My birthday isn’t until August, but the Mark McGrath and Friends Cruise doesn’t set sail from Florida until October 18-21, 2013, so…what I’m saying is if someone doesn’t buy me a ticket to see Sugar Ray, the Gin Blossoms, Smash Mouth, Marcy Playground, Cracker, Spin Doctors, Vertical Horizon, the Verve Pipe, Collective Soul’s Ed Roland, and Live’s Ed Kowalczyk on a big ass boat, with “opportunities to get up close and personal with musical guests,” I’m going to be VERY upset. One might even say I’ll fall apart if I’m not in Florida on that fateful day in October.
This is like that Everclear tour, but a million times better. Because the Verve Pipe is going to be there. But which band should you be the MOST excited to see, on a cruise boat tour, from Miami to the Bahamas, named after the frontman of Sugar Ray, who was once on The Celebrity Apprentice? Well…
#10. Live (“Lightning Crashes”)
#9. Sugar Ray (“Every Morning”)
#8. Spin Doctors (“Two Princes”)
#7. Collective Soul (“Shine”)
#6. Vertical Horizon (“Everything You Want”)
#5. Smash Mouth (“All Star”)
#4. Cracker (“Low”)
#3. Marcy Playground (“Sex and Candy”)
#2. The Verve Pipe (“The Freshmen”)
#1. Gin Blossoms (“Hey Jealously”)
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They should combine this cruise with the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise.
Ricky Ratt disagrees with you, sir
I agree they should combine them. At full speed. Above the Marianas Trench.
I once met a guy who literally shit his pants when he met Live’s Ed Kowalczyk in the 90′s. I cant stress this enough, the man shit his pants out of sheer shock and excitement about meeting the lead singer of Live. No lie.
Was his name Al?
Come on, Josh. You are better than this.
First of all, “I Alone” is the best Live song.
Secondly, “The Freshman” makes me want to kill myself.
C.) Whenever making a list, Smash Mouth should be last in said list. Unless the list is “90s Bands I’d Like to Strangle with Piano Wire.”
Fourth, Gin Blossoms are just a poor man’s, 90s version of The Outfield.
So, here’s the *real rankings:
1.) Live
2.) Cracker
3.) Collective Soul
4.) Spin Doctors
5.) Sugar Ray
10.) (tie) All the other bands listed.
*THIS CAN NOT BE DENIED! However, I welcome the opportunity to debate this on the Lido deck over beers on this very cruise.
Smash Mouth would be #1 on the list of bands that have released cook books with Guy Fieri. Just saying.
Tom,
Ok – I’m putting them at #11 now.
By the way, I went to a Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, Live show about 4 years ago and it was pretty good. I found it odd that Live headlined/went last, however. Maybe they switch off different nights of the tour?
Cracker might just be the most underrated band of that decade.
Yep. Cracker would be the reason I’d endure the other bands on that list.
I once paid real money to see Live open for Counting Crows. Also, “Follow You Down” > “Hey, Jealousy”. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go watch VH1 Classic.
And I now have Two Princes stuck in my head for another decade…
Can’t pirates intercept all of these rock cruises and hold the captive? Or maybe a super rogue wave topples one of them and we get a new FOX program involving celebrities surviving the disaster.
1) I want to go on this cruise
2) First band that says “this is one from our new album” goes the fuck overboard
3) What the hell am I going to do for the other 3 days and 23 hours?
4) When Sugar Ray is playing all I am going to do is scream “Play Mean Machine!”
5) Needs more Black Crowes
Oh:
6) If the Crash Test Dummies were there I would probably get kicked off the boat because I would just follow the lead singer around telling him innocuous non-rhyming stories in a deep Canadian voice.
Okay, that’s it.
I know that in retrospect the 70′s sucked a lot more ass than we thought it did at the time, but I don’t want to hear another word about how bad the music of *our* adolescence was.
You with me, Moose?
The Gin Blossoms should never top any “best of” list. Also, have to agree there are a multitude of better Live songs to pick from, including Iris and I Alone.
the Gin Blossoms are underrated as fuck