What's up with The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Jet and The Darkness getting played on pop stations?

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Will this trend blow over soon, or is this a sign of things to come for pop?

― billstevejim, Friday, 27 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and what's the deal with hip-hop stations playing all that Lil Jon and Jay-Z?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I should note that this is referring to US pop stations, and that they're playing them a LOT, and that I can't remember them ever playing The Strokes or White Stripes on US pop stations ever. This is something that just started recently I think.

― billstevejim, Friday, 27 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Define what you mean by "pop." I'm not sure that's a U.S. radio format.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Top 40 format.

― billstevejim, Friday, 27 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What's up with major labels paying pop stations to get them to play whatever they want them to play?

― n.a. (Nick A.), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty happy about it. They're finally shifting away from that mopey heavy shit they've been playing since Nirvana came out.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That is, Merzbow could get played on a Top 40 station if he was signed to Interscope or whatever.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently heard that the Modest Mouse record went platinum. Whoah.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Killers are a pop band whose sound actually verges on being really teeny. Frank Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" has the kind of mild easy "funk" that's kept the Chili Peppers on radio for years. Modest Mouse's new single is totally pop, and Brock has exactly the kind of faux-rootsy bark/voice admired in fraternities all across the country. I’ve never been able to sit through more than ten seconds of any given Jet single, so I can’t say much about them. The Darkness are basically a hair-metal and/or 70s pre-metal band (early Journey or somesuch), and radio is pretty much exactly where you’d expect to find them.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how Rolling Stone keeps referring to MM as a "former indie rock band".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, like all the bloggers say, it’s possible that the early bit of the demographic bulge that brought us teenpop are now reinventing themselves and going off to college.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the new Jet single. Also: Hives and Yeah Yeah Yeahs getting a lot of alternative format radio play here.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. that ff/chili peppers thing is pretty spot-on, whatever differing values i place on those two bands.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I'm still unsure if the presence of these bands on Top 40 radio is surprising to you because they're TOO ROCK (a sonic criterion) or because they're TOO INDIE (a marketing/demographic criterion).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone been to the GAP recently? they play the same cd in every store, and one selection on said cd is a very emo-y song that has the quintessential whiny "sincere" emo voice, and i know it's probably some really famous band that i've heretofore been oblivious to. there's a line that goes "come back here...."

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost)
Because if it's the former, then I agree with Nabisco: these bands aren't exactly unfriendly to radio. (And most top 40 stations that play rock -- as opposed to ones like B96 in Chicago, who've never touched it [except they played "Bohemian Rhapsody" when Wayne's World came out {although I got the impression they mostly played it as a novelty song}] -- have been playing the Strokes and White Stripes.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this actually happening? On stations that play, say, Jessica Simpson and Justin Timberlake and maybe Celine Dion? I'm skeptical... (especially about the Darkness, who seemed to have peaked commercially half a year ago, at least.) Sadly, my Billboard subscription has run out, so I can't verify things one way or another.

I've liked all three Jet singles, each more than the one before. The new one totally sounds like T Rex.

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Is hearing these songs on the radio now particularly different from that moment in the mid to late 80s where singles by, say, REM or Midnight Oil or U2 started appearing on the charts? With most casual listeners either hearing them as just pleasant guitar-pop or, in some cases, pleasant novelties?

And also over the past almost-decade or whatever there’s been a huge resurgence of rock kids (at least partly just in reaction to the teen-pop boom); I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to think that as teenage “rock kids” get closer and closer to 20 they become more and more open to these sorts of semi-indie rock/pop numbers (which shift over from offering energy and rebellion to offering some supposedly more sophisticated concept of “cool” and/or “style”).

