History Music / SugarRay

* GenreShift: Sugar Ray are a pretty opportunistic band, evidenced by the fact that when their {{Funk}}[=/=]HeavyMetal[=/=]HipHop hybrid never really got them anywhere, they jumped at the chance to reestablish themselves as the definitive summery pop outfit. It's nearly impossible to reconcile ''Music For Cougars'' as the same band that did ''Floored.''
* GreatestHitsAlbum: Despite having their most impact as a singles band, there's only one to date, simply titled ''The Best Of Sugar Ray.''

Critics and fans immediately predicted the band as a OneHitWonder, so responding to claims that their FifteenMinutesOfFame were up, the band spitefully named their 1999 album ''14:59.'' The album surprised people by almost completely dropping the heavy sound in favour of a more upbeat, {{Pop}}-influenced sound. The move paid off handsomely as the album outsold its predecessor, and spawned the hits "Every Morning," "Someday" and "Falls Apart." Reestablished, the band continued in this vein for their SelfTitledAlbum (2001) (which had the minor hit "When Its Over") and ''In The Pursuit Of Leisure'' (2003), while still maintaining producer David Kahne.

-->"Every Morning"

Sugar Ray are a AlternativeMetal / NuMetal turned Pop Rock band who had their biggest success in TheNineties, and are mainly famous for, besides a string of fondly-remembered radio staples, making one of the biggest stylistic turnarounds in popular music, after the lite-pop ditty “Fly” became a chart smash.

The band first formed under the name of "Shrinky Dinks", but changed their name to Sugar Ray. They made their name fusing HipHop and HardRock, established with their 1995 debut ''Lemonade And Brownies,'' produced by [[Music/HouseOfPain DJ]] [[Music/LimpBizkit Lethal]] and future director [=McG=]. The album never really made much headway, but Creator/AtlanticRecords gave them a second chance, on the condition that they hire a big name producer. The band immediately chose David Kahne, after hearing his work with Music/{{Sublime}}, and in 1997 they unleashed their more famous second album, ''Floored.'' The album further developed their rock stylings, incorporating PunkRock, {{Funk}} and {{Reggae}}, and also giving the world the immortal “Fly,”[[note]]Which features Reggae artist Super Cat in one version of the song.[[/note]] not only the band’s first hit, but a Billboard #1 airplay hit at that. At the time, the song was the definitive BlackSheepHit, a light, breezy pop number and one of the few breathers on an album full of heavy rock, and so refreshing was the song at the time, it helped the album go double platinum.

Critics and fans immediately predicted the band as a OneHitWonder, so responding to claims that their FifteenMinutesOfFame were up, the band spitefully named their 1999 album ''14:59.'' The album surprised people by almost completely dropping the heavy sound in favour of a more upbeat, {{Pop}}-influenced sound. The move paid off handsomely as the album outsold its predecessor, and spawned the hits “Every Morning,” “Someday” and “Falls Apart.” Reestablished, the band continued in this vein for their SelfTitledAlbum (2001) (which had the minor hit "When Its Over") and ''In The Pursuit Of Leisure'' (2003), while still maintaining producer David Kahne.

In 2004, lead singer Mark [=McGrath=] got a job as an anchor on ''Extra,'' and since then, they’ve only been able to put aside time for a 2005 compilation, ''The Best Of Sugar Ray,'' the song "Into Yesterday" for the ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' soundtrack, and one new record, ''Music For Cougars,'' in 2009. Meanwhile, Mark, alongside Music/{{Everclear}} singer Art Alexakis, were the nucleus for the Summerland Tour, a festival filled with 90s bands that had “at least had a big hit or two” such as Music/MarcyPlayground, Music/GinBlossoms and Lit. The two had CreativeDifferences, however, and Mark spun off his own 90s revival tour called Under The Sun. In 2010, Mark started hosting ''Series/DontForgetTheLyrics'' for a couple years.

!!Every morning there’s a trope list hanging from the corner of my girlfriend’s four-post bed…

* TheCameo: Mark shows up in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJD1Iwy5lUY “If Google Was A Guy, Part 3”]] to ask if Sugar Ray is “ironically cool yet.”

* CoverVersion: Steve Miller Band’s "Abracadabra", Adam Ant's "Stand And Deliver", and Joe Jackson’s "Is She Really Going Out With Him."

** It’s pretty weird now to think of Mark [=McGrath=] fronting an AlternativeMetal band, but Sugar Ray in 1995 were just that. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE1ZmvjP_E This]] is the same band that did "Someday."

* FanserviceCover[=/=]SexyPackaging: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_and_Brownies#mediaviewer/File:SR-LemonadeAndBrownies.jpg Lemonade And Brownies.]]'' That’s actually Nicole Eggert, aka Summer Quinn from ''Series/{{Baywatch}}.''

* GreatestHitsAlbum: Despite having their most impact as a singles band, there’s only one to date, simply titled ''The Best Of Sugar Ray.''

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 6-7 for their first two albums, (barring "Fly," which is a soft 3) and 3-4 (and occasionally, 5) for most of their music thereafter. "New Direction," being a parody of death metal, is a 9 or 10.

Sugar Ray are a NuMetal turned Pop Rock band who had their biggest success in TheNineties, and are mainly famous for, besides a string of fondly-remembered radio staples, making one of the biggest stylistic turnarounds in popular music, after the lite-pop ditty “Fly” became a chart smash.

Sugar Ray are an AlternativeMetal turned Pop Rock band who had their biggest success in TheNineties, and are mainly famous for, besides a string of fondly-remembered radio staples, making one of the biggest stylistic turnarounds in popular music, after the lite-pop ditty “Fly” became a chart smash.

Sugar Ray are an AlternativeRock turned {{Pop}} band who had their biggest success in TheNineties, and are mainly famous for, besides a string of fondly-remembered radio staples, making one of the biggest stylistic turnarounds in popular music, after the lite-pop ditty “Fly” became a chart smash.

* GenreShift: Sugar Ray are a pretty opportunistic band, evidenced by the fact that when their {{Funk}}[=/=]{{Metal}}[=/=]HipHop hybrid never really got them anywhere, they jumped at the chance to reestablish themselves as the definitive summery pop outfit. It's nearly impossible to reconcile ''Music For Cougars'' as the same band that did ''Floored.''

* NewSoundAlbum: ''14:59'' is a particularly polarizing example, abandoning almost everything they started with in ''Lemonade & Brownies''. Their SelfTitledAlbum and ''In The Pursuit Of Leisure'' continued this trend. "Leisure" gave their sound into a more Caribbean feel