Let's talk about Hickey

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I don't know too much about their history, other than SoCal, released one album on Probe Records in 1995 and then did the whole Voodoo Glow Skulls split thing... That one album though, is one of the best pop-punk/hardcore records I have ever heard (I've always said that if I were to start a label the first thing I would do would be to reissue this). I only have the thing on tape and minidisc, and unfortunately have no tracknames. If someone could list the names, that would be fantastic... But any other Hickey lovers?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 December 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this a trio from Sacramento or SF in the early 1990s? There must be more than one "Hickey" in the world but the one I'm thinking of I saw in Portland in maybe 1993. What sticks in my mind is how abstract and unpredictable they seemed, compared with the hardcore kid bands on the same bill. And they got ridiculously wasted. The Hickey I saw should be on the Pogues/drunkenness thread instead of that total faker Tom Waits.

― Paula G., Friday, 6 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

They might be, Paula. I thought SoCal, but you could very well be right. I know nothing about them, as I said. Unpredictable and abstract could certainly apply. Their album has 10 songs totalling 11 minutes, and then the last song is 30 minutes -- an opera (really) detailing the history of the world.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 December 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Hickey were from San Francisco. Matty Luv from Hickey passed away last month. There weren't any squares at his funeral. You could check out www.proberecords.com Maybe you'd also like The Bananas from Sacramento, I recommend them to you.

― Eric W, Monday, 6 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

three hickey songs posted online! scroll down:

http://www.proberecords.com/records/

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I Love HICKEY. They were great and wild and strange and I love them because they played my hometown of Tulsa OK when noone else outside of rev horton heat would. Maybe because they had a delicious song called "the only lesbian in tulsa,ok"

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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