I like when they sing with Eddie Murphy at the end of Shrek, but I’d skip their concert if I had free tickets especially with their lead singer gone he was the best part
Never knew anyone who listened to them bitd. All Star was part of the pop culture lexicon just because it was parodied and featured in tv/movies so often back then. It was a y2k thing. Sad how his life spiraled, though.
Kidding me? Say what you want about All Star, but there are some genuine picks in Smash Mouth that are good without any irony. Just listen to Walkin on the sun. It's all around good, even if some of the choice of specific lyrics are awkward.
Smash Mouth was a band I listened early on as I was just in that young age for their music to be appealing. It was primarily their first two albums, though mainly just for the singles. For uncomplicated feel good music they served their purpose, and these days I still keep Fush Yu Mang in my library for the occasional nostalgia spin.
I will stake a claim and say their cover of Why Can't We Be Friends? is incredibly good, I prefer it over the original if I have to be honest. Especially that upper harmony they through during that second chorus and to the end and just the overal; upbeat energy.
Yep in the big sticky thread I offended millennials (and possibly zoomers) by calling Smash Mouth a one-hit wonder and that nobody knew the name of Steve Harwell until now. They really didn't like that.
It's not really the older and core Millennials going through this "bad music from the late 90s and early 00s" obsession, it's mostly the range of Millennioomers and elder Zoomers who are romanticizing only the most memetic aspects of that time period that they just missed but recall some slight remnants of in pop culture as a kid
It's like how surface level 80s nostalgia was all about Rick Astley and fuckin Hungry Like The Wolf crap. >DUUUDE JAMMIN TO TAKE ON ME, GOT MY IRONIC WOLF T-SHIRT, HEADBAND ON, CASSETTE PLAYER, SOOOOOO 80S
That's how this shit is only it's taste lacking normies pretending to be all about jorts and frosted tips shit
True, I can't imagine an older millennial spamming Limp Bizkit on this board in 2023 unless they are severely stunted. It has to be younger millennials and zoomers latching themselves onto that stuff.
I mean they're objectively not a one-hit wonder, they had like 10 massive radio hits. They had pretty much all of them between 1999 - 2001 though and All Star seems to be the only one younger people are even aware of.
Well I haven't heard anyone talk about the other hits in recent years outside of All Star. Never even heard Steve be referred to as anything but "The Smash Mouth guy". Granted, I don't hang around people who would've been the target audience for Smash Mouth back then, but even in millennial dominated spaces on the internet I didn't see anyone who considered themselves a "fan".
A one hit wonder isn't defined by what people remember them for, it's defined by only having one big hit. Despite people not remembering most of their songs today they pretty objectively had more than one hit.
I mean they're objectively not a one-hit wonder, they had like 10 massive radio hits. They had pretty much all of them between 1999 - 2001 though and All Star seems to be the only one younger people are even aware of.
[...]
[...] >All Star >Walkin on the Sun >Then the Morning Comes >Why Can't We Be Friends >I'm a Believer >Pacific Coast Party >Can't Get Enough of You Baby >Come On Come On
I can think of 8 off of the top of my head, feel like I'm missing at least one really obvious one too.
I was tuned out of the radio by then for the most part, so I don't think I've ever heard half of those songs. If I did, they must've blended in with the other radio slop.
I mean they're objectively not a one-hit wonder, they had like 10 massive radio hits. They had pretty much all of them between 1999 - 2001 though and All Star seems to be the only one younger people are even aware of.
They had two hits!
>All Star >Walkin on the Sun >Then the Morning Comes >Why Can't We Be Friends >I'm a Believer >Pacific Coast Party >Can't Get Enough of You Baby >Come On Come On
I can think of 8 off of the top of my head, feel like I'm missing at least one really obvious one too.
>charted #25 on the us charts whereas their previous singles charted higher on the same chart >didn't chart as high on the us adult charts as walkin on the sun, all star, or then the morning comes >didn't even get certified by the riaa like all star did
The other countries are irrelevant, since I'm an American. Their biggest hit was clearly All Star. Their other stuff charted, sure, but it wasn't as known as their big hit.
Like I said earlier, I was mostly tuned out of the radio and newer music by then so I'm not sure if I've ever heard half of those songs. If I did, it probably blended in with the other generic radio rock slop that charted the few times I did listen to the radio.
Anyways, popularity doesn't equal quality. Smash Mouth were just another fish in the sea of shitty/boring late 90s - early 2000s rock bands. As I said in the sticky, rock was dead by then and never recovered.
All Star was obviously the biggest hit but Walking on the Sun was also no slouch on the charts or radio at the time. The others were more minor but Walking on the Sun was a bonafide hit undeniably.
In all seriousness
They were a breath of fresh air growing up in the 90s.
I was never a big fan, and only listened to their hits.
I think of the more in mystery men than Shrit
All star song will never die
I'm not going to pretend they were great or high art because the man's dead, but they weren't a terrible band. They did a decent job at capturing the similar late 90s summer vibe that bands like Sugar Ray and Len were doing around then. Compared to that stuff its just fine and they knew how to have fun. Walking on the Sun is a good pop tune and All Star is an eternal classic.
What's the best smash mouth album?
dead silence.
a greatest hits compilation
I've always liked this song and thought it had a great use of my favorite keyboard sound as well as the lyrics are quite good
everything else belongs in the trash
sounds like She's Not There
In retrospect this song feels almost like a warning to the carefree attitude of the 90s. We really were walking on the sun.
