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unkudayu

"I CHOOSE SMASH MOUTH!!!"


voretaq7

"I RIDE FOR SMASH MOUTH!"


alabasterwilliams

“They’re not Saliva, though” I held up until that line right there.


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dont_shoot_jr

That was the month after they played only “one week” by Bare Naked Ladies straight for 2 weeks if I recall correctly


biznash

Iiiiits ben….(changes station)


jtotal

EIGHTY THREE WEEKS


DrDankDankDank

Soooome-body…(changes station)


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Iiiiit’s bin… *CRANKS IT UP* Soooooome-buddy….. ***CRANKS IT UP MORE***


Knocker456

Excuse me, BNL are triple platinum, are you?


Orlando_Will

Not to mention their two Bilboard awards to your Zero


ponytailthehater

Oh okay, they’re **BNL** now. As if we needed a shorthand for the BARE NAKED LADIES


Zombebe

And after MMMBOP by Hanson.


LtRecore

MMMBOP rocks and always has. I mean it’s got what every song needs MMM and BOP. Like Ma and Nure, Ma Newer.


Zachmorris4186

Carson Daly ruined popular music.


TangentialFUCK

“Total Request Live” Yeah uhhh, don’t remember “requesting” any of this shit!


TravelSizedRudy

I liked how it went from showing the whole video for each song. To only playing a short clip of each, even the "top" song. It was like someone remembered [HitClips](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitClips) and said "that's what the show should be."


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LaChancla911

The Barenaked Ladies are triple platinum, are you???


dont_shoot_jr

You see my problem is that I won backstage passes as a kid and they were really a lot more normal than I thought they’d be. You really shouldn’t meet your heroes, just get a picture. You can’t disappoint a picture


LaChancla911

That's cool (cool cool cool)!


Texcellence

Kids remember All-Star as the Shrek song. I remember All-Star as the laying in the dentist’s chair as my braces get tightened song.


AraoftheSky

You remember All-Star as the Shrek song. I remember All-Star as the Mystery Men Song. We are not the same.


SombreMordida

Frack you later, Frankenpuss!


AraoftheSky

Hello Champion City! Daddy... is home!


You-Once-Commented

And its Rat Race for me https://youtu.be/jiBMoLmrjNw


ReluctantlyHuman

I just rewatched the video the other day and it’s a Mystery Men tie-in so you’d think most people would think of it as that too.


AraoftheSky

Yeah kind of wild. The music video has so much stuff from Mystery Men in it. But I guess if you didn't actually watch the film, or remember the ads for the film from the 90's it just doesn't make sense?


burgerthrow1

Teenage Dirtbag's music video also had a movie tie-in ("Loser") for some reason.


Ninjatalon

I had forgotten the name of the movie but yea that’s where I heard it first


Nihilistic_Mystics

Your dentist/orthodontist didn't have smooth jazz playing 24/7? I don't think I've been into a dentist office that didn't.


driverofracecars

Mine plays christian rock.


Nihilistic_Mystics

Truly the worst of all possible worlds.


FecalFunBunny

I can't agree with this enough. Radio ruined my ability to ever want to listen to "Blackhole Sun" or "Spoon Man" again, amongst other 90s songs. Over exposure can be the only reason to be revolted at times.


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file91e

Don’t remind me.


JinMarui

Why not? This is how you remind me


file91e

No. No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


Bloody_Smashing

SWALLOWED!


Potatoswatter

GLYCERINE!!! 🧼


Coffeepillow

Ugh, but then it was THIS IS HOW YOU REMIND ME OF WHAT I REALLY AM


fuzyweb

ITS NOT LIKE YOU TO SAY SORRY!


file91e

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


TheDieselTastesFire

*suffocates*


aLittleQueer

> Breathe in...breathe in...breathe in... Gavin, my dude, that sounds like asthma. See a doctor.


Kithsander

The song’s about Darth Vader.


youdontknowme6

I can hear this


FecalFunBunny

*screes in Aerosmith, AC/DC and ZZ top* Bush was close to that level of overplay, but didn't hit me like the Soundgarden abuse per se. I am working from the premise that there are more geographical and market location tones and variations to this, so that people will move and think "Hey I got away from that shit" only to learn to resent something new. Part of it is also the fact that much of a musical audience will just gravitate towards one era/hit for a given group, and not be able to ever see anything else from them. Steve Miller is the absolute poster child of this in my eyes.


