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"3AM" (stylized as "3 am" on the album and "3 AM" on the single) is the third single and the third track from American rock band Matchbox 20's debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You (1996). Written by Rob Thomas , Jay Stanley, John Leslie Goff, and Brian Yale , the song was inspired by Thomas dealing with his mother's cancer as a teenager.
Yourself or Someone Like You is the debut album by American rock band Matchbox 20. It was released on October 1, 1996, [ 8 ] by Lava Records and Atlantic Records . The album has been certified 12× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America .
Matchbox Twenty (stylized as Matchbox 20) is an American rock band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995.The group currently consists of Rob Thomas (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Brian Yale (bass guitar), Paul Doucette (drums, rhythm guitar, backing vocals), and Kyle Cook (lead guitar, vocals).
The video album Show: A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty was released in May 2004, topping the Billboard Top Video Albums chart. [5] [9] Following a hiatus to allow lead singer Rob Thomas to focus on his solo career, Matchbox Twenty reunited to record six new songs for a compilation album. [10]
The reunited Matchbox Twenty has also lost some of the internal spikiness of the past, adding a more collaborative feel. “Nobody’s precious anymore and nobody is quick to anger anymore ...
The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 with 178,000 copies sold. Although not as commercially successful as the band's two earlier records, Yourself or Someone Like You and Mad Season, it had a large radio presence and produced three consecutive singles in the United States, all of them charting onto the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Matchbox Twenty brought their hits, and some new material, to Walnut Creek Wednesday night. Matchbox Twenty is back on the road. See photos from ‘Slow Dream Tour’ in Raleigh
"Don't Get Me Wrong" was one of the few Matchbox Twenty songs that Thomas wrote with outside writers. Originally written for another potential solo album, the band chose the song as a song they wanted to record even prior to the band wanting to record a full-length album.