Poolside – PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture

I found out about Webb Wilder in the late eighties early nineties. There is a thread through his music that attaches with The Blasters, Red on Green, those rockabilly, punk, rock bands. His web site mentions his music as “”Swampadelic”, “Service-station attendant music”, “Uneasy listening”, and”Psychobilly.”

It also has elements of the 80s cowpunk music and just good rock and roll. I saw him twice through the nineties and he was excellent each time I saw him. This song was released in 1986 and it was on the album It Came From Nashville.

This song I first heard on our local then rock radio station WKDF in Nashville. Poolside is what first drew me in. After I saw him in Nashville at a street fair I was a fan for life. I like unique…and Webb is unique…God bless him…

Webb Wilder: “I came to Nashville as kind of a hunch, an educated guess that it would be a good place for me. Rock ‘n’ roll and country have more in common than not. We don’t have the typical Nashville country sound, but we thought we could use that to our advantage. It’s sorta like we’re a roots band for rock ‘n’ roll fans and a rock band for roots fans”

Poolside

I got a nice apartment, got a window with a view
I get up every morning and I go down to the pool
Everybody’s pretty, everybody’s nice
Everybody’s got a little something on ice
I never go swimming, cause that ain’t cool
But every day you’re gonna find me hanging round the pool

Poolside baby, laying in the sun
With my dark sunglasses, and the radio on
Sittin’ in a chaise lounge, greased down, turning brown
Let it hit a hundred and three
I’ll be poolside, if you’re lookin’ for me

Every woman in the place, has got a novel in her face
You know they didn’t come here to read
Now they’re looking for a man, with a dark suntan
And every now and then I catch them looking at me

I got a little white styrofoam cooler
I got an ice cold beer in my hand
You know I really got it made
Nobody puts me in the shade
I got a full-time job, working on my tan

Ah yeah, look at me, I’m luxurating now, aw it’s too good

Now it’s a wonderful world we live in
Just a few basic common sense rules:
No running, no pushing, no profanity
And no dogs, no dogs, no dogs, no dogs. At

Poolside, laying in the sun
With my dark sunglasses, and the radio on
Sittin’ in a chaise lounge, greased down, turning brown
Let it hit a hundred and three
I’ll be poolside, strictly on the cool side
Baby, I’ll be poolside, if you’re lookin’ for me
I’ll be poolside, strictly on the cool side
Baby, I’ll be poolside, if you’re lookin’ for me
I’ll be poolside, if you’re lookin’ for me

In the late eighties, a song came on the radio that I liked…It was called Poolside by Webb Wilder. It was a quirky song by a quirky singer. He looks like he dropped out of a 50’s black and white detective show. By 1991 I was walking through a street fair in Nashville and there he was playing with his band. He had just put out an album called Doodad that got some local and national airplay. His music is a mixture of rock/country/rockabilly/punk and anything else he can throw in.

I’ve seen him a couple of times and he delivers. He did get some MTV and VHI play nationally in 1991-92. He had a top 20 hit with “Tough It Out” in 1992. His other known songs are “Meet Your New Landlord,” Poolside, and “Human Cannonball”. He has a great band called the Beatnecks.

Webb’s quote when asked what kind of music he plays.

“I came to Nashville as kind of a hunch, an educated guess that it would be a good place for me. Rock ‘n’ roll and country have more in common than not. We don’t have the typical Nashville country sound, but we thought we could use that to our advantage. It’s sorta like we’re a roots band for rock ‘n’ roll fans and a rock band for roots fans” he also adds these phrases…“Swampadelic”, “Service-station attendant music”, “Uneasy listening”, “Psychobilly”

Meet Your New Landlord by Webb.

Tough It Out

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Webb Wilder – Poolside

Webb Wilder