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how everyone correctly ignored my silly payola-baiting. GOOD ON YOU.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(another xp) And if it's the latter, I'm only surprised by Modest Mouse's success, just because they toiled in the indie-rock world for so long before they became a commercial force. It's still weird to me to tune into the local alt-rock station and hear Modest Mouse and Death Cab on the "top 9 at 9" show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(I mean, if the question is whether this'll be followed by New Indie Explosion -- the way that REM/U2/whatever period was followed up by gasp gasp 1991/2/3 -- well, that's an interesting question.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Top 40 radio here (San Diego) not playing them, but alternative formate is quite a bit. Strokes might have started it (maybe White Stripes, too) but it's all of a sudden coming full force now.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems like that with the running aground of nu-metal and punk-pop, modern rock powers that be are sort of groping around for the 'next' sound and a things are sort of slipping though the cracks. not mentioned but also benefitting from this - and with roots in some sort of underground - are all of those emo/punk type bands on radio. (a group with which modest mouse may sort of fit in the minds of labels)

mtv has taken a lead with this over the past few years, too - they played videos from all of those artists + strokes, yyys, hives, vines, white stripes (once they were on V2) straightaway.

(not saying these are all good bands or anything - but none of them would have made modern rock playlists a few years back)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also also! Consider the past many years of MTV -- a prime early-teen tastemaker -- being basically stuck in this teen-pop versus nu-rock mode (with hip-hop half on one side and half on the other): prime conditions for kids to be swept away by the seeming newness and above-it-allness of post-Strokes pop/rock bands.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

But again, modern rock radio =/ top 40 radio. (I've heard maybe Jet on top 40 stations, but that's about it. Which isn't to say that top 40 stations *couldn't* play these bands; they obviously played Duran Duran and Poison in the '80s, and Franz Ferdinand and Darkness are in the same ballpark, more or less. Anyway, if there really are Top 40s playing these bands, I'd love to see their playlists.)

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Long Answer: People are sick of the twin pillars of modern rock which have been dictating playlists for the last five years or so and are probably starting to bore listeners who were more affected by The Strokes and White Stripes.

Short Answer: The O.C. has officially conquered popular culture.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell are you people thinking, listening to the radio?

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck may be right: I just checked a recent playlist for my local Top-40-station-that-sometimes-plays-rock, and the only actual rock acts on the list were Hoobastank, Linkin Park, Switchfoot, and Maroon 5.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I assumed by "pop stations" the poster was referring to those stations farthest on the rock side of it; there is a weird middling format that's somewhere between top40 and mod-rock, sort of a top40-for-rock-towns thing.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to assume Chicago doesn't have this station, since I've never heard of such a thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

we have sold ASSLOADS of modest mouse. and half as much franz ferdinand as ashlee simpson (which is saying something.)

fratboys love the killers.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

re: chicago, are these bands on the mix or any other sort of adult alternative station? (apparently the scissor sisters are, another group we could possibly toss into the thread's title)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost to J): I don't know if it works in urban spaces, but -- for example -- where I grew up in CO, you basically got two competing "pop" stations, both of which played loads of the same singles -- only one played more of the dance, r&b, and pop-pop stuff, whereas the other played more guitar bands. I think this only happens where there isn't a dedicated rock station.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The new one totally sounds like T Rex.

! But which song, though?

(NA's observations amuse me.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

a Brit viewpoint, a while back Maura from Maura.com pointed out this rubbish Philly modern rock station

mix 95.7
http://www.mix957online.com/music.shtml

this is their current crappy online poll

THE REASON, Hoobastank
THIS LOVE, Maroon 5
EVERYTHING, Alanis Morissette
100 YEARS, Five For Fighting
MY IMMORTAL, Evanescence
WITH YOU, Jessica Simpson
ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE, Counting Crows
IT'S MY LIFE, No Doubt
HEAVEN, Los Lonely Boys
WHITE FLAG, Dido
BRIGHT LIGHTS, Matchbox 20
AWAY FROM THE SUN, 3 Doors Down
LIGHT IN YOUR EYES, Sheryl Crow
TAKE MY BREATH AWAY, Jessica Simpson
WHY CAN'T I, Liz Phair
BRING ME TO LIFE, Evanescence
FALLEN, Sarah McLachlan
FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST, Sheryl Crow
DON'T LEAVE HOME, Dido
WHY DON'T YOU AND I, Santana/Alex Band
HERE WITHOUT YOU, 3 Doors Down
SOMEDAY, Nickelback
DON'T TELL ME, Avril Levine
STUPID, Sarah McLachlan
WHEN YOU’RE GONE, Richard Marx
HEY YA!, Outkast
DRIFT AWAY, Uncle Kracker
CALLING ALL ANGELS, Train

