Reach Down, Hand In Your Pocket / POLL Out Some Hope For Me: Matchbox Twenty & Rob Thomas Singles

i used to think "slide" by goo goo dolls was matchbox 20.

smooth is for real heads only

i also think "how far we come" is a total jam and really stood out at the time given how terrible most of the solo rob singles are

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2:07 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that song was awesome, and North was a really strong album, i feel like they kind of belatedly became a good band after people stopped paying attention

I think we're scraping the bottom of the barrel with these polls.

Hey Snrub, what did you hope to learn about here?

this is cracking me up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMccrqb8HB0

Re: having a different singer, my wife likes MB20 because of Thomas' excitement when he's performing. Personally I only like the first album, Mad Season I got for $2 and couldn't find anything on it worth saving.

And the songs I really like on Yourself or Someone Like You aren't singles ("Kody," "Busted").

lonely no more is killer it just came up on random tbh

outof 2000 songs

I really can't seem to escape "Long Day" being stuck in my head! In particular the way he sings this very distinctive jumble of a lyric:

Well I'm surprised that you'd believe
In anything that comes from me
I didn't hear from you or from someone else
- and you're so
Set in life, man, a pisser-they're-waiting-too-damn-bad
You get so far so fast, so what, soooo long

Great song IMO. It got a lot of retroactive airplay after 3 a.m. and Push broke them, but if it'd actually been released and marketed after those songs I think it could have been a really huge hit. Not sure, but I suspect it may have also fallen victim to that Billboard "can't chart if a physical single isn't currently in print" deal. As it is it kind of got lost a bit and as I've said on other threads, when alt-rock radio went nu-metal and pop radio kind of shed rock songs, this and the other YOSLY songs more or less disappeared from rotation. It certainly deserved a better fate that, say, "Back 2 Good," which really did feel like "okay, we've squeezed one too many singles out of this pedestrian pop-rock record."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Time falls away, in these small hours.

lol I included "Lonely No More" in my best of the year retrospective.

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Nice. The only really surprising thing to me is that someone would vote for "Back 2 Good" which never clicked with me whatsoever, but hey. Thanks for voting, y'all!

guess I failed to vote for bent

Can't you help him? He's bent!.