Electric Avenue (song)
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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 (such as Montgomery Ward's appliance center) and other media. The song describes the problems in the world as seen by Eddy Grant, and takes its name from Electric Avenue in Aston, Birmingham, not the street in Brixton of the same name.
The song was rated #91 in VH1's 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders.
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Other versions
- Canadian rapcore band Raggadeath covered the song on their self-titled 1997 album.
- The Christian rock band Tait covered the song on their album, Lose This Life.
- Refugee Camp All Stars (featuring Pras Michel, former member of The Fugees) covered the song in 1997 for the original soundtrack of the movie Money Talks. This cover was titled "Avenues."
- Los Rabanes covered the song on their album "Kamikaze", using their own lyrics in Spanish.
- Rapper C-Rayz Walz covered the song on his 2007 album Monster Maker.
- Ziggy Marley has done a cover of the song.
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