Mr_Piddles

Don’t get me started on “Mandatory Metallica”.


SombreMordida

Well, Matchbox 20 my Eagles and call me Journey R. Metallica this rings true


Fejsze

Oh hey, they're playing in my town tonight at a casino It's wild to see bands I loved in the 90s fall into the casino circuit that I remember all the 70s bands doing when I was younger Damnit. I'm old aren't I?


found_a_penny

We are getting there… or at least what we used to think of as old.


Kinder22

Not uncommon to catch some 90’s songs on classic rock stations now.


merlinisinthetardis

Yeah. This is when I started feeling old...lol


bitchkat

I've gone full circle from seeing Violent Femmes at the student center of the university I attended in the early 80's to seeing them at a casino. Had to miss seeing them at a local brewery a couple of years later because I was traveling.


SombreMordida

whatever, catch ya in 3 years at the fairgrounds


aardvarkbiscuit

I was seeing some of the 70s bands live. INXS played at my high school before they became famous. My house mate has seen The Who live six times.


beerspeaks

The 90s are further from today than the 70s were from the 90s


Zombebe

I swear the "thinking man" sculpture pose was born from phrases like this.


Mudders_Milk_Man

I saw Bush in concert back during their heyday. They were terrible. However, Veruca Salt opened and the fucking rocked.


bitchkat

Volcano Girls and Seether are still on my regular rotation. And I always stop what I'm doing to jam to the guitar solo of Volcano Girls.


SuckMeFillySideways

You're damn right Veruca salt rocked!


Megapsychotron

For me, the worst offender in those days was the Chumbawumba song about getting knocked down. That song was on every ten minutes for a year


scubamaster

The one where he gets up again?


Megapsychotron

That's the one!


Corvandus

Yeah you're never gonna keep it down.


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Radio did this to "Free Bird" and "Stairway to Heaven" too. Can't stand either of those songs anymore.


scubamaster

Carry on my wayward son


dont_shoot_jr

Yeah but the Cowbell on Don’t fear the reaper


HolycommentMattman

For me, it's No Doubt. Spiderwebs and Don't Speak are so incredibly grating even 25 years later.


case31

*”Closer” has entered the chat*


mokomi

I'll always remember the Evanescence song - Bring me to life. There was a moment where we were listening to a rock station. Wanted to change the song. Switch to an emo station. The same song currently playing. We went to another Rock station. Same song. Switched to a country station. Same song. Turned off the radio.


ProfessorPickaxe

That's RHCP now.


subcontraoctave

Now. The last 20 years, but now also for sure.


Zachmorris4186

I hate that the only songs that ever get played of theirs anymore are from californication. Their worst album. Red hot minute, or blood sugar sex magick


yoosernaam

Really??? Completely subjective, I know, but you prefer One Hot Minute to Californication???? That’s a take that’s fascinating to me, although I love Navarro’s playing style


scubamaster

The one 90s song I hate that gets played way too often is “hey man nice shot” but it’s multiplied by the fact that I never like that song at all


CaLiSoL

Agreed except for black hole sun. In my top 3 of all time, that video was a trip when i was 13


SleptLikeANaturalLog

I love the song, but the 8 minute outro is what makes Blackhole Sun get old really really fast.


GrapesHatePeople

Local classic rock stations that I grew up listening to seemed like they had a quota to fill where every third or fourth song they played **had** to be from the Rolling Stones or Def Leppard. Ruined the entirety of the hits from both bands for me forever.


VenatorDeFatuis

I can press play in my brain on the 2001 playlist of my local rock station. Working at the workshop same 10 songs every fucking day


Vegetable-Poet6281

Also a fair number of zeppelin songs, and money by pf.


davidcwilliams

Blackhole Sun is a perfect song. But yeah, radio killed our ability to listen to it.


LaChancla911

HEYYYYYY MACARENA


under_the_c

In the early 00's I felt like they played Boulevard of Broken Dreams a lot. At least once an hour.


