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Harwell, the son of a UPS truck driver, had first pursued a career as a rapper. Smash Mouth formed in California in the mid-1990s, and its music coalesced motley phenomena of the era: ska, hip-hop, surf culture, 1950s nostalgia, aliens. Every goofy organ melody is still engraved in my mind, and today, the album holds up as an ingeniously crafted pleasure capsule. Smash Mouth’s second album, the one with “All Star,” came out when I was 11. Most people can point to songs that hit them in early adolescence, when their ears were impressionable but their interest in other people’s judgment was still, blessedly, undeveloped.

In fact, the sad news of the death of original front man Steve Harwell at age 56 has me wondering if the band’s 1999 album, Astro Lounge, is the reason I’m a music critic. And over nearly three decades, Smash Mouth has remained famous partly because of the flatulent cartoon ogre Shrek.īut the affection Smash Mouth commands is serious-the result of music so simultaneously pleasing and odd that it could rewire a young listener’s brain.

Smash Mouth has long been, as its guitarist, Greg Camp, once said, “a band that you can make fun of.” The pop-rock group’s signature hit, 1999’s “All Star,” combines the sounds of DJ scratches, glockenspiel, and a white dude rapping that he “ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed.” Fashionwise, the band tended to dress for a funky night at the bowling alley.

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