Sponge played a free show at Tower Records in Boston to promote this album A mosh pit broke out Crowd surfing ensued....kids being thrown full body weight into shelves of CDs and merchandise flying everywhere The manager freaked out "this is a record store!!! Please stop!!!" The band proclaimed "this is the best free show ever!!"" Late 90s...good times

@pepsi_dawg-z4h

Жыл бұрын

are there any recordings of the show

@steveeaton8493

Жыл бұрын

@@pepsi_dawg-z4h there's way like 50 people there...and yet an all out riot I doubt recodring equipment would've survived

@JohnBrown-pq9tj

7 ай бұрын

Sus.

@steveeaton8493

7 ай бұрын

@@JohnBrown-pq9tj sorry you missed the 90s

@deniseross2590

4 ай бұрын

90s mosh pits were nothing to sneeze at. Bunch of guys slam dancing as hard as they could. As a girl, you got out of the way.​

For some reason the chorus of this song has lived rent free in my brain since 1996.

@fuzzmosisr8601

10 ай бұрын

it's definitely an ear-worm.

@djopticon

7 ай бұрын

Yep

@BaronVonQuiply

Ай бұрын

It's automatic

I've forgotten 2/3 of what I learned in law school, but I remember the lyrics to this song from an album I never even owned.

@michaelharris1843

3 жыл бұрын

I've been injured. Will you represent me?

@JohnBrown-pq9tj

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelharris1843 Fuck if I passed the bar.

@RichardFriendartist

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!! hahha awesome!!

@caiusmadison2996

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. Marketing. 90's. You got got.

@THX-bz8bi

2 жыл бұрын

?

One of the most underrated songs of the 90’s. Incredible tune, that still rocks.

@mikeyerian2562

6 ай бұрын

This song unfortunately came late in the alternative rock game, and that's a shame. Because this is a great song.

@saxwastaken

Ай бұрын

@@mikeyerian2562 If anything I'd say it came out too early, I bet if they had held the song until the very start of the 2000s it would have been an absolute fucking hit

@mikeyerian2562

Ай бұрын

@@saxwastaken By the time this came out, pop music had stormed back with a vengeance. Maybe in early 2000 it would've made a dent, idk.

@saxwastaken

Ай бұрын

@@mikeyerian2562 this song has quite a catchy sound and alt rock had re-solidified itself again in the early 2000s, it would have definitely been a pretty big hit

one of the most underrated bands of the era

@nick5865

6 жыл бұрын

fonseca2710 Underrated in the worst band of all time

@nick5865

6 жыл бұрын

sorry but what i am trying to say is i think they are bland i mean there are so many better options like metallica quiet riot you get my point i am saying they just bland they dont sound good for the 90s or today i think they are not good

@nick5865

6 жыл бұрын

Nirvana Pearl Jam Green Day red hot chilly peppers weezer guns n roses foo fighters AC/DC Def Leppard I mean they were just not good enough for their time they were a one hit wonder but a small one too I mean tell me a Nother song that you like by them

@nick5865

6 жыл бұрын

Plus Pink Floyd was more popular than them when they were at their prime “ and the formed in the 60s

@nick5865

6 жыл бұрын

And ya I have listened to their work

ah the 90s. the last decade that had mainstream music worth listening to.

@KC0MCS

8 жыл бұрын

+bill marks Indeed!!!

@bmstylee

7 жыл бұрын

AnthonyTube​ I offered a millennial snowflake. Man it's a good day. Something tells me that you are mistaken.

@mikew9584

7 жыл бұрын

I liked you until your political sh_t!!

@vdsp011

7 жыл бұрын

The year this came out (1996) was the last great year for mainstream radio/music videos. 1997 had a dozen plus good songs, but otherwise it was a terrible year and it only got worse.

@eriklarson9137

6 жыл бұрын

Wild Bill is correct.

What a kick-ass song. Doesn't matter what year, decade, genre, etc..,, It's good f'ing music....

@walkintovelvet

8 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!

@kelleymetalchic4748

8 жыл бұрын

Hell ya

I run a summer concert series in upstate NY and have booked them for the past 3 years in a row for it. I've also booked them for other shows starting back in 2014 - THEY NEVER DISAPPOINT

@BaronVonQuiply

Ай бұрын

Care to mention the general area this takes place in? (I'd probably go)

I actually own all of Sponge's albums. It's a shame they never got their due in the 90's. They were actually one of the best post-grunge bands out there. I even used this song as theme music when I wrestled.

@maiammyself5680

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. This song just touches a cord in so many ways

@ReadingAreaRailfan

Жыл бұрын

You mean grunge

@LordTeaboBaggins

Жыл бұрын

@@ReadingAreaRailfan no, it’s post grunge.