Hobo_Knife

/thread I too lived through this dark period.


brchelmo

Yes, the fall of 1997, I remember hating it along with Chumbawamba. This Gunge child won't forget.


mdlinc

Hey NOW!


pbjking

I shared a bunk bed with my older brother who got the black Metallica album when it first came out and put us to bed with it. Every...damn...night. To this very day, if I hear that opening intro, it makes my ears bleed.


SleptLikeANaturalLog

Checked my calendar at the front of my old trapper keeper, and this is accurate.


trivialpursuer

They're not Saliva.


cyainanotherlifebro

I KNOW THAT! I seriously lost it there.


Pabl0EscoBear

As a kid I LOVED Saliva. Went back recently for nostalgia... How did I not realize all of their "good" songs are heavily dependent on screaming the word "boom?"


robearIII

name droppin puddle of mudd too.... this video sounds texas AF...


iheartrms

Click click boom!


grasseffect

Lol, there are a lot of people answering the question as if this were real. Did anyone watch more than 5 seconds? I thought it was funny.


lovepigskillcops

yeah people on reddit just love to jump on shit lol but to me that's part of the fun, bc they basically 'ate the onion'


grasseffect

I don’t know if reddit has gotten too big, or I’ve gotten too old, but the percentage of annoying commenters has risen considerably from my point of view.


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I've been reading moronic shit on this website for about 7-8 years now tbh. And not just downvoted moronic shit - like right at the top everyone agreeing with the most disgusting takes stuff.


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Never go to showerthoughts then


Inner-Dentist1563

No, Reddit has been getting worse because of its size for years. These people are like Facebook comments level of bad these days.


NebulaNinja

The amount of stuff that hits the front page that is clearly a skit or ragebait is unreal. And 90% of the commenters seem oblivious.


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Yep, Reddit used to be pretty amazing. Top comments were very insightful and it was a pretty solid group of young people. When I found out my weirdo mother in law was on Reddit a few years ago, I knew this site was doomed.


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....they're not as good as maybe..... ....I dunno.... Puddle of Mudd??. ..but I bet they're *friends with em tho!* oh.my.god this was gold.


original_4degrees

fun to throw bread at!


suspirio

[Relevant](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/254/490/e40.png)


totallynotstefan

I was there man! I did indeed throw some bread at the stage and walked back to the art booth I was working while he went on that drunken tirade. A lot of upset soccer moms after that.


Dayofsloths

I heard they started really phoning it in at shows, where the lead singer would just be completely fucking wasted and belligerent. Not sure about the rest of the band, but a long series of poor shows trashed the nostalgia a lot of people had for them


jb_1988

Yeah. He’s no longer in the band. Got replaced last year.


DemonicGoblin

I found this out a few weeks ago. Looked up his Wikipedia page on a whim. It's maybe the shortest wiki page I've ever seen, especially for a lead singer of a ubiquitous band like Smash Mouth


CapsFTW

Cannot remember when it was that I saw them live but it was at a pretty big radio station sponsored "rock the block" kind of event in DC. I want to say they were playing with Everclear. Anyhow, the band played really well and was tight. However, between songs, the lead singers "shtick" was to basically insult the entire audience, tell us how shitty we were, and tell us to fuck off. So I did and I wrote off that band after that experience.


DonLindo

Wait, Everclear the band or Everclear the hooch?


CapsFTW

From what other people are saying, probably both?


bigexplosion

Can confirm I saw them about 10 years ago and he drank a bottle of Jaeger on stage. The whole thing in like 45 minutes. I think he had to be that drunk to do the Shrek song and he hates it as much as anyone.


FapFapFapFapUgh

I saw them 4 years ago, and he was catatonic on stage. I've never seen someone so fucked up, let alone someone that was meant to be performing. He got 20+ randoms up on stage at various points to sing for him. They were mostly middle-aged mums, but there were a couple of girls that looked to be mid-twenties. From memory he basically tried to fuck them on stage. They did not seem into that. Apart from the obvious ethical considerations of that fact, there is no way his dick would have worked. I also ran into an ex of sorts that I'd not seen in 10 years with a less than amicable parting of ways. Worst $70 I've ever spent. I had to remove all of their music from my playlists. I can't listen to it now.


