Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth is an American rock band from San Jose, California. The band was formed in 1994, and was originally composed of Steve Harwell (vocals), Kevin Coleman (drums), Greg Camp (guitar), and Paul De Lisle (bass). They are known for songs such as Walkin on the Sun (1997), All Star (1999), and a cover of The Monkees I m a Believer (2001), the latter two of which were featured on the soundtrack for the animated film
Shrek.
The band adopted retro styles covering several decades of popular music. They have also performed numerous covers of popular songs, including War s Why Can t We Be Friends? , Simple Minds Don t You (Forget About Me) , Question Mark & the Mysterians s Can t Get Enough of You Baby , The Beatles Getting Better , and I Wan na Be Like You from Walt Disney Pictures
Clearly lacking taste and craving violence, Tobias first finds issue in the fact that the titular character has an outhouse that has a working toilet because he is a slob who lives in a swamp. Blasphemy! Not a working toilet in a tale about a giant ogre that has a talking donkey for a best friend!
Looking back at the film’s opening, where Shrek wipes his ass with a literal fairytale ending, Tobias believes that the flushing sound signifies “the moment when blockbuster animation circled the drain”.
“Shrek is a terrible movie. It’s not funny. It looks awful,” the author continues, completely devoid of joy in his life. “It would influence many unfunny, awful-looking computer-animated comedies that copied its formula of glib self-reference and sickly sweet sentimentality.”
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of
Shrek, the DreamWorks animated film that went on to spawn a franchise and a million memes. But it also established
Smash Mouth as the official
Shrek band: Their 1999 hit âAll Starâ opens the film, and their cover of
The Monkeesâ âIâm a Believerâ closes it. Now, 20 years on, the band is proud of the association.
Smash Mouth founder and bass player Paul DeLisle tells
USA Today, âThatâs how weâre identified: kids are like, âLook, itâs the
Shrek guys.â We are the
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