The Fat Boys enjoyed their biggest year in 1987. Their film Disorderlies proved much more commercially resilient than anticipated, and this LP earned their only platinum certification, while becoming the lone Fat Boys album to make the pop Top 10 (peaking at #8). They also landed a Top 20 single with an updated version of "Wipeout."
I recently uncovered an old audio cassette in which I am apparently trying, in vain, to record the Fat Boys' "Wipeout" off MTV. That's right, I was using my totally awesome lavender Panasonic boombox to tape songs off the television. It sounds archaic now, but for those of you who didn't grow up in the 80s, just take my word for it when I say I was one innovative sixth grader.The tape is rather...