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

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

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

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau)

they've _all_ been on the av club. last week it was "smooth" by santana featuring rob thomas repitched to twelve-tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5umyUTEYI

Bummed we can't search 77 threads tbh

https://soundcloud.com/vagidictoris/all-star-by-smash-mouth-but-all-notes-are-in-c

someone tell me what post-punk band this sounds like

In June 2011, a writer at Something Awful offered $20 if the band's lead singer, Steve Harwell, would eat 24 eggs. Others on the site and on Twitter began offering additional sums, eventually targeted to various charities. In July 2011, Harwell accepted the challenge if fans could gather pledges of $10,000 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. The fundraising goal was reached in less than a week's time. A self-styled "reality TV fan," Harwell requested that his friend celebrity chef Guy Fieri prepare the eggs. The event was held at Johnny Garlic's restaurant, in Dublin, California on October 11, 2011. With about 150 people attending, Harwell was able to finish the eggs with the help of audience members as well as the San Jose Sharks mascot, Sharkie. $15,000 was raised for charity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YJfXdSR85o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z48NmdWbquw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1SKbEaUkAAHbsI.jpg:large

"Smash Mouth" would indeed be a perfect name for an STD

we need to have a poll soon: Which post-Nirvana radio rock band succeeded at the Self-Aware Retro Olympics?

you could have Smash Mouth, 311, Marcy Playground, Crazy Town, etc.

i do have to give Smash Mouth props for going with that 60s organ sound. they had a Vox Continental in their "Walking on the Sun" music video. that's pretty cool. and that was in the late 90s. this wasn't that long after Beck had a hit w the similarly 60s fetishizing organ riff for "Where It's At".

i always think of what Mark McGrath would do when I get in a pickle. and invariably the answer has something to do with human trafficking.

Sugar Ray sucks

Smash Mouth (album) Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US House of Representatives https://t.co/gF2C5eCTZZ

— congress-edits (@congressedits) October 19, 2017

your tax dollars at work folks

I always liked "Fly" tbqh

pure fun throwaway song with no pretensions of being anything, and a nice guitar lick

i do have to give Smash Mouth props for going with that 60s organ sound. they had a Vox Continental in their "Walking on the Sun" music video. that's pretty cool. and that was in the late 90s. this wasn't that long after Beck had a hit w the similarly 60s fetishizing organ riff for "Where It's At".

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau)

And before Smashmouth there was Edwyn Collins with “girl like you”.

I do love those 60’s organ riffs. Right now the only one I can think of is Shocking Blue’s Venus (which is a classic imho). Any other songs that you can think of?

96 Tears ftw

there's a little known band called Doors you might be interested in

I always liked "Fly" tbqh

"All around the world statues crumble for me" is a great line

hated Every Morning as a song but i did enjoy the second hand nostalgia gen x 70s roller disco vibes of that video

The sounds of the Vox Continental, Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer have never really gone away.

sugar ray's big singles were all diminishing returns attempting to capture the magic of Fly