Say Something Nice or Interesting about: Smash Mouth (or possibly Sugar Ray)

i can't say i've ever really liked a song by either.

An appropriate fate for both bands.

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!

I love this thread so much.

Best pop-rock album of the millenium so far.

A+ trolling

The aforementioned Perrey & Kingsley song, by the way, is "Swan's Splashdown." Good taste by Smashmouth.

That was not trolling. It was wrong but it was his honest opinion. Is Anthony gone now?

oh, i was just joking.
he posts under the name da croupier (check the recent sasha frere jones thread for classic anthony)

idunnowhattotype (1 day ago) +2
if you don't like Sugar Ray,
then quite virtually you don't deserve to exist.

i like "walking on the sun"

i can't say i've ever really liked a song by either.

-- latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:58 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

LIAR

this thread is near IT WAS A PRED SHIP-quality fun

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!"

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.

Together forever.

"cuddly people"?

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.

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.

no, you were Alex in NYC

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

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.

Um...yes.

http://bloggingonthesun.blogspot.com/

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.

lol

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzMB8x59jo

the only youtube channel I ever subscribed to.

^^ Somehow makes both songs tolerable!

https://twitter.com/cool_as_heck/status/804796246909030400

"All Star by Smashmouth but the words are ordered from lowest to highest score in scrabble"

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/all-star-by-smash-mouth-except-every-note-is-c.html

Something nice about Sugar Ray: "Danzig Needs a Hug" was an excellent song title!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lj7tXDVbk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v64JDC4413s

The sound of a new millenium

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.

kinda amazing how the drum loop sounds equally shitty on both the Eno/Cale and Sugar Ray version

looking at the related videos there, we must be at peak ironic Smash Mouth. you could host a film night of just "All Star Variations"

Smash Mouth - All Star but everything's out of sync
PancadaPls
44,554 views

Closer by the Chainsmokers but every lyric is replaced by All Star by Smash Mouth
SpicyProductions
15,547 views

Allstar but every word is in alphabetical order
Dpaje
496,798 views

nearly half a million views! that must be the one that was on the AV Club

don't wanna give undue credit but did any of this stuff exist before Neil Cicierega's Mouth Sounds?

the only youtube channel I ever subscribed to.

― Van Horn Street, Monday, October 31, 2016 6:29 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very talented