"Shiny Shiny" is a 1983 new wave song by the British band

Haysi Fantayzee Haysi Fantayzee were a short lived British pop band of the early 1980s. Their best known songs are "John Wayne Is Big Leggy", released in 1982 and " Shiny Shiny", released in 1983. Career Haysi Fantayzee was an avant-garde, new wave pop proj ...

. The song is an anti-

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song with humorous, nonsensical lyrics about war, politics, and violence, among other issues, which includes instruments such as a piano, fiddles, violins, and spoons, along with audio sound effects, loops, and a bouncy country music-like beat. The song peaked at No. 16 in the United Kingdom and reached the top three in Australia. It also charted in Germany, New Zealand and the United States, where it became the band's only hit single to chart on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at No. 74. The music video for the song also got some airplay on

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and other music related shows and channels when it was first released. In addition, the song was performed on the British TV series, ''

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''.

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{{Haysi Fantayzee Haysi Fantayzee songs 1983 singles 1983 songs Anti-war songs RCA Records singles Songs written by Paul Caplin Songs written by Jeremy Healy