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
@@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 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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
@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!
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...
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
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.
remember when we used to talk crap on our parents for listening to the same "oldies" they listened to when they were teens ...lol.....now im 30 and still listening to mostly the same stuff i used to ...go figure
the distortion is them justifying bothering (to hope at your expense ..., to insist despite you and or just or to leave you stranded after they've flattered themselves[?] ) because of feeling bothered by you saying you feel bothered (unless you were just overwhelmed.)
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!!
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.
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.
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.
Apparently the lead singer had his gold tooth removed because it wasn't put in correctly and it was causing gum issues. He had it melted down and made to be part of a skull ring that he now wears
D**n. To be able to watch these videos, and listen to this music, from back in a better decade, and time, too, is such a gift to have. This decade, regardless of what anyone else may say, or think, and no matter at what point during that decade, it produced some of the best d**n bands, music, songs, and albums, too, of any other decade. Unfortunately, watching these videos, and/or listening to these songs now, it also depresses the f**k out of me, too. Lol.
I'm here because I follow Dave Ellefson and love his new band The Lucid. I was like, hey that Vinnie dude is an amazing singer, lemme check out his other band and damn, Sponge rocks!
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.
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...
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.
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
are there any recordings of the show
@@deadjnkie there's way like 50 people there...and yet an all out riot
I doubt recodring equipment would've survived
Sus.
@@JohnBrown-pq9tj sorry you missed the 90s
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.
it's definitely an ear-worm.
Yep
It's automatic
One of the most underrated songs of the 90’s. Incredible tune, that still rocks.
This song unfortunately came late in the alternative rock game, and that's a shame. Because this is a great song.
@@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
@@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.
@@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
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.
I agree. This song just touches a cord in so many ways
You mean grunge
@@ReadingAreaRailfan no, it’s post grunge.
@@LordTeaboBaggins to me grunge never ended I consider it grunge
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.
I've been injured. Will you represent me?
@@michaelharris1843 Fuck if I passed the bar.
YES!!! hahha awesome!!
Yup. Marketing. 90's. You got got.
?
What a kick-ass song. Doesn't matter what year, decade, genre, etc..,, It's good f'ing music....
Hell yeah!
Hell ya
one of the most underrated bands of the era
fonseca2710 Underrated in the worst band of all time
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
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
Plus Pink Floyd was more popular than them when they were at their prime “ and the formed in the 60s
And ya I have listened to their work
90s..... dam we never getting those days back. What a revolution for music.
90's, when music videos could be outrageous and the song lyrics were completely confusing, yet the song was still awesome.
Miss those 90's
The lyrics were confusing??
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 ❤
Proud of you for recovering! Thanks for sharing your story 🙏
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
Care to mention the general area this takes place in? (I'd probably go)
@@BaronVonQuiply I agree
Ahh Yesssssss.....Reminds me of Home...Good Old DebtRiot.......
I will forever love this song. Such a groovy tune
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.
😆
Always have loved this band. I remember it coming on the radio kisw Seattle mid 90s
Sponge was SOOO underrated!
This song is a forgotten mini-masterpiece. Almost makes me feel nostalgic.
No doubt about it for me. %100 without a doubt feel that nostalgia
Almost?
Does it make you ... wax nostalgic?
This is still one of my all time favorites....
Wow this song has as much juice as plowed.😮
2023 who's still listening? Who still remembers every word??
Me me!!
It's an underrated amazing song
ROCK N Fiing ROLL peoples.
Sponge is the most underrated band of the 90s… I saw them in concert a few months ago and they still got it…
Elaine on Seinfeld had a whole arc about them IIRC
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.
I love this band... This song kicks ass... I totally miss the 90s...
RIP Mike.
ah the 90s. the last decade that had mainstream music worth listening to.
+bill marks Indeed!!!
AnthonyTube I offered a millennial snowflake. Man it's a good day. Something tells me that you are mistaken.
I liked you until your political sh_t!!
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.
Wild Bill is correct.
Damn. I miss the fuck outta this cut...! That guitar is so...deadly.
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!!!
Richard Marshall Bowman my first CD as a teen
Christ, this song man. This song could fucking DESTROY anything done today! Fucking awesome!
I just saw them in concert this past Thursday!
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.
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.
Exactly. Just a reminder to the youngsters. This song had a point at the time.
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.
A conspiracy to destroy the American family unit.
Those look like Fish Oil capsules if anything.....maybe the message was to ditch natural supplements in favor of SSRI's?
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.
just found this band yesterday and can't stop listening... this is a good shit from grunge era \m/
The second album is good too.
🤘
Welcome to the Fold 🤭
@@Gen_X_Amy that's Filter :P
RIP Mike Cross.
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.
This band still holds up today. Good stuff
My car actually spoke to me the other day, asking me to stop playing this song.
I now have a new car.
😂
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....
Fave Sponge song.
