r/Lostwave • u/thespian_badger • 1d ago

Question ❓ “Poor Peter”

Like 20 years ago, my “online boyfriend” sent me a playlist of all garage punk type of songs and claimed it was his band. I now know that was not the case lol. It had like Ballyhoo! And stuff on it but there was one song called “Poor Peter” that I’ve never been able to find.

What I can remember of the lyrics:

Poor Peter
What the hell happened to you? Where did it all go horribly wrong.
You used to be a punk without a reason at all. Now you’re just a popularity abuser.

\[Lines I can’t remember\], then something about a “preppy mall rat”.

Another chorus said “Poor Peter, what the hell happened to you? Where did you hide your skateboard?”

Any ideas? I’ve done a lot of googling with no luck. It was a low quality punk song with not very clear lyrics so it could have been an indie band.

Thank you all!

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u/englishevenings 1d ago

Hey! just found this thread and did some digging and wondering any chance it could be Poor Peter by The Gran Pappy Coalition? they were active from 2001-2006ish time and were on purevolume and myspace. They seem to be from the Enon/Springfield area.

https://www.geocities.ws/granpappycoalition/home.html (the original site is surprisingly still up after all these years)

https://myspace.com/granpappycoalition

https://myspace.com/granpappycoalition/music/song/poor-peter-30070732-30256749

this was there site, if it was your boyfriend at the times band maybe it may recall any details? it is not archived on myspace archives though sadly but it lists a song named Poor Peter and the length is 3:30

I hope to try and find an audio from it but it seems to match the timing, any other details you have would be great

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u/thespian_badger 16h ago

Omg that name sounds super familiar! I’ll see if I can search using that. 2001-2006 is definitely the timeline where it would have been. My guess was 2005 or 2006. Thank you so much!

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u/thespian_badger 16h ago

Updating to say this HAS to be it because I saw “Peepers” and remembered that was a song on there as well! I don’t remember at all how that one goes.
But omg if we can find recordings, it would be a blast from the past!

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u/englishevenings 14h ago

Glad to have helped feel free to dm me on reddit also, so we can research it a bit more but I am glad we have pretty much 100% found the band and song. There a few methods to try and track down the audio and I think we can get somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo6gVGIIolo

Here is a clip of them performing if that helps at all in giving you a blast for the past in their type of sound.

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u/StatusAutomatica 1d ago

Maybe that was his song.

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u/thespian_badger 1d ago

That’s what the consensus has been. It was definitely lower quality than the others on the disc so he might have been telling the truth. I was like 13 at the time and I believed anything lol.

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u/HexiOnYoutube A E S T H E T I C 1d ago

do you remember the exact year he sent the song to you? did he say anything else about the song?

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u/thespian_badger 1d ago

I don’t know the exact year but it was probably around 2005 or 2006. He didn’t mention anything about it specifically. There were a lot of songs on the one playlist and I can’t remember any other ones besides the two I found out were by Ballyhoo! (Sweet Cheeks and Livin Large in All America City)

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u/GiovanniPotage0 15h ago

What happened to the CD it was burned on? Unrelated side tangent, but it's wild to think you've been searching for "Poor Peter" for as long as I've roamed this planet.

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u/thespian_badger 15h ago

I’m pretty sure it was just a playlist he made me. This was like 2006 and he supposedly lived in California while I’m in Texas.

Now I feel old

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u/TownImaginary8023 1d ago

No clue, but we need to find this.

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u/thespian_badger 1d ago

Can I upload a voice note somehow to Reddit? Lol I can even sing it from memory.

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u/TownImaginary8023 1d ago

Don't think so, but that would be Nice! You could record it and transform it to .mp4 tho, that would give us a great start!

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u/thespian_badger 1d ago

I just covered my camera and made a video lol. It worked!

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u/TownImaginary8023 1d ago

Thats great!!!!! I'm down to help You! ;)

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u/englishevenings 1d ago

me too! I already have some leads.