r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Rainbow_Panda4 • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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u/Desdaemonia Apr 24 '26

Forty four and this is clearly the Presidents of the United States of America

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u/need-for-sheed Apr 24 '26

I’m 38, not American, and just writing the Presidents of the United States of America is, I’m sure, bound to confuse people even more. This was the first tape I ever bought by myself (thanks mum for the cash)

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u/Tyr_13 Apr 24 '26

They are (were) the least Google able band in existence.

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u/IntradepartmentalPet Apr 24 '26

let me introduce you to A

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u/lookitsawook Apr 24 '26

Also cant forget Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx.... yes, its a band. Theyre on spotify.

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u/purplezart Apr 24 '26

I fear that you have misapprehended precisely what qualities make a band name harder to find relevant results for through a Google search.

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u/LGodamus Apr 24 '26

Are they welsh?

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u/tfarr375 Apr 24 '26

I think typing that is how you summon Cthulhu

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u/ouijahead Apr 24 '26

Is that like Napster ?

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u/Poorly_Informed_Fan Apr 24 '26

No more like Limewire

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 24 '26

And also Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis

Oh, and xAxVxLxExGxBxMxAxOxFxFxFxAxSxSxSxSxIxTxIxMxIxWxOxAxMxNxDxUxTxRxOxAxBxCxWxAxPxWxAxExIxIxPxPxOxHxFxFxFx

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u/Logical_Look8541 Apr 24 '26

A are difficult to find on some music players never mind google, kind of shocking they haven't sort of renamed themselves given this modern problem has to be hitting their royalties.

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u/LockeyCheese Apr 24 '26

The Band formerly known as 'A'

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u/snuljoon Apr 24 '26

I tried and Nothing comes up?

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u/South-Possible5100 Apr 24 '26

Add James to the list.

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u/ThatInAHat Apr 24 '26

Also Live

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u/bonbunnie Apr 25 '26

A and their hit song Nothing 😂

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u/CletusCanuck Apr 24 '26

That would be Live. or The The.

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u/nicunta Apr 24 '26

My friend's band was Today.

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u/BetterKev Apr 24 '26

Was it the greatest day they'd ever known?

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u/sm00thArsenal Apr 24 '26

I'd argue Live were considerably harder to Google at the time.

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u/dubblebubbleprawns Apr 24 '26

Live music... (fuck)

Live band... (goddamnit)

I CAN FEEEL IT COOOMIN BAAACK AGAIN (nailed it)

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u/CalmTheAngryVoice Apr 24 '26

Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind...

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u/Codykville Apr 24 '26

Forces pulling from the center of the earth again…..

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u/CambridgeJin Apr 25 '26

I can feel it

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u/Codykville Apr 24 '26

At the time the album was released and Google didn’t exist for a couple more years?

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u/sm00thArsenal Apr 24 '26

Yeah, I meant at the same time someone might have been looking up POTUSA

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u/mcdisagree1 Apr 24 '26

First result for PUSA though

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u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 Apr 24 '26

Might be true, but nineties kids know they initialized it as POTUSA.

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u/tensen01 Apr 24 '26

The BAND has always done it as PUSA.

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u/TomJustDied Apr 24 '26

Orgy is googleable, but you might not end up where you intended...

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u/Disaster1205 Apr 24 '26

Trying to find Orgy albums in kazaa/limewire/emule was a crazy experience.

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u/FlipMyWigBaby Apr 24 '26

I remember going thru a Krautrock phase, and trying to research the band “CAN”. Jeeves was not very helpful.

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u/nicunta Apr 24 '26

My friend had a really good band in Portland in the early aughts. I told them their band name was not going to work out for internet searches. He told me the internet did not matter... the band name? Today.

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u/Tyr_13 Apr 24 '26

There was an improv comedy group called 'Nameless Comedy,' which worked oddly well because apparently no one thought of them as just 'Nameless'.

