1997 Smash Mouth released their debut album Fush Yu Mang. The title of the album was taken from a line slurred by Al Pacino in Scarface. The first single was the last added to the album, "Walkin' on the Sun" Smash Mouth guitarist Greg Camp said about it, "It was written during the whole Rodney King thing. The song was basically a social and racial battle cry. It was a sort of "Can't we all get along?" song for the time when I wrote it. It was just about all the things that were going on around me as a young person. And I'm, like, God, what is going on? I don't understand why this is happening. It's like we might as well be walking around a planet on fire. And that's how it came about."
It made #2 on the Radio Songs and Mainstream Top 40 chart and #6 Adult Alternative, #1 Adult top 40 and Alternative Airplay, and #13 Mainstream Rock.
Next was a remake of War's "Why Can't We Be Friends," it made #28 on the Alternative Airplay chart.
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