Successful as it was, it came from sinister source material “Where were they going without ever knowing the way?” refers to an elderly couple found dead in a ravine after getting lost en route to a faraway Texas festival. The first single from the Austin, Texas, band’s breakthrough album was a crossover smash, driving all the way to No. “Inside Out” is nothing if not catchy, and bassist-vocalist Max Collins’ proclivity for tongue-tied wordplay (“SoCal is where my mind states/ but it’s not my state of mind”) hammers home the rubbery hook to the nth degree. On the lighter side, don’t forget the image of a Native American man holding up Matthews’ severed-yet-still-singing head in the music video.Įve 6 had a handful of hits, but none peaked higher on the Hot 100 than their debut single (it went all the way to No. Thank banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck for a poignant guest performance, as well as Alanis Morissette, who appears on backing vocals. The banjo-laced lead single from 1998’s Before These Crowded Streets was a heavy one, with Matthews’ lyrics calling out colonial injustices against both Native Americans and victims of apartheid in his birthplace of South Africa: “There’s blood in the water/ Don’t drink the water,” it concludes ominously. Released two years after “The Distance” and three years before “Short Skirt/Long Jacket,” it stands smack-dab in the middle of Cake’s alt-rock heyday.ĭave Matthews Band, ”Don’t Drink the Water” 1 is classic Cake, a slice of groovy, jittery minimalism, highlighted by John McCrea’s speak-singing and Cince DiFiore’s slick trumpet interludes. The Sacramento band’s first and only Alternative Songs No.
It reached the top of the Hot 100 and stayed there for, alas, one week.
In the end, they wound up with a happy-go-lucky bubblegum jingle of a song - technically rap-rock, but for the nerdy Canadian set, minus the distortion, turntables and angst. Is there such a thing as too catchy? The Barenaked Ladies threw caution to the wind on their biggest hit, along with similarly reckless abandon for pop culture references that probably wouldn’t age too well.
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