Now That Was Totally On The Radio and Stuff! Vol. 2: Forgotten Singles of the Early 2000s

Long Beach Dub All Stars - Sunny Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSSVaW5fklc

Also in the category of Post-Sublime Rappish Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2a8mccuJY

The one song by this Australia band that made it's way to the North American rock charts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_eb0vVo0k

Most of these deserve to be forgotten.

"Hemorrhage" was probably too big to ever really be forgotten, but a pretty amazing period piece regardless - dude's whole look with the bleached shaggy 'do and the necklace and the best scenery-chewing SERIOUS EMOTING this side of Eddie Vedder. It's a plausible contender for "last song of the 90s" in that sense, though sonically it is very close to other kinda watery-sounding overstuffed 2000-era cheeze (e.g. Vertical Horizon).

More crap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88EW1HU3ci0

Angie Aparo - Spaceship - what I think of whenever I use the word "watery" to describe this period of radio rock - the flange effect or whatever on this guy's voice is just really shitty, plus all the noodley electronic stuff sprinkled around in the background. Yikes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9HBzXitoGc

Mest - What's The Dillio? - Catchy with a stupid hook and a gross aiming-for-rom-com teenage premise ("there's something special to her, she's / not just another whore"). See also Stop trying to make "What's the dillio?" happen: Songs that hitch their wagon to slang of the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAURo0rwt6g

Hot Action Cop - Fever For the Flava - A truly grotesque and awful video for a stupid and offensive song that has always occupied a weirdly fond place in my heart, mainly because the chorus, with different lyrics about a different subject entirely, really could have been a great little feel-good anthem.

Overall yeah, thread not exactly overflowing with lost classics as of yet. I confess to a longstanding fondness for "Heaven Is A Halfpipe" for some inexplicable reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DTG_O5zow

Busta Rhymes feat. Kelis - What It Is - more of the Busta glut, from the second Violator album, with the Neptunes presenting basically the Platonic template of Neptunes backing tracks. This did well on the US Rap chart but seems to have pretty much disappeared, perhaps owing to the sort of abstract and nonspecific hook from Kelis (though I do like the way it SOUNDS) - not much to relate to here, just, you know, a few minutes of Busta doing Busta stuff.

This song, along with Busta's "Get Out", kind of occupy the same space in my mind and will pop up randomly in my head from time to time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3laveWE68yA

this thread is a sausagefest

so, here, an entry in "female-fronted power-pop of the sort that would appear on '90s teen movie soundtracks" as well as "did nobody listen to these lyrics before placing it in this movie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFrly5XBAI

That last collection of rock songs is all new to me and absolutely horrible.

Well in an attempt to not make this a complete sausage fest:
Hoku - The Burrito Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMoVIuCnhho

this was on the radio quite often in its year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APz6cjxRcU4

Decent female pop punk, but cringe inducing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO03oq2eQ7w

One more for the crap pile:
Nitty - Nasty Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zY9Oa5DZj4

man, that Jimmy Eat World song actually rules though.

it's like Fugazi and Def Leppard slugging it out in an alleyway

MarkoP, God bless you for reminding me "Heaven Is a Halfpipe" exists

How about "Do Right" by Jimmie's Chicken Shack? Technically late 1999, but I think it fits here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WR3gF9J0hQ

Kazzer - Pedal to The Metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STy1UL49FZM

Might have been a bigger hit in Canada than the US, but I do remember this showing up in a bunch of movies and TV shows like Fast and the Furious and Malcolm in the Middle.

I was doing some research a while back and was surprised to find this r&b song had been a top ten pop hit even though I'd never heard of the artist. It turned out not only had I totally heard it, but it's also the source material for a Mac Dre classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-4ifzbMqXM

Debelah Morgan - Dance With Me

neat

as we said back then (..maybe)

hey best buy pushed the hell out of her back then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbR73AITYz0

ILX's last mention of him was 2008! again, a Best Buy sampler favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWwdh6FGL4M

holy fuck, is that Ashlee Simpson?

this sounds like Goo Goo Dolls if Metal Blade were the name of their cutlery sponsor instead of a punk label.

yep that's Ashlee Simpson. he was dating her at the time!

most Puddle of Mudd songs are still pretty well remembered but I'll be damned if I've heard anybody hum or sing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyDykQWck74

I even remember singing this at a karaoke night once! now I barely remember its hook at all (mostly cos, like most Musiq songs of the time, it didn't really have one!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBD8t0sB-4

like "Hemmorhage", this was a pretty big hit. but it's not like your gonna hear it anywhere unless you're wine drunk at a Sizzler on a Thursday evening or shopping for Hallmark cards. insanely forgotten band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac3HkriqdGQ

haha I forgot about their second "hit"

their first one was ubiquitous enough

I think that song is also played at my gym :(

sure sounds like it'd get you pumped up for your workout. i always think of this one time at the Y when "tears in heaven" came on, you could just see everybody in the whole room slow...ing.... down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwgqflNYFu0

Dexter Freebish - Leaving Town. Released late 2000, though apparently, it was in 1999 that "the band won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Song of the Year for their song “Leaving Town," picked from approximately 27,000 entries." Call me a sap but I think this is actually kind of good? Suffers from all the production tics and visual doucheyness of a lot of Good Haircut Mall Rock of this period but that's a pretty good chorus there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF5O0qH4LLQ

Eve 6 - Promise. Lead single from the album that followed the big hit. This one got quickly forgotten once they scored a decent-sized hit with "Here's To The Night." It isn't exactly a rewrite of "Inside Out," although it may demonstrate some basic limitations on Eve-6's range. One of those songs where the chorus itself is less interesting than the pre-chorus ("Red as a newborn, white as a cooooorpse"). Still, I'm finding myself kinda liking it now that I'm not just completely burned out on this entire sound; there was a time when even just the guitar tone and compression here signified "sell-out radio rock" to me so hard that I just couldn't deal. It happens that all these mediocre post-alt-rock songs I've been posting pretty much date from this period: my freshman and sophomore years in college, getting more and more thoroughly into indie rock but still living in the dorms and vegging out to an alarming amount of MTV2.

