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."
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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."