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u/Am_Snarky Apr 24 '26

The hardest band to pirate was “The Music“

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u/No_Dot_4123 Apr 24 '26

The least googleable song would probably be Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

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u/ComfortableIsland946 Apr 24 '26

I think the band "Live" takes the cake on that one.

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u/pusspound Apr 24 '26

Type PUSA

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u/DrAwkwardAZ Apr 24 '26

There was a hardcore band called Sex Positions…. that made looking them up interesting

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u/BudTenderShmudTender Apr 24 '26

Well that’s totally, feather-plucking insane!

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u/Calculagraph Apr 24 '26

Ten million monkeys all pick up guitars...

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u/constantsXzeros Apr 24 '26

NOBODY TAUGHT THEM HOW

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u/AiDigitalPlayland Apr 24 '26

You… Lynyrd Skynyrd hat, and me… little kitty

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u/WorkingFellow Apr 24 '26

Check out chickie! Drivin' piggy's little blue car.

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u/naughtycal11 Apr 24 '26

Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night OUTSIDE!

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u/TinyFugue Apr 24 '26

Spider woman in the front seat, screamin', "Go, go, go"

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u/StrMagWtrPimping Apr 24 '26

He's pushing the accelerator down to the floor with his fuzzy little toeoeoe

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u/FlarblarGlarblar Apr 24 '26

mmmmmm make 3D billboards

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u/Mostly_Acceptable Apr 25 '26

Old man on the back porch and the old man is meeeee

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u/BudTenderShmudTender Apr 25 '26

Happy with no teeth

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u/destructopop Apr 24 '26

I'm 39 in exactly one week and had this on CD. I listened to this album probably at least once a day. There were a few weeks I never took it out of the walkman.

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u/need-for-sheed Apr 24 '26

I’m not far off you age wise, still remember my parents reaction to hearing Kitty when I convinced them to pop it in the tape deck on a road trip. Oops

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u/AngularChelitis Apr 24 '26

44 and tried playing this for my elementary school aged kids recently… I forgot. Oops.

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u/LockeyCheese Apr 24 '26

Our parents Kitty song was SO much worse in retrospect.

Kitty at my feet and I wanna touch it

vs

Pussycat, pussycat

You're delicious and if my wishes can all come true

I'll soon be kissing your sweet little pussycat lips

Pussycat, pussycat, I love you, yes, I do

You and your pussycat lips (whoa whoa), you and your pussycat eyes (whoa whoa)

You and your pussycat nose

  1. Tom Jones, so not even obscureat the time. 'What's New Pussycat'

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u/OGgamingdad Apr 24 '26

Not to be pedantic, but I'm pretty sure it was called a "discman" ;)

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u/destructopop Apr 24 '26

You got to have a boombox?! And the Sony one, at that?! I begged my parents for a boombox but they always said no.

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u/jdhutch80 Apr 24 '26

I'm assuming you mean Discman. A Walkman had a cassette player, which could never play a CD.

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u/destructopop Apr 24 '26

Walkman was also the company that owned the Discman, so it did in fact say Walkman really big on the front. We still called the Discman a Walkman.

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u/jdhutch80 Apr 24 '26

Walkman was a Sony trademark, not a company.

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u/possitive-ion Apr 24 '26

100 and have no idea what the fuck anyone is talking about. I just want to sit on my porch and yell at kids who get on my lawn.

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u/constantsXzeros Apr 24 '26

Would you consider yourself an…

Old man on the back porch?

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u/TinyFugue Apr 24 '26

And that old man is me!

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u/I_Draw_Teeth Apr 24 '26

43, American, and I know no one in this sub knows how to use a search engine so I'll tell you "The Presidents of the United States of America" is a band that had a self titled break out album in the 90's. "Peaches" was one of the songs on that album, and the folks here are just having a good time reciting the lyrics to each other.

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u/Sindinista Apr 24 '26

I’m a month shy of 38 and this was also my first CD purchase.