@ReadingAreaRailfan

Жыл бұрын

@@LordTeaboBaggins to me grunge never ended I consider it grunge

This song is a forgotten mini-masterpiece. Almost makes me feel nostalgic.

@justadev____7232

4 жыл бұрын

No doubt about it for me. %100 without a doubt feel that nostalgia

@ajadeleye4970

2 жыл бұрын

Almost?

@MaximusX67

2 жыл бұрын

Does it make you ... wax nostalgic?

@mikebailey3680

2 жыл бұрын

This is still one of my all time favorites....

90s..... dam we never getting those days back. What a revolution for music.

D-E-T-R-O-I-T!!! The Home of Rock n Roll...

@RexApplegate

3 жыл бұрын

Having traveled much and lived elsewhere I couldn't agree less, but I sure didn't mind when WRIF used to pump them and this song all the time.

@mi.dogman4438

2 ай бұрын

​@RexApplegate Only problem... I remember they still played Bob Seger's new album along with other bands like this... I get it. Bob was tge shiz. Even uncle Ted forced Damn Yankees. And THAT was ok on WRIF. But...... Not Bob. Ha! Always remember.... Drew blows!

I spent 27 years trying to find this song. When I was in 8th grade, one of my classmates made a skating video with a bunch of songs of the time in the background, and ive always remembered this hook, but I never knew who it was. I went through, "the goo goo dolls, gin blossoms, candlebox, just to find out TODAY, who it was. The 90's and early 2000's had me so f'd up. Thanks google.

2023 who's still listening? Who still remembers every word?? Me me!!

@theseattlegreen1871

Жыл бұрын

It's an underrated amazing song

He's is right: " Happiness is just a purchase away", I am buying this CD; amazing band!!!!

@amyking5712

5 жыл бұрын

Phone call

@crodriguez2360

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@positivepsycho2932

11 ай бұрын

Did you buy it yet?

Still remember seeing them at Music Midtown in 1999 in Atlanta, I was an old man rocking out in the midst of the teenagers. They opened the set with this tune, to say the crowd went nuts is an understatement. It was bedlam. Can we go back....

I will forever love this song. Such a groovy tune

It's also worth remembering the time in which this song came out. The mid 90s saw a considerable boom in the consumption of the SSRI family of anti-depressants, like Prozac or Paxil. Many people suspect that the heavy marketing push behind these drugs was a large part of their new popularity, and they were being prescribed in cases where other forms of treatment would have been more appropriate, but patients wanted Prozac because they saw it on TV.

@Adrian4713

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Just a reminder to the youngsters. This song had a point at the time.

@Sarah.Riedel

6 жыл бұрын

I can actually specifically remember the exact time at which it suddenly became legal to advertise prescription drugs on television. Because remember until the mid-'90s there was literally a law against it. No RX ads on TV whatsoever until they changed the rule. Within a few years that was all there was during the commercials.

@danklordsupreme8864

5 жыл бұрын

A conspiracy to destroy the American family unit.

@billsmith7642

4 жыл бұрын

Those look like Fish Oil capsules if anything.....maybe the message was to ditch natural supplements in favor of SSRI's?

@JohnK-ph3vw

4 жыл бұрын

It struck me as somewhat of an indictment of the prescription drug push. But also, an indictment of the miracle cure infomercial-“got (insert problem here)?! Well, HAVE WE GOT A SOLUTION FOR YOU! In three easy steps (introduce obscure Swedish doctor)...” Ah. The 90s. Prescription drugs readily prescribed, miracle cures abound.

90's, when music videos could be outrageous and the song lyrics were completely confusing, yet the song was still awesome.

@MC-by2ez

10 ай бұрын

Miss those 90's

@user-mf1kv4lk2m

9 ай бұрын

The lyrics were confusing??

I love this band... This song kicks ass... I totally miss the 90s...

Last time I saw them, my mother in law was front and center of the stage and the lead singer was gyrating right in her face... made her week.

@markdigiorgio1526

10 ай бұрын

😆

ive been a addict almost long as I been a musician, 18 years about. every time my addictions got too bad my creativity went out the door as well as the drive to play music.. Now im clean and I can actually get new music written and I play much better clean than fucked up...

@shadrawk1

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, I wish I could give this comment two thumbs up.

@DJdeliverance

4 жыл бұрын

Idk cuz a person like me im like a person on drugs sober lmao so i need to do the right ones like weed shrooms acid dmt and mdma is the hardest ill do now. But that rest nah nooo coke or booze n pills n fkn meth etc THOSE are how ya fcuk up but to each they own and were all diff

@JoseHernandez-ql8vw

4 жыл бұрын

How about now?

