While we were getting high on scoring Oasis Live ’25 tickets and trying to sort out the hotel scene in East Rutherford, Sponge have taken on a more impactful approach in saluting the reunited Britpop titans: The alt-rock band has covered “Supersonic” as part of a covers album that throws it back to ’94.
Sponge had two of the more unfuckwithable songs of the ’90s in “Plowed” and “Molly (Sixteen Candles),” which both sound as lethal as they did three decades ago when the hits helped launch the band’s debut record Rotting Piñata. Now the Detroit veterans are throwing it back to that year with a 30th anniversary reissue of that release and a year-specific covers record, appropriately titled 1994. It drops October 18 on Cleopatra.
“I’ve never been a big fan of doing covers, but Cleopatra, the label out of L.A., asked us to do a covers record,” vocalist Vin Dombroski tells the Detroit News. “To come up with songs, we went through Billboard, Spin’s top 100 songs from 1994, and digging deep to see what was popular in 1994.”
They had a lot to choose from.
And as a result, the record boasts a pretty wild track list. Sponge’s 1994 features takes on Blur’s “Girls & Boys”; Morrissey’s “The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get” (watch the video); Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You”; and familiars from Alice in Chains (“No Excuses”); Stone Temple Pilots (“Interstate Love Song”), and Sonic Youth (“Bull in the Heather”). There also seems to be Danzig’s “Can’t Speak” on the Spotify pre-save page, as well as Urge Overkill’s Pulp Fiction OST rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon.”
But given the recent reunion news, we’re especially feeling this Oasis cover.
“You’ll be feeling Supersonic when you give our version of this Oasis jam a spin!” declares the band on Facebook.
Grab a gin and tonic and dive right in.