Corona

"Corona" is a Minutemen song, written and composed by D. Boon, from the album Double Nickels on the Dime.
==History==
The song was inspired by a day trip the band members (Boon, Mike Watt, and George Hurley) had taken to Mexico on the Fourth of July, 1982. (The same trip also inspired the Watt composition "I Felt Like A Gringo" on Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat.) Moved by some of the more downtrodden elements of the area that he had seen - including a woman that was picking up empty beer bottles on the beach - D. Boon set about writing a song in sympathy with the people of Mexico. 
In contrast to the more frantic hardcore punk tempos of the day, "Corona" uses an almost polka-like country swing rhythm for the song.
An early version of the song, as performed by the band on a live video shot by Flipside magazine in 1983, for some reason has the deposit on the bottle being ten cents, not five.
==Other versions==
The intro and outro of the song was used as the theme for the radical MTV stunt show Jackass and its spinoff movies; the soundtrack to the first also features the full version of the song. 
A solo version of the song by D. Boon can be heard on the CD D. Boon and Friends, released in 2003.
The indie rock band Calexico covered "Corona," with mariachi horns in the style of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire]", on their 2004 EP Convict Pool. The song has also been covered by the Yonder Mountain String Band on their live album Mountain Tracks: Volume 4.
Category:The Minutemen songs
Category:Songs composed by D. Boon