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"Electric Avenue" is Eddy Grant 's US #2 hit of 1983 from the album '' Killer On The Rampage ''. It is often sampled in commercials and other media. It is the most popular Eddy Grant song. The song describes the problems in the world as seen by Eddy Grant, and takes its name from Electric Avenue in Venice, California.


IMPACT ON POPULAR CULTURE


The song has been remembered since its chart appearance and has come up in popular culture many times since:
  • Not long after the song gained popularity in the U.S., the household appliance department (also called Electric Avenue) at the now-defunct Montgomery Ward chain of U.S. department stores used the song as the theme for its television commercials, with slightly altered lyrics.

  • It was also used as the song the Marching Band plays in an episode of Family Guy .

  • "Weird Al" Yankovic performed an unreleased parody of the song titled "Flatbush Avenue".

  • "Electric Avenue" was rated #91 in VH1 's 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders .

  • The Bouncing Souls used a sample of Nicolas Cage speaking in the film Valley Girl in their song "These are the Quotes From Our Favorite 80's Movies." "Electric Avenue" can be heard playing in the background of the sample used from the film.

  • Canadian Rapcore band Raggadeath covered the song on their self-titled 1997 album.

  • Recently covered by Velvet, Swedish female vocalist most known for her song Mi Amore, which was entered into the Melodfestivalen 2006 and made the Second Chance Round.

  • The Christian rock band Tait covered the song on their album, Lose This Life .

  • White Man Can't Reggae covered this song in 1996 .