Snide the Weasel was featured in Donkey Kong 64. He was known with helping K. Rool and the Kremlings build their new mechanical version Crocodile Isle and even invented the Blast-O-Matic. Unfortunately, K. Rool did away with him without paying him and stripped him of the blueprints, seperating them into pieces and distributing them to Kasplats in his army.
This led Snide to switch sides and help the Kongs instead in which he would send them on an errand to retrieve his blueprints. For every piece they brought him, they would get a Golden Banana. Snide used the blueprints to help stall the machine from firing on the island for a short time so that the Kongs charged in and shut the machine down entirely. You could also use Snide's HQ to play minigames if you collected every last blueprint piece.
Conjuring a sweet and lusciously melancholy sound that merges the tunefulness of vintage pop, the late-night vibe of cool jazz, the lonesome spirit of classic country, and the delicate touch of folk, Clem Snide are a trio who've gone through more than their share of changes since they first formed in 1991.
Clem Snide was first assembled by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Eef Barzelay while he was attending college in Boston during the early '90s; the first edition of the band was created to perform his earliest attempts as songwriting, and the sound was dominated by noisy, punk-jazz inspired dissonance with abrasive guitar lines and bleating saxophone.
The group's relationship with Sire was through by the time the band finished their third album, 2001's The Ghost of Fashion, but Clem Snide's career enjoyed a boost when a song from the album, "Moment in the Sun," was chosen as the theme for the hit television series Ed.
Clem Snide, which took its name from a character in William Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night, is a vessel for the alternately sweet and sardonic songwriting of New Jersey native Eef Barzelay.
Behind Barzelay's parched, plain-spoken, nerdly nasal whine and equally dry wit and wordplay, Clem Snide's music is, by turns, sparse, atmospheric and playful in a manner that accentuates the casual intimacy and uncomplicated emotion of his compositions.
Formed in Boston in 1991 as a self-described "noisy, self-destructive punk rock trio," Clem Snide released a tape and a 7-inch before singer/guitarist/songwriter Barzelay and bassist Jason Glasser moved to Manhattan in 1994 to attend art school.
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