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  Smash Mouth : iSOUND.COM
When the recording was done, Smash Mouth signed with Interscope records, and they released the first single entitled Walkin' on the sun, which is still today remembered for its amazing and awesome tune.
Smash Mouth began to change their sound from the hard rock sound, to the more poppy sound so more people would listen to them.
Smash mouth went on a long 2 year tour after Astro-lounge was released.
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 Amazon.com: Smash Mouth: Music: Smash Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Smash mouth know they will never be taken seriously as a rock band, and that is why I think it is very wise of them to stick to what they do best: sunny, happy guitar-driven pop tunes.
I was hooked on Smash Mouth after seeing their video for "Walkin' on the Sun." There are few groups brave enough to attempt a sound that returns to the 1960s and 1970s, and not only does Smash Mouth try for a sound influenced by those eras, they are very good at it.
Smash Mouth reminds us that one of the reasons we listen to music is because it takes us away from the here and now to a fun place that is as much inside our brains as it is in the CD.
www.amazon.com /Smash-Mouth/dp/B00005QHS9   (1972 words)

  
 CNN.com - Review: Band sticks to basics with 'Smash Mouth' - January 9, 2002
Now Smash Mouth has unleashed its latest collection of up-tempo party music, the cleverly titled, "Smash Mouth," a guilty pleasure of an album that features the best use of carnival-esque organ riffs since the Doors.
It also may just prove the theory that the boys of Smash Mouth are the long-lost bastard sons of the Kingsmen ("Louie, Louie").
Smash Mouth isn't out to change the world's politics, or re-write the rules of songwriting -- it's just four musicians out to have a good time.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/09/review.smashmouth   (377 words)

  
 hip online: artists: smash mouth
Smash Mouth (named after Mike Ditka's term "smash mouth football") was formed in San Jose, Calif., in 1994 when boyhood friends and former band compadres Steve Harwell (vocals) and Kevin Coleman (drums) recruited Greg Camp (guitar) from a local cover band.
After toiling for a couple of years on the San Jose scene, Smash Mouth caught fire when area radio station KOME started spinning what would be their breakthrough: "Nervous In The Alley" (Smash Mouth were the first unsigned band to receive regular rotation on the influential Modem Rock outlet).
On Smash Mouth Reinventing Themselves: "When we were opening up for Sugar Ray, we'd go sit out in front of the clubs after the show with acoustic guitars and just hang around with the kids and play songs, whatever they wanted to hear.
www.hiponline.com /artist/music/s/smash_mouth/index.html   (3428 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Smash Mouth - Smash Mouth at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I give Smash Mouth props for experimenting a bit with their sound, but it results in a hit or miss affair.
See, that's the difference between the disco song on the Smash Mouth record and the disco song on the Britney Spears record: Smash Mouth's is a joke.
Smash Mouth fans (both the die hards and the casuals) would do better to stick to the band's debut, or to Astro Lounge.
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 SMASH MOUTH booking - Alternative Rock Music Artists - Corporate Entertainment Booking
Smash Mouth (named after Mike Ditka's term "smash mouth football") was formed in San Jose, California, in 1994 when boyhood friends and former band compadres Steve Harwell (vocals) and Kevin Coleman (drums) recruited Greg Camp (guitar) from a local cover band.
Smash Mouth first came to public prominence when "Nervous In The Alley," a track from their first professionally produced demo tape, was played frequently during April 1996 on local rock station KOME.
Smash Mouth was given a further boost by the success of "Walkin' On The Sun," the first single to be extracted from 1997's "Fush Yu Mang." It was originally designed as a drumming "exercise track" for Coleman, until he persuaded the rest of the band of its melodic possibilities.
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 Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth has been busy working on music for the upcoming Sony/Revolution Studios motion picture "ZOOM" which is scheduled for release in theatres 8/11/06.
Smash Mouth's new single "Story of My Life" (from their forthcoming CD Summer Girl) has been serviced to 600 radio stations across the country and is being added to playlists like crazy.
The release date for Smash Mouth's 5th CD "Old Habits" has been delayed in the meantime, and is now tentatively scheduled for a 2005 holiday season release.
www.smashmouth.com   (865 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth's members are like a spiffed-up, grown-up, mirror image of the audience, four well-coifed guys in perfectly pressed thrift store T-shirts and baggy shorts who look like they stepped right off the street--as, in a way, they did.
Smash Mouth didn't have to play this game at BFD, because Steve Harwell did a one-on-one instead, leading a LIVE 105 DJ on a guided tour of their private trailer, wittily pointing out such sights as the deli tray, the beer cooler and the bathroom.
Indeed, Smash Mouth's success has been greatly tied up with the corporate consolidation of stations and the tightening up of formats like the one at Los Angeles radio station KROQ which has, for the past eight years, been used to determine what hits will be heard by the kids of America.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.12.99/cover/smashmouth-9932.html   (4191 words)

