18 - Smash Mouth Live at The Grove
My Name is Weezer
English - July 30, 2016 06:56 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On July 20th, 2016, Smash Mouth played a free show at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. What does that have to do with Weezer? Jen and Patrick aren’t quite sure, but it sounds like an ironic good time, right? SomeBODY could have told them that it’s not a whole lot of fun to see four washed-up rockers playing hits from 30 years ago. (All comparisons to Weezer, however obvious, are ignored.) Things get weird when Patrick thinks Jen’s toes might have tongues and autocorrect insists on screaming “SMASHMOUTH.” Plus, remember The Monkees? Rivers Cuomo wrote a song for them -- again, yes in 2016 -- called “She Makes Me Laugh” and your hosts discuss the relative merits of good, clean, poppy fun.