@undergroundkingz7969

3 жыл бұрын

weed is great for artistic stuff but it’s also not addictive.

@undergroundkingz7969

3 жыл бұрын

@@DJdeliverance agreed

This band still holds up today. Good stuff

just found this band yesterday and can't stop listening... this is a good shit from grunge era \m/

@Kurok4ever

2 жыл бұрын

The second album is good too.

@jc.1191

2 жыл бұрын

🤘

@GenXRaver

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Fold 🤭

@jg6657

Ай бұрын

@@GenXRaver that's Filter :P

My name is Angelina n I bought this album when I was 14. Later on battled prescription pill addiction. Keep going kids, things do get better ❤

@throwawaykiddo

4 ай бұрын

Proud of you for recovering! Thanks for sharing your story 🙏

My car actually spoke to me the other day, asking me to stop playing this song. I now have a new car.

@jc.1191

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Proud to hear this song in 1996, Lima - Peru. Teenage memories. They don't make good bands like this anymore...

@OmarLuna1981

9 жыл бұрын

+Omar Luna Still listening to them in year 2015!!!!

Always have loved this band. I remember it coming on the radio kisw Seattle mid 90s

All you youngsters out there… this mayhem was played on rock radio in the 90’s. Yes. We had original music and eclectic artists populating the airwaves.

The beginning of this song might be one of the most bad ass intros ever... Must be LOUD.

Clean and sober these days and holy shit....This kick ass song pops into my head and so many feelings and memories came rushing in.

I use to work with Joey Mazzola, guitarist/song writer for Sponge, on Melrose Blvd in the late 80s. I remember the nights we would discuss various bands and musical acts in LA. Seriously, Joey was really super knowledgable about music, song structure and music theory. Hella of guitar player too.

This guy still reminds me of Layne Staley... He looked like Staley to me 15 years ago when I saw the video for Plowed on MTV's Alternative Nation, and he still looks like him to me today. I remember being the only one at my high school liking this album, or even Sponge... Ohwell, I don't care what other people think, this song kicks ass.

Drunk as hell reminiscing about that good 90s alt rock at the age of 34 in 2019

@Snapperjacker

4 жыл бұрын

Same😂

@supsound

4 жыл бұрын

I have 11 years on you and I'm doing the same thing! It all went to shit in the early 2000's......

@CS-cv5es

3 жыл бұрын

34 this year. Yep

I remember hearing this on the bus going to middle school in the 90's. Had a skater for a bus driver who came equipped with his own boombox. Jammed out every morning I remember hearing let's talk about sex from salt n pepa too. Ahhhh the good ole 90's.

the kid watchin big sis eat the 'wax estatic' with cereal.. kills me,,LOL ! his reaction is so real .

RIP Mike.

One of the best bands of the 90´s.

This album is 24 years old and this is still one of my favorite songs.....

Underrated album ! Bought this back in the day and still playing in 2020

Sponge is the most underrated band of the 90s… I saw them in concert a few months ago and they still got it…

@BaronVonQuiply

Ай бұрын

Elaine on Seinfeld had a whole arc about them IIRC

90's rock always brings me back. Love feeling nostalgic!

"happiness is just a purchase away"

Wow I have missed this so much! Another one of 90's greatest. Woohoo!

@jpstripthesoul2551

9 жыл бұрын

Nice vibe!!!

@benoitplacide2751

9 жыл бұрын

houuuhouuu ... so great

@matthew21.44

9 жыл бұрын

Benoît Placide so great why didn't you like it?!😠 haha kidding

@justingarrison6663

6 жыл бұрын

Melissa MF i totally forgot this one.

@kmaz8329

5 жыл бұрын

Melissa MF maybe.include us in.wax ecstatic no.ill Joe oesci cannot.in novels 3.for little nemo on HBO..

I'd marry any girl who rocks out to sponge 😂

@nicelady8165

6 жыл бұрын

Uncle Boobs I'm already married but LOVE this band!!!! you have good taste in music!!😙🍻😙

@kmaz8329

5 жыл бұрын

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@devsox1

4 жыл бұрын

So when we getting hitched? haha 😂

@mschwes5376

3 жыл бұрын

I did!

@christophergonzales294

3 жыл бұрын

@@mschwes5376 8

I remember hearing this song at the mid of 90's!! year is 2020 and still a so fuckn bad ass song!! Makes me feel happy and full nostalgic! We cant go to the past and live that time again but hearing musics like this we can feel all the good things what we lived at that time!. What a good times! How i miss this...

