Got You (Where I Want You)

The Flys were the sons of a surfing legend, and the song that made them famous sounds exactly like that sounds. Adam and Joshua Paskowitz — children of Doc Paskowitz, whom the New York Times called the First Family of Surfing — formed the band in Hollywood in 1994. They spent the next four years playing every venue that would have them before producer Chris Goss (Queens of the Stone Age, Masters of Reality) shaped their sound into something with genuine commercial shape.

Got You (Where I Want You) arrived in July 1998 on the Disturbing Behavior soundtrack and simultaneously on the band's debut album Holiday Man. Its opening guitar figure is deceptively simple — a descending line that sits somewhere between Nirvana's melodic grunge and something warmer, more California. Adam Paskowitz has described the lyric as being about a friend's clumsy, desperate attempts to pick up a woman in a bar, which explains the gap between how yearning it sounds and how awkward the words actually are. That tension is the song.

The music video, directed by Wayne Isham, featured Katie Holmes and James Marsden at the height of their Disturbing Behavior fame — a piece of late-1990s cross-promotion that turned out to be more enduring than the film it promoted. The song reached number five on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in December 1998. Spin ranked it 28th among the best alternative rock songs of the year, praising the "rap-reggae breakdown that's straight out of Pacific Sunwear." The Flys never replicated its success. They went on hiatus in 2012, briefly revived in 2024. The song remains, unbothered by any of that.