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
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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
Shrek Skyrocketed Smash Mouth Into A Different World, The Band Says
If Smash Mouth hadn t agreed to license All Star for Dreamworks Shrek, they would ve looked kind of dumb with their finger and their thumb in the shape of an L on their foreheads.
Memes come and go by the week and even by the day. But even though the years started coming and they didn t stop coming, both the film Shrek and Smash Mouth s megahit All Star have stayed around, working across age groups and demographics. In a new interview, the band talked to Rolling Stone about how the song and its addition to Shrek came about and how it changed the band forever.
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USA TODAY
The years really do start coming and they don t stop coming – Tuesday marks 20 years since Shrek hit movie theaters across the US.
Though rumors have persisted through the years that Smash Mouth, the band behind the 1999 hit All Star, is unhappy with being associated with the film, co-founder and bassist Paul DeLisle tells USA TODAY he s very proud to be a part of Shrek.
The groundbreaking animated film about the titular ogre (Mike Myers) who goes on a quest with a donkey (Eddie Murphy) to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) first hit U.S. theaters on May 18, 2001. Twenty years later, many of the franchise s handpicked tracks, including Leonard Cohen s Hallelujah and David Bowie s Changes, are known to fans as Shrek songs.