![]() In the long run, he ended up being grateful that he had to hit that reset button. For a month we just played it over and over and over and over, so that when we went in the studio we were ready and prepared, because it was a whole different world for us.” Then we as a band went into a storage shed and brought our gear in there. “So that was kind of like my second record in a way, and it was just a writing spree, like get it out, get it out, get it out, get it out, and get it all down. “I went and wrote the whole first record, Yourself or Someone Like You, in the five- or six-month period before we recorded it,” he told the A.V. In 2015, Thomas reflected back on his rise to popularity, calling it a “really long overnight success.” And in a 2016 conversation, he revealed that the material was penned quickly after he realized that members of his previous band owned a percentage of the songs he had already written. It feels like my flagship song, like that’s the song that started it all for me." It was a song about my mom having cancer. ![]() "It was the reason I started writing songs about my life and it was the first song I thought other people would want to hear. It was the first song I ever wrote that I liked," he said. "The fans really want it, but I share that sentiment. “3 A.M.” is a song that’s still a cornerstone for Thomas as an artist all of these years later and it’s still a staple in his live set when he plays solo shows. Thomas called her an “ingredient” in the songwriting process, but said that there were plenty of other people who had also been a contributing factor, joking that “I’m not gonna pay my third grade teacher who gave me s- about not returning Green Eggs and Ham.” ![]() An ex-girlfriend claimed that their relationship had inspired the song and she felt like she was entitled to a piece of the pie. He told Entertainment Weekly in 1997 that he wasn’t aware that lyrics like “ I wanna push you around / I wanna take you for granted” might be taken the wrong way by some people. ![]() The lyrics of “Push” generated a bit of controversy that caught Thomas by surprise at the time. “Push” and “3 A.M.” were the songs that really broke things wide open for the group and made them a household name. Any artist hopes that what they do retains some sort of timelessness." "We barely thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to make just enough to get to make another record,' let alone how we would feel if we sold 10 million. "The whole band is still shocked and humble, because early on you just wanna make a record," guitarist Kyle Cook said in a 2003 interview. Six songs from the album ended up getting substantial airplay on multiple formats, but nearly 10 years later, the band said that they hadn’t drifted very far from where they began. Yourself or Someone Like You eventually sold over 10 million copies and, for anybody who had watched the group develop over that time, there was no question that they had earned every record sale. The group turned out a strong headlining set that mixed all of the material from the album with a couple of songs that didn’t make the record and a few well-chosen covers, particularly their take on Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” As subsequent singles found an audience at radio and television, Matchbox Twenty moved into larger clubs and theaters and, by the end of the touring run, they were playing bigger theaters and even some basketball arenas. From the earliest days that the album was on the shelves, the band was out on the road, playing relentlessly at clubs and bars, touring early on with fellow baby bands the Cunninghams and Cool for August.
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