Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2000

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DESTROY THEM ALL.

I actually really like the parent album for the Green Day single here, but that's one of the weaker songs on it. Fuel wins this one, then, by default.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, June 2, 2012 1:42 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

100% otm

It felt a little sad to vote for Fuel.

Wow Otherside is so much better than that overwrought Shimmer rewrite

(hey everybody I just got out of work and here's some opinions 4 u!!!)

I listened to "Otherside" in the past week because of this poll and I can't even remember how it goes.

(I'm not really expressing great passion about "Hemorrhage", to be clear.)

how long how long must I slide

separate my thiiiiiighs
for so long
i do believe it's haaaaaair
duh duh duh udh duh duh duh frazzle

<3 that snog

:D

I like Blood Sugar Sex Magik if it makes things any better?

Maybe I just have a block with processing the RHCP as gothy mopers?

It's kind of funny that everyone who voted for Fuel seemed to do it as a 'by default' sort of deal. Maybe I should have just abstained.

I actually looked up an interview with Blink 182 to see if they pronounce "things" like that when they talk.

(They do.)

it's cool sund4r. The whole Californication album has always seemed to me like RHCP's attempt to write a whole album's worth of songs like Soul to Squeeze, which is my favorite song of theirs. I don't think they get as horrifically bland as everyone here is implying until By the Way

I also think ILX underrates the singles from One Hot Minute and am tempted to check if that album is on Spotify.

californication's a good record. but i've always hated funk RHCP.

I actually feel a little bad that all I've done here is post dismissive opinions without thinking critically about anything. Ten years ago, I hated it when people in their 30s did that about stuff I liked. So it's more interesting to hear about why people like these songs. I think I'd love to hear a defence of "Kryptonite".

lol not touching that one. i will say this:

3 Doors Down now does music for Army commercials they play before movie previews.

― LimbsKing, Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:06 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do actually think 3DD's recent context as spokesband for the Army works really well for "Not My Time"

Wow Otherside is so much better than that overwrought Shimmer rewrite

― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:24 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

calling something a rewrite because it's the same band is lame, they don't really sound alike at all.

I also think ILX underrates the singles from One Hot Minute and am tempted to check if that album is on Spotify.

"Aeroplane" is my favorite of their "fast" ones.

yeah "Aeroplane" is secretly one of their best post-BSSM singles. "Warped" isn't bad too. it's just "My Friends" (and probably the rest of the album) that gives that era of the band such a stench.

calling something a rewrite because it's the same band is lame, they don't really sound alike at all.

that prechorus "too far away" is almost a direct quote from the chorus in Shimmer("too far away/for me to hold"); not the same melody, but def the same accents...which is not the same thing as a 're-write', but is some pretty bald recyclage. Of course it could also be intentionally self-referential (the immediately preceding lyrics are "don't you remember anything I said when I said") Still: lame.

That said, re-listening to this song now, it is a bit better than I remember, though I still like "Otherside" more.

Also I listened to "Parallel Universe", the only song from the first four on Californication that I didn't remember, and it was dope. That album might've aged better than I even thought.

"Aeroplane" is the worst fucking song, come on now

looking at the one hot minute tracklisting i seem to have excised most of it from my memory. 'aeroplane' is alright, 'my friends' is p dire, i vaguely remember 'walkabout' being terrible, and hey 'pea' is um some kind of charming. the rest, i've got nothing.

that prechorus "too far away" is almost a direct quote from the chorus in Shimmer("too far away/for me to hold");

To be fair, 1) he's saying "Don't fall away" and 2) the refrain's lyric is lifted straight from Bernie Taupin, so if you want to go after them for laziness, there's a pretty strong angle right there.

lol my mistake.

"Aeroplane" is the worst fucking song, come on now

you're the worst fucking song, come on now

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lol

Daddy needs his medicine.

Green Day got their wish.

lol

at least theres no godsmack.

poor green day, i've never heard that 3 doors down song but my prediction is that it's worse than 'minority'.

so we have ten lurking papa roach fans who have, ten years on, finally made an impact on ilm.

shockingly, the 3DD song is NOT worse than "Minority" (they really should have tied tho)

I wish I knew what the story was behind using the line "I saw the world float to the dark side of the moon" twice.

Cannibalizing the mid-70s was apparently a "thing" around this time

Also: I tend to link Enema of the State in my head with some really awful times during my freshman year in college. I don't think I've ever forgiven Blink-182. (Though I confess to liking "Adam's Song")

please tell blink that it's not their fault

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