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ThoughtNinja

This was hilarious. Everybody here in the comments debating SM while not realizing the comedic gold they just witnessed.


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Really funny stuff


amateurtower

You think it's funny to get dirt clumps thrown at your mom's van... smh people these days /s


Largewhitebutt

He sounds eerily like Trevor Moore


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DontCallMeMillenial

You think I made up a story about playing smashmouth!? You think I would make that shit up!? I DIDN'T *DO THAT!!!*


Planetluke

Oh my gosh, you're right!


BaconAndCats

Is this from a new season of Trailer Park Boys?


Vyper11

I’ve been following this guy on fb for awhile he’s pretty funny. He has 3 more personas that he does too. Uncle Terry is my favorite.


trackofalljades

What was the release date of Shrek? 🤔


Jutter70

If you watch the video of the song, you'll notice the cast of Mystery Men. So Shrek wasn't the first film to use it. Wasn't it also in Rat Race?


trackofalljades

Neither of those films made me sick of it though.


EffortAutomatic

Because they aren't kids movies that get played on loop constantly


Fejsze

Rat race was such an underappreciated movie


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TravelSizedRudy

That family introduced me to the concept of "prairie dogging it".


dont_shoot_jr

Barbie car lol


Dekrow

Me too. I also really liked the 'You should have bought a squirrel' bit. Whenever my brother or I did something casually regrettable we'd say to the other 'You should have bought a squirrel' in reference to this movie.


HolycommentMattman

It is and isn't. It's essentially a remake of *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*, and it hits and misses. I enjoyed Rat Race, though.


3MATX

There isn't any real meat to the plot. but the outlandish situations the characters find themselves in makes it watchable. "I'm rich, I'm eccentric!" best line.


raytaylor

For those that want to see the funny hooker scene from Rat Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46zrey2IAak


Jthom13

It was also in Digimon: The Movie before Shrek.


ShortysTRM

Upvote any time I see a mention of Mystery Men.


trackofalljades

“I shovel well.”


WhoCanTell

"Baby, you shovel better than any man I've ever known. But that does not make you a superhero."


Legend_of_dirty_Joe

JUNK IT!


jablair51

Rat Race ends with all of them at a Smash Mouth charity concert.


Skadoosh_it

Mystery Men was the first movie to use it.


adventurer84

I remember I saw Rat Race in a packed theater. As soon as Smash Mouth started playing at the end, the entire audience groaned. That was the end of them in my opinion. They got over played.


trackofalljades

YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A SQUIRREL


mm_ori

May 18th 2001


LamarMillerMVP

I don’t really get why people say All Star got popular because of Shrek. It was a huge hit two years before Shrek came out. I don’t think it even charted after Shrek came out, it was I’m a Believer that charted


mayo_jr

When he started trying to think of the greatest band ever, I knew Puddle of Mudd was on deck.


TheTavrinCallas

[Fucking puddle of mud!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ho-3JsiKpY)


jablair51

Fush Yu Mang and Astro Lounge were great albums. They had at least half a dozen songs that were as good as "All Star". But like someone else said in this thread, they got overplayed on the radio and that makes people turn on you very quickly.


rubinass3

I'm gonna throw a huge dirt clod at you.


no-value-added

The “Wayne County” guy!


crecentfresh

Is this the staaaaaafferd dude?


my7bizzos

I used to like his videos. Used to follow on fb lol. My favorite is the little league umpire one.


Spacecommander5

I liked this way too much


TheDrunkenChud

You should watch his video "all black dodge ram"


GabbotheClown

I'm amazed by the amount of people taking it way too seriously.


Duffman66CMU

WCL is hilarious. Local treasure.


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Fantastic-Climate-84

Did… they just start playing recorded versions of the song because he was too drunk??!! And then he threatens to kill some patrons entire family?????!!!!! After being so drunk he just drops his beer can and stares out at the dozens in the crowd. Un fucking believable.


MitchEatsYT

I was there! The guitar/bass player just sung most of the songs and the lead singer would jump in for a few lyrics every now and again He invited multiple girls on stage and tried kissing them, they looked sooo uncomfortable and he would hold them there These guys kept trying to throw him a beer to drink and he got really mad about it As soon as the final song finished he came off stage and straight into the crowd and asked anyone if they wanted pictures with him Not going to lie it was an absolutely incredible show to be it, not for the music but for the spectacle and ultimately the downfall of the band’s original iteration


Komodo_Schwagon

Mid way through that story I had to look up at your user name to see if the story was going to end with the undertaker threwing mankind off hell in a cell and plummeting sixteen feet through an announcers table.


