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All I Want (Toad the Wet Sprocket song)
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Wikipedia article
"'All I Want'" is a song by American alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket from their 1991 album, 'Fear'. "All I Want" was Toad the Wet Sprocket's first successful song. It became one of their most well-known songs, reaching the top 20 on the US 'Billboard' Hot 100 and the Canadian 'RPM' Top Singles chart.
Composition
On the song's content, singer Glen Phillips said, "It's very much about how fleeting any kind of epiphany is. It's all about the moment passing very, very quickly and how there's a desire to hold onto it. That would be a constant, but it comes and it goes and it goes very quickly."
Track listings
'US CD and cassette single, UK 7-inch single'
# "All I Want" 3:15
# "All She Said" 3:47
'Australian CD single'
# "All I Want" 3:15
# "Hold Her Down" 3:07
'European CD single'
# "All I Want" 3:15
# "Hold Her Down" 3:07
# "Come Back Down" 3:19
# "One Little Girl" 3:26
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Cover versions
Post-hardcore band Emery recorded a cover of the song, which was included on the 2006 compilation 'Punk Goes 90's'.
In popular culture
The song was featured in the TV series 'Doogie Howser, M.D.', 'Dawson's Creek', 'Reunion' and 'Homeland'.
In 2005, the song was added onto the Nickelodeon soundtrack, 'Zoey 101: Music Mix' as the 10th track, along with other songs that were featured in Nickelodeon's 'Zoey 101'.
References
Category:1991 songs
Category:1992 singles
Category:Columbia Records singles
Category:Songs written by Glen Phillips (singer)
Category:Toad the Wet Sprocket songs
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