There were so many songs such as this that were created in about 1970. There's lots of fuzz guitar. There's a wah-wah guitar. There's enthusiastic drumming. There's overwrought vocals. I think it's awesome but I found it a bit tiring near the end and its deadly earnestness now seems almost like self-parody.
Frijid Pink came out of the Detroit scene of the late 1960s, which features lots of loud people with fuzz-tone guitars. "House Of The Rising Sun" was their third single; it reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million copies. It's been recorded by zillions of other people, of course; the most famous version was by The Animals in 1964.
Frijid Pink released a few other singles, including their version of "Heartbreak Hotel" that, based on the few seconds of it that I listened to, consists mostly of a piano and shouting. The band reformed in 1972 and 1974 with different lineups, without success; a 21st-century version of the band has released four albums between 2011 and 2018. They were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2013.
Created January 20, 2026.