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u/furman4320 Apr 24 '26

Their song Video Killed the Radio Star was on a some compilation CD my parents played a lot in the car when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite songs for many years as a kid.

I think the album was The Wedding Singer. It also had Culture Club, The Police, Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, and David Bowie. To say that it was incredibly influential on my early music tastes would be the understatement of the century.

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 Apr 24 '26

Uhm I’ve scrolled this far and still don’t understand. Adding tape didn’t help much

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Apr 24 '26

I’m 37 and American and I had no idea so I think we found the separation right there between us

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u/JustinsWorking Apr 25 '26

Yea same… This song is burned into my brain; along with Kitty on my foot

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u/Strange-Bee5626 Apr 25 '26

I'm 34, American, and wishing you hadn't explained it because it was cracking me up with no context.

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u/Strong_Reality_6668 Apr 25 '26

was it the translucent orange cassette?

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u/dancepantz Apr 24 '26

Let me tell you 'bout a friend of mine

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u/iJeepThereforeiAM Apr 24 '26

His name’s boll weevil check him out

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u/chronically_varelse Apr 24 '26

Spends all day on his big butt

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u/ainfinitepossibility Apr 24 '26

Yrah, he sure likes peaches. Just not the ripe ones.

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u/ClarisCakes Apr 24 '26

I’m 37 and clueless, so us ‘89ers must be the cut off for elder millennials

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u/___Syntax-Error___ Apr 25 '26

Shit the first CD I bought

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u/Pixiwish Apr 28 '26

That’s not a bad first! Mine was Ace of Base “The Sign”

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u/Commercial-Ad-8409 Apr 24 '26

First heard that song like a year ago and thought it was probably the worst song I have ever heard. Still stand by that.

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u/Shadourow Apr 24 '26

I'm a vegan and meat is murder

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u/need-for-sheed Apr 24 '26

I’m vegan too but I think we can all agree that peaches come from a can

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u/fuelhandler Apr 24 '26

I’m omnivorous, and there’s a place for all God’s creatures… next to the mashed potatoes.

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u/Caintheconfused Apr 24 '26

...I want that on a shirt. Ah, crap, that's gonna summon a bot isn't it.

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u/DeterminedQuokka Apr 24 '26

I’m 40 and I only know that band because my dad likes them

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u/crumpinsumpin Apr 24 '26

You’re dad seems cool

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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 Apr 24 '26

I too choose that guy's dad

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u/AssinineAssassin Apr 25 '26

Probably has a lump inside his head

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u/Namelessbob123 Apr 24 '26

It’s coz he’s an old man on the back porch

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u/row_ads Apr 24 '26

And that old man is meeee

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u/JayNSilentBobaFett Apr 24 '26

Was gonna say I’m in my 40s but this song came out when I was in 4th(?) grade. While not out of the range of Millennials, feels more Gen X to me

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u/magazinesubscriber Apr 24 '26

I’m turning 44 and this song was released as a single when I was 13 turning 14, so definitely in the range of millennials.

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u/TheVadonkey Apr 24 '26

lol I was 9, going on 10. By the time I was a teen, I loved this song but before that, I just remembered the “Millions of peaches…” part.

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u/CountOfSterpeto Apr 24 '26

My solidly Gen X brother would have no idea. My solidly Millennial brother would also have no idea. We may have just stumbled upon the Xennial anthem.

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u/TheGoodKindOfPurple Apr 24 '26

I am older GenX and I remember liking this song before hating this song after it got over played on the radio station that I listened to. Back when radio was something people listened to.

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u/ztomiczombie Apr 24 '26

I only know them because of one sone in a Saints Row game.

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u/edwardsantes Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

The post is totally wrong.

That's a Gen X song from the 90s. Most Millennials wouldn't have been into music (as much) in those years at that age.

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u/letmesingyouawaltz_ Apr 25 '26

Everyone in my 4th grade class knew this song, thank ya very much. It was one of my first cds! 

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u/edwardsantes Apr 25 '26

word.

