The song that represents the END of the 90s

U2 certainly made two records (Pop and All That You Can't Leave Behind) that were emblematic of the late 90s and early 00s.

indeed

Rollin' totally. I remember wandering around that godforsaken Leeds festival site in 2000, when lots of 90s rock royalty like Pulp and Primal Scream and Oasis and whoever were on the bill, alongside Slipknot and Limp Bizkit and Blink 182 and Alien Ant Farm and whoever, and thinking "I don't understand this music but the kids love it and they're getting massive crowds and blimey the 90s are actually over."

fortunately Idlewild were also on the bill to bind us all together

The one that went "CUT MY LIFE INTO PEE-SEZ".

GET UP COME ON GET DOWN WIV THA SICKNEZ

OOH AHH AHH AHH AHH

OK, "Rollin'" is the answer because the video has them playing atop the World Trade Center.

"all the small things" video

If we're gonna go with Limp Bizkit, why aren't we going with "Faith?"

"all the small things" video

-- J0rdan S., Monday, February 18, 2008 4:39 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Nails the stupid Napster-kid-rock AND teenpop in one TRL-sized morsel. This might be the winner

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good band good song nice to see the twin towers respect

If we're gonna go with Limp Bizkit, why aren't we going with "Faith?"

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 18 February 2008 21:40

Think "huge-shorts" metal was still just considered a pretty minor fad at this point.

ya 'all the small things' is a definite contender, for some reason. "i have heard the future and it sounds like green day six years ago" kind of deal there.

OK, "Rollin'" is the answer because the video has them playing atop the World Trade Center.

Well, now it all makes sense to me.

Where's the valet? Hey, yo... Yo, red cap.

All right parnder, keep on rollin, baby, you know what time it is.

Also, Rollin was three albums deep for them. The 00s were already in full effect, guys with POD and Papa Roach and Korn and NSYNC and Blink 182 and everything

I stand by Summer Girls.

if we were gonna go w/ limp bizkit i'd personally choose "n 2 gether now"

durst pulls in method man to do a song and it actually spends a week atop modern rock chart

Yes but none of those other Limp Bizkit singles got to Number One in the UK, in fact they didn't make much impact at all. (xpost)

Don't know for sure, but I'll wager it was produced by The Neptunes.

-- chap, Monday, February 18, 2008 9:13 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

much more of a 'start of the 90s' vibe surely?

lol 00s obv.

yep.

I remember wandering around that godforsaken Leeds festival site in 2000

Was that when they had the riots? Now I know who started them.

no the riots were a couple of years later.

The end of the fucking 90s was whatever song Fred sang when surfing on that piece of plywood at Woodstock 99. End thread.

It's "Faith"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GauWyL5FTKw

The selfish fucking self-indulgant five minute prelude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYwLkvrG6R0,

Annoying all the security guys trying to get out there. Begging all the girls to sit on guys's shoulders (and by proxy show boobs), starfucking cause they Vern Troyer in the wings. People getting sexually assaulted in the moshpit. It's all there.

Bye '90s.

if limp bizkit faith ended the 90's i wonder what will be the end of the 00's...

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That was the best concert i have ever been to.

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Now that is a great lead singer that is amazing to his fans. Freds my mother fuckin idol.

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:50 Dude thos are some NICE titties

i don't think limp represent the 'end' coz they didn't characterize the 90s... or the 00s really but matt's right that they represented something ominous and horrible. fortunately it buggered off right quick.

Limp Bizkit totally characterized a decade marred by mindless violence, entitled rich assholes and self-obsessed internet users. What the fuck are you thinking?

Easy Whiney... you had a point for a second, but I feel like the '00s has had more than its fair share of mindless violence and entitled rich assholes.

i would give thought to "the real slim shady" wherein em officially took over the trl set by pwning their favorite bands.

also maybe "like i love you"-- or even more specifically his performance of it on the vmas-- bcuz it effectively singled the end of nysnc (they outlasted bsb not including shitty bsb comeback) and the boy band era which was obviously the defining musical trend of the decade.

durst on plywood @ woodstock might be the best one though

Easy Whiney... you had a point for a second, but I feel like the '00s has had more than its fair share of mindless violence and entitled rich assholes.

-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, February 18, 2008 5:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

I'm saying that Limp is an '00s band. They signal the end of the '90s by surfing a big piece of plywood up Kurt Cobain's ass

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s9341.jpg

How about "Willennium"? :)

The only genre that did really, well, not disappear but become smaller and less important, in the 00s was electronica. So maybe one of those kitchy Eurotrance records that were hits in 1999 then. ATB or Alice Deejay or something.

http://991.com/newGallery/Artful-Dodger-Re-Rewind-The-Cro-176354.jpg

I remember in the late 90s that whole 80s retro craze starting that typified this decade... Les Rhythmes Digitales, DMX Krew, all that shit.

