Editing Angry Johnny

{{Infobox song
| name       = Angry Johnny
| cover      = AngryJohnny.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Poe (singer)|Poe]]
| album      = [[Hello (Poe album)|Hello]]
| released   = 1996<ref>https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Archive-RandR/1990s/1996/R&R-1996-08-16.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Archive-RandR/1990s/1996/R&R-1996-10-11.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.uk-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Poe&titel=Angry+Johnny&cat=s</ref>
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = {{flat list|
*[[Alternative rock]]
*[[trip hop]]}}
| length     = 4:18
| label      = [[Modern Records (1980)|Modern]]
| writer     = Poe, Ralph James Rice, Felix Cavaliere
| producer   = RJ Rice
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Hello (Poe song)|Hello]]
| next_year  = 1996
}}

"'''Angry Johnny'''" is the debut single by [[Poe (singer)|Poe]], released in 1996 from her debut album ''[[Hello (Poe album)|Hello]]''. The song received heavy radio airplay, and an accompanying music video was shown frequently on [[MTV]].

==Background==
Despite its success and positive critical reviews, "Angry Johnny" was the only commercial single released in [[Australia]]; however, a variety of promotional singles were released across the world. "Angry Johnny" was also included on the 1996 album ''[[Big Shiny Tunes]]''.

Poe mentions Johnny again in her second album, ''[[Haunted (Poe album)|Haunted]]'', on the song "Dear Johnny".

==Composition==
"Angry Johnny" has a slow rhythm and, like much of ''Hello'', incorporates [[overdubbing|layered vocal tracks]].<ref name="lankford">{{cite book |last1=Lankford |first1=Ronald D. |title=Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s |date=2000 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0810872692 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tfTBa5ZQoAC |access-date=26 September 2022}}</ref> The single was produced by [[Matt Sorum]].

A "Full Band Version" of the song was also released, which was more acoustic than the album version and heavily featured [[cello]].

==Critical reception==
''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' praised the single, particularly the "fun and clever sexual euphemisms" of the lyrics.<ref name="flick">{{cite news |last1=Flick |first1=Larry |title=Singles |publisher=Billboard |date=23 March 1996}}</ref>

==Chart performance==
"Angry Johnny" peaked at #7 on the [[Alternative Airplay|Billboard Modern Rock Tracks]] chart.<ref name="stclair">{{cite book |last1=St. Clair |first1=Justin |title=Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age: A Century of Books That Sing |date=15 June 2022 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zx1tEAAAQBAJ |access-date=26 September 2022}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
A two-second clip of "Angry Johnny" was included in the endpapers of the US hardcover version of [[Mark Z. Danielewski]]'s novel ''[[House of Leaves]]'', in the form of [[hexadecimal]] numbers that, when compiled in a [[hex editor]], could be turned into an [[Audio Interchange File Format|AIFF]] audio file.<ref name="taylor">{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Marc C. |title=Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo |date=29 January 2013 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0231531641 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ6LSbB3p28C |access-date=26 September 2022}}</ref>

==Australian CD single track listing==
'''Length:''' 12 [[minute|min]] 51 [[second|sec]]

{|  class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- style="background-color:#e9e9e9" |
! Track !! Title !! Length 
|-
| 01 || Angry Johnny || 04:16 
|-
| 02 || Dolphin || 03:55 
|-
| 03 || Angry Johnny (Band Version) 
|}

===Personnel===
#'''Lyrics:''' Poe. '''Production:''' RJ Rice.
#'''Lyrics:''' Poe. '''Production:''' RJ Rice & Poe (co-producer).

==Charts==
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
!Chart (1995-1996)
!Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"|[[Alternative Songs|US ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks]]<ref name="bb">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA99&dq=Angry+Johnny+Poe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE38Ojt66LAxV26skDHRuOB_AQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=Angry%20Johnny%20Poe&f= |title=Modern Rock Tracks |date=October 5, 1996|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|accessdate=February 5, 2025}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 7
|}

==References==
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[[Category:1995 songs]]
[[Category:1995 debut singles]]
[[Category:Poe (singer) songs]]
[[Category:Songs about fictional male characters]]