Shout out to Drew Lane and the late Mike Clark for making sure this song was hyped well into the 2000's in metro detroit and thus making me aware of it. Such a cool tune.

@GeoffC19

Жыл бұрын

as good as Dave and Chuck the Freak are, Drew and Mike are absolute Detroit legends - WRIF was soooo good in the 90's

@dannyburns1867

10 ай бұрын

Don't forget in the 80's wrif Arthur penhollow He was the best d.j. I ever knew.after that Drew and Mike morning show was the best I have ever heard as well

@RexApplegate

9 ай бұрын

@@dannyburns1867 I went to high school with the son of a WRIF lawyer. He said nobody at the station liked him, and that he wouldn't be on air too much longer as a result. Then and now I found that sad. He did his job as a good traditional DJ playing as much good music as theyd let him. There were blatantly some toe stepping personality nutcases, and other ridiculous behaviors routine listeners of the past got clued into. 15 years ago I spent a year in Phoenix, then shortly after the SF Bay, and realized how truly awful detroit radio is. Drew used to make fun of people who called out the superiority of every other region's radio stations, but they were right. Then right after I got back drew and Mike got taken off the air. 10 years later I still don't listen to the radio here. It's complete shit, especially without Drew and Mike's humor pre FCC crackdown that was such a memorable part of my childhood.

@dannyburns1867

9 ай бұрын

Didn't know that he was a jerk.he always had a good looking woman with him in the television commercials and was always present in the music/concert scene. I'm in Phoenix now and the morning show here is pretty graphic for a fcc crackdown

@RexApplegate

9 ай бұрын

@@dannyburns1867 To be clear and specific I think some others were jerks, and to be fully honest- at least one case of a full blown narcissistic psychopath. I have never heard of a reason to dislike Arthur P, whereas I intuitively disliked many others of the era. The post Janet Jackson titty exposure at the super bowl fcc crackdown neutered Drew and Mike 20 years ago. They got real scared of getting hammered by complaints and fines. Much has fluctuated and changed since, never mind other places.

Just saw them live at a private party, Vin's voice sounds the same

@arrowfitzgibbon7775

6 жыл бұрын

i believe it.

@ambermills7718

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff S I just saw them this past Saturday. And I agree. Still amazing

@kmaz8329

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff S 430 lakeside drive us 275 gunnar aherholm address mark.aherholm street..

One of the best songs of the 90s.

I remember when this tune came out. I gave it about a 20, I remember radio station ' pushing ' it and hearing a lady dj talking about how she couldn't wait to hear it again. I thought " really? " You don't have any better going than that? We used to call it ' Waxy Static '. Reminded me of old washing machine I was trying to fix.

Best song of '96!

This video in 1996 scared me into going to the dentist

Damn. I miss the fuck outta this cut...! That guitar is so...deadly.

@allears9963

7 жыл бұрын

yea SICK time for rock...if I'm ever stranded on a desert island just give me alice in chains, soundgarden, stp and sponge cds...ill be fine..oh wait and water haha!!!

@kimmyfreak200

7 жыл бұрын

Richard Marshall Bowman my first CD as a teen

Each time I hear Chris Jericho's Y2J ring entrance theme playing, the opening part with the countdown always made me think of the opening riff to this song.

Probably the most underrated band of the 90s.

I've loved this band for so many years now. Sooo fkn missunderstood underrated 😤. Ughhhh! I love you guys!!

saw these guys last night at The Chance theatre in poughkeepsie NY, kick ass show and real down to earth people, Vinnie sounds Exactly the same and still rocking.

Nobody knows the chills I feel hearing this.

@CS-cv5es

3 жыл бұрын

I do

@CS-cv5es

3 жыл бұрын

It's how I know that music is love and love is connected. Because I get those chills too

@derekryan1363

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, there are plenty of us who can relate

@moshgirl973

Жыл бұрын

A shiver comes over me every time this song pops up on one of my playlists!

"When life is nothing less than tragic It's wax ecstatic"

@ARon82

2 жыл бұрын

My life is wax ecstatic

43 and still rawking this.🤘🏻🎱

Saw them last night The Machine Shop, Flint MI. and they rocked the house down!!

@paularyche

7 жыл бұрын

And how does this only have 508k veiws...baffled...lol

@realmichaud

7 жыл бұрын

I heard it on the radio back then, or saw it on MTV but it really didn't get that much play

still loving this tune...cool as FUCK.."throw all your problems away, there's nothing left in the world to save, happiness is just a purchase away"

One of those songs that you can't help but sing along to, because every word of it is absolutely true... 🤔💭🎭

Great song to crank up when driving on the freeway

90's the only decade worth going back to.

