Sponge - Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)

[@steveeaton8493]

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

[@deadjnkie]

are there any recordings of the show

[@steveeaton8493]

@@deadjnkie there's way like 50 people there...and yet an all out riot I doubt recodring equipment would've survived

[@JohnBrown-pq9tj]

Sus.

[@steveeaton8493]

@@JohnBrown-pq9tj sorry you missed the 90s

[@deniseross2590]

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.​

[@christinetassone3156]

For some reason the chorus of this song has lived rent free in my brain since 1996.

[@fuzzmosisr8601]

it's definitely an ear-worm.

[@djopticon]

Yep

[@BaronVonQuiply]

It's automatic

[@vickius]

Catch af

[@vickius]

I woke up with it jingling in my head had to hear it. Haven't heard it in years but the hook was stuck in my head, I had to try and figure out the lyrics just to find the song. I was mumbling them as I walked to my car. My neighbor thought I was talking to myself.

[@JohnBrown-pq9tj]

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.

[@michaelharris1843]

I've been injured. Will you represent me?

[@JohnBrown-pq9tj]

@@michaelharris1843 Fuck if I passed the bar.

[@RichardFriendartist]

YES!!! hahha awesome!!

[@caiusmadison2996]

Yup. Marketing. 90's. You got got.

[@THX-bz8bi]

?

[@StonTV78]

one of the most underrated bands of the era

[@nick5865]

fonseca2710 Underrated in the worst band of all time

[@nick5865]

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

[@nick5865]

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

[@nick5865]

Plus Pink Floyd was more popular than them when they were at their prime “ and the formed in the 60s

[@nick5865]

And ya I have listened to their work

[@rianjohnsonsux4344]

One of the most underrated songs of the 90’s. Incredible tune, that still rocks.

[@mikeyerian2562]

This song unfortunately came late in the alternative rock game, and that's a shame. Because this is a great song.

[@saxwastaken]

@@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]

@@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.

[@saxwastaken]

@@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

[@CavemanJesus4Life]

Those intros, this & Plowed had great intro riffs. I learned this in high school when this came out. My fingers hurt bending and sliding back n forth. I miss the bands from the 90's

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

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.

[@maiammyself5680]

I agree. This song just touches a cord in so many ways

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

You mean grunge

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

@@ReadingAreaRailfan no, it’s post grunge.

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

@@LordTeaboBaggins to me grunge never ended I consider it grunge

[@AngiO-f1s]

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 ❤

[@throwawaykiddo]

Proud of you for recovering! Thanks for sharing your story 🙏

[@Tougie24]

90's, when music videos could be outrageous and the song lyrics were completely confusing, yet the song was still awesome.

[@MC-by2ez]

Miss those 90's

[@AngiO-f1s]

The lyrics were confusing??

[@bmstylee]

ah the 90s. the last decade that had mainstream music worth listening to.

[@KC0MCS]

+bill marks Indeed!!!

[@bmstylee]

AnthonyTube​ I offered a millennial snowflake. Man it's a good day. Something tells me that you are mistaken.

[@mikew9584]

I liked you until your political sh_t!!

[@vdsp011]

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.

[@eriklarson9137]

Wild Bill is correct.

[@markdigiorgio1526]

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

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Care to mention the general area this takes place in? (I'd probably go)

[@robertlamble6523]

@@BaronVonQuiply I agree

[@flm829]

What a kick-ass song. Doesn't matter what year, decade, genre, etc..,, It's good f'ing music....

[@walkintovelvet]

Hell yeah!

[@kelleymetalchic4748]

Hell ya

[@serik1165]

This song is a forgotten mini-masterpiece. Almost makes me feel nostalgic.

[@justadev____7232]

No doubt about it for me. %100 without a doubt feel that nostalgia

[@ajadeleye4970]

Almost?

[@MaximusX67]

Does it make you ... wax nostalgic?

[@mikebailey3680]

This is still one of my all time favorites....

[@Cybersamuraidave]

90s..... dam we never getting those days back. What a revolution for music.

[@vanessajuneangel6628]

Takes me back to freshman year of high school in spring 1996. Good memories.

[@ARon82]

I was born in 82

[@VitoVeccia-u6w]

8th grade for me.

[@johnholmeswebb8162]

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.

[@grimfirehead603]

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.

[@markdigiorgio1526]

😆

[@happymofo]

Always have loved this band. I remember it coming on the radio kisw Seattle mid 90s

[@Jaspertine]

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.

[@Adrian4713]

Exactly. Just a reminder to the youngsters. This song had a point at the time.

