Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground is a three-piece Alternative Rock band, consisting of John Wozniak on guitar and vocals, Dylan Keefe on bass, and Shlomi Lavie behind the kit. Since 1997, the band has released four full-length albums and one remix album. They are best known as the One-Hit Wonder band behind the song "Sex & Candy," which has frequently appeared on 90s compilations.
Their trademark approach is a mellow, mid-tempo 1990s rock sound. The name "Marcy Playground" is named from the Marcy Open grade school in Minneapolis, an alternative school John Wozniak attended; much of his music was inspired by his youth, when he claims he was an "outsider."
Their discography consists of the following:
- Marcy Playground (1997)
- Shapeshifter (1999)
- MP3 (2004)
- Leaving Wonderland...In A Fit Of Rage (2009)
- Indaba Remixes from Wonderland (2010)
Marcy Playground provides examples of the following tropes:
- Epic Riff: Surprisingly for a normally laid-back sort of band, they have quite a few of these, like "It's Saturday" and "Punk Rock Superstar," amongst others.
- Hidden Track: At the end of MP3 is a band member telling a joke that ends with an Incredibly Lame Pun.
- One-Hit Wonder: "Sex & Candy."
- One-Woman Song: "Sherry Fraser."
- Perishing Alt Rock Voice: John Wozniak tended to lean in this direction.
- Pun-Based Title: See, the album is called MP3 because they're Marcy Playground and it's their third album. Eh? Eh?
- Rockstar Song: "Punk Rock Superstar."
- Self-Titled Album
- Signature Song: "Sex & Candy."
- Spelling Song: Spelling out "B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E" in "Death Of A Cheerleader."
- Surreal Music Video: "Sex & Candy" again.
- Word Salad Lyrics