Seen them twice, they opened up for Alice In Chains Detroit City Baby, Sponge Rocked the Stadium Down. Great show. 🤘🇺🇸🗽🤘

Kicking solo and I just love the whole vibe of this one ...

One of the best songs of the 90s fight me

Christ, this song man. This song could fucking DESTROY anything done today! Fucking awesome!

Happiness is just a purchase away...

Ahh high school.

@joshua_forrest

8 жыл бұрын

+Kurtis Smith My thoughts exactly

@AdamBiggers81

2 жыл бұрын

Middle school. The older cool kids turned me on to Sponge.

Treat your ears and eyes -- go see Sponge LIVE during this 2021 tour!!

I'm hearing this song for the first time. What a sound!

I remember this song coming out over 4th grade summer vacation. I had MTV on constantly hoping it would play next. To this day, I can't recall it ever playing on the radio

@jaimereynolds258

3 жыл бұрын

I was in middle school, and loved it so much. I remember I bought the CD, but only really liked this song lol

2022 and still addicted to Sponge

Can we talk about how awesome he looks with a blacked out tooth? I think no one else could pull this look off.also an awesome song

@Junon01

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, it really completes the slimeball persona he had going here.

@realmichaud

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@clssicful

7 жыл бұрын

Slimeball persona? Stil hot

This song helped me through rough times in high school. Thank you sponge

@ARon82

2 жыл бұрын

Was your hs years nothing less than tragic?

I had never heard of this band and if there are more songs of this style, I will like it very much. The singer has a somewhat aggressive style that I think is cool.

@donweatherwax9318

4 жыл бұрын

Try "Plowed" off the album before. That was their big radio/MTV hit. (Though I remember hearing this song, fresh, on the radio . . . it stood out even then.)

@marcuswhitlow548

4 жыл бұрын

@@donweatherwax9318 "Radio Prayer Line" from the album 'New Pop Sunday" is awesome as well...

@IzzyECole

2 жыл бұрын

@@donweatherwax9318 Not to mention "Molly" , which I thought was their biggest hit

Sponge was SOOO underrated!

Ditto from three years ago...STILL one of the best tracks I ever heard !

This song 25 years old man I'm old

One of the most underrated singles of the '90s. '96 genius. I remember blasting this album on my Discman (ha) at the start of sophomore year of high school. I took a drink from the water fountain and some field hockey chick came up right behind me as this song was pumping me up and I gave her this "f*ck" look as I turned and walked away.

my teen years

yet ANOTHER sick tune that puts the kids today to shame...sponge killed it...fucking awesome..."happiness is just a purchase away"

@christinefreer772

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@allears9963

7 жыл бұрын

your welcome...ha!!!

@Tijsprimo

7 жыл бұрын

Serious? Not ALL the kids! I fuckin' love Sponge and just rock and grunge music in general.

@allears9963

7 жыл бұрын

cool bro!!! yea grunge was a great time for rock music...keep enjoying!!!

2023...still a complete Banger!

The year was 1996 and my dad moved us away from all my friends to another state. Freshman year in high school and didnt know anybody. This song brought me peace during the isolation and all the awkwardness. Thank you Sponge!!!

Sponge has such a great sound.

2024 anyone🎉

I remembered this song from when I was a kid, and tried to find it a few times, but couldn't remember the name, but I got lucky!

One my 90s bands period💜👌😁😉one my favorite songs yasss! That guitar rip us everything💜😁

Totally forgot about this song. Was listening to Sirius XM Lithium and heard plowed by sponge and it reminded me of this one. Been probably 20 years but listening in 2022!!

Loved this Album. Had really great Tracks in it.

That guitar though 👌👌👌👌👌👌

@fuzzmosisr8601

10 ай бұрын

Just a shameless My Bloody Valentine rip-off to be honest lmao.

One of my favorite songs from my childhood.. brings me back to the 90s playing super Mario bros😵🙀

Saw these guys and had the privilege to meet Vinnie in person at lapeer days , lapeer michigan with seven Mary three. These guys are amazing. Thank you for the music.

Most relevant song of the 90s and today. I’ll die on that hill

This is their best song. Love it!

brings back memories!!!!!!!!...of me in my flannels ...rocking my Simplez in H.S....one of my fav. bands during that time!!!!.....still amazing!!!!

He protecc He atacc But most importantly It’s Wax Ecstaticc

@coopertravis7473

4 жыл бұрын

Best comment

Funny how it's been almost 30 years since I heard this song and still know the words.