Me and my mates cranked this for the memes in middle school. We cranked reel big fish and Thursday for real =p.

THREW AWAY MY REPUTATION ONE MORE SONG FOE THE RADIO STATION

I think you had to be in the pop-punk world to be aware of them. I often caught them live secondarily as support for another band. Outside of that, people didn’t really know who they were. I do recall Stuck in America getting some burn on MTV at the time. The general consensus about them was “meh” as there were a lot of contemporaries doing something similar and often times, better.

I think after Pretty Girl (The Way) they kind of faded away from whatever public consciousness there was about the band—at least, I stopped seeing them mentioned as much after that.

Looking back now and not being a little shithead "scene" kid I can better appreciate their hits. At the time, admitting you liked them wasn't "cool" and you would have probably classified their hit singles as "guilty pleasures."

Tbh , I heard the name and ignored the music. Never heard it again until now.

My friends & I in high school loved Sugarcult, but I would only say they were moderately popular.

I liked them! Memory was one of the bigger hits...I remember seeing the video on Fuse a lot (the MTV for punk/emo music in the early 2000s). They were not huge, like Blink, Sum 41, Alkaline Trio, AFI, etc., but I'd say they were known (or their hits, at least) by the crowd into that non-mainstream music.

I’m 2002 grad. I’m totally off to listen to them now…

I think my intro to them was Memory on a punk goes acoustic compilation album. But hard agree with a generic AAR comparison

I’ve never been a gamer but loved that game and that soundtrack killed.

Does Mest fall under the same umbrella?

Same realm as New Found Glory/Motion City Soundtrack but not as popular even. I don't think they even received airplay on Canadian radio at all, other than the occasional time on college stations maybe.

I was in high school 2001-2005 and I’ve never heard of them. Just looked them up and have heard the song bouncing off the walls, it’s not good and I can see why they were never hugely popular based on this one song.

Definitely can't read traffic signs.

I almost never heard them on the radio, only ever in specific places. For comparison sake, I'd say Lit was a bit bigger.

If you have heard any of their songs, it would be one of:

• Memory

• She's the Blade

• Bouncing off the Walls

Granted it's quite likely you haven't heard any of those songs, but if you wanted to check those would be the songs to check.

Bouncing off the Walls was everywhere, but you probably didn't know the band's name. Just within their genre, they were competing against Blink 182, Sum 41, Offspring, and Green Day. They also would've been overshadowed by Evanescence, Seether, Shinedown, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, Puddle of Mudd, Three Doors Down, System of a Down, Godsmack, Nickelback, Saliva, and Breaking Benjamin on pop radio and music video channels. And that's only their competition from the rock genre, plenty of rap and r&b was on the pop channels as well.

I'd probably put Sugarcult on par with a band like Bowling for Soup or Smashmouth, minus Smashmouth's extended longevity as a meme. A couple widely recognized songs, probably enough success to make a decent living, but never getting enough traction to really become famous.

Yea I think that’s why they weren’t as popular if they had come out when those bands were popular(like 02 to 04) then they would have probably been a bigger success.

Not very big, but God DAMN did they release some bangers. Palm Trees and Powerlines is such a good album.

I was really into them in highschool but I didn’t know many people who listened to them, I think bands like good charlotte, sum 41, simple plan that had similar music were alot more popular but I think it’s because they came out when that type of music was really popular and sugar cult was a bit earlier so may be why it’s not as popular since they hit the scene early. Also I should note i was 14 when their first album came out so just starting highschool. Also thanks for making me feel old 😂

They weren’t huge. My friends who were into pop punk knew them, but no one else did.

I saw them when they were supporting Good Charlotte (I think) at a mid size venue and then on their own tour at a tiny venue in London.

I was listening to a lot of new music at that time, and I have never heard of them.

Never had any hits that crossed over into pop radio and never really excelled within their own genre either.

They had fairly decent radio & mtv play for a year or 2 so they did better than a large chunk of pop punk bands. From a ‘main stream’ perspective At one point they were In The same breath of the 2nd tier of early aughts pop punk bands like sum41, new found glory, jimmy eat world and yellowcard but all those bands kept climbing and sugar cult stayed stagnant and (at least in my mind) remained in the crop of ‘1 hit wonder-ish” rock bands like unwritten law & red jump suit apparatus

Saw them at a radio fest show in 2002 on a killer lineup of: ok go, breaking Benjamin, sugarcult, NFG, and jimmy eat world headlining.

Met the singers of both sugarcult & NFG that night and they were both dicks.

Who?

Don’t forget about the Offspring. They were huge and on a punk label at the time.

I still turn on pretty girl when I’m feeling extra angsty