I like when they sing with Eddie Murphy at the end of Shrek, but I’d skip their concert if I had free tickets especially with their lead singer gone he was the best part
For me, it's "When the Morning Comes"
Never knew anyone who listened to them bitd. All Star was part of the pop culture lexicon just because it was parodied and featured in tv/movies so often back then. It was a y2k thing. Sad how his life spiraled, though.
Kidding me? Say what you want about All Star, but there are some genuine picks in Smash Mouth that are good without any irony. Just listen to Walkin on the sun. It's all around good, even if some of the choice of specific lyrics are awkward.
Walkin on the Sun might be even worse than all star lol
HE DID LE HITLER SALUT ONCE!
Smash Mouth was a band I listened early on as I was just in that young age for their music to be appealing. It was primarily their first two albums, though mainly just for the singles. For uncomplicated feel good music they served their purpose, and these days I still keep Fush Yu Mang in my library for the occasional nostalgia spin.
I will stake a claim and say their cover of Why Can't We Be Friends? is incredibly good, I prefer it over the original if I have to be honest. Especially that upper harmony they through during that second chorus and to the end and just the overal; upbeat energy.
Yep in the big sticky thread I offended millennials (and possibly zoomers) by calling Smash Mouth a one-hit wonder and that nobody knew the name of Steve Harwell until now. They really didn't like that.
It's not really the older and core Millennials going through this "bad music from the late 90s and early 00s" obsession, it's mostly the range of Millennioomers and elder Zoomers who are romanticizing only the most memetic aspects of that time period that they just missed but recall some slight remnants of in pop culture as a kid
It's like how surface level 80s nostalgia was all about Rick Astley and fuckin Hungry Like The Wolf crap.
>DUUUDE JAMMIN TO TAKE ON ME, GOT MY IRONIC WOLF T-SHIRT, HEADBAND ON, CASSETTE PLAYER, SOOOOOO 80S
That's how this shit is only it's taste lacking normies pretending to be all about jorts and frosted tips shit
True, I can't imagine an older millennial spamming Limp Bizkit on this board in 2023 unless they are severely stunted. It has to be younger millennials and zoomers latching themselves onto that stuff.
Well I haven't heard anyone talk about the other hits in recent years outside of All Star. Never even heard Steve be referred to as anything but "The Smash Mouth guy". Granted, I don't hang around people who would've been the target audience for Smash Mouth back then, but even in millennial dominated spaces on the internet I didn't see anyone who considered themselves a "fan".
A one hit wonder isn't defined by what people remember them for, it's defined by only having one big hit. Despite people not remembering most of their songs today they pretty objectively had more than one hit.
I mean they're objectively not a one-hit wonder, they had like 10 massive radio hits. They had pretty much all of them between 1999 - 2001 though and All Star seems to be the only one younger people are even aware of.
They had two hits!
I was tuned out of the radio by then for the most part, so I don't think I've ever heard half of those songs. If I did, they must've blended in with the other radio slop.
>All Star
>Walkin on the Sun
>Then the Morning Comes
>Why Can't We Be Friends
>I'm a Believer
>Pacific Coast Party
>Can't Get Enough of You Baby
>Come On Come On
I can think of 8 off of the top of my head, feel like I'm missing at least one really obvious one too.
i'm a believer was everywhere
>charted #25 on the us charts whereas their previous singles charted higher on the same chart
>didn't chart as high on the us adult charts as walkin on the sun, all star, or then the morning comes
>didn't even get certified by the riaa like all star did
The other countries are irrelevant, since I'm an American. Their biggest hit was clearly All Star. Their other stuff charted, sure, but it wasn't as known as their big hit.
Like I said earlier, I was mostly tuned out of the radio and newer music by then so I'm not sure if I've ever heard half of those songs. If I did, it probably blended in with the other generic radio rock slop that charted the few times I did listen to the radio.
Anyways, popularity doesn't equal quality. Smash Mouth were just another fish in the sea of shitty/boring late 90s - early 2000s rock bands. As I said in the sticky, rock was dead by then and never recovered.
All Star was obviously the biggest hit but Walking on the Sun was also no slouch on the charts or radio at the time. The others were more minor but Walking on the Sun was a bonafide hit undeniably.
It was huge. Walking on the Sun was the #49 most played song of 1998 and the #9 most played song of 1999
*1997 and 1998
Rankings are still correct
I like Rat Race.
Ergo I like Smash Mouth.
I heard Walking On The Sun before you
Liking Smashmouth will always be ironic and sad.
Smash mouth pretty much defined my early adulthood in the 90s.
When ever I was feeling nervous I would think of his music
>pays tribute by making it about himself
>posts his own picture
In all seriousness
They were a breath of fresh air growing up in the 90s.
I was never a big fan, and only listened to their hits.
I think of the more in mystery men than Shrit
All star song will never die
I'm not going to pretend they were great or high art because the man's dead, but they weren't a terrible band. They did a decent job at capturing the similar late 90s summer vibe that bands like Sugar Ray and Len were doing around then. Compared to that stuff its just fine and they knew how to have fun. Walking on the Sun is a good pop tune and All Star is an eternal classic.
All Star is genuinely a good song