Astro Lounge
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Astro Lounge
Astro Lounge is the second studio album by American rock band Smash Mouth, released on June 8, 1999, by Interscope Records. It includes the single "All Star", arguably the group's most well-known song, which reached number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Three other singles were released from the album, including "Waste" and "Then the Morning Comes". - Wikipedia
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AV Music
Steve Harwell's affectations and appropriations of Mike Ness' singing style can wear thin in large doses, but who needs large doses? A little bit of this winning summer fluff, and you're all set.
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Sputnik Music
. Well I'm assuming that you guys want more reviews so your going to get one. So after 1997's "Fush Yu Mang" the band apparently wanted to be more commercially successful so they decided to change their genre from being a ska-punk band to pop rock band . This worked out well enough for the "Astro Lounge" album but after that the quality albums went downhill at a very fast pace
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Escapist Magazine
This album certainly has its distinct style, but it definitely has a few facets to it. To cite a few, the album superimposes themes of alien invasion, surfing imagery, Hawaiian/lounge music, and getting high. It's certainly not a very deep album, but it does have a sort of thick web of ideas that goes through most of the songs. Really damn good pop-punk-rock.
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All music
Nothing on Astro Lounge is particularly deep, but it's all good fun and it never disappoints -- which is quite a remarkable feat, since one-hit wonders rarely deliver a second album that betters their first.
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Eastside Online
Astro Lounge is an energizing album full of hypnotic melodies, accompanied with retro beats and solid vocals. The album converted Smash Mouth from a typical ska punk band in California to a more pop-cultured, mainstream rock sound.
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Swap A CD
Ranging from reggae to lounge to psychedelia to surfer rock to a sort of punk-a-go-go, Smash Mouth's influences have little in common with one another save for one important exception--they all evoke images of personal freedom and defiance of oppression, reminding us that, gee, fighting the Man can actually be raucous good fun! It's been a long time since a band with this much commercial potential could say something thought-provoking and get the party going.
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Reddit
It's sooo well crafted, it never strives to be anything other than a fantastic pop album and it knocks it out of the park. The production here is clean, crisp, and pure your candy
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People
Astro Lounge is full of free-floating whimsy and smart pop-rock hooks lifted from sources as diverse as Phil Spector, and ? and the Mysterians. But the band’s deepest debt is to British pop groups of the ’80s and ’90s. Smash Mouth sounds variously like Madness (“Road Man”), Elvis Costello (“Radio”) and those contemporary masters of derivation, Oasis (“Stoned”).
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Sort Music
Fighting the Man can actually be raucous good fun! It's been a long time since a band with this much commercial potential could say something thought-provoking and get the party going.
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NME
As if it’s any sort of recommendation, we’re told this slightly flat, nasal drawl sells truckloads in the States. But to any discerning listener, Harwell‘s irritating inflections are just one of the horrible aspects of this second album by San Jose‘s Smash Mouth.
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WMUC Radio
That the album is actually really good. If you can get over the stereotypical sounds of the late 90s, you’ll hear a lot of interesting music on the album. there is more to Smash Mouth than “All Star.” You should listen to Astro Lounge not only because it is a great album.
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TV Tropes
Most famous for their album Astro Lounge and the hit single "All Star", a quintessential late-nineties party tune that debuted in the movie Mystery Men and would be used in other films such as Digimon: The Movie and Rat Race, but would really become famous through its inclusion in Shrek.
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No Coda
Summertime pop/rock with hints of ska, surf, funk, and vintage guitar overtones, as well as those always welcome, stupidly catchy keyboard riffs. You know the ones I’m talking about – the dominating forces behind the mega hits like Walkin’ On The Sun and All Star. Nobody brings them to the forefront quite like Smash Mouth.
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Sea Side City Siren
If you can get into their world of kooky pulpy sci-fi cali party grooves, it can be enjoyable. but be warned, it is very corny. very corny. corny as hell. but if you're ever in the mood for corny music, go for it, because their gimmick in the right light and mood, can be a ton of fun as well.
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Howl ans Echoes
I survived Shrek movie after Shrek movie and never even noticed Smash Mouth. But, as we all know, the years start coming and they don’t stop coming, and somehow Smash Mouth’s All Star has become the most relevant song in our lifetime.
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Lebeau's Le Blog
So that’s why although Smash Mouth managed to not end up as true one-hit wonders, their moment in the spotlight was relatively short and only one song ended up having any lasting prominence.
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EW
On Astro Lounge Smash Mouth’s newfound attention to songcraft yields 15 swell slices of goofy, post-psychedelic pop-rock. Hey, any late-’90s band canny (or shameless) enough to cop ? & the Mysterians’ organ sound (”Can’t Get Enough of You Baby”) is welcome on my stereo.
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Slacker
No, nothing on Astro Lounge is particularly deep, but it's all good fun and it never disappoints -- which is quite a remarkable feat, since one-hit wonders rarely deliver a second album that betters their first.
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