The Songs - Fall Down

This is another entry in my ongoing “songs that visited me and decided they wanted to stay” series. I hope you like these enough to become a paid subscriber, because I really need you to keep this project going.

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down

I once wrote a sketch about rock musicians, and I was trying to think of a name that would be so silly nobody would ever use it, or dream it could ever be used. So I wrote the words "Toad the Wet Sprocket." And a few years later, I was driving along the freeway in LA, and a song came on the radio, and the DJ said, "that was by Toad the Wet Sprocket," and I nearly drove off the freeway…

—Eric Idle

Perhaps the dumbest band name of all time. Let’s get that out of the way up front. That 90s slacker-don’t-give-a-fuck vibe was a real thing, so dudes weren’t thinking a lot of things through. Drugs and flannel shirts and cargo shorts were everywhere, and I’m pretty sure this was the time when the GAP and Old Navy started selling pre-ripped and pre-stained jeans, in the hope that maybe they’d get some placement in a Cameron Crowe movie. I could be wrong though.