Hey now, you’re a (dead) All Star: RIP Smash Mouth’s singer

[Songbird]

That A's tweeter is/was quite saucy.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

They were such a quirky multi-hit wonder. They hit in the late '90s, when what was left of MTV was all about pop or R&B music performed by young and impossibly good-looking singers and musicians with the very occasional Lit sneaking thru with a legit rock hit. I remember SR-71 (whom I saw in concert w/former SJ moderator Flying Headbutt, good times) lying about their ages and Collective Soul looking like a bunch of extras on Dawson's Creek on, like, their fourth album. And here's this band--a sort of weird hodgepodge of a little pop, a little rock, a little electronic-sounding stuff--featuring a bunch of random dudes and fronted by a big guy who was in is 30s, wasn't much of a singer and still looked like he won Loudest Classmate in the senior yearbook. They had a different-ish sound, but it wasn't all that original and, as @ChrisLong noted, you could tell they were already emptying the tank. But they had a handful songs that were all perfect earworms for the summertime, so to piggyback on what @Woody Long said on the Buffett thread, that makes two sadly ironic deaths on the final weekend of summer. RIP to Steve.

 

[maumann]

That A's tweeter is/was quite saucy.

And I think Smash Mouth had more singles than the 2023 A's most nights.

 

[Octave]

When my kid was a baby I heard All-Star about 28 million times - every morning on the iPad. It opened the Shrek movie.

Circa 1998 I don't know if the song was so bad as it was overexposed.

That was just a very weird time for pop music.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

 

[OscarMadison]

Wasn't Smashmouth at that superspreader event in South Dakota a few years back? -checking- It was Sturgis in 2020, and yes, they were there. I can't help but wonder if he caught it, making him more vulnerable to living hard.

Smash Mouth singer mocks coronavirus pandemic at packed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally concert (nbcnews.com)

I am glad he spoke up for Oakland fans.

 

[Songbird]

Wasn't Smashmouth at that superspreader event in South Dakota a few years back? -checking- It was Sturgis in 2020, and yes, they were there. I can't help but wonder if he caught it, making him more vulnerable to living hard.

Smash Mouth singer mocks coronavirus pandemic at packed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally concert (nbcnews.com)

Well, the years start coming
And they don't stop coming
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb​