The Refreshments were Brian Blush, David Clyne, P.H. Naffah, and Buddy Edwards. They were a great rock band, but they were also, technically, a
one hit wonder. They released four albums and broke up shortly after doing the theme song for
King of the Hill on
Fox.
Wheelie, their first album, was released in December of 1994.
Lo, Our Much Praised Yet not Altogether Satisfactory Lady came out shortly thereafter as a local follow-up to the success of
Wheelie, which had outsold
Vitalogy in Tempe, Arizona shortly after its release.
Then came
Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy, their third time charm.
Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy was essentially a remake of their first album,
Wheelie, with listener-friendly and
studio-driven cosmetic changes, as well as two more tracks, but
PolyGram owned it, and marketed the hell out of it. It contained their biggest (and only) hit,
Banditos, which featured the
truism "
Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people" in its chorus. Even though most people only know that one song, the album is one of the most solid beginning-to-end albums I've ever listened to. A fourth album,
The Bottle and Fresh Horses, was released to radio stations in August 1997, but never generated enough
buzz to be widely known, and they faded into obscurity. Their songs are about
alcohol,
fishing,
women, and living near
Mexico, where the laws get a little blurry after a few shots of
tequila.