Songoftheday 10/16/23 - Feels like you made a mistake you made somebody's heart break, but now I have to let you pay I have to let you go...

 

 

"Disease" - Matchbox Twenty

from the album More Than You Think You Are (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 6

 

Today's song comes from the band Matchbox Twenty, whose second album Mad Season had spun off a #1 pop hit on Billboard's Hot 100 with "Bent" followed by a top five showing with "If You're Gone" in the beginning of 2001. At the close of the following year, the group returned with the lead single from their upcoming release More Than You Think You Are. "Disease" was written by lead singer Rob Thomas with rock legend Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, while Jagger was recording his fourth solo album Goddess In The Doorway. While another of their collaborations, "Visions Of Paradise", opens that record, Thomas was given the song back to record with his band. The lyrics have Rob confronting a partner who left him, who sullied memories of his (Lord, can I relate) and he's fighting the pangs of missing them. He declares her toxic, and bid her to go away from him to allow him to carry on, and that's pretty much it. The production from Matt Serlectic is like a rougher, more angry sequel to "Smooth". The music video puts itself on roller skates in New York City...

"Disease" returned Matchbox Twenty to the Hot 100 top-40 in December of 2002. On the radio, the song climbed to #21 on Billboard's Mainstream Top-40 radio chart, #4 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, and #5 on the Adult Album Alternative (or "Triple-A") Rock radio station list. Internationally, the single made the top-40 in Australia at #31, while stalling at #50 in the United Kingdom. The More Than You Think You Are album, released, in November of that year, came in at #6 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, spending a hefty 72 weeks on the list and selling over two million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2004, they were nominated for Best Rock Album, losing out to Foo Fighters' One By One.

Both Matchbox Twenty and the album will be back to the series.

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Here's Matchbox Twenty performing live on Letterman....

Next up, in concert in Georgia in 2003...

That same year, the band included an acoustic version for their self-titled EP, which went to #43 on the Billboard 200...

And lastly, a version for a show for Google...

Up tomorrow: Country duo extols their place of residence.