The Impression That I Get

"The Impression That I Get"
Single by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
from the album Let's Face It and Music from the Motion Picture Digimon: The Movie
Released 1997
Format CD maxi single
Genre Ska punk
Length 3:14
Label Mercury Records
Writer(s) Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones singles chronology
"Hell of a Hat"
(1995)		 "The Impression That I Get"
(1997)		 "The Rascal King"
(1997)

"The Impression That I Get" is a song by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the lead single from their 1997 studio album Let's Face It. It is the band's most successful and popular song. The track reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. In 1998, a live version of this song appeared on Live from the Middle East. That same year, the Bosstones performed this song during their debut performance on Saturday Night Live.

Contents

Track listing

CD maxi single

  1. "The Impression That I Get" – 3:13
  2. "Desensitized" – 2:04
  3. "Is It – 2:53
  4. "Storm Hit" – 3:14

Alternate pressing

  1. "The Impression That I Get" – 3:13
  2. "Is It – 2:53
  3. "Storm Hit" – 3:14

Music

"The Impression That I Get", like their song "Where'd You Go?", is fairly characteristic of the Bosstones' ska punk style. Horns play a large role in this sound, as do the distinctive vocals of Dicky Barrett. This song is occasionally wrongly attributed to fellow ska-punk artists Reel Big Fish.

Original release

More than year before the release of Let's Face It the song appeared on Safe and Sound: A Benefit in Response to the Brookline Clinic Violence [1], an album released in response to the slayings of two abortion clinic workers in two different clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts on December 30, 1995, and received heavy play on Boston radio throughout 1996.

Use in other media

"The Impression That I Get" was featured in several films including Step Brothers, Chasing Amy, Clueless, Krippendorf's Tribe, Fathers' Day and Digimon: The Movie. It was also included in the Activision video game Band Hero, the Namco game Taiko: Drum Master and the Nintendo game Donkey Konga.

The current theme song of the reality show America's Funniest Home Videos is arranged and inspired by the song and both songs appeared in the same year.

The song was featured in TV spots for the upcoming Adam Sandler film Jack and Jill.

Charts

Chart (1997) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart[1] 26
Canadian RPM Alternative 30[2] 1
US Billboard Pop 100 19
US Billboard Adult Top 40 17
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[3] 1

See also

References

  1. ^ "Top Singles - Volume 66, No. 5, October 06 1997". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3348&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
  2. ^ "Rock/Alternative - Volume 65, No. 11, May 19 1997". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8286&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
  3. ^ "The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/song/the-mighty-mighty-bosstones/the-impression-that-i-get/655130. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 

External links

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Dicky Barrett · Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton · Ben Carr · Joe Gittleman · Lawrence Katz · Joe Sirois · Chris Rhodes · Kevin Lenear
Nate Albert · Dennis Brockenborough · Josh Dalsimer · Roman Fleysher · Tim Bridewell

Discography
Studio albums
EPs and other releases
Singles
"Someday I Suppose" · "Don't Know How to Party" · "A Man Without" · "Almost Anything Goes"  · "Last Dead Mouse" · "Detroit Rock City" · "Kinder Words" · "Pictures to Prove It" · "Hell of a Hat" · "The Impression That I Get"  · "The Rascal King" · "Royal Oil" · "Wrong Thing Right Then" · "Every Trick in the Book" · "So Sad to Say" · "She Just Happened" · "Fabled Barney and the Population" · "You Gotta Go!"