The Strokes I think are a good general symbol of the End of the 90s ... 1) people started wearing jeans again, skinny ones! and 2) people started listening to rock again... the second half of the 90s was basically pop, electronic, and various trip, jazz, flip, and hip hops.

there was a time when ppl didn't listen to rock and didn't wear jeans? i must've been out of the country

oh, yeah ... this is the New York City area I'm talking about. Indie crap was like what, Soul Coughing, and mainstream stuff was hip hop or pop. I remember only the dorks in school listened to what remained of rock in the 90s.

fucking a

I remember in the late 90s that whole 80s retro craze starting that typified this decade... Les Rhythmes Digitales, DMX Krew, all that shit.

The Strokes I think are a good general symbol of the End of the 90s ... 1) people started wearing jeans again, skinny ones! and 2) people started listening to rock again... the second half of the 90s was basically pop, electronic, and various trip, jazz, flip, and hip hops.

-- burt_stanton, Monday, 18 February 2008 23:18

I don't but all this "Rock is Back" bollocks that surfaced around 2001, every decade since the 60s has had huge, successful rock bands, including the 90s. Rolling Stone just wanted something else to write about other than Celine Dion and Creed. I remember everyone wearing jeans in the 90s... just a bit baggier.

eh i think burt is kinda on to something - and im speaking in the most general of terms here but for a while around the turn of the century in new york rock was not that cool - mostly people were all in to some various other shit whether it was whatever individually named electronica microgenre or playing rare-groove records or whatnot - and then one day everyone was all lol im in a rock band again

i know this sounds really dubious - but thats at least what it felt like at ground level to this guy (i dont really remember anything abt jeans tho)

i live in the midwest where people never stop rocking or wearing jeans

the sunscreen song, duh

although the $$$ denim craze did get rolling around then and khakis got a lot less popular so maybe...

Kind of like how the '97 VW commercial with "Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha" exemplified the 90s even though the song was from '82

It'll be interesting to see whether The Verve's comeback is big enough to cause a shift away from post-Strokes guitar sounds.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, August 18, 2008 5:12 PM (1 year ago)

Laugh out loud.

I still stand by my OP Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (hard to explain why.. something about the feel of the song and the lyrics). Come 2000 the transition to 00's is complete with Coldplay's Yellow.

Both the 90's and 00's have a lot of melancholic stuff now that I think about it. 90's dudes are more like "yeah, I'm broken, I'm a wreck of a human being, buzz off or whatever".. 00's dudes are more like "I promise you I'll learn from my mistakes" (Coldplay - Fix You)

Coldplay's "Yellow" might as well be Travis' "Writing To Reach You", which was actually from 1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCkAumK5b4

(OK, it's from 1996, but making dance melodical enough to appeal to people like me probably killed dance for the dance-diehards)

Coldplay's "Yellow" might as well be Travis' "Writing To Reach You", which was actually from 1999.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:31 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

heh, well according to me the 90's ended with Iris in mid '98 anyways :/
I'm not gonna strain my brain on this

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btw "Children" is part of the autogoon canon via

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

XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF7UnkMhPwI

Once "Play" had saturated the ears of every radio listener, supermarket shopper, dinner party diner or anyone not hiding in a bunker in outer Azerbaijan, I don't think anyone wanted to hear stuff that sounded like that ever again. Enter electroclash.

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

I agree with windowlicker. Not true for everyone but it was the first 'pop' song I heard with such an insane format. I was 13 or 12 at the time and I had a difficult time trying to understand what were those sounds supposed to mean but only at the surface, the song was catchy enough to hold attention even if I had no idea what I had just heard.

"Complicated" is actually a quite good call. Pink also had a similar hit with "Don't Let Me Get Me" around the same time, and that kind of manufactured "powerpop" sounded like nothing that had been on the hitlists in the 90s.

K, here's some singles from 1999 that kind of felt 'important' from my perspective that year:

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Bjork - All is Full of Love
Blondie - Maria
Blur - Coffee + TV
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
The Cardigans - Erase / Rewind
The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Jamiroquai - Canned Heat
Len - Steal my Sunshine
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Moloko - Sing it Back
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
OutKast - Rosa Parks
Ricardo Villalobos - 808 the Bassqueen
System of a Down - Spiders

Oh forgot a few... it seems 1999 was a bigger year for me than what I remember... all of this bring memories of high school:

Backstreet Boys - I Want it That Way
Cher - Believe
Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle
Eminem - My Name Is
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Santana - Smooth
Smashmouth - All Star
Robbie Williams
Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca
TLC - No Scrubs

Got Your Money?

Mogwai's "Come on die young" and/or GYBE "Slow riot for new zero kanada" for being post-rock's death rattle

The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
Since it was one of the first new songs I remember hearing that sounded more like it was out of the 80s.

Also, while not actually a song, I also tend to associate the end of the 90s with the closure of Grand Royal Records in late 2001.

That's probably the best answer so far.

Yeah, closing of Grand Royal definitely counts for something, symbolically.