Sugar Ray - Floored • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

metal for your mutha ("RPM"), California-brand dance-hall reggae ("Fly," with toaster Super Cat). "Floored" even comes with the kind of wacky '80s-New Wave cover ("Stand and Deliver," by Adam and the Ants) that makes Morning Zoo DJs turn pink with delight. The cumulative effect of this overreach, though, is that "Floored" feels like an A&R strategy come to life, with all formats and bases covered.

"Fush Yu Mang" (rude-boy Esperanto for "Fuck You Man?") is no more serious than "Floored" but more fun -- if you think there's a place in the world for a band that has both Black Flag and Madness on the brain. Smash Mouth don't beat around the bush -- "Fuck it, let's rock" -- and rarely stray far from ska-thrash basics. But they could be onto something with the bubblegum funk of "Walkin' on the Sun." If you're gon