[@Sarah.Riedel]

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.

[@danklordsupreme8864]

A conspiracy to destroy the American family unit.

[@billsmith7642]

Those look like Fish Oil capsules if anything.....maybe the message was to ditch natural supplements in favor of SSRI's?

[@GKW76]

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.

[@RicoLen1]

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.

[@chrishoyt5129]

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...

[@shadrawk1]

Absolutely, I wish I could give this comment two thumbs up.

[@DJdeliverance]

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

[@JoseHernandez-ql8vw]

How about now?

[@undergroundkingz7969]

weed is great for artistic stuff but it’s also not addictive.

[@undergroundkingz7969]

@@DJdeliverance agreed

[@angelfly2sun]

I love this band... This song kicks ass... I totally miss the 90s...

[@brooksbabcock8530]

I will forever love this song. Such a groovy tune

[@jschlitzski9646]

D-E-T-R-O-I-T!!! The Home of Rock n Roll...

[@RexApplegate]

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.

[@mi.dogman4438]

​@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!

[@tpistol6913]

Sponge is the most underrated band of the 90s… I saw them in concert a few months ago and they still got it…

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Elaine on Seinfeld had a whole arc about them IIRC

[@seanharris4251]

This band still holds up today. Good stuff

[@JClaus1221]

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....

[@bangdeadx3436]

just found this band yesterday and can't stop listening... this is a good shit from grunge era \m/

[@Kurok4ever]

The second album is good too.

[@jc.1191]

🤘

[@Gen_X_Amy]

Welcome to the Fold 🤭

[@jg6657]

@@Gen_X_Amy that's Filter :P

[@joshhook64]

Sponge was SOOO underrated!

[@kurtisgardner7014]

He's is right: " Happiness is just a purchase away", I am buying this CD; amazing band!!!!

[@amyking5712]

Phone call

[@crodriguez2360]

lol

[@positivepsycho2932]

Did you buy it yet?

[@packrat-y7j]

RIP Mike.

[@dailynews9986]

RIP Mike Cross.

[@rockpillsTV]

One of the best bands of the 90´s.

[@starlettrawlings5596]

I just saw them in concert this past Thursday!

[@beathaknockturnal8555]

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.

[@cotiaratv3651]

Fave Sponge song.

[@kennyhall2118]

This Song just pops up now. Fine with me.

[@duaneflint11]

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!

[@OmarLuna1981]

Proud to hear this song in 1996, Lima - Peru. Teenage memories. They don't make good bands like this anymore...

[@OmarLuna1981]

+Omar Luna Still listening to them in year 2015!!!!

[@Iridescent_Unicorn]

2023 who's still listening? Who still remembers every word?? Me me!!

[@theseattlegreen1871]

It's an underrated amazing song

[@serendipity9987]

ROCK N Fiing ROLL peoples.

[@decayingwhale]

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.

[@user-user-user-user.]

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.

[@CavemanJesus4Life]

Back when Radio was worth listening too. 101.7 the Fox northern California 1997

[@sashabenner3916]

One of the best songs of the 90s.

[@coryrikard8943]

My car actually spoke to me the other day, asking me to stop playing this song. I now have a new car.

[@jc.1191]

😂

[@MrMattymace]

Ahh Yesssssss.....Reminds me of Home...Good Old DebtRiot.......

[@markhaury]

saw them in 96, good show

[@machizmo77]

I could listen to this song all day........... all sshshsh day............

[@GoofiestTom]

The beginning of this song might be one of the most bad ass intros ever... Must be LOUD.

[@jenniferdonovan8190]

first hear on the raido as a premier. 6-29-24. we're still listing.

[@JSN746]

Just saw them live at a private party, Vin's voice sounds the same

[@arrowfitzgibbon7775]

i believe it.

[@ambermills7718]

Jeff S I just saw them this past Saturday. And I agree. Still amazing

[@kmaz8329]

Jeff S 430 lakeside drive us 275 gunnar aherholm address mark.aherholm street..

[@Kate-fn4zu]

Jealous!!!

[@jacobmartinelli7496]

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.)

[@matthew21.44]

Wow I have missed this so much! Another one of 90's greatest. Woohoo!

[@benoitplacide2751]

houuuhouuu ... so great

[@matthew21.44]

Benoît Placide so great why didn't you like it?!😠 haha kidding

[@justingarrison6663]

Melissa MF i totally forgot this one.

[@kmaz8329]

Melissa MF maybe.include us in.wax ecstatic no.ill Joe oesci cannot.in novels 3.for little nemo on HBO..

