Smash Mouth biography

A freshness rock band in the same key as Presidents of the USA, but with surf and lockup influences instead of the Presidents' punk-hammer background, Smash Mouth found a hit in 1997 with the '50s-influenced "Walkin' on the Sun." The group was molded in 1994 in San Jose, CA, by vocalist Steve Harwell, a former rapper with the group F.O.S. After that group , he began with an friend, timpanist Kevin Coleman. Harwell's former leader introduced him to guitarist Greg Camp (fresh from the neighborhood band Lackadaddy) and bassist Paul DeLisle. The quartet two demos, and got the songs into variation on a parochial receiver station. After playing a straw-hat festival with No Doubt and Beck, Smash Mouth decided to record an LP. After finishing Fush Yu Mang, the group were by Interscope, which "Walkin' on the Sun" as the first only. It a number one avant-garde rock hit and lacking the scrapbook into the Top 40. Touring further helped the CD's push, and the band other in a live keyboardist, Michael Klooster, to bolster their (and later live instrumentalist Mark Cervantes as well).

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The develop-up albom, Astro Lounge, was released in 1999, the hit "All Star"; a compilation of early material, East Bay Sessions, also appeared that same time. A undecorated back ailment ultimately lead to Coleman's exit from the band; he was replaced by ex-Tripping Daisy instrumentalist Mitch Marine for the autograph album's subsequent tour and further out for Michael Urbano at its completion. Though no more hits with on a plane weight were forthcoming from Astro Lounge, the band's work of the initial 2000s (2001's Smash Mouth and 2003's Get the Picture?) satisfied fans of animated pop harmony. The group also contributed many to a plethora of flow pictures, most remarkably cover of the Monkees' "I'm a Believer" (from release) to the CD of 2001's hit picture Shrek, and many of these then on the August 2005 Smash Mouth hits assembly All Star Smash Hits. Harwell could be mottled in hasty 2006 as a cast participant on the sixth season of VH1's celeb-veracity TV show The Surreal Life, just as drummer Urbano was leaving the band due to imaginative differences. His spot was claimed in March by Jason Sutter, who had formerly done work with American Hi-Fi and the Rembrandts. Smash Mouth's ballet school stamp album, Summer Girl, appeared in primary September.

I'm A Believer

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I thought love was
Only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else
But not for me
Love was out to get to me
That's the way it seems
Disappointment haunted
All my dreams

And then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her
If I tried

I thought love was
More or less a given thing
But the more I gave the less
I got, oh yeah
What's the use in trying
All you get is pain
When I wanted sunshine
I got rain

And then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her
If I tried

What's the use in trying
All you get is pain
When I wanted sunshine
I got rain

And then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her
If I tried

Then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
Now I'm a believer
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm a believer
I'm a believer
I'm a believer

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Smash Mouth - "All star" lyrics

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Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead

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

So much to do so much to see
So what's wrong with taking the back streets
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow

[Chorus:]
Hey now you're an All Star get your game on, go play
Hey now you're a Rock Star get the show on get paid
And all that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars break the mold

It's a cool place and they say it gets colder
You're bundled up now but 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 waters getting warm so you might as well swim
My world's on fire how about yours
That's the way I like it and I'll never get bored

[Repeat Chorus 2x]

Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas
I need to get myself away from this place
I said yep what a concept
I could use a little fuel myself
And we could all use a little change
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
So much to do so much to see
So what's wrong with taking the back streets
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow

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