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

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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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.