LOVE the Dickies--saw them many times, best one was at the Whiskey where The Misfits opened for them as a surprise act. They need to be in a hall of fame somewhere getting their due.
What year was that?
Why is RUclips great? Because it lets new people see old great groups .
And old people hear the music in a quality unavailable to most in the 70's.
HEAR HERE!!!
Classic!!!! I had the 45 RPM (maybe it was the EP 33 1/3?) record back then in my early 20's. I can't even remember when the last time I heard this song. Now at 65 I still enjoy this song just as much as I did during my Punk Rock/New Wave days when I was in my early 20's. Now days it is considered "Old Fogey Music" to today's younger kids. "Hey you dirty little punks!! Get off my lawn!!"
not always. I'm 21, going on 22 actually and I own this album on yellow vinyl and Dawn of the Dickies as a cassette. also have a live tape somewhere. I feel like I'm the only Dickies fan that's my age
PORT TALBOT troubador, 1978. awesome savage my first punk gig changed my life, PORTHCAWL PUNKS all nite
brilliant - thanks for posting this.
Just saw them Friday night and they played this. Sounded GREAT, as did everything else they played.
I'm jealous :(
These guys are made of the RIGHT STUFF. Love it!
“It remains one of the best Black Sabbath covers I’ve ever heard”. Geezer Butler, Into The Void.
Just amazing.
THANK U
Works better as a punk tune
Makes more sense
Sounds right
Love the dustpan action!
Great song. And done at 150mph makes it even greater. Brilliant. Well done Dickies.
My school days original punk in the late 70s before the revival in 82 awesome time
I was there too! Insane! the best band I saw all day
First show I ever went to. 1982 Concert Factory ( before 92 Cuckoo's Nest, CM CA) Great live band, better venue
My first punk show too! 82? Somewhere in Fullerton. I was kinda f'd up😆
I heard this version in the late 70s, before I heard the original. I then wondered why the black sabbath version was so slow lol
Thats cool
This version is the basis for the faster speed basically every other cover I've heard of the song.
These guys are great.
i love Leonard tidying up with the dust pan during the guitar solo!!
He's adorable.
I didn’t see that at first (got distracted) so I watched it again. I first heard this in 1985 on a college punk radio show. It was the closest to heavy metal that anything on the show got. I’ve always liked this.
Im here cuz of Fat Mike!!!! :D
What a band
SHEEEZ....I NEED A CUP OF THIS IN MORNING...!!
they had so much fun
great stuff, can't wait to see them in Milan in a couple of weeks ... hope they'll play this one
Lucky youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu :(
Saw them at Erics (Liverpool) Very tight music and fun to watch. Like a dose of high grade amphet.
great cover,got to love the Dickies!
Man! This is the first band I ever saw live. Would have ben bout 78/79. They were supporting The Boomtown Rats. What a night! My ears were ringing for days...
The Wierdos & The Dickies best post punk perma wave bands outta of the 70s!!
They recorded a few originals on their two albums Dawn of The Dickies and The Incredible Shrinking Dickies but their biggest hits (UK charts) were covers,even their record sleeves were covers.Also,their records hardly were on black vinyl.Their biggest hit was Tra La La The Banana splits song which naturally was on yellow vinyl.Peaked at number 7.
you drive me ape was the song that ended up on punk comps, and what i perceived as this albums "hit". and Paranoid. which they own.
I own The Incredible Shrinking Dickies on yellow vinyl ! still plays like a dream all this time later. Walk Like an Egg and Curb Job are stellar
fan club, give it back are the originals that are killer...only Paranoid truly slays the original. and most know Pat Smears Golden Boys as a Dickies song, because few know it as the last lyrics Darby Crash wrote. Smear wrote music for it and ended up on an ignored solo album. technically the last Germs song, most Dickies covers are jokes, except Paranoid which makes the original sound slow and lazy. Nothing tops You Drive Me Ape and the frst two albums originals--and they sounded great live up until the last time they passed thru. Getting the kids to protest their Warped Tour shows was fun, especially the bands reaction...
