Artist: Sponge
Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Wax Ecstatic
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Rotting Pinata
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Sponge was matchless of the more underrated groups in the post-grunge gold rushing of the mid-'90s. When they were on summit of their game -- as on the hits "Plowed" and "Mollie (16 Candles)" -- their songs had a bent grass for jangling riffs and attention-getting, anthemic hard rock-and-roll meat hooks, contempt organism wrapped in the fuzzy guitars and contemplativeness seriousness of grunge. Sponge grew out of a Detroit-based hard rock play called Loudhouse, which released an album on Virgo in 1988 ahead getting dropped and break up. Drummer-turned-vocalist Vinnie Dombrowski (natural Mark Dombrowski) and guitarists Microphone Sweep and Joey Mazzola regrouped as Cadge in 1992, adding Mike's brother Tim Cross on bass and Jimmy Paluzzi on drums. Adapting their '70s firmly john Rock influences to stand for the shit zeitgeist, Grub earned a major-label deal with Columbia and released their debut album, Decomposition Pinata, in former 1994. Critics compared them unfavourably to Stone Temple Pilots, just now choice radio embraced the band's kickoff deuce singles, the driving rocker "Ploughed" and the jangly, introverted "Molly (XVI Candles)." A third base scoop, "Rainin'," too earned airplay, and Decomposition Pinata went gold; in the meanwhile, Sponge went on circuit as Live's opening act. With freshly drummer Charlie Grover in towage, their 1996 follow-up record album, Rise Ecstatic, was a more diverse mixer juncture, rediscovering or so of the band's roots in sports stadium st. John the Apostle John Rock, British people glam, and jingle pop. Just even though songs like "Full Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)," "I Am Anastasia," and "Have You Seen Mary" landed or so receiving set airplay, Columbia was disgruntled with the gross sales figures and dropped Sponge at one time the record album left the charts. Undaunted, Sponge signed a newfangled deal with the Beyond label, which released the more classicist New Pop Sun in 1999. It attracted little commercial message attention, and to a greater extent personnel department shifts ensued. Tired of touring, the Cross brothers both left hand and were replaced by guitarist Kurt Marschke and bassist Tim Krukowski; Nightstick President Adams also came on board as the freshly drummer. After several long time of recharging -- during which fourth dimension Dombrowski played in various Detroit-area side projects -- Sponge returned with For All the Drugs in the World in 2003 and Human in 2005 on the Idol judge. Dombrowski reworked the batting order once once more, adding guitarists Kyle Neely and Andy Patalan, earlier returning once to a greater extent to the studio in 2007 to record Galore Galore for Bellum Records.
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