All Star: The Smash Hits of Smash Mouth

Smash Mouth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B000A7DVPE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,737 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #30 in Music > Alternative Rock > Hardcore & Punk > Ska Punk
  • #70 in Music > Alternative Rock > Ska

Editorial Reviews

Smash Mouth's "Greatest Hits" compilation entitled All Star Smash Hits includes 20 Smash Mouth recordings (most of the singles, four cover tunes and four previously "soundtrack-only" songs).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Music.., August 31, 2005

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L. Borges "Idiot Music Savant" (Bay Area, Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Star: The Smash Hits of Smash Mouth (Audio CD)

The key to accepting and loving this disc is in the understanding that it is not great art (so it's not Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin, who cares?) What it is, is fun music.

Smash Mouth may be one of the most successful party bands in history. Listening to them you get the feeling that they do not take themselves seriously at all. But you always get the sense they do love music, love having fun and putting on good shows.

All Star Smash Hits pulls together 20 songs from their 5 released disc as well as soundtrack songs (Can't Hardly Wait and Shrek, Cat In The Hat. Me, Myself and Irene) and four covers tunes.

Infectious hooks and upbeat grooves is what drives the music. It is pop music at its finest with roots in Ska and Punk. The pacing of the music is good, starting with there biggest single and then going to earlier tracks before mixing in the soundtrack tunes.

Overall this CD is fun and lite, which is nice at time when there are a lot of heavy things in life going on right now everywhere. It's also good to have music I can listen with my kids while in the car.

Take this disc for what it is, fun party music for the car or a trip to the beach.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection!, August 23, 2005

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J. Chaisson "joncwriter" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Star: The Smash Hits of Smash Mouth (Audio CD)

Some critics deride Smash Mouth as a middle-of-the-road rock band with no real backbone to them, but as a fan I can say that rock bands don't always need to be the Biggest, Best, and Loudest to be great. Let's face it, Smash Mouth is a FUN band. This greatest hits collection is a perfect sampler of all their best stuff as well as songs from various soundtracks (Shrek, Can't Hardly Wait, etc.), all in one place.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, "I'm A Believer"., September 12, 2005

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This review is from: All Star: The Smash Hits of Smash Mouth (Audio CD)

The truth is, we need bands like Smash Mouth, we need bands that are fun, and we need good music in the summertime. There are a few bands around similar to Smash Mouth, but I'd honestly take these guys over Sugar Ray in a heartbeat. This is a generous 20 tracks, and includes about everything it should. We get the addictive big hits like "Walking On The Sun" and "All Star", we get the minor hits like "Then The Morning Comes" and "Pacific Coast Party", and we get a ton of soundtrack songs and covers. My favorites of those are "Why Can't We Be Friends", "Can't Get Enough Of You Baby", and "Getting Better". I like these guys enough to keep the albums I have, but if you're looking for your first or only Smash Mouth disc, this is obviously it.