"All I Want" is a song by American
alternative rock band
Toad the Wet Sprocket from their 1991 album, Fear. "All I Want" was Toad the Wet Sprocket's first successful song. It became one of their most well-known songs, reaching the top 20 on the US
Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart.
Composition
On the song's content, singer Glen Phillips said, "It's very much about how fleeting any kind of epiphany is. It's all about the moment passing very, very quickly and how there's a desire to hold onto it. That would be a constant, but it comes and it goes, and it goes very quickly."[4]
Track listings
US CD and cassette single, UK 7-inch single[5][6][7]
In 2005, the song was added onto the
Nickelodeon soundtrack, Zoey 101: Music Mix as the 10th track, along with other songs that were featured in Nickelodeon's Zoey 101.
^All I Want (US cassette single sleeve). Toad the Wet Sprocket. Columbia Records. 1992. 38t 74355.{{
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^Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 282.