Great song to crank up when driving on the freeway
He's is right: " Happiness is just a purchase away", I am buying this CD; amazing band!!!!
Phone call
lol
Did you buy it yet?
D-E-T-R-O-I-T!!!
The Home of Rock n Roll...
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.
@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 could listen to this song all day........... all sshshsh day............
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...
Absolutely, I wish I could give this comment two thumbs up.
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
How about now?
weed is great for artistic stuff but it’s also not addictive.
@@DJdeliverance agreed
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.
Happiness is just a purchase away...
If I said Roller Derby Girls Was Genius. You Guys had Hit Songs!
remember when we used to talk crap on our parents for listening to the same "oldies" they listened to when they were teens ...lol.....now im 30 and still listening to mostly the same stuff i used to ...go figure
the distortion is them justifying bothering (to hope at your expense ..., to insist despite you and or just or to leave you stranded after they've flattered themselves[?] ) because of feeling bothered by you saying you feel bothered (unless you were just overwhelmed.)
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!!
This song still whips ass, damn.
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.
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.
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.
Just saw them live at a private party, Vin's voice sounds the same
i believe it.
Jeff S I just saw them this past Saturday. And I agree. Still amazing
Jeff S 430 lakeside drive us 275 gunnar aherholm address mark.aherholm street..
Jealous!!!
saw them in 96, good show
"happiness is just a purchase away"
the kid watchin big sis eat the 'wax estatic' with cereal.. kills me,,LOL ! his reaction is so real .
Apparently the lead singer had his gold tooth removed because it wasn't put in correctly and it was causing gum issues. He had it melted down and made to be part of a skull ring that he now wears
first hear on the raido as a premier. 6-29-24. we're still listing.
Proud to hear this song in 1996, Lima - Peru. Teenage memories. They don't make good bands like this anymore...
+Omar Luna Still listening to them in year 2015!!!!
D**n. To be able to watch these videos, and listen to this music, from back in a better decade, and time, too, is such a gift to have. This decade, regardless of what anyone else may say, or think, and no matter at what point during that decade, it produced some of the best d**n bands, music, songs, and albums, too, of any other decade. Unfortunately, watching these videos, and/or listening to these songs now, it also depresses the f**k out of me, too. Lol.
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"
I'm here because I follow Dave Ellefson and love his new band The Lucid. I was like, hey that Vinnie dude is an amazing singer, lemme check out his other band and damn, Sponge rocks!
One of the best bands of the 90´s.
WAX ECSTATIC. It makes you watch roller derby.
He’s pretty proud of that tooth.
One of the best songs of the 90s fight me
One of the best songs of the 90s.
I haven't seen this video in almost 30 years
When life has lost all its magic...
(Remember this line at 18yrs old when this dropped in 1997.
Man...TIME start my 3rdQtr!)
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!
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.
Drunk as hell reminiscing about that good 90s alt rock at the age of 34 in 2019
Same😂
I have 11 years on you and I'm doing the same thing! It all went to shit in the early 2000's......
34 this year. Yep
I have a fever and the only cure is MORE DOUBLE GUITAR SOLOS!!
Sponge rocks!
This song 25 years old man I'm old
2023...still a complete Banger!
when my 7 year old daughter asks me to play this song, i know i have done something right.
Seen them twice, they opened up for Alice In Chains Detroit City Baby, Sponge Rocked the Stadium Down. Great show. 🤘🇺🇸🗽🤘
That guitar though 👌👌👌👌👌👌
Just a shameless My Bloody Valentine rip-off to be honest lmao.
43 and still rawking this.🤘🏻🎱
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...
I'm gonna loop this shit to pass the million views
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.
On my nightly 90s kick I'm glad I'm a punk ass teenager of the 90s it was and still is the best of times
Driving a 84 Supra Celica Gt 95 mph on a Kentucky backroad to this song. Back in 1996 going to the lake tubing bikinis and beer.Sigh........
Me driving my 71 Nova over some back road in southern Ohio with this cassette on and a six pack in my girlfriends lap. Memories...
Treat your ears and eyes -- go see Sponge LIVE during this 2021 tour!!
I've loved this band for so many years now. Sooo fkn missunderstood underrated 😤. Ughhhh! I love you guys!!
90's the only decade worth going back to.
This was one of my favs of the cassette. I still have it! Paired with Bush...everything was fine like dandelion wine. x
Probably the most underrated band of the 90s.
Still listening!
Underrated album ! Bought this back in the day and still playing in 2020
Funny how it's been almost 30 years since I heard this song and still know the words.
Ahh high school.
+Kurtis Smith My thoughts exactly
Middle school. The older cool kids turned me on to Sponge.
Hello from Brazil 🤘
2022 and still addicted to Sponge
This album is 24 years old and this is still one of my favorite songs.....
How does this song not have more views than this??
GOD!! This song is so fuckin amazing!!
Sponge has such a great sound.