  
 Smash mouth lyrics, Smash mouth guitar tabs, Smash mouth bass tabs, Smash mouth pictures, Smash mouth fonts, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Smash mouth browse lyrics and guitar tablature, read biography of Smash mouth and find out how was written.
Band fonts section Smash mouth is another category that deserves some attention, especially for those who are big fans of the band Smash mouth and like to collect or create band logos and such.
Members will be able to submit and rate Smash mouth tablature and lyrics, add pictures and other information about Smash mouth such as reviews, comments, interesting facts in the history of the band Smash mouth.
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 Amazon.com: Astro Lounge: Music: Smash Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The irresistible pop groove of Smash Mouth's unavoidable radio hit "Walkin on the Sun" sent two or three million people running to their local record store only to find the song was the band's exception, not the rule.
Smash Mouth has made a great living kicking out a stream of radio friendly pop hits for the better part of 10 years.
Smash Mouth has so many retro influences that at every moment you think they are going to fall into being derivative, and yet it never happens.
www.amazon.com /Astro-Lounge-Smash-Mouth/dp/B00000J7S9   (2201 words)

  
 Smash Mouth (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smash Mouth is the self titled 3rd album by alternative rockers Smash Mouth released in late 2001.
It was notable in that it was their first album with new drummer Michael Urbano and its release was delayed a few months due to the death of lead vocalist Steven Harwell's son, Presley Scott Harwell.
The San Jose, California rock band Smash Mouth held a contest on their website in the fall of 2000 to name their third album.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smash_Mouth_(album)   (334 words)

  
 Smash Mouth News
Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell is recovering from back surgery, prompting the cancellation of several live performance dates and band promotional commitments through mid-November.
Due to band member illness, Smash Mouth, best known for the song "All Star," canceled its appearance at the Kern County Fair scheduled for tonight, according to fair public relations coordinator Pat Griffin.
The Surreal Lifers learn that today they are assisting Steve Harwell and his band Smash Mouth in the making of the video for their new single, "Story Of My Life." The cast is worried before the cameras even...
www.topix.net /who/smash-mouth   (725 words)

  
 Smash Mouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smash Mouth got its break in 1996 when San Jose rock radio station KOME played a demo of the band's song "Nervous In The Alley" which achieved some notoriety.
Smash Mouth's fifth studio album, Old Habits, was expected to be released in early 2006.
The Smash Mouth community was most recently shocked when drummer Michael Urbano, who seemed very enthusiastic about the band, left on February 14th 2006 due to creative differences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smash_Mouth   (1826 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Smash Mouth: Music: Smash Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
with astro lounge to back them up and the current album- 'smash mouth' has never doubted my belief that they are a classic rock band than the modern trash of today- linkin park and limp bizkit that poison young minds of today.
Smash Mouth the album comprises elements of 60's pop (see their energised cover of I'm a Believer), 80's new wave and yes, 70's punk.
The album's resolutely sunny disposition (yes, life does suck occasionally but there's always something good round the corner), is infectious and means that, as with their previous records, the foot-tapping and head-nodding quotient is sky-high.
www.amazon.co.uk /Smash-Mouth/dp/B00005RCFU   (778 words)

  
 Smash Mouth: Get the Picture? - PopMatters Music Review
And, yet, when the group released their sophomore effort, Astro Lounge, two years later, it was astounding to find that the group actually had an album's worth of songs in 'em that were all almost as strong as their breakthrough single.
Still, Smash Mouth wasn't the success that its predecessors had been, and the reason why seems to be when it was released: November.
Smash Mouth aren't afraid to mine '80s pop for inspiration.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/smashmouth-getthepicture.shtml   (578 words)

