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
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 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.
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.
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
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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....
Discovered a lot of awesome 90s bands like this thanks to my old cable music channels when I was in middle school... always thought even then this band deserves way more attention... idk maybe I' just young. But theyre amazing
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
Shout out to Drew Lane and the late Mike Clark for making sure this song was hyped well into the 2000's in metro detroit and thus making me aware of it. Such a cool tune.
Don't forget in the 80's wrif Arthur penhollow He was the best d.j. I ever knew.after that Drew and Mike morning show was the best I have ever heard as well
@@dannyburns1867 I went to high school with the son of a WRIF lawyer. He said nobody at the station liked him, and that he wouldn't be on air too much longer as a result. Then and now I found that sad. He did his job as a good traditional DJ playing as much good music as theyd let him. There were blatantly some toe stepping personality nutcases, and other ridiculous behaviors routine listeners of the past got clued into. 15 years ago I spent a year in Phoenix, then shortly after the SF Bay, and realized how truly awful detroit radio is. Drew used to make fun of people who called out the superiority of every other region's radio stations, but they were right. Then right after I got back drew and Mike got taken off the air. 10 years later I still don't listen to the radio here. It's complete shit, especially without Drew and Mike's humor pre FCC crackdown that was such a memorable part of my childhood.
Didn't know that he was a jerk.he always had a good looking woman with him in the television commercials and was always present in the music/concert scene. I'm in Phoenix now and the morning show here is pretty graphic for a fcc crackdown
@@dannyburns1867 To be clear and specific I think some others were jerks, and to be fully honest- at least one case of a full blown narcissistic psychopath. I have never heard of a reason to dislike Arthur P, whereas I intuitively disliked many others of the era. The post Janet Jackson titty exposure at the super bowl fcc crackdown neutered Drew and Mike 20 years ago. They got real scared of getting hammered by complaints and fines. Much has fluctuated and changed since, never mind other places.
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.
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 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.
One of the most underrated singles of the '90s. '96 genius. I remember blasting this album on my Discman (ha) at the start of sophomore year of high school. I took a drink from the water fountain and some field hockey chick came up right behind me as this song was pumping me up and I gave her this "f*ck" look as I turned and walked away.
Saw these guys and had the privilege to meet Vinnie in person at lapeer days , lapeer michigan with seven Mary three. These guys are amazing. Thank you for the music.
Every generation, there is a singer who performs a song that is so accurately iterated and matched to their visual aesthetic, it operates in the realm of main themes. Wax Ecstatic by Sponge, is that song and band. The singer LOOKS like a used-car dealer that would be saying every single lyric. The slicked back hair and the widow's peak is a European visual shorthand for the Devil (or some form of Faustian demon, at least). The single gold tooth is an American shorthand for a sleaze bag huckster, or con artist gifted. The wide lapels and bright colors are also signs of being shady, but mostly because of the prominnce of greaser scumbags in media. [Biff from Back to the Future] They are also from the 50's retro look popular in the early 90's (Lit did it best in the back half of the 90s, but the entire Ska and Swing genres used them, too.) Everything is perfect. The lyrics, music, video, and front man are impossible to improve for better compatibility.
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
@@asaZOMG 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
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.
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
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'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.
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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
@@LordTeaboBaggins Grunge post grunge, who cares... yall get way too hung up on labels lmao
RIP Mike.
What a kick-ass song. Doesn't matter what year, decade, genre, etc..,, It's good f'ing music....
Hell yeah!
Hell ya
Always have loved this band. I remember it coming on the radio kisw Seattle mid 90s
90s..... dam we never getting those days back. What a revolution for music.
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.
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??
@@user-mf1kv4lk2mwatershed year comes flushed with fever
The richest junk dealer
My car actually spoke to me the other day, asking me to stop playing this song.
I now have a new car.
😂
Sponge is the most underrated band of the 90s… I saw them in concert a few months ago and they still got it…
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.
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....
I will forever love this song. Such a groovy tune
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
"happiness is just a purchase away"
I'd marry any girl who rocks out to sponge 😂
Uncle Boobs I'm already married but LOVE this band!!!! you have good taste in music!!😙🍻😙
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So when we getting hitched? haha 😂
I did!
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I love this band... This song kicks ass... I totally miss the 90s...
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.
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.
😆
Happiness is just a purchase away...
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 🤭
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!!!!
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?
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....
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
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.
Discovered a lot of awesome 90s bands like this thanks to my old cable music channels when I was in middle school... always thought even then this band deserves way more attention... idk maybe I' just young. But theyre amazing
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 🙏
This band still holds up today. Good stuff
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.
Ahh high school.
+Kurtis Smith My thoughts exactly
Middle school. The older cool kids turned me on to Sponge.
This song 25 years old man I'm old
46 and still got this turnt 2 11.
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
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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
2023...still a complete Banger!
"When life is nothing less than tragic
It's wax ecstatic"
My life is wax ecstatic
my teen years
Probably the most underrated band of the 90s.
One of the best songs of the 90s.
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.
Best song of '96!
This video in 1996 scared me into going to the dentist
Sponge was SOOO underrated!
Of all the artists from Detroit, Sponge goes overlooked and the world gets stuck with Kid Rock instead.
2022 and still addicted to Sponge
One of the best bands of the 90´s.
Christ, this song man. This song could fucking DESTROY anything done today! Fucking awesome!
One of the best songs of the 90s fight me
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.
43 and still rawking this.🤘🏻🎱
Nobody knows the chills I feel hearing this.
I do
It's how I know that music is love and love is connected. Because I get those chills too
Yes, there are plenty of us who can relate
A shiver comes over me every time this song pops up on one of my playlists!
