For me, that's every song ever with a Gondry video ("Come Into My World" is awesome, though!).
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
I guess my equivalent of that would be "Pumping On Your Stereo" although IIRC that was Hammer & Tongs, not Gondry.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Come to think of it 1999 was a REALLY good year for videos.
Oh, I also just want to point out while I'm thinking about it that '99 is not a total lost cause in pop terms why because The Writing's On The Wall.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
The point at which MTV started playing them less.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
er, I meant to copy bilstevejim's post
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Which I got just no end of shit from rockist friends for owning and loving.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Coffee + TV & Windowlicker , rare cases where fav songs and videos of the year were the same.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
My other problem with Surrender is that half the tricks on that album were done better on Dig Your Own Hole with "It Doesn't Matter"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Well, accepting there would never be another "It Doesn't Matter" was the first step toward accepting the next pair of albums.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Realizing I'd never be 18 again was the first and only step toward utterly rejecting everything after Come With Us.
In fall 1999 I won a promotion from my local alt-rock station during "new music weekend." The prize? 5 brand-new CDs...
Bush, "The Science of Things"Foo Fighters, "NIN, "The Fragile"Live, "The Distance to Here"And whatever 311 album came out in 1999
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
thank you for coming original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWo-02Hsab4
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
man those guys are so sleazy.
― skip, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
It was pretty brave for Foo Fighters to name an album 'single quotation mark' that early in their career.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Now would be a good time to revisit the story about Scott Stapp wanting to fight 311.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
This reminds me that I've been meaning to finally listen to The Fragile sometime. Can anyone advise as to whether this is a worthwhile endeavor to undertake for the first time in 2012?
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
I dug it a lot in '99.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
The album was so memorable I started to write it out, went to look it up, forgot, and pressed enter.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
75% of The Fragile is fantastic, particularly disc 1/disc "left"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
the 3rd and 4th foo fighters albums are so memorable that i can never remember which one is called "this is nothing left to lose" but apparently it was the 3rd one from '99
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
"THERE is nothing left to lose" i meant...the funny thing is they initially announced the album as just "nothing left to lose" and then made a big deal of adding the first two words, similar to how the kanye album was originally just "dark twisted fantasy"
The Fragile topped SPIN's list that year.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
But don't hold that against it.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
fuuuck i heard come original in the car yesterday that song is not cool
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
(Misremembered '99 as the year they listed "your hard drive" as the album of the year. It was the next year in a move to avoid crowning Kid A, lol.)
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdVRaDJth4s
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Disc one has a few worthwhile moments. I like "Just Like You Imagined," "La Mer," and "The Great Below."
― Träumerei, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 2:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
cracking up so hard at the understatement of "that song is not cool"
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
ALL ENTERTAINER COME ORIGINAL
― rock the swagon and g.o.a.t. it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
soundbwoy nick hexum will never not be funny
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Ha. Yeah, I remember that but I didn't know how trustworthy an accolade it was. SPIN had a total chub on for Trent back then, and I'm pretty sure I remember him making it on to two consecutive 'Artists Who Matter, Maaaan' lists during a two-year stretch during which his only piece of new music was "The Perfect Drug".
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
during during...oh, Droid text entry box...
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
to be fair few artists have ever been as popular while releasing as little music as possible as NIN circa 95-98, the members of Filter and Stabbing Westward and Fighting Gravity all got to buy houses because there was such an underserved demand for NIN
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Knee-jerkiness aside, Spin's 99 list of albums was pretty shockingly close to my own that year.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I play the Everything But the Girl album more than the others that made my list tbh
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Geez, there are so many modern-rock threads up top today...it's overwhelming, I just don't know where to channel all my modern-rock love.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a way to see those old lists that doesn't involve me digging through dozens of boxes and stupidly unmarked boxes?
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/spinend.htm
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, I give up trying to appear at all literate while typing on a phone.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://books.google.com/books?id=f_2Hb3bIqaQC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 2:30 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol I don't know why but this cracked me up
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, Dan!
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
One of my closest friends in HS who I sort of idolized for a while was REALLY into 311 and even I was like dude, these guys are NOT GOOD.
at the time I thought the Fragile was disappointing and a total bore - that said I was listening to all sorts of whiny rock emo so maybe my downer music tastes shifted from industrial to more traditionally rock and straightforward. but on a quick spotify listen it seems like there just aren't that many good songs...
― skip, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
there are probably some hooks in there but they are buried in a bunch of atmospheric stuff that I have never really had the patience to sit through.
― skip, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
I think the first disc is nothing but hooks tbh
I mean, "We're In This Together" is basically one long extended hook
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Oh jeez, "Your Hard Drive". Forgot abt that.
Remember, also, when Time's Person of the Year was "You" and the cover was a mirror?
― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
remember when skrillex was oh nevermind
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link