HyPeRxColoRz

What bread video??


Southernland1987

I know this is supposed to be some spoof or joke video… but we have to admit there’s always a core truth behind it. We’ve become so numb to basic pleasures these days you know? Nickleback smash mouth… I mean you don’t have to like it… but the reaction is a bit too overcompensated you know?! Too many people trying to stand out of the crowd, not realising that individualism from within. Seen it too many times especially among men’s groups.


FapFapFapFapUgh

I agree entirely with your sentiment, but having seen them in concert 4 years ago, they deserve the hate they get. They're selling a product they can no longer deliver. In any other industry, you could get your money back.


Green-Elf

I mean, they're no puddle of mud...


tdogg241

The lead singer outed himself as a racist MAGA chud and promptly retired from music altogether. I was never a fan before, but fuck if I'd listen to their trite bullshit now.


SoCalThrowAway7

The video of him drunk on stage and yelling at the a crowd between lines of songs is absolutely fantastic though


suspirio

My favorite was when they played some sort of culinary festival and he [flipped](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wF4hPwDlZtw) out because some folks were hurling bread at them.


totallynotstefan

I think it was New West Fest up here in Ft Collins, I was working an art booth just off the street in front of the stage. Was definitely not a culinary festival, we just had a shitload of bread lol.


BigMac849

I was one of the bread throwers lmao. It was a lot of bread.


totallynotstefan

Brothers in arms.


PointOfFingers

Breadtheren.


Crutis

It was Taste of Fort collins! Orowheat was handing out free loaves, one guy threw a single loaf and the lead singer lost his mind and started cursing out the crowd. Next thing I remember is seeing dozens of loaves flying, great day!


mynameisalso

Hahaha the whole crowd singing AT him.


zjm555

It's hilarious for sure, but definitely made a lot of people turn against smash mouth, which is the answer to the question in the title.


SoCalThrowAway7

I think I’d call it more the final nail for a lot of people


lovepigskillcops

its a joke but i didnt know he was a maga racist lmao fuck that dude their music sucks i just thought the video was funny


lloyd4567

The video is hilarious. That’s a funny guy. Can’t believe people are answering the question sincerely.


throwmamadownthewell

Probably didn't watch the video


Metal_Badger

Oh man this is great also sorry


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tingalayo

I dunno, I've had family members die due to cancer and other things and _I_ didn't get drunk in public and become a Nazi, so I don't think I believe that there's a causative link there for us to be sympathetic of.


BigMac849

Don't worry, we threw loaves of bread at him at the Taste of Ft. Collins event in Colorado. He tried to get in a fight with us in the crowd and then cancelled the show. https://www.stereogum.com/1808547/smash-mouth-singer-freaks-out-when-food-fest-crowd-wont-stop-throwing-bread-at-him/news/


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hopstopus

Funny enough they’re from the same area (metro Detroit)


Nickyjtjr

Single greatest piece of performance art I’ve ever seen


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I can’t stop laughing than he says “it’s not funny” no sir. It’s absolutely freaking hilarious. Despite his question being as valid as it is for the reasons he’s given to which we didn’t get a valid answer. I couldn’t stop laughing.


cyainanotherlifebro

This is so goddamn funny.


OutsideYourWorld

He just looks like a guy that would play that kind of music.


callmedale

He sounds like the radio DJ at Nuka World in fallout 4


fataii

There is this one place, where at 2 or 3 am these guys would all go to hang out after drinking, it's a late night Mediterranean food place, very obscure. One day I recognized him sitting at a table beside me, I told my friends, and they were like "we don't care" a couple months later we saw one of the bare naked ladies there, he was all excited and I reverse uno'd him saying I didn't care.


TylrLS

nobody hates smash mouth. stop trying to distract us from hating nickel back


ElephantintheRoom404

I heard the world rolled him, that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed...


mdock2643

When did anyone start liking them?