SPAGHETTI & FRANK Go Alt-Country On “Top Shelf Shame”

“This record is ear-piercing brilliance.” – The Alternate Root

“This album has it all, rockin’ the hell out of your brain.” – The Punk Site

EDDIE SPAGHETTI & FRANK MEYER
GO COUNTRY WITH
“TOP SHELF SHAME”

Supersuckers & Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs Frontmen Issue Third Single From Motherfuckin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll Album

“It’s a song about feeling the shame of having done the shamefully shameful things you’re ashamed of shamefully having maybe done in a shameful moment of shamefully shameful shame.” – Eddie Spaghetti

AUGUST 2, 2022 (Los Angeles, CA) — When Supersuckers and Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs frontmen Eddie Spaghetti & Frank Meyer (respectively) teamed up for the album Motherfuckin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll (Kitten Robot Records) in the middle of the pandemic and things were looking mighty grim, their collective creativity kept them going. While much of the 10-song opus is the high-energy, hedonistic raunch ‘n’ roll one would expect from these veteran punk rockers, the moody, countrified “Top Shelf Shame” is the clear exception. 

“Eddie wrote this one and it really struck home for me,” says Meyer about the follow up to their cover of the ’80s hit,“My Sharona” by The Knack. Reeling from real world challenges piling up from Covid’s stranglehold on everyday life, Meyer’s morale had been dipping below the surface. “At the time, I had been laid off my job due to the pandemic which was going on a lot longer that we had all anticipated,” he continues. “As a single father collecting unemployment with a 17-year-old daughter who was doing her senior year of high school from Zoom in my living room while managing to keep her day job at a clothes store, I felt a lot of private shame and guilt about my situation. I was also drinking more because… you know, it seemed like the world was ending so what the hell else was there to do? Then Eddie sends me this song about shame and booze and I thought, ‘Wow, it’s like he’s in my head.’ So I asked him what was in his mind when he wrote it.”

Eddie succinctly describes, “It’s a song about feeling the shame of having done the shamefully shameful things you’re ashamed of shamefully having maybe done in a shameful moment of shamefully shameful shame.”  

So there you have it.  

The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Meyer, an award-winning filmmaker who also helmed the videos for the duo’s “My Sharona,” “I Think It Sucks (And I Don’t Like It),” and “Jammin’ Me,” and features a guest turn from guitarist Brian Forsythe who reprises his tasty solo and signature baritone guitar line from the album.

“I wanted the video to have an 8mm home movie look, as if from a desert road trip in the ‘70s,” explains Meyer of his inspiration for the clip. “I had some great live footage from an acoustic show we did at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, CA last year, plus we shot some additional footage out by an old beat up van. Best of all, we got Brian Forsythe from KIX and Rhino Bucket, who plays all over the album, to appear in it!”

“Top Shelf Shame” follows the widely successful video single, “My Sharona,” which premiered at Ultimate Classic Rock, reaching #1 at Radio Indie Alliance charts, and continues to gather strong play on YouTube and Spotify. 

Motherfuckin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll was released October 12, 2021 via Josie Cotton’s Kitten Robot Records. The Supersuckers and Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs are both on the road playing live dates, supporting and promoting the Spaghetti & Frank effort along the way.  

Eddie Spaghetti & Frank Meyer
Motherfuckin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll
Motherfuckin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll
I Think It Sucks (And I Don’t Like It)
Knock My Teeth Out
Top Shelf Shame
My Sharona
Relationshipwreck
Tattletale
Heartache
You Can’t Take It Back
Barroom Brawl

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