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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Put away the crack before the crack puts you away	3
And their kids were hippie chicks all hypocrites	2
oppression and together they toked	1
And they folked out with guitars around a bonfire	1
Just singin' and clappin' man what the hell happened	1
Then some were spellbound some were hellbound	1
It ain't no joke I'd like to buy the world a toke	1
Because fashion is smashin' the true meaning of it	1
With her tears because her baby's life has been revoked	1
The bond is broke up so choke up	1
Mr. Wizard can't perform no godlike hocus-pocus	1
But if the offer is shun	1
So don't delay act now supplies are running out	1
And if you follow there may be a tomorrow	0
This is a love attack I know it went out but it's back.	0
Hey I know it's just a song but it's spice for the recipe	0
and focus on the close up	0
And teach the world to snuff the fires and the liars	0
So don't sit back kick back	0
and watch the world get bushwhacked	0
News at 10:00 your neighborhood is under attack	0
And teach the world to sing in perfect harmony	0
You need to be there	0
It ain't no joke when a mama's handkerchief is soaked	0
It's just like any fad it retracts before impact	0
Allow if you're still alive six to eight years to arrive	0
you might as well be walkin' on the sun	0
Twenty-five years ago they spoke out and they broke out Of recession and	0
just to stay in the clique	0
If you got the goods they'll come and buy it	0
for the with it and hip	0
Some they fell down and some got back up and	0
Fought back 'gainst the melt down	0
And just like fashion it's a passion	0
when your baby's old enough to relate	0

― gr8080, Friday, 28 March 2008 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

man what the hell happened

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

eww

― Creeztophair, Friday, 28 March 2008 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

you guys are fools this is a great song

― Hurting 2, Friday, 28 March 2008 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

i'd rather vote on best picture

― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

Top right?

― moley, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

oppression and together they toked

― s1ocki, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing can compete:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg/200px-GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg

― Z S, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

i own the album, hurting

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

hey whoa I just said it was a good song don't go overboard

― Hurting 2, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

i think this song really kicked off the 97-03 mini-decade of music

― gr8080, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

In theory, Smash Mouth embodies everything I loathe most about Late-90's AOR Alternative Rock (and there is a lot to loathe). Try as I might, though, I can't bring myself to hate. this. song... In fact I rather like it. I never paid attention to the lyrics, though, and for good reason it seems. That's some of the most vile trustafarian quasi-utopian stoner bullshit ever sing-rapped by a fat schmuck with a bad hat. I vote for none of it.

― Pillbox, Friday, 28 March 2008 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

Is it humanly possible to record a bad song with a Farfisa in the room?

― Terrible Cold, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ I vote for the Farfisa riff.

― Pillbox, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

i think this song really kicked off the 97-03 mini-decade of music

-- gr8080, Friday, March 28, 2008 12:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

this really really reeeeeeeeeeeeally does it no favors

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

what else is in the 97-03 musical decade

― deej, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:45 (eighteen years ago)

Santana feat. Rob Thomas

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:46 (eighteen years ago)

looks like Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, and Sugar Ray have it beat for "first" though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_one_modern_rock_hits_of_1997

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

i refuse to believe U2's 'discotheque' was a number 1

― deej, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

'the impression that i get', awesome

― deej, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:54 (eighteen years ago)

really I don't think there was a cohesive movement that lasted six years, although it is an interesting (if grotesque) mental exercise to trace the terrifying path from Semisonic to Creed to System of a Down

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

BECAUSE FASHION IS SMASHIN' THE TRU MEANING OF IT

― gr8080, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

I had no idea Morrissey ever reached #1 on the modern rock charts!!! I don't think I've ever heard him on the radio (except college stations)

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

i like this song.

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

this is smash mouth's "fly"

― deej, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

yep. came out right at the same time, too.

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:31 (eighteen years ago)

I probably heard this song every single day of my freshman year of college ('97-'98) when I was living on an ag school campus where there was really nothing to do without taking a bus and the 90% of people who weren't actually there out of interest in agriculture or environmental sciences were even less exciting to hang out with than the pigs that were penned near my dorm. So at the time I kind of hated the song, but I've gotten over it.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 28 March 2008 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

"So don't sit back, kick back, and watch the world get bushwhacked."

Steve Harwell saw it coming.

― Terrible Cold, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

a visionary

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

But if the offer is shun.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

MIZZAWIZZA CANIBOKE NO JJJJJJJJJJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHVVV ANHOCUSPOCUS

― Abbott, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Would have voted the last line but it isn't what I tought it was:

You need to be there when you're baby's old enough to be laid!

― Abbott, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

And their kids were hippie chicks all hypocrites

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Most of this song just sounds like

Awaja lumpakoh a shimy himma mulltow
Aseeny binky tow a pirey sinda filldow
AND THA KIDS WR HIPPYCHICK O HIP-UH-CRITS
because fashion is smashin' the true meaning of it!
Sojom delay surprise I run a lout
An fella sung the time is funnogokah
And filaah lum silabry
Spiffiminalinnajai
We hellah smum
WE MAAAAAAAAAHT AS WELL BE WALKIN ON THE SUN
Himminijimmy jo and messhin and a bleshin
blah blah blah I ended Shrek and Rat Race

― Abbott, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

"put away the crack before the crack puts you away"

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

Please do an "All Star" poll next

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

i remember buying this as a single. one of the b-sides was called "sorry about your penis". i appreciated it.

― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

weird. both Dom and Abbott OTM. (sorry Abbott)

― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Most of this song just sounds like

-- Abbott, Monday, 7 April 2008 00:15

irl lol

― Bodrick III, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg/200px-GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg

these could all be ilxors

― blueski, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't know Statto was in a band.

― Bodrick III, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

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