― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link
i can't say i've ever really liked a song by either.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
An appropriate fate for both bands.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Cocks are the human reproductive organ XTC.
wow, just read most of this thread - gotta be one of the funniest instances of an ILM thread being derailed, with the whole Smash Mouth = XTC argument going back and forth btw. Anthony and Alex for-fucking-ever. high point was the above comment, which had me actual LOLing for about 5 minutes. hilarious!
― stephen, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this thread so much.
― HI DERE, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Best pop-rock album of the millenium so far.
A+ trolling
― gershy, Saturday, 3 November 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The aforementioned Perrey & Kingsley song, by the way, is "Swan's Splashdown." Good taste by Smashmouth.
― Jake Brown, Saturday, 3 November 2007 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
That was not trolling. It was wrong but it was his honest opinion. Is Anthony gone now?
― filthy dylan, Saturday, 3 November 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, i was just joking. he posts under the name da croupier (check the recent sasha frere jones thread for classic anthony)
― gershy, Saturday, 3 November 2007 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
idunnowhattotype (1 day ago) +2 if you don't like Sugar Ray, then quite virtually you don't deserve to exist.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 3 November 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i like "walking on the sun"
― latebloomer, Saturday, 3 November 2007 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:58 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link
LIAR
― latebloomer, Saturday, 3 November 2007 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is near IT WAS A PRED SHIP-quality fun
― latebloomer, Saturday, 3 November 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Smash Mouth- shrewdest rock band ever. Right from the start, they announced they were only interested in making some money, didn't care about looking cool. At the height of Napster, they realized it wasn't about record sales, but song licensing. For a few years, it seemed like that "Hey now, you're a rockstar!" song was in every movie soundtrack. When it came on over the credits of Cold Mountian, I was like "Woah!"
― bendy, Saturday, 3 November 2007 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Lyrical references -The line "with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an 'L' on her forehead" refers to the popular mocking hand gesture "Loser".
-The line "all that glitters is gold" is probably a parody of the proverb, "All that glitters is not gold." It may also be a parody of the well-known line from the Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven.
-Given that it accompanies other metaphorical references to weather, and is followed by a line referring to a "hole in the satellite picture" (probably a reference to the hole in the ozone layer), the term "meteor man" in the line "but the meteor men beg to differ" most likely refers to television meteorologists. It may or may not also be a pun referring back to the line "only shooting stars break the mold", since a meteor is also referred to as a "shooting star".
-The second verse is as follows: "It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder. You're bundled up now, wait til' you get older. But the meteor men beg to differ judging by the hole in the satellite picture.
The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. The water's getting warm, so you might as well swim. My world's on fire, how bout yours? That's the way I like it and I never get bored"
When viewed from a scientific perspective, this aspect of the song seems to be indirectly referring to global warming.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 3 November 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Together forever.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"cuddly people"?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
the asshole who snags the hotchick you've been eyeing but who thinks of you as 'just a friend' and then eight hours later she calls you in the middle in the night in tears crying about how 'he stuck a table leg in my vagina'? - that's sugar ray
This should be a pull quote on the back cover of a Sugar Ray bio.
― Darin, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
You have fuckin' NO EARTHLY IDEA of what you're talking about, and your festering pie-hole should be duct-taped forver shut.
Wow. I was mad.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
no, you were Alex in NYC
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Right from the start, they announced they were only interested in making some money
Hardly original.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c267/petalbombc5/gene_simmons.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 4 November 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
sugar ray made some great summer time pop singles. and they were not bad live (had free tix for some concert that they performed at) either! plus they had supercat on a track.
― pipecock, Sunday, 4 November 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Um...yes.
http://bloggingonthesun.blogspot.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
huh
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Smash-Mouth-and-the-Oakland-A-s-get-into-a-10422248.php
One of the biggest zingers of the exchange came from the A’s after Smash Mouth said the Bay Area team shouldn’t expect a World Series and that they were being cheap.
“@smashmouth @whatwouldDOOdo Guess you've got it all figured out. Except how to make a hit since 1999,” the A’s wrote.
― brimstead, Saturday, 29 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
I love how Sean Doolittle "zinged" them by using their song titles in a sentence but it was all cover songs which made the zing really lamesauce
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzMB8x59jo
the only youtube channel I ever subscribed to.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 31 October 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
^^ Somehow makes both songs tolerable!
― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Monday, 31 October 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/cool_as_heck/status/804796246909030400
"All Star by Smashmouth but the words are ordered from lowest to highest score in scrabble"
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Saturday, 3 December 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/all-star-by-smash-mouth-except-every-note-is-c.html
― j., Friday, 13 January 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Something nice about Sugar Ray: "Danzig Needs a Hug" was an excellent song title!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lj7tXDVbk8
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 14 January 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v64JDC4413s
― nxd, Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:50 (seven years ago) link
The sound of a new millenium
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:58 (seven years ago) link
i thought this revive was about sugar ray's cover of "spinning away" being linked on the eno thread. somebody should definitely poll the beach ost - it's better than it has any right to be.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link
kinda amazing how the drum loop sounds equally shitty on both the Eno/Cale and Sugar Ray version
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link