Old Habits recorded

Smash Mouth’s fifth studio album, originally to be titled Old Habits , was recorded in 2005 and expected to be released in early 2006. The band had said that the album was much more like the ska punk featured on Fush Yu Mang and The East Bay Sessions . In September 2005, the band performed what was tentatively going to be the album’s first single, “Getaway Car”, on Last Call with Carson Daly . The album was delayed many times, in the hope of gaining publicity with Harwell’s appearance on the reality show The Surreal Life . Smash Mouth returned to the studio intent on improving the record. Old Habits was shelved, replaced by Summer Girl , which included some remixed Old Habits tracks as well as new songs. After being delayed in much the same way Old Habits was for several months, the album was released on September 19, 2006. Smash Mouth let Sony Pictures use much of their music from Summer Girl and other songs for the movie Zoom , whose opening titles credit the film’s music to the band.