Smash Mouth: All Star

To thrash an old saying: ‘She’s the village bicycle, everyone’s had a ride.’ Lead singer Steve Harwell actually said that his first instinct was to flog the thing to advertisers, which he did, many times over.

You’ll recognize this single from Shrek, Digiman The Movie and Inspector Gadget The Movie (a sad day for film in general, but I digress). The song in question is ‘All Star,’ from Smash Mouths 1999 album ‘Astro Lounge.’ It climbed to #24 on the U.K. charts, topping out at #4 in the U.S.

According to Wikipedia, the video included a cameo appearance by Ben Stiller and was used onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a sort of musical alarm clock. Want an obscure fact? Unable to better the success of ‘Astro Lounge,’ Steve is currently working on a solo country album. Weird.