Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2000

I bought that album because of that song, which put me off STP for good, basically.

It was my first capitulation to STP. Like "hey, maybe these guys really aren't that bad."

big empty was on my first mixtape next to miss world and what else i don't know although there's a strong chance "mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm" was involved

almost had a nervous breakdown once in the bathroom of an Outback Steakhouse while "Sour Girl" was playing on the PA.

sounds like the beginning of a Zoetrope short story

"Sour Girl" always sounded ELO-ish to me (the harmonies).

I admire "Beautiful Day" for somehow succeeding as a song despite there being almost nothing to it, as far as I can tell -- there's just this four-note sequence, it's a great four-note sequence, they play it, it sounds good when they play it, etc. Would have voted for it easy against the other contenders in this poll.

this list is so, so garbage

i'm voting for kryptonite

you bastard

oh wait i actually looked at the list, wow i'm not even sure i can bear carrying on into later years

i lived off of fuel's shimmer for a while but could not get into .... "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"

This is an easy one for me - I voted for the Blink song last time and thus it has to be Fuel, despite the guy's haircut. It's like the last gasp of 1996 to me, though certainly much brighter and more punchily produced than most of the stuff from back then.

The rest is pretty sad. "Kryptonite" is catchy enough, but the lyric is pretty forced - and both this and their "Loser" were soured by hearing Serious Dudes practicing them on their acoustic guitars in dorm stairwells, at great length. "Otherside" is a snooze, "Californication" only comes to life for the "first-born unicorn" part (the video is some awful LOLs, not quite as jaw-dropping as the similarly-themed Creed one). "Last Resort" is almost unlistenable, and "Minority" is a sad empty shell of a band going through the motions. (I quite like "Warning" though!)

From the "big hits, not #1" category -

Adam's Song Blink 182 - "Remember the time that I spilled the cup / of apple juice / In the hall?"
With Arms Wide Open Creed - never again, please, never again
Ex-Girlfriend No Doubt - never got into these Return of Saturn singles, I know other people love them though.
Man Overboard Blink 182 - I like this one! Good use of their overlapping vocals, probably their only good "arena" type song.
Original Prankster Offspring - Possibly the biggest waste of time of any song on any of these lists, as i've argued enthusiastically here: WORST Single By Green Day or the Offspring
Right Now SR71 - Pretty good! I wish crappy 3rd-gen pop-punk had beat out nu-metal for dominance, these guys are all pretty annoying but you can at least tap your feet to the tunes. I get this mixed up with the first Sum-41 single "Makes No Difference," which is much better than this
Change Deftones - don't remember this
Pardon Me Incubus - really dopey, though maybe useful in freshman year as a filter for people who would claim to like "alternative" music (an increasingly poisoned term for me by this point), but if they liked this it was all over.
Miserable LIT - I think I liked this at the time but it's way too sluggish, especially put beside "own worst enemy" and "zip-loc"
Take A Picture Filter - I stan for this one - - once again, too long but it kinda hit me at that time, maybe cause I'd had my first romantic experience, on a vacation, unsure if I'd see the person again so the whole idea of a picture holding a memory together, while obviously not an original theme in pop music, came at the right place at the right time. I also love how the Oedipal rage of "Jurassitol" manages to sneak into this seemingly gentle, contemplative soft rock song. HEEYYYYYYYYYYYY DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR SON NOOOOWWWWW
Sour Girl Stone Temple Pilots - really did not like this, still threw it on an STP mix CD I made a few years ago just for the hell of it. It's pretty solidly done I guess. I preferred "No Way Out," the "hard" single off this, which bombed horribly IIRC.
Wonderful EverClear - really bad, I felt the drop-off between So Much For The Afterglow and this album the way most people felt the drop-off after Sparkle & Fade
Never Let You Go 3rd Eye Blind - I should listen to this again, I know ILX really likes it, at the time it struck me as way simpler and less involving than all their previous hits.
Rollin' Limp Bizkit - not their finest hour but I will not change the channel on this, i admit.
Judith Perfect Circle - I can't remember how this goes but i KNOW i hated it
Beautiful Day U2 - guilty pleasure once in a while, i think eephus sums it up well. At the time I was just hoping one of the airplanes in the video would run over the band.
Everything You Want Vertical Horizon - not offensive in any specific way but utterly not defensible, basically sums up the sound of an entire era of shitty rock radio piped through the college dining hall speakers, it's like the soundtrack of chicken tenders that have been sitting out too long. "You're A God" sucked too, though it seems to have been mercifully forgotten
Bad Touch Bloodhound Gang - great, would have possibly voted for this if it made #1
Matchbox Twenty, "Bent" - i liked this more than i was willing to let on at the time. As has been noted, this band seems to have been cut adrift by rock radio, and their "rockier" singles never really had much traction on pop radio, so it feels like a lot of their songs which I used to hear constantly have basically vanished - I mean "Push" has (mercifully) dropped off the planet, and "Real World" and "Long Day" (which were much better!) with it...

