Sponge (Official Thread)

[Soot and Stars]

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Sponge was a band that had hits in the mid 90's and still has albums to this day. I loved them in the 90's! They had a great energy to them and a little bit of a punk element to them. Their debut will always be my favorite but there have been solid stuff from this since. I actually saw these guys live after their prime. They came to my college and oddly enough came on before Blessid Union of Souls. Now I love Blessid Union but what an odd mashup! Since it's my favorite I'll pick my favorite nostalgic tracks off of:

Rotting Pinata

Plowed
(I loved this single, my favorite, such a driving energetic song)


Molly (Sixteen Candles)
(the pop rock song most of us fans heard that got us into them)


These guys had a nice chill side as well:

Rainin'
(my favorite track, meditative grunge pop)


Drowning


I'll get more in depth with these guys but I'm hoping since this is a somewhat well known band that others will have more to add!

 

[METALPRIEST]

Re: "The Official" Sponge Thread

Yeah these guys were cool! Funny you started a thread on them. I've been hanging in the TV Theme thread and I was thinking about their AWESOME and I mean AWESOME version of Speed Racer!

THIS ROCKS!!

 

[Soot and Stars]

Re: "The Official" Sponge Thread

Nice! I remember you posted another track from that same compilation in MT! I should pick up that disc. back in my BMG days I saw that for cheap but never bit though I was interested!

 

[METALPRIEST]

Re: "The Official" Sponge Thread

I got the movie (starring Drew Barrymore) and the CD Soundtrack...both ROCK!

 

[Soot and Stars]

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Oh, I meant this compilation:



1. Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)- Liz Phair with Material Issue
2. Go, Speed Racer, Go!-Sponge
3. Sugar, Sugar- Mary Lou Lord with Semisonic
4. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?-Matthew Sweet
5. Josie and the Pussycats-Juliana Hatfield and Tanya Donelly
6. The Bugaloos-Collective Soul
7. Underdog-Butthole Surfers
8. Gigantor-Helmet
9. Spiderman-Ramones
10. Johnny Quest/Stop That Pigeon - The Reverend Horton Heat
11. Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In - Frente!
12. Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) - Violent Femmes
13. Fat Albert Theme-Dig
14. I'm Popeye The Sailor Man - Face To Face
15. Friends/Sigmund And The Seamonsters - Tripping Daisy
16. Goolie Get-Together - Toadies
17. Hong Kong Phooey - Sublime
18. H.R. Pufnstuf - The Murmurs
19. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy - Wax

 

[METALPRIEST]

Re: "The Official" Sponge Thread

^^ Yeah that's the one...it's a movie too.

I'll keep it SPONGE (for the Sponge thread) but here's the show clip itself where you WILL see Drew Barrymore watchin' the video...it's like a show where she plays herself and her and her friends are just being couch potatoes watchin' all these cool vids and classic toons.

 

[rollingstoned]

Re: "The Official" Sponge Thread

They sound pretty damn good.

 

[0000]

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Isn't it great when you've known songs forever, but never own them or know who they are by.. Plowed was one of those songs.. I actually thought it was Social Distortion for a while, but it just didn't quite sound like them, I never foudn out who it actually was until now.. I also knew Drownin'

Cool band

 

[Soot and Stars]

Re: "The Official" Sponge Thread

Isn't it great when you've known songs forever, but never own them or know who they are by.. Plowed was one of those songs.. I actually thought it was Social Distortion for a while, but it just didn't quite sound like them, I never foudn out who it actually was until now.. I also knew Drownin'

Cool band

Glad I could you Eberg and give Sponge a little rub as well. I never like to see the wrong band get the credit for someone's song especially when someone likes it!