no sign of the bands at the top of this thread

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "hey ya"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

mix 95.7 has had about six formats in the last six years, btw

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Here are the 'rock songs' from the playlist of the top 40 station I grew up on which has always been a bit behind the times:

3 Ashlee Simpson Pieces Of Me
4 Maroon 5 She Will Be Loved
8 Three Days Grace (I Hate) Everything About You (is this an Ugly Kid joe cover?)
9 Switchfoot Meant To Live
13 Finger Eleven One Thing
20 Hoobastank The Reason
21 Avril Lavigne My Happy Ending
22 Yellowcard Ocean Avenue
23 Linkin Park Breaking The Habit
24 Los Lonely Boys Heaven
30 Avril Lavigne Don't Tell Me
35 Bowling For Soup /1985
38 Killers Somebody Told Me
40 Nickelback Feelin' Way To Damn Good

The type of station nabisco mentons doesn't exist and the 'adult alternative' station is in the midst of changing formats a bit towards the 'classic alternative' phenomenon here is the bizarre mix they just played:

Clash - "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" at 4:30:33 PM
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Zephyr Song" at 4:12:45 PM
Depeche Mode - "People Are People" at 4:05:53 PM
Dashboard Confessional - "Vindicated" at 4:02:31 PM
Afrocelt Soundsystem - "When Your Falling" at 3:58:08 PM
Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man" at 3:57:22 PM
Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun" at 3:35:52 PM
The Killers - "Somebody Told Me" at 3:32:29 PM
Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up" at 3:26:23 PM
The Middle Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle" at 3:12:32 PM

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

dj martian: that's a "mix" station, the same sort of thing I referenced above in Chicago that is playing scissor sisters - it's not really a modern rock format more of a middlebrow 'we play the hits minus hard rock and stuff made by black people'*/'it's what everyone in the office can agree upon!' sort of thing.

* xcept andre 3000, apparently.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the current format of that Philly station called: Rubbish Mainstream Rock?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

95.7 used to be ALL FUNK ALL THE TIME and it was great

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

modest mouse already went platinum, franz ferdinand are certified gold (i think), and the killers have been constantly in the top 50 billboard since it was released.

― adam west (adamwest), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Frightening thought on that last one. MM I've never liked but I understand the appeal, FF I don't love or hate actively, but the Killers, good lord.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In the UK the closest we have to "Mix station" format is the trad mainstream rock station: Virgin Radio [i.e it covers the music of Q magazine]

last artists played
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/nowplaying/index.html

KEANE THE GOO GOO DOLLS MORRISSEY NEW RADICALS REM MANIC STREET PREACHERS DAVID GRAY BLONDIE STEREOPHONICS RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Somebody Told Me," "Take Me Out" and "Float On" are all top 20 of the year so far.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

NB I can't believe it took Chuck's earlier post for the Franz Ferdinand / Duran Duran connection to snap into place for me.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

>The new one totally sounds like T Rex.
! But which song, though?<

I forget -- "Lazy Gun", maybe, or "Take it Or Leave It"? I've only heard it on the radio a couple times so far, and I don't have a copy of the album (though I still plan to by one, one of these days.)

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more iffy about "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," but "Cold Hard Bitch" sounded like a nice AC/DC meets Black Crowes song, I thought.

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"..but the Killers, good lord."

i recently asked someone in the industry shall we say how they could be as happening as these other groups mentioned (whose success is more understandable in a way, sure) and he said "people are dumb and they've got some money behind it"
this caused me to guffaw at the time but that probably does sum it up as much as can be done. their whole thing just falls flat all over the place! it's almost avant-garde in its GAPING vacuousness. i mean so is jet but that's just a predigested influences thing. a tourist thing.