[@sarahkrystal6989]

I've loved this band for so many years now. Sooo fkn missunderstood underrated 😤. Ughhhh! I love you guys!!

[@woothasnice]

Wow this song has as much juice as plowed.😮

[@eduardo_RX0]

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...

[@NYPATRIOTBX]

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.

[@mikevogler5455]

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.

[@timc3665]

Probably the most underrated band of the 90s.

[@Mephistophelina]

Drunk as hell reminiscing about that good 90s alt rock at the age of 34 in 2019

[@Snapperjacker]

Same😂

[@supsound]

I have 11 years on you and I'm doing the same thing! It all went to shit in the early 2000's......

[@CS-cv5es]

34 this year. Yep

[@moneenerd]

One of the best songs of the 90s fight me

[@allears9963]

"happiness is just a purchase away"

[@davidbrunet5779]

Underrated album ! Bought this back in the day and still playing in 2020

[@bradarnett8632]

Happiness is just a purchase away...

[@mikebailey3680]

This album is 24 years old and this is still one of my favorite songs.....

[@bohottie]

This is their best song. Love it!

[@lovingeveryminuteofit3362]

Kicking solo and I just love the whole vibe of this one ...

[@filippo-m-7824]

I'm hearing this song for the first time. What a sound!

[@vfalcon79]

classic! i still miss the 90's...

[@paularyche]

Saw them last night The Machine Shop, Flint MI. and they rocked the house down!!

[@paularyche]

And how does this only have 508k veiws...baffled...lol

[@realmichaud]

I heard it on the radio back then, or saw it on MTV but it really didn't get that much play

[@george-trad]

90's rock always brings me back. Love feeling nostalgic!

[@raimywinter2309]

43 and still rawking this.🤘🏻🎱

[@inkbandgr]

one of the best bands of the 90's

[@SunshineClementine]

This was one of my favs of the cassette. I still have it! Paired with Bush...everything was fine like dandelion wine. x

[@grep67]

Awesome! hahaha

[@timbeck6726]

2023...still a complete Banger!

[@LizzBartley]

this song is amazing!!

[@whiteboundry]

one of my alltime favs- heard it when i was like 14 or 15

[@justingarrison6663]

Lizz Bartley you fukn know it and great beat to smash to.

[@islanders1329fan]

Great song to crank up when driving on the freeway

[@Lokisdottir1964]

Awesome song.

[@legacyofpop]

Ditto from three years ago...STILL one of the best tracks I ever heard !

[@kennyhall2118]

If I said Roller Derby Girls Was Genius. You Guys had Hit Songs!

[@justadev____7232]

This song helped me through rough times in high school. Thank you sponge

[@ARon82]

Was your hs years nothing less than tragic?

[@something2b]

2022 and still addicted to Sponge

[@SuperKendy82]

so true!

[@bairdduvessa]

one of my all time favorite songs and albums

[@willclay739]

Cool song and video

[@hmann10122]

Now that it's 4 minutes of fun!!! love this song!!!

[@mikedorsey7119]

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.

[@DavidMGettis]

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.

[@nicelady8165]

Nobody knows the chills I feel hearing this.

[@CS-cv5es]

I do

[@CS-cv5es]

It's how I know that music is love and love is connected. Because I get those chills too

[@derekryan1363]

Yes, there are plenty of us who can relate

[@moshgirl973]

A shiver comes over me every time this song pops up on one of my playlists!

[@mustashman260]

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!!

[@mountaincat2001]

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.

[@dbpiercy1]

Great song

[@Kingdennissinned]

90's the only decade worth going back to.

[@sangrekhan]

Saw Sponge perform Tuesday in San Diego. Amazing show! They still have it. Now if only they would use it to make another album

[@RexApplegate]

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.

[@GeoffC19]

as good as Dave and Chuck the Freak are, Drew and Mike are absolute Detroit legends - WRIF was soooo good in the 90's

[@dannyburns1867]

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

[@RexApplegate]

@@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.

[@dannyburns1867]

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

[@RexApplegate]

@@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.

[@MrvelGD]

Pretty cool. They're doing a free show here in June during Ohio Bike Week in Sandusky, Ohio!!

[@willclay739]

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

[@3YearsApart1613]

How does this song not have more views than this??

[@jtvitilio]

the kid watchin big sis eat the 'wax estatic' with cereal.. kills me,,LOL ! his reaction is so real .

[@haleymartin977]

That guitar though 👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@fuzzmosisr8601]

Just a shameless My Bloody Valentine rip-off to be honest lmao.