Summary

Several song titles on Matchbox Twenty ’s debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You , could have summed up the record’s fateful release day: “Damn,” “Shame,” “Real World,” and “Busted.” The band awoke on Oct. 1, 1996, as 20-something rockers proudly dropping their first album, but the revelry was short-lived. “We were all really, really excited, then got a call from our manager saying our label had folded,” recalls frontman Rob Thomas .

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