Rocktober '90s Song #8: "Volcano Girls" by Veruca Salt (1997)

Named after the prissy and spoiled character from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Chicago's Veruca Salt was one of the many female-majority hard rock bands that found success in the '90s.  The burst onto the alternative rock scene in 1994 with the song "Seether," which went to #8 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.  In 1997, they released their second full-length album, Eight Arms to Hold You -- a nod to the original name of what would become The Beatles' second feature film, Help! -- which was produced by Bob Rock and went to #55 on the Billboard album chart, the band's highest-charting album.

Eight Arms to Hold You is a great hard rock album, and the song you probably recognize the most from the album is "Volcano Girls," a fun rocker that starts out with it's sing-along chorus:  "Leave me lyin' here / 'Cause I don't wanna go."  Like the album title, this song also has a nod to The Beatles, with the bridge, which is inspired by "Glass Onion."

The song went to #8 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #9 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and the video looks like it was fun to make, if not vomit-inducing.