― duke radio, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really get how the success of any of these bands is any more random than the success of any musical acts in any format (including non-commercial college radio.) They're okay, most of them. And most of them aren't great. Well...isn't that how radio *always* turns out??

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

And I know at least a couple of non-dumb people who love just about every band mentioned above, even if I don't.

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

>>Somebody Told Me," "Take Me Out" and "Float On" are all top 20 of the year so far.

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

oops. Top 20 by what measure?, I wanted to ask. Certainly not sales, not by a longshot. (How high did any of those singles even get on Billboard's Hot 100??)

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant personally top 20--I've been finding modern rock a lot more exciting in 2004 than modern top 40 or rap, for the first time in close to a decade.

As for charting, "Take Me Out" and "Float On" are currently hovering in the low 60s/high 70s region, and the last I checked, "Somebody Told Me" hadn't charted yet. On the modern rock charts, "Somebody Told Me" is currently #5, "Take Me Out" appears to have peaked at #3, and for one brief shining week, Modest Mouse was #1.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Three out of the top five!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"..the last I checked, "Somebody Told Me" hadn't charted yet."

then there is hope. i'm sure one of the darkness songs probably charted, right?

― duke hope, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

note: Modest Mouse is no longer #1, I think it's currently dropped to #16.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

then there is hope. i'm sure one of the darkness songs probably charted, right?.

Hope for what?

Nope. "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" barely even made top ten modern rock.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rollover DJ" is the current Jet single, I think, if that's the one Chuck was referring to.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"..but the Killers, good lord."

I haven't read any interviews with them but I always imagine the Killers to be in on the big joke. For the sake of argument, let's say the Strokes reached back to 70s rock, Franz Ferdinand to disco, Interpol to Joy Division, etc. The Killers' influences are the Strokes, FF, and Interpol themselves, which makes them even less significant from a musical standpoint. They're from Las Vegas and they embrace the fact that they've been tailor-made for indie --> mainstream crossover appeal, complete with fashionable haircuts and vocals.

I would understand the reaction of disdain had their album remained confined to the indie chart ghetto, but the fact that it's a mainstream radio hit just puts "Somebody Told Me" into the context it was always meant for: a decently executed, completely disposable, and easily forgotten pop single. Which is a long way of saying that I suppose I see them as you do FF.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

* instead of the killers "influences" I should have just written "the sound they're going for" which seems like an extremely incestuous blend of "it"-bands

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Radio twists in death throes.
Internet music is about to get the mantle.
On the serious tip, ya'll.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Bill: Are you saying "ROCK IS BACK!!!!"???

― djdee2005, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

>"Rollover DJ" is the current Jet single, I think, if that's the one Chuck was referring to<

Actually, that sounds like it might be right. (And I can't say I've actually listened *that* closely to it, so I might be way off, though I swear the times I heard it on the radio, T Rex came to mind.)

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

As for that Modest Mouse hit, I'm not that first person to think that it sounds like it could've been a mid '80s Talking Heads hit, am I?

― chuck, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's very like "Sunday Bloody Sunday."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The rhythm and guitar, anyway, but yeah, I think it's kind of got a little "Road to Nowhere" in it, now that you mention it.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. or some quirky ambition we've not seen the likes of for a while. and really a long, long buildup to this, their "moment."

― duke long, Friday, 27 August 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

this phenomenon is definitely happening. among the kiddies its de riguer now to be into modest mouse and death cab.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

YEP. also for some reason i feel i should predict that fischerspooner will have another go at this demo too, and this time who knows?

― duke duke goose, Friday, 27 August 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always said that "Float On" sounds like the Pixies covering "Once In A Lifetime."

POP RADIO PLAYING CATCH POP-ROCK NON-SHOCKAH

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 28 August 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Bill: Are you saying "ROCK IS BACK!!!!"???

Wake me up when there's another hit dancehall single using the Coolie riddim, will ya Deej?

