10 Hated Rock Songs That Are Actually Really Good

10. Walking on the Sun - Smash Mouth

With years of hindsight, we can all collectively admit that the '90s got more than a little bit weird, right? In just a few short years, we went through the entire reign of grunge to pop punk to the lounge revival and the swing revival, and capping everything off with nu metal towards the end of things. Anything went around this time, and most people have not looked back all that fondly on Smash Mouth.

Though the memes behind the band have become more powerful than the band themselves in recent years, Walking in the Sun is still a fantastic little pop song from around this time, having that same kind of smarminess that made the '90s so good back in the day. Hell, from the opening notes, this almost sounds like a take on someone like the Doors from the '60s, until the lyrics come in and give you a pretty dire picture of what's going on around you.

There's still that little bit of goofiness from the time though, down to the chorus lines of supplies running out, almost like you're listening to some sort of infomercial ad on TV. This was the way we played it back in the day though, where rock stars claimed to be above the more superficial side of stardom. If you still have All Star etched into your brain, all of the pieces are still there. Once you dig a little deeper, this is a nice little time capsule of what we were all up to just before Y2K came in.