| Blubber Boy | |
| Cover: | Blubber_Boy_by_Regurgitator.png |
| Caption: | UK CD single cover |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Regurgitator |
| Album: | New |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Recorded: | 1995 |
| Studio: | Red Zeds |
| Label: | Warner Music Australasia |
| Producer: | Magoo, Regurgitator |
| Prev Title: | Track 1 |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | F.S.O. |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
"Blubber Boy" is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released as a radio single in Australia in 1995promoting the band's second EP New (1995). The song was released in the UK as a CD and 7" Single. The song ranked at number 17 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1995.[1] A remixed version of the song (Riding the Wave of Fashion Mix) was released on the band's debut studio album, Tu-Plang in 1996.
Yeomans had been inspired by a book on feminist fairy-tales give to him by Kiley Gaffney. Ely said, "Quan brought the song into practice and Martin and I were going, "Are you sure you want to do this?' To us it was uncool because it wasn't in 7/8 time. But it felt good. And he said the word 'cunt' in it quite a lot. So then we were like, he's swearing, it must be OK."[2] Of all the Inuit-based fairy tales in that book, "Blubber Boy" was the tamest one, according to Yeomans.[3]
In 2019, Tyler Jenke from The Brag ranked Regurgitator's best songs, with "Blubber Boy" coming it at number 3. Jenke said "It's not often that bands get their start by singing a song based upon an Inuit fairytale about drowned boyfriends and blubber… replacements, but Regurgitator aren't exactly a normal band. A prime example of their early talent, 'Blubber Boy' is still a tune whose chorus commands a massive singalong during a live show."[4]
Andrew Stafford, in Pig City, called it "Unabashed pop, instantly memorable, with a lyric as ribald as it was eccentric."
In support of their album Tu-Plang, Regurgitator performed "Blubber Boy" (alongside singles "F.S.O." and "Kong Foo Sing") on the Australian music show Recovery. Looking back at that performance in a 2019 interview with the band, Dylan Lewis, the show's host, was surprised at how they got away with performing the song on a Saturday morning TV timeslot, considering its lyric. Yeomans considers the Recovery performance to be "one of my proudest moments from the early days [of Regurgitator]".[5]