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

F**K! If stations are playing this, well that can only mean they are playing less of complete MOR crud like Nickelback, Alterbridge, Limp Bizkit, etc al?

On the other hand.....

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Saturday, 28 August 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the killers single debuted in the top 100 this week - the darkness single scraped into the top 40.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Saturday, 28 August 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott, The Darkness didn't place on the Hot 100. It made top 40 mainstream but that's something different.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 28 August 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

In my area about a week ago, I heard Kiss 95.7 in Hartford, KC101 in New Haven, and Z100 in NYC all play "Take Me Out" within the space of about 30 minutes.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 August 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I should note that those are all stations that play tons of Hilary Duff, Ashlee Simpson, Jojo and Nina Sky.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 August 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

here's KC101's playlist - I heard them play "Somebody Told Me" during rush hour last week. I don't think I've heard them play The Darkness for a month or 2 at least.

ALICIA KEYS - If I Ain't Got You
ASHLEE SIMPSON - Pieces of Me
ASHLEE SIMPSON - Shadow
AVRIL LAVIGNE - My Happy Ending
BLACK EYED PEAS - Hey Mama
BLACK EYED PEAS - Lets Get It Started
BLINK 182 - I Miss You
BOWLING FOR SOUP - 1985
BUSTED - What I go to school for
CASSIDY/R.KELLY - Hotel
CHRISTINA MILIAN - Dip it Low
D12/EMINEM - How Come
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - Vindicated
FINGER ELEVEN - One Thing
FRANZ FERDINAND - Take Me Out
FUEL - Falls On Me
GOOD CHARLOTTE - Predictable
HILLARY DUFF - Fly
HOOBASTANK - The Reason
HOUSTON/CHINGY - I like that
JESSICA SIMPSON - Angels
JET - Are you gonna be my girl?
JOJO - Leave (Get Out)
KELLY CLARKSON - Breakaway
KEVIN LYTTLE - Turn Me On
KIMBERLEY LOCKE - Wrong
LIL' FLIP - Sunshine
LINKIN PARK - Breaking the habit
LINKIN PARK - Numb
LLOYD BANKS - On Fire
LOS LONELY BOYS - Heaven
MARIO WINANS/P. DIDDY - I Don't Wanna Know
MAROON 5 - She will be loved
MAROON 5 - This Love
MODEST MOUSE - Float On
NELLY/JAHEIM - My Place
NICKELBACK - Feelin' Way Too Damn Good
NINA SKY/JABBA - Move Ya Body
NITTY - Nasty Girl
RYAN CABRERA - On the way down
SEETHER/AMY LEE - Broken
SHIFTY - Slide Along Side
STAIND - So Far Away
SUGARCULT - Memory
SWITCHFOOT - Dare you to move
SWITCHFOOT - Meant To Live
TERROR SQUAD/FAT JOE - Lean Back
TOBY LIGHTMAN - Real Love
TRAPT - Echo
USHER - Confessions Part 2
YELLOWCARD - Ocean Avenue

― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 August 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to say, when i turn on 'the X!', i get pleasantly suprised and then dismay directly thereafter.

but, what's so different than, say 2002, when trail o' dead and queens of the stone age were gettin huge airplay? i mean, both those bands were not exactly radio friendly, but then got the push they deserved (IMHO) and got heard. then, the slag of 'indie' kids got on em...

hope they showered.

― eedd, Saturday, 28 August 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't recall Trail of Dead getting that push.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

no, they really did.
when mtv's got yr video in rotation for a while, i'd say that's a push...