Great song to crank up when driving on the freeway
RIP Mike Cross.
I remember watching this on 120 minutes at 5am in a Saturday. Sometimes overnight brings wonders.
90's the only decade worth going back to.
This album is 24 years old and this is still one of my favorite songs.....
Underrated album ! Bought this back in the day and still playing in 2020
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.
Shout out to Drew Lane and the late Mike Clark for making sure this song was hyped well into the 2000's in metro detroit and thus making me aware of it. Such a cool tune.
as good as Dave and Chuck the Freak are, Drew and Mike are absolute Detroit legends - WRIF was soooo good in the 90's
Don't forget in the 80's wrif Arthur penhollow
He was the best d.j. I ever knew.after that Drew and Mike morning show was the best I have ever heard as well
@@dannyburns1867 I went to high school with the son of a WRIF lawyer. He said nobody at the station liked him, and that he wouldn't be on air too much longer as a result. Then and now I found that sad. He did his job as a good traditional DJ playing as much good music as theyd let him.
There were blatantly some toe stepping personality nutcases, and other ridiculous behaviors routine listeners of the past got clued into.
15 years ago I spent a year in Phoenix, then shortly after the SF Bay, and realized how truly awful detroit radio is. Drew used to make fun of people who called out the superiority of every other region's radio stations, but they were right. Then right after I got back drew and Mike got taken off the air. 10 years later I still don't listen to the radio here. It's complete shit, especially without Drew and Mike's humor pre FCC crackdown that was such a memorable part of my childhood.
Didn't know that he was a jerk.he always had a good looking woman with him in the television commercials and was always present in the music/concert scene.
I'm in Phoenix now and the morning show here is pretty graphic for a fcc crackdown
@@dannyburns1867
To be clear and specific I think some others were jerks, and to be fully honest- at least one case of a full blown narcissistic psychopath. I have never heard of a reason to dislike Arthur P, whereas I intuitively disliked many others of the era.
The post Janet Jackson titty exposure at the super bowl fcc crackdown neutered Drew and Mike 20 years ago. They got real scared of getting hammered by complaints and fines. Much has fluctuated and changed since, never mind other places.
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.
90's rock always brings me back. Love feeling nostalgic!
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
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...
Treat your ears and eyes -- go see Sponge LIVE during this 2021 tour!!
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.
When life has lost all its magic...
(Remember this line at 18yrs old when this dropped in 1997.
Man...TIME start my 3rdQtr!)
I've loved this band for so many years now. Sooo fkn missunderstood underrated 😤. Ughhhh! I love you guys!!
Sponge rocks!
Long live the 90s!
The beginning of this song might be one of the most bad ass intros ever... Must be LOUD.
That guitar though 👌👌👌👌👌👌
Just a shameless My Bloody Valentine rip-off to be honest lmao.
How does this song not have more views than this??
One of the most underrated singles of the '90s. '96 genius. I remember blasting this album on my Discman (ha) at the start of sophomore year of high school. I took a drink from the water fountain and some field hockey chick came up right behind me as this song was pumping me up and I gave her this "f*ck" look as I turned and walked away.
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 hearing this song for the first time. What a sound!
Sponge has such a great sound.
I have a fever and the only cure is MORE DOUBLE GUITAR SOLOS!!
Seen them twice, they opened up for Alice In Chains Detroit City Baby, Sponge Rocked the Stadium Down. Great show. 🤘🇺🇸🗽🤘
Sponge is amazing!
This song helped me through rough times in high school. Thank you sponge
Was your hs years nothing less than tragic?
I could listen to this song all day........... all sshshsh day............
Ahh Yesssssss.....Reminds me of Home...Good Old DebtRiot.......
One of those songs that you can't help but sing along to, because every word of it is absolutely true...
🤔💭🎭
This is their best song. Love it!
Kicking solo and I just love the whole vibe of this one ...
Saw these guys and had the privilege to meet Vinnie in person at lapeer days , lapeer michigan with seven Mary three. These guys are amazing. Thank you for the music.
god i remeber these guys form when i was 14 loved them then and love them now
I haven't seen this video in almost 30 years
classic! i still miss the 90's...
Stone Temple Pilots comes to mind..
Exellent band ..
cheers 🍻
brings back memories!!!!!!!!...of me in my flannels ...rocking my Simplez in H.S....one of my fav. bands during that time!!!!.....still amazing!!!!
saw them in 96, good show
yet ANOTHER sick tune that puts the kids today to shame...sponge killed it...fucking awesome..."happiness is just a purchase away"
Thanks
your welcome...ha!!!
Serious? Not ALL the kids! I fuckin' love Sponge and just rock and grunge music in general.
cool bro!!! yea grunge was a great time for rock music...keep enjoying!!!
Every generation, there is a singer who performs a song that is so accurately iterated and matched to their visual aesthetic, it operates in the realm of main themes.
Wax Ecstatic by Sponge, is that song and band. The singer LOOKS like a used-car dealer that would be saying every single lyric. The slicked back hair and the widow's peak is a European visual shorthand for the Devil (or some form of Faustian demon, at least).
The single gold tooth is an American shorthand for a sleaze bag huckster, or con artist gifted.
The wide lapels and bright colors are also signs of being shady, but mostly because of the prominnce of greaser scumbags in media. [Biff from Back to the Future] They are also from the 50's retro look popular in the early 90's (Lit did it best in the back half of the 90s, but the entire Ska and Swing genres used them, too.)
Everything is perfect. The lyrics, music, video, and front man are impossible to improve for better compatibility.