SPONGE New Pop Sunday 1999

 

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Tracklist

1	My Lackluster Love	4:40
2	Polyanna	5:07
3	Live Here Without You	3:56
4	1000 Times	3:12
5	All American World	5:12
6	Radio Prayer Line	4:01
7	New Pop Sunday	4:17
8	Planet Girls	4:14
9	When You're On Fire Baby, Roll	3:58
10	Disconnected	4:36
11	Lucky	4:25

SATURDAY MORNING (Cartoons' Greatest Hits) 1995

by request

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1	–Liz Phair With Material Issue	The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)	3:14
2	–Sponge (3)	Go Speed Racer Go	3:07
3	–Mary Lou Lord With Semisonic	Sugar Sugar	3:53
4	–Matthew Sweet	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?	3:12
5	–Juliana Hatfield And Tanya Donelly	Josie And The Pussycats	2:53
6	–Collective Soul	The Bugaloos	3:18
7	–Butthole Surfers	Underdog	3:56
8	–Helmet (2)	Gigantor	4:14
9	–Ramones	Spider-Man	2:07
10	–Reverend Horton Heat	Jonny Quest / Stop That Pigeon	3:09
11	–Frente!	Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In	3:31
12	–Violent Femmes	Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)	3:21
13	–Dig	Fat Albert Theme	3:46
14	–Face To Face	I'm Popeye The Sailor Man	3:05
15	–Tripping Daisy	Friends / Sigmund And The Seamonsters	4:22
16	–Toadies	Goolie Get-Together	3:48
17	–Sublime (2)	Hong Kong Phooey	3:47
18	–The Murmurs	H. R. Pufnstuf	3:19
19	–Wax (10)	Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy	3:32

 

 

 

SPONGE Wax Ecstatic 1996

by request

 

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1	My Purity	3:32
2	Got To Be A Bore	3:24
3	Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)	4:08
4	The Drag Queens Of Memphis	4:54
5	I Am Anastasia	3:58
6	Silence Is Their Drug	3:11
7	Have You Seen Mary	3:49
8	My Baby Said	3:05
9	The Death Of A Drag Queen	5:20
10	Velveteen	3:12

SPONGE Rotting Piñata 1994

Thanks to Jim

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Artist Biography by Steve Huey

Sponge was one of the more underrated groups in the post-grunge boom of the mid-'90s. When they were on top of their game -- as evidenced by the hits "Plowed" and "Molly (Sixteen Candles)" -- the band's songs had a knack for jangly riffs and catchy, anthemic hard rock hooks, despite being wrapped in the fuzzy guitars and brooding seriousness that typified grunge music. Sponge grew out of a Detroit-based hard rock act called Loudhouse, which released an album on the Virgin label in 1988 before losing its record contract and disbanding shortly thereafter. Drummer-turned-vocalist Vinnie Dombrowski (born Mark Dombrowski) and guitarists Mike Cross and Joey Mazzola regrouped as Sponge in 1992, adding Mike's brother Tim Cross on bass and Jimmy Paluzzi on drums. Adapting their '70s hard rock influences to fit the grunge zeitgeist, the bandmates earned a major-label deal with Columbia and released their debut album, Rotting Pinata, in late 1994.

Initially, critics compared Sponge unfavorably to Stone Temple Pilots, but alternative radio embraced the band's first two singles: the driving rocker "Plowed" and the jangly, introspective "Molly (Sixteen Candles)." A third single, "Rainin'," also earned airplay, and Rotting Pinata went gold; meanwhile, Sponge went on tour as Live's opening act. With new drummer Charlie Grover in tow, their 1996 follow-up album, Wax Ecstatic, was a more diverse affair, rediscovering some of the band's roots in arena rock, British glam, and jangle pop. Even though singles like "Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)," "I Am Anastasia," and "Have You Seen Mary" enjoyed some degree of radio airplay, Columbia was dissatisfied with the sales figures and dropped Sponge once the album left the charts.

Undaunted, Sponge signed a new deal with the Beyond label, which released the more classicist New Pop Sunday in 1999. It attracted little commercial attention, and more personnel shifts ensued. Tired of touring, the Cross brothers both left and were replaced by guitarist Kurt Marschke and bassist Tim Krukowski; Billy Adams also came on board as the new drummer. After several years of recharging -- during which time Dombrowski played in several Detroit-area side projects -- Sponge returned with For All the Drugs in the World in 2003 and Man in 2005. Dombrowski reworked the lineup once again, this time adding guitarists Kyle Neely and Andy Patalan, before returning again to the studio in 2007 to record Galore Galore for Bellum Records.

Two year later, there was another lineup shift -- Tim Patalan became the group's bassist -- and they released an EP called Destroy the Boy. A full-length called Stop the Bleeding arrived four years later; the LP contained all of the 2009 EP plus new songs.

HOARSE Happens Twice 1997

by request

 

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1	Diamond
2	Tuesday Morning
3	Trivial
4	Push
5	Issue
6	72
7	Happens Twice
8	Paint the Town Red
9	Crown
10	Bouncing Checks
11	On Deck
12	Long Gone