oh man "Judith" was the shit, fuiud

xpost to self wow, sorry, those lists are unreadable for starters and then once i run past one line per song it's just a mess

listening to judith now, wow this is absolutely not what i remember this sounding like - - - I mean, this just sounds like a Tool song and in my mind APC were this ballad-y crap side project.

oh YEAH this is the spear of longinus one! I liked this! I think I never knew this WAS A Perfect Circle!

I think I was thinking of "3 Libras."

Looking at the lists on here, I feel like in 2000 I somehow zoned out, was possibly in a coma for the year?

hahaha okay Dr Casino, you should really listen to "The Hollow", "Weak and Powerless", "Blue", "Pet" and "The Outsider" before calling all of APC crappy balladry

man, these threads get so many posts

this is the first year i can distinctly remember hearing all these all the time/seeing them on MTV - i was 10/11. have fond memories of all of them but probably only would still admit to liking the blink or maybe "kryptonite"

maybe "kryptonite"

o_O

to be fair casino just DID admit that his idea of a perfect circle as a crappy ballad band was wrong

man i'm gonna get real sad when everyone hates on the 2001 poll. i think that year was definitely the pinnacle/nadir of the era, and it was the year i listened to HFS for hours and hours every day.

Billie Joe Armstrong commented that this was the point in which their song writing became slightly more politically based. The lyrics "I pledge allegiance to the under world, one nation under dog..." were taken from the American Pledge of Allegiance but "twisted upside down a bit."

dreadful.

"3 Libras" is a great song... just thought I'd throw that out there, too. "Judith" has aged well after being played to death at the time.

did I say upthread that the first two APC albums are fucking great? because if so I will still say it again and again

Looking at the lists on here, I feel like in 2000 I somehow zoned out, was possibly in a coma for the year?

What's weird is how well I recognize so many of these despite how much I tuned out of pop culture in this time (actually more in 98-99). Clearly I was less tuned out than I thought. 2001 was when I was smoking enough pot that it seemed like a great idea to try to fully embrace this stuff.

it's like the soundtrack of chicken tenders that have been sitting out too long

Kudos to Doc Casino for this, should be thread subtitle for the next few if not all of these polls

Ha, "Never Let You Go" only went #1 in Canada! Had no idea!

(And yeah, that Hot 100 thing makes sense: I was wondering about the absence of Creed and Matchbox 20.)

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Change Deftones

Doctor Casino should listen to this, too

i have decided that there is no reason i cant just vote for blink 182 again given the rest of this list

merican idiot is gr8

wtf

"wake me up when september ends" is one of the worst songs of all time

^^^^^^^^^

i refer once again to the "quality of green day songs directly linked to bpm" rule

actually, I just listened to that blink song, and while I don't really care about it, I can't deny that if it had come out the year DOOKIE came out I'd probably remember it with similar fondness.

yeah but American Idiot has McCartney-esque melodies, guys

xp, the rule is ironclad & hilariously otm

Still like "Change".

I was an announcer at a modern rock station on the weekends during this time and remember all of these songs not very fondly at all. It's what made me go, you know? fuckit for the next dozen years and just listen to 80s punk bands all the time.

― pplains, Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:20 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i was 15 at the time and came to the same conclusion

im googling band photos of 3 doors down now and its very rewarding

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

I thought that was Kid Rock?

no it was Godsmack

It's weird to hear a lot of these 99/00 songs in (semi-)high fidelity on Spotify. I never owned the CDs so it was either over the radio or 128 kbps horrible Napster mp3s. The pop punk stuff sounds a lot better.

"All the Small Things" in particular is improved when the guitars don't sound like digital swooshing.

filter's "take a picture" is a great song, i stan for that too

BTW, to what extent do we think "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" is intended to be treated as a tribute to "Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John, and how much is it just stealing a good line and doing something completely different with it and hoping nobody notices?

they were stealing a terrible title that's for sure

the only other Fuel song I remember seemed to lift its lyrics directly from Collective Soul's "Heavy"

always forget that "change" was sort of a hit which is weird because i feel like it basically doesn't have a chorus (and that's why it rules)