@@TheLarryburns84 its fan mail not club and owned every fkn cover they did. Listen to dog of the hare that bit us. All killer covers
Idjit savant had great covers golden boy. Pretty ballerina. Fuk that protest shyt its all good fun im 55 when i was 17 in 84 i saw them 1st time in my denim jacket with manowar and raven gbh and big black patches. They berated me all night. About my long hair my metal style and kept requesting me to come on stage and offer favors for the band
😂 they jammed so hard they were funny and very uplifting frequency from the metal shows i was accustomed to
They are an absolute positive high energy band that can only bring joy to ones life
And those miserable d)k€$ who splashed pool water on them got chlorine in their eyes
one of the best covers of all times
Saw them in concert two days ago! Great introduction to punk rock for me haha. One of the greatest shows I ever seen
Saw these guys in LA in 89 supporting the Second Coming album. Great Show. Always the Clown Princes of Punk.
leonard graves is such a legend, an icon, an wtf? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i love the dickies
This reminds me of high school, when I had to use Napster to download videos of punk bands & full episodes of Jackass cause I didn't have MTV
Seen these Leeds uni great night
Fitting. Logical. The original is pretty much a punk song anyway.
Thank Bog for bands like this. I would have slit my wrists if all I had to listen to back then was Rush, Kansas, etc.
Since I will forever like punk more than metal, I like this more than the original. Salute to Ozzy but… it is what it is. 2:07
Amazing Memories flooding back... It reminds me of Johnny from X factor lol.
so full of energy!
@davidbletch One of the many contributions made by The Dickies to music was demonstrating that classic rock songs were far longer than necessary.
High energy!
Love it!!!
I sat down with Stan Lee in 1993 in Winnipeg and I asked him what his most memorable moment was in his punk rock career. His answer, "Sharing a heroin needle with Sid Vicious, in England, best party in my life". Ha ha ha, awesome
I heard this in 1980 in a 4 dr Fiat, going from Thousand Oaks to Zuma Beach, on Kanan Rd. A case of beer in the trunk on ice, Pretenders and Joe Jackson on reserve cassette. Metal Coleman gallon portable water spigot container full of cold beer. Owner of the Fiat was better skater than any Bones Crew from LA. We just didnt have a photographer at Jungleland in T.O. then. But we had beer👍
awesome had this on white vinyl
OMG - Have not seen such a tri-level haircut in decades!
The vocalist has great energy. :)
hey man u aint the only one. i like all that shit, plus all the metal u like! people like us just know good music when we hear it, and it transcends all genres!
Clear disc, still got it.Blinding version. Cheers.
You had to be there...they got signed! Of all of the LA punk bands they were the most commercially viable....RIP Chuck Wagon (Bob Davis...) I knew you and loved you well!
I dance like this. Always have. No matter what the sound. Nevr got a ride.
Großartig
The original line-up
Greatest cover band ever
Dan S. Not just a cover band mate
I doubt anyone else made Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
I heard this version first when I was about 17 (29 now). I still prefer this version better, i used to listen to this and lay in my bed wandering what it would've been like to experience the LA punk scene it's prime in the 70s. So cool
I was 17 too when I first heard this song, except now I'm 59, and yes they rocked it live. I saw them at the whiskey in LA.
Aloha
Got this on a 7" clear single - gonna have to dig it out & dust it off now.
Also when they form the guitar line I love how the singer has to look back as if to say "hey man, did you forget we were gonna form a GUITAR LINE" come on man!!!
seeing em tonight!
Nice Ian Curtis moves @ 1:01 :D
He must have been a fan!
Dickies FTW!!!!
Fantastic memories 5*s my friend ;-)
Mark....
One of the best bands of the 80"s. Dude you had to be there to know.
The Dickies Rule!!!
Dawn of the Dickies ftw!!
I can't come up with the words to express how great this is....
@UncleSlam81 Amen brother! I would say The Dickies are history's BEST cover band but they wrote amazing originals as well. "You Drive Me Ape You Big Gorilla" is one of early punk's best offerings. Not to mention later stuff a la "Pretty Please Me", "Killer Klowns, etc.
paranoid was the song that gave birth to punk and metal too