Memory was their biggest song

More like the Target version. Marginally better, but neither were great.

Check out the Chi-Fi offerings from KZ and Moondrop.

I think it depends where you were from and how into the pop punk / emo scene you were. If you’re a normal pop / top 40s person they were a blip on the radar. If you were into the “scene” went from seeing them in tiny clubs to being on MTV and playing festivals you have a different perspective.

i agree that it's being generous. If i was seeing a concert and looked at the poster, Blink 182 or someone would have been headlining, so they had the top billing and HUGE letters... Sugarcult would have been in the bands where they git 30 bands in the same amount of space as the headline at a 10 font.

I thought AAR was the Walmart version of AAR

https://youtu.be/aN4oTmRZBIM

She's the blade and you're just paaaaperrrr

You keep crying, crying, crying till you can not sleep at all.

I have no memory of them.

They never really made it as big as many other bands of that scene but they had some really nice produced records, and the singer is a great producer now as well

I was a teen in their heyday. I could tell you the name of one song, and only because it was on the radio. They were the walmart version of All American Rejects.

Memory was a decent sized hit in 2003-2004. I fucking LOVE it’s parent album “Palm Trees and Powerlines” to this day.

Keep in mind there was no internet as you think of it today...kids and teenagers got all their music recommendations from MTV and the radio. If you were really into music you might pick up magazines or hang out at the record store to listen to a bunch of random things.

Pop music was dominated by boy bands and a whole bunch of cheese in the late 90s. Then Green Day and Blink-182 blew up on MTV...it was vulgar, aggressive, and appealed to teens sick of the bubblegum pop. Record labels do what they do anytime a style becomes big and sucked up every pop punk band they could. Sum 41, Sugarcult, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and a hundred others. Those are the bands that got promoted (still "pre-internet") and fed to teens as the next big thing.

Is OP secretly a member of Sugarcult looking for an “I told you so!” to tell his kids?

>I was born in '05

Fuuuuuuuuck I'm old.

I don't recall them being huge at any point. Doubt they were headlining arena tours but may have been doing the theater circuit

They were known to people who looked up the soundtracks to Van Wilder or American Wedding. I loved em, but would never have known about them without those movies.

Music scene and "popularity" was different then since not everyone had a great internet connection and we were still at the tail end of the brick and mortar stores selling CDs. It also varied depending on your region because getting a single on the radio or on whatever music tv channel in your local market was dependent on record company marketing strategy and budget whereas now anyone with a popular enough YouTube following can self publish and get millions of views. Lots of pop punk bands at the time like Sugarcult such that they were dime a dozen: Lit, Treble Charger, American Hi Fi, All American Rejects, Sum 41 etc etc. because record companies were really cashing in. Listen to basically any teen comedy soundtrack of the 2000s and its all gonna be this type of stuff. Sugarcult had a couple international singles and then dropped off the face of the Earth from what I remember.

It was just such a perfect match for the vibe of the time.

It was a really optimistic time in a lot of senses. A world of primary colors (before everything gradually got darker with 9/11 and the resulting war on terror propaganda), and the music mirrored that perfectly.

Smash Mouth's All Star video is almost like a Rembrant painting of what the mood was as a teenager back then. Ha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

Green Dey was the first gigantic punk band of the 90s. A lot of kids, including myself, learned to play because of them. Blink was another huge band that got tons of kids playing. Those two bands were responsible for a LOT of rock music in the late 90s through the 2000s.

Not very big.

Skateboarding culture.

That fight was as real as wrestling. Remember the 98th rule of acquisition, every man has his price.

Having a song in Van Wilder was their peak, which they rode through the next 2-3 years with a few more hits like Pretty Girl and Memory. I never saw them in concert but still have 4-5 of their songs in rotation.

So bigger than your average one hit wonder, but not by much.