Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

It was pretty brave for Foo Fighters to name an album 'single quotation mark' that early in their career.

Now would be a good time to revisit the story about Scott Stapp wanting to fight 311.

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?

I dug it a lot in '99.

The album was so memorable I started to write it out, went to look it up, forgot, and pressed enter.

75% of The Fragile is fantastic, particularly disc 1/disc "left"

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

"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.

But don't hold that against it.

fuuuck i heard come original in the car yesterday that song is not cool

(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.)

But don't hold that against it.

Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdVRaDJth4s

Disc one has a few worthwhile moments. I like "Just Like You Imagined," "La Mer," and "The Great Below."

fuuuck i heard come original in the car yesterday that song is not cool

― 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"

ALL ENTERTAINER COME ORIGINAL

soundbwoy nick hexum will never not be funny

The Fragile topped SPIN's list that year.

But don't hold that against it.

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".

during during...oh, Droid text entry box...

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

Knee-jerkiness aside, Spin's 99 list of albums was pretty shockingly close to my own that year.

I play the Everything But the Girl album more than the others that made my list tbh

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.

xxpost

Is there a way to see those old lists that doesn't involve me digging through dozens of boxes and stupidly unmarked boxes?

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/spinend.htm

Okay, I give up trying to appear at all literate while typing on a phone.

http://books.google.com/books?id=f_2Hb3bIqaQC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

fuuuck i heard come original in the car yesterday that song is not cool

― 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

Thanks, Dan!

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...

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.

I think the first disc is nothing but hooks tbh

I mean, "We're In This Together" is basically one long extended hook

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?

remember when skrillex was oh nevermind

Oh, you know what's a pretty decent and underrated '99 (somewhat alt) single? That New Radicals track.

Oh yeah, I always thought their singles lists were really good. Totally forgot about that.

I HATE THAT SONG

xxxpost Hardcore lols.

the words "New Radicals" and "underrated" do not belong in the sentence, especially on ilx

I HATE THAT GUY AND HIS ASS FACE TOO

x-post - Seriously. People love that group/song/dude iirc.

OVERRATED more like it

I haven't mentioned New Radicals cuz it's a '98 single despite breaking in '99.

That whole NR album had quite a few gems on it.

I HATE THAT GUY AND HIS ASS FACE TOO

this is poetry

OK I don't actually hate it quite that much but I never really got why people think it was so great.

nooooo new radicals

"Someday We'll Know"!