History Music / TheZiggens

* [[NotChristianRock]]: Bert Susanka is a devout Catholic, and occasionally writes odes to his religion. Most blatantly, "Real Presents" is an ode to transubstantiation, with lines like "if you don’t eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in thee."
** 2021's ''Oregon'' features a song called "Jesus I Trust in You."

* CluckingFunny: Their album ''Chicken Out!'' which appropriately contains their most humorous songs.

The Ziggens are an American NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly band from Orange County, California. Their band members all use the stage surname "Ziggen" as an apparent homage to Music/TheRamones (although their lead singer is better known by his real name, Bert Susanka). Though they have been active since 1990, The Ziggens are unfortunately fairly unknown in the music industry. They have, however, been namechecked, covered, and sampled by the much more famous Southern California band Music/{{Sublime}} in the songs "Greatest Hits," "Big Salty Tears," (and "Tim the Dinosaur"), and "Smoke Two Joints," respectively. The Ziggens later returned the favor by covering Sublime's token SurfRock song, "Paddle Out."

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly

* [[NotChristianRock Not Catholic Rock]]: Bert Susanka is a devout Catholic, and occasionally writes odes to his religion. Most blatantly, "Real Presents" is an ode to transubstantiation, with lines like "if you don’t eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in thee."

The Ziggens are an American NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly band from Orange County, California. Their band members all use the stage surname "Ziggen" as an apparent homage to Music/TheRamones (although their lead singer is better known by his real name, Bert Susanka). Though they have been active since 1990, The Ziggens are unfortunately fairly unknown in the music industry. They have, however, been namechecked, covered, and sampled by the much more famous Southern California band {{Sublime}} in the songs "Greatest Hits," "Big Salty Tears," (and "Tim the Dinosaur"), and "Smoke Two Joints," respectively. The Ziggens later returned the favor by covering Sublime's token SurfRock song, "Paddle Out."

* ShoutOut: "On the Way" name-checks DonMcLean's "American Pie" and KennyRogers' "The Gambler," while "Fat Charlie" lampoons a few lines from Music/TheDoors' "L.A. Woman."
** Also, "Surfin' Buena Park" contains the riffs from "Low Rider" and "[[{{Sublime}} April 29, 1992 (Miami)]]".

The Ziggens are an American NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly band from Orange County, California. Their band members all use the stage surname "Ziggen" as an apparent homage to TheRamones (although their lead singer is better known by his real name, Bert Susanka). Though they have been active since 1990, The Ziggens are unfortunately fairly unknown in the music industry. They have, however, been namechecked, covered, and sampled by the much more famous Southern California band {{Sublime}} in the songs "Greatest Hits," "Big Salty Tears," (and "Tim the Dinosaur"), and "Smoke Two Joints," respectively. The Ziggens later returned the favor by covering Sublime's token SurfRock song, "Paddle Out."

* ShoutOut: "On the Way" name-checks DonMcLean's "American Pie" and KennyRogers' "The Gambler," while "Fat Charlie" lampoons a few lines from TheDoors' "L.A. Woman."

* CoverVersion: The aforementioned "Paddle Out," as well as The Vaselines' "Molly's Lips" (best known as a {{Nirvana}} song) and Music/JudasPriest's "Breakin' the Law"

* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Zits: 1990-2003]]'' (2003): also includes a bonus CD of SurfRock Music/{{Instrumentals}}.

* ShoutOut: "On the Way" namechecks DonMcLean's "American Pie" and KennyRogers' "The Gambler."

* SillyLoveSongs: "Something About a Waitress"
* SurfRock: Most prevalent on the Music/{{Instrumentals}} and the songs "Outside," "San Clemente," and "Surf's Up."

* LyricalDissonace: "Ed Gein" is a lighthearted surf pop tune...about the SerialKiller of the same name.

* Music/{{Instrumentals}}

* CoverVersion: The aforementioned "Paddle Out," as well as The Vaselines' "Molly's Lips" (best known as a {{Nirvana}} song) and JudasPriest's "Breakin' the Law"