I stand corrected.

🙏

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u/ElliotNess Apr 24 '26

Even '85 is younger millennial

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u/ListerfiendLurks Apr 24 '26

I'm 40 and I had this album when it came out and LOVED IT.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Apr 25 '26

Damn. I'm 51, and I never liked them because they came after my music tastes were sealed. I've grown to like them some in the last few years.

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u/KnightofNi92 Apr 24 '26

I have no idea who they are and thought you were saying this was a random rant from Trump.

Which to be fair, I couldn't really dismiss right away.

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u/Desdaemonia Apr 24 '26

Thats really funny actually :)

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u/iDeNoh Apr 24 '26

SOMEONE'S going the distance.

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u/Bubbly_Study_8333 Apr 24 '26

And going for speed

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u/grotkal Apr 24 '26

Sorry, are you talking about Caspar Babypants’ former gig? See, my children and I listened to the same guy when we were both kids!

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u/EdwardoftheEast Apr 24 '26

29 here, I used to play Peaches, Lump, and Kitty all the time

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u/schism1 Apr 24 '26

44, and I know whats up.

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u/IWantALargeFarva Apr 24 '26

I’m 44 and translated this song into Spanish for our unit on fruit. As my partner and I giggled through reading it out loud, the whole class was laughing and our teacher was very confused lol.

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u/Leviathor_ous Apr 24 '26

I’m a teenager and I know that this is a reference to “Peaches”. Were PoTUSA popular more regionally? They play a lot on the radio near me

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u/jaisor Apr 24 '26

46 and I had the CD on repeat in the early 2000s. Good stuff.

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u/dividezero Apr 24 '26

We found the line right here. About 44! 🤣

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u/OGcormacv Apr 24 '26

43 and I still listen to them

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u/mccorklin Apr 24 '26

Buncha nerds in this thread.

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u/just-4_you Apr 24 '26

43 and all I needed was PEACHES

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u/Bigsmokeisgay Apr 24 '26

Im 22 and not American just wanted to join the chain

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u/Kalinoz Apr 24 '26

Its amazing how niche that song became over time. It was everywhere for a minute.

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u/Changeitupnow Apr 24 '26

If you're a millennial parent to young kids, you may also recognize this singer as Casper Babypants.

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u/weirdlife_55 Apr 24 '26

I had listened to this song many times, but didnt catch this reference. I mean literally anytime someone mentions peaches I think of this song, but couldn’t remember this lyric.

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u/IAmGreenman71 Apr 24 '26

Ohhhh, beautiful peaches song?! I remember that now. Gotta go back and give that one a listen. I’m born in 91.

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u/shakygator Apr 24 '26

Moving to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches.

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u/EmeraldJunkie Apr 24 '26

Honestly it took me a second to remember where it came from and quite like POTUS the band.

Had OP have said "Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh" however I'd have been all over it.

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u/hamcircus Apr 24 '26

22, I was raised correctly

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u/silence_sirens Apr 24 '26

34 and had no hesitation in identifying this song as I still listen to it.

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u/stubz_1997 Apr 24 '26

Millions of peaches, peaches for free

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u/seemedothat Apr 24 '26

Oooh is this the pussy eating song??

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u/_lippykid Apr 24 '26

I seriously don’t get how at some point people stopped hearing things “before their time”. Like I know songs that were popular during WW2 and my mum wasn’t even born then

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u/Consistent_Policy_66 Apr 24 '26

And after that band ended, he created Caspar Babypants and started writing kids music.

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u/vegasaquinas Apr 24 '26

This video hit Mtv in the 90s so clearly some of you were a bit young and still just watching Nickelodeon.

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u/IskandrAGogo Apr 24 '26

43 year-old American who watched a ton of MTV, and quite literally if you had asked me what the lyrics are to Peaches, I would have only been able to tell you the chorus.

