How Did You Get Into Reel Big Fish?

[Blood-Hawk]

I got into Reel Big Fish over time. First was the first 2 songs I heard were Scott's a Dork and Alternative, Baby that I got off the internet a couple years ago. Then I heard Awesome on Waterman Episode 8 (A Flash Cartoon) and bought my first RBF album, Cheer Up! at precisely 3:46 in the morning at a Fred Meyer in Oregon. Been addicted ever since.

[Admin]

I was speaking to someone on msn and they were listening to them, then I decided to check out some of there music… since then i've become a RBF Fanatic…

[Marukosu]

Coupla years ago, guy named Ben came to my school. I think he left his mp3 player so I went to give it to him. Ban The Tube Top started playing. Ska never stopped after that day.

[Bradley Awesome]

My friend James started a Ska band when he was in High School, and I heard them cover 4 of RBF's songs. It was a glorious day. I went out and bought two of their albums the next day.

[ReelBigCohen]

I was at a friends house and they put on "She Has A Girlfriend Now." I thought it was super terrible and stupid so I told him to turn it off. Later in the future but not too long I went to another friend's house and we hung around in his room listening to his burned C.D. of sorts and wouldn't you know the same song came on but this time I actually wanted to listen to it. So i did…………9 times in a row. Ever since then I have had Reel Bigh Fish running through my veins. Im just glad I nkwo I am the biggest fan!

[Big ****ing Fan]

There used to be a channel on TV here in the UK called P-rock that used to play all sorts of punk that all the mainstrem channels would not have dreamed of playing.One day Sell Out came on and it amazed me that there could be a music as good as this!Also i thought the video was super funny!That weekend i went out and got Cheer up and Turn the radio off.P-rock closed down after about 2 months but my love of Reel Big Fish and all things Ska lives on!

[TheSetUp]

when i was in p5 (about 9 years old) my sister played me Sell Out and Beer on the computer because she'd heard them played at a club… loved them ever since xD

[djcheddar]

in 96 in 10th grade, I saw the video for Sell Out and I couldn't stop laughing! and I freakin loved the sound! It was really new to me at the time. I went out and bought the CD and the rest followed…

[schneiderrrrr]

i got into reel big fish during my freshman year of high school. like, everyone in our school band listens to ska, o i decided to check it out. and i've been obsessed ever since.

[beejnnoz04]

I don't remember… Seriously. Maybe like there was a song on a mix CD? I remember I actually bought my first CD of theirs about 4 years ago. Not sure how long I knew about them before that.

[AlternativeBaby]

its pretty simple. i heard sell out on the radio and went out and bought the cd and have been completley addicted ever since.

[mr.ska-tastic]

8th grade, cousin's grad party, cruisin' around the small town of Harbor Springs with WDTRSH in the CD player. Considering I live in a town of about 2,000 people and I'm surrounded by farmland, it was a surprise to hear something this great. Even got a friend hooked after I bought TTRO and WDTRSH.

[MobiusRBF]

i got into Reel Big Fish during my freshman year(2005-2006)…i was on Newgrounds watching an animation collaboration based on video games…the song that it was set to was We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful..been hooked ever since

[Blood-Hawk]

I've seen that one, Awesome vid.

[SkaChick3]

[color=#000000]Back in '96 a friend played TTRO for me.. and so it began. I became the girl everyone knew who liked RBF. I've had many good times and made many memories with them along the way, and hopefully there's more to come![/color]

[SkaBoss]

Got into them around seventh or eighth grade, was into them for a little while, stopped listening around the time We're Not Happy came out, and then got way, way into them again once the live album was released, and have remained that way ever since.

[breastimplants]

This forum trips me out. Everyone here is WAY too friendly.

My sister got a burned copy of Cheer Up! in whatever year it was released which i borrowed. I still have that CD in my room and it's never left. Since then i pretty much just bought all the RBF stuff i could get my hands on.

[Punk Rock Karl]

I'm gonna say 97, but it could've been 96. Heard Sell Out on the raido and been a RBF addict ever since.

[Admin]

That's exactly how I heard of them. I think it was 96 'cause I remember turning 18 that year

[quote1193075924=Punk Rock Karl]
I'm gonna say 97, but it could've been 96. Heard Sell Out on the raido and been a RBF addict ever since.
[/quote1193075924]

[Samu]

I started a band woth some friends (4 years ago? 5?) and they suggested we played she has a girlfriend now to start. Now we are almost a rbf cover band. Not only, but also.

[Surly]

Err, my friend played me Turn The Radio Off and I thought it was crap.

Then for some reason, I was out buying a Less Than Jake album but they didn't have it anymore. Cheer Up had JUST come out and there were lots of copies, so I bought that. Then the rest.

I don't really know why I bought it, since I thought they were crap. But, i'm glad I did.

[Desensitized]

Someone told me they were better than Less Than Jake, so I went out and bought the TTRO and White Trash (this was before Cheer Up) and they grew on me. But I really became a fan when I heard Cheer Up! Still my favorite RBF album.

[Blood-Hawk]

lol, almost the same

forgot to mention I listened to less than jake before I got into Ska in general

[airmancoop44]

BASEketball. Bought the soundtrack. Loved RBF. Bought Cheer Up! right when it came out. Became an instand fan and bought the rest of their albums.

[madamadam]

I got into them through my older sister's copy of Cheer Up!, she's not such a big fan anymore (of course she still likes them), but I've never stopped listening to them since.

[Admin]

I got into them cos your mum put them on while we were fucking. We were going so long that I'd heard the whole album and I loved it!

[Big ****ing Fan]

Great story!

[kettner3000]

I borrowed my friend’s copy of TTRO in ’97. I skipped Sell Out, for some odd reason, and went straight into Trendy: That will forever be my favorite song. Since then, I’ve bought every album on release day, seen then too many times to count, turned my back on them for awhile, and now I’m back, energized as ever.

Also, BUMP

[Gabriel Redondo]

when i had like 9 years or something (1998) my brother had a ska-punk band, and the singer had a trip to USA and he brought a copy of Why Do they Rock so hard?, when he came back to Venezuela, in a rehearsal he played The Set Up. i love it and love the band since.

bump++;

[CannonBall]

Back in the 90s I used to pirate music the old fashioned way, I would tape-record songs off the radio that I liked. Sell Out was mixed in with a bunch of other songs I liked, but I didn’t know it was RBF or really do anything other than listen to those songs. Then, during the summer of ska in ’97, I got to see RBF perform live on the MTV sports and music festival or something (I wasn’t there, just watched them on TV) and I also recorded that to VHS tape, still have it somewhere along with a bunch of other bootleg live shows I bought from brownlabel.com back in the day.

At this point I still wasn’t obsessed with them. The obsession started when they came to Santa Cruz and I got to see them play live with The Aquabats (when travis barker was still in the band) and from that point forward I became obsessed, started my own band blatantly ripping off their style.

Wow, that’s like 16 years. Crazy how some things stick with you so long. At this point I still like TTRO, WDTRSH and CU the most, everything after that is just a different direction that never really appealed to me.

[Author]

Posts