― eedd, Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

QOTSA actually had a hit though (two). The money thrown at MTV in the name of AYKUBTTOD got them nowhere.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

atl's top 40 station (95.5 the beat) last songs played:

fat joe - "lean back"
trick daddy - "in da wind"
nina sky - "move ya body"
j-kwon - "tipsy"
lil flip - "sunshine"
twista - "overnight celebrity"
inoj - "time after time"
petey pablo - "freek-a-leak"
lil jon - "get low"
juvenile - "slow motion"
jadakiss - "why"
kevyn little - "turn me on"
tlc - "red light special"
outkast - "roses"
ciara - "goodies"
usher/ludacris - "yeah!"
freak nasty - "da dip"
mario wynans - "i don't want to know"
beastie boys - "brass monkey"
youngbloodz/lil john - "damn!"
fat joe - "lean back"
jessica simpson - "with you"
houston - "i like that"
christina milian - "dip it low"
lil troy - "wanna be a baller"
alicia keys - "diary"
usher - "burn"
nelly - "my place"
bubba sparxxx - "ugly"
dr. dre - "next episode"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot to also note kc101 is clear channel - i always assumed the majority of their stations nationwide maintained similar playlists.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha white ppl suck, cept for Jessica Simpson.

― djdee2005, Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

and early-stage beasties..?

― duke balm, Monday, 30 August 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

revive!

I saw Jet over the weekend and I dislike them less! It's like the mad scientists in the A&R lab that hatched them decided to come up with a bunch of guys too stoned or stupid to care about who they ripped off, and gallingly canny enough in their lust for stardom to know that no one would care, because fuck it, Humble Pie rocked and no one who listens to the radio remembers them anyway.

And they bring genuine gusto to the dreary task of acting like they enjoy performing the same three songs night in and night out for the same bored fans acting like they enjoy hearing them. The frontman must have been top of his class at rock star school. Seriously - the moves are copped, but he's got 'em all down, including the heh-heh-gonna-make-you-scream-for-the-chorus part.

Plus, because they had to fill a half-hour set and only have one decent song (Chuck E otm upthread wrt "Cold Hard Bitch," though they wussed out and changed the lyrics to avoid offending (?????)), they covered "Don't Look Back In Anger" -- with Oasis playing later on the same bill!

And theirs was better.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

they covered "Don't Look Back In Anger" -- with Oasis playing later on the same bill

Oh, if they were REALLY all that, they would have segued into "All The Young Dudes" from there.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Or wait, I guess the whole point is that in their universe, "Don't Look Back In Anger" is "All The Young Dudes."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Wow, someone did an Oasis song better than Oasis????? What are the odds?????????

― The Ghost of 1 In 1 (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Songs originally by this artist
Wonderwall covered by Ryan Adams
The cover version of this song appears on the Ryan Adams album Love Is Hell pt. 1.

Wonderwall covered by Cat Power
The cover version of this song appears on the Cat Power album Not That Hot New Chick.
Wonderwall covered by The Mike Flowers Pops
The cover version of this song appears on the The Mike Flowers Pops album Wonderwall.

See this album at Amazon.com.
Cigarettes and Alcohol covered by Rod Stewart
The cover version of this song appears on the Rod Stewart album When We Were the New Boys.
Wonderwall covered by Robbie Williams
The cover version of this song appears on the Robbie Williams album Live at Slaine Castle (disc 2).
Champagne Supernova covered by Ben Folds Five
The cover version of this song appears on the Ben Folds Five album Battle of Who Could Care Less.
Wonderwall covered by Howie Day
The cover version of this song appears on the Howie Day album Live 5-22-2002.
Stand by Me covered by The Flying Pickets
The cover version of this song appears on the The Flying Pickets album Vox Pop.
Live Forever covered by The Lemonheads
The cover version of this song appears on the The Lemonheads album It's All True.
Wonderwall covered by Ten Masked Men
The cover version of this song appears on the Ten Masked Men album Ten Masked Men.
Songbird covered by Coldplay
The cover version of this song appears on the Coldplay album Unplugged.

Wonderwall covered by Metallica
The cover version of this song appears on the Metallica album Until the Studioshit Load.

Champagne Supernova covered by Angie Aparo
The cover version of this song appears on the Angie Aparo album Weapon of Mass Construction.

Don't Look Back In Anger covered by The Wurzels

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

coldplay have an unplugged album?

― Creez (Creez), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

In the sense that whenver I hear the album I want to unplug the stereo?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

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