  
 Smash Mouth - Music Downloads - Online
A severe back ailment eventually lead to Coleman's exit from the band; he was replaced by ex-Tripping Daisy drummer Mitch Marine for the album's subsequent tour and further swapped out for Michael Urbano at its completion.
The group also contributed numerous tracks to a plethora of motion pictures, most notably their cover of the Monkees' "I'm a Believer" (from their eponymous release) to the soundtrack of 2001's hit movie Shrek, and many of these then appeared on the August 2005 Smash Mouth hits collection All Star Smash Hits.
Smash Mouth's fifth studio album, Summer Girl, appeared in early September.
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 USATODAY.com - Smash Mouth fights childhood leukemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
With medical adviser Stephen A. Shoop, M.D. Smash Mouth's lead singer, Steve Harwell, lost his 6 month-old son, Presley, to leukemia.
While most of Smash Mouth's songs exude sunny power pop, lead singer Steve Harwell has experienced the tragedy and heartbreak every parent dreads.
And Smash Mouth is looking to the future as well.
www.usatoday.com /news/health/2002-07-22-smash-mouth.htm   (1122 words)

  
 James Town | Smash Mouth Street
Smash Mouth's debut album Fush Yu Mang sold 2 million copies.
Smash Mouth was on the Tonight Show on June 13, they performed "Do It Again" which is on the Me, Myself, and Irene soundtrack.
Smash Mouth is heading to the recording studio on July 20
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 Rock On The Net: Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth formed in 1994 in California when Steve Harwell and Kevin Coleman got together and brought in Greg Camp and Paul DeLisle.
The band played local clubs in the California area before getting recognition on a local radio station with their song "Nervous In The Alley" which led to a record contract with Interscope Records in 1997.
Tragedy struck the band when Harwell's 8 month old son died of complications related to acute lymphatic leukemia.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-s/smashmouth.htm   (587 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Fush Yu Mang: Music: Smash Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This Cd shows when Smash Mouth was getting started and cussed in their songs.
So smash mouth's fush yu mang is a great cd.
Forget their recent albums; this is what Smash Mouth was all about before fame got the better of them.
www.amazon.ca /Fush-Yu-Mang-Smash-Mouth/dp/B000001Y4P   (1016 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Smash Mouth : Review
"Pacific Coast Party" is way typical of Smash Mouth's irresistible, sunny power pop: It opens with a swirling string section straight outta the Love Unlimited Orchestra songbook, gets spiked with disco sound effects, then gives way to the kind of guitars that seem crunchy even as they ripple with melody.
His raspy, gravel-mouth vocals and winking delivery give Smash Mouth much of their charm.
Harwell has admitted to a love for mid-period Duran Duran, but the Broadway-show shuffle of "Disenchanted" suggests that he and the rest of the band may be closet show-tune fans as well.
www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/103857/smash_mouth   (263 words)

  
 Smash Mouth - AOL Music
SMASH MOUTH LYRICS album: "Fush Yu Mang" (1997) Beer Goggles · Disconnect The Dots...
The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
Download, listen and watch Smash Mouth music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Tower Records - All Star Smash Hits - Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth: Steve Harwell (vocals); Greg Camp (guitar, background vocals); Paul DeLisle (bass guitar, background vocals); Michael Urbano (drums, programming).
San Jose, California's Smash Mouth first hit the mainstream with 1997's "Walkin' on the Sun," a groove-heavy, '60s-inspired tune (replete with singer Steve Harwell's faux-British accent) that made the quartet instant rock-radio fixtures.
There's a notable number of covers on ALL STAR SMASH HITS, including a ska-tinged take on War's "Why Can't We Be Friends," a driving rendition of Let's Active's "Every Word Means No," and a faithful version of the Neil Diamond-penned Monkees classic "I'm a Believer" from the animated blockbuster SHREK.
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 CMT.com : Smash Mouth : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Smash Mouth To Record One For The Road
Smash Mouth Confront Crisis, But Keep The Party Rollin'
Smash Mouth Do 'Spooky Thing' With George Clinton
www.cmt.com /artists/az/smash_mouth/news.jhtml   (126 words)

  
 Tower Records - Smash Mouth (+2 Bonus Tracks) - Smash Mouth
San Jose's Smash Mouth addresses that question with the follow-up to its chart-topping albums, Fush Yu Mang and Astro Lounge.
Previous hits "All Star" and "Walkin' on the Sun" displayed the band's knack for combining surf, garage and lounge styles, but it was Astro Lounge's "Waste," a bittersweet masterpiece of romantic remorse, that held out considerable promise for the songwriting talents of guitarist/bandleader Greg Camp.
Along with a string sample from the Love Unlimited Orchestra, Smash Mouth maintains tight control through power pop practicality, while keeping loftier aspirations on hold.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2616988   (240 words)

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