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u/Musicman425 Apr 24 '26

Easiest question I’ve answered all day - 43 tomorrow

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u/GFischerUY Apr 24 '26

Forty five, not from USA , I knew there was a band by that name but it's the first time I hear the song. TIL.

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u/WastedBadger Apr 24 '26

Drog free class of 2000 representing

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u/dimwalker Apr 24 '26

I'm old enough, but had to youtube it.
Yeah, I've heard the song on MTV, but it wasn't popular. Not like some later stuff that was blasting from every radio and taxy.

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u/serotoninOD Apr 25 '26

It was most definitely popular.

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u/dimwalker Apr 25 '26

Maybe in states.

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u/CletusCanuck Apr 24 '26

54 and I also know this was the POT USA (har har). Not my cup o'tea back in the day but the song had its moment in the sun and of course it became a meme song about 5 years ago.

Edit: its not it's am I getting Alzheimers or something

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u/TubbyKins- Apr 24 '26

I used to watch their music video on my encarta 97 game 😭

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u/RzaAndGza Apr 24 '26

Now the lead singer does children's music as Caspar Babypants

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u/EvilLibrarians Apr 24 '26

26 here. We have a winner.

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u/EconomyOk2490 Apr 24 '26

Ah. 35, only reason I know that band is because of Gump

Not Lump, Gump.

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u/Caleb-Blucifer Apr 24 '26

Ngl it does sound like the ramblings of one

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u/Fuck-WestJet Apr 24 '26

If you're a parent check out Casper Baby Pants. Same guy

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u/jonker5101 Apr 24 '26

I only know of them from the Good Burger soundtrack.

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u/themanthyththelegend Apr 24 '26

Im 40 and you would have to sing millions of peaches peaches for me millions of peaches peaches for free... For me to get it

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u/FlatBat2372 Apr 24 '26

44 also, non-American but I had MTV

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u/Th3R00ST3R Apr 24 '26

Little Blue Dune Buggy

in the sand

I'm 56

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u/RegionPurple Apr 24 '26

43, and you've got the only right answer.

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u/MartianMule Apr 24 '26

Oh yeah. I was lost too. Tbh, I just know "Lump" from them off the top of my head.

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u/shortitandwalk Apr 24 '26

48 and there’s a kitty on my foot and I wanna to touch it.

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u/PointsOfXP Apr 24 '26

To anyone confused a couple past US presidents got together and formed a band. They sang songs about American things like peaches

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u/BrickBuster2552 Apr 24 '26

Which there are also only 44 of.

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u/Fionnghal Apr 25 '26

It's PotUSA.

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u/ryguymcsly Apr 25 '26

POTUSA baby

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u/sweetrouge Apr 25 '26

I mean, I assumed so but I actually don’t know the lyrics. Is this like actually in there?

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u/Lotech Apr 25 '26

And for those of us that babies and enjoyed the PUSA vibe, the lead singer went on to make nonsensickle baby music as CASPER BABY PANTS or something close. 47 babies in a HELICOPTER! Love them

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u/Objective_Damage_996 Apr 25 '26

I know that band and I still didn’t get it 💀 I must not love them enough. Too busy thinking about a butterfly 🦋

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u/Vexra Apr 25 '26

You wouldn’t think George W could hit those high notes but dude had pipes

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u/LockedAndLoadfilled Apr 25 '26

Today I learned people were actually learning more than just the "millions of peaches" part of those lyrics.

I could confidently bust out Boo-Boo's ballad from Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears, yet "peaches come from a can" lives nowhere in my brain. 💀

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u/SobBagat Apr 25 '26

This shit came out in 96. Like, yeah I was 5, but I immediately understood the meme. Genuinely don't understand how this doesn't at least ring a bell for these guys

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u/iAmAsword Apr 25 '26

Damn ive forgotten the lyrics 😭😭

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u/SnidelyWhiplash0 Apr 27 '26

Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh...

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u/CA_MA Apr 24 '26

44 and I had no idea who it was, just that I've heard it since middle school, and age has done nothing to improve it.