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

Green Day - Warning. A genial little strummer, one of the least Green-Day-sounding Green Day singles. Along with "Waiting" and "Minority" from the same album, it got a little bit of play at the time but (like the late-90s cuts which appear on the other thread) they never grew into hits and obviously the next album was a gigantic comeback that sort of rewrote their whole narrative. Had American Idiot never happened these probably would just be the last trailing-off singles of a bad most people assume broke up years before. Thing is, I kinda like the sound of this thing, much more laid back and almost "roots rock" than the strained ballads and obnoxious curtain-raisers to come.

Speaking of these guys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUW2Lkmskus

The Network - Joe Robot. "Don't tell anybody" side project teaming Green Day with members of Devo and maybe trying to sound like Gary Numan more than anything. A minor, one-riff little thingy, refreshingly odd IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd3Y4o95ObU

Big Dumb Face - Duke Lion. The much-hoped-for Wes Borland solo project, which was disappointingly not a bunch of effects-pedal noodley guitar layers, but rather a scratchily-recorded wacky number for the Zappa/Primus/Ween set. At least he followed his dreams.

Digging "Money Can't Buy Me Happiness," btw. Never heard that before!

am I going here? oh yes I am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZxnawFph4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5tKILoxrQ4

dream and willa ford will never be forgotten in my heart <3

lol the jive jones thing was the first song that came to mind when i saw this thread

Heh, kept thinking about posting Eve 6's Promise.

I'd say the follow up single is even more forgotten than that one, which I remember getting radio play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbvXG9tMyJk

I really should just look through my Mix CDs I made in high school for stuff for this thread, since there's already been quite a few posted here already that were on them.

love this thread! reminds me of bob stanley's idea that you become a pop fan when you're 10-12 years old and curious about/into everything on top40 radio.

"stuck" is a p good song imo, surprised it went til the 1:00 mark before chorus kicked in

"he loves you not" was all over back then! such an aguilera-ish jam

for those who don't click the halfpipe-video, here's the chorus:

If I die before I wake
At least in heaven I can skate
Cause right now on earth I can't do jack
Without the man up on my back

"Stuck" was cool but I preferred Stacey's follow-up single "(There's Gotta Be) More To Life":

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

Mmh, that one resonated... Do remember a radio dj mocking the weltschmerz of teenage Orrico quite - to me - convincingly. Made it hard for teenage niels to admit to liking the song. Often on my mind though, good chorus.

Was trying to figure out why that Sev song seemed familiar, then I realized it's what Pepsi used in it's Pepsi Blue commercials.

And in the "Was a Big Hit in Canada One Summer (Especially in Quebec)" category:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpr6tii15Y8

probably the bgm for idk how many mtv segments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w869Avr_fXI

this thread is incomprehensible on zing or firefox

Dexter Freebish - Leaving Town. Released late 2000, though apparently, it was in 1999 that "the band won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Song of the Year for their song “Leaving Town," picked from approximately 27,000 entries." Call me a sap but I think this is actually kind of good? Suffers from all the production tics and visual doucheyness of a lot of Good Haircut Mall Rock of this period but that's a pretty good chorus there.

You can see why it won a songwriting competition - pretty lame performance but a good backbone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtN83-vQmw

Eeeeewwwww

lol i love that song/album

I jumped off the goo canoe around Dizzy up the girl...so I come in with baggage.

that song is shitty but i can actually appreciate the earlier Goo Goo Dolls hits in 2015. it's like some sub-Westerberg pining (which i'm a sucker for) with a lot of gloss and a lot of feelings, man.

which i guess is the same for most 90's alt hits that sounded corny upon arrival but are now tugging at your heartstrings when they come on the radio

"Name" especially

Hmm yea I was into A Boy Named Goo.

Lol I remember learning to play Name from some Internet tab site. Weird fucking tuning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThg2FgIKuI

Deftones - Back to School

Apparently that song was a sop to the label who wanted a lead single for the album, and the band always hated it. But I admit, I like it, late-90s rap-metal corniness and all. The beginning of it is thrilling.

I thought it was cool that they were doing a smash up the school jam seemingly so soon after Columbine & upgraded zero-tolerance policies in schools. Genuinely felt rebellious given that most other Rap Metal was about general angst, swearing, and 5-string bass/7-string guitar.

It was also funny that the label made them cut it for a first single, and then it (relatively) flopped and "Change (In The House of Flys)"--which was about as out-there as one could get in early Clear Channel Rock Radio--blew up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1f4SVqnbKg

Wyclef Jean ft. The Rock, Melky & Sedek - "It Doesn't Matter"

have never stopped loving that one

who could ever forget

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU NEVER FORGOT

(xp: even if whoever runs Wyclef's youtube channel forgot that his brother and sister were a group)

tbh I hadn't thought of it since Tuesday night, when I saw 2manji

and imagined The Rock still having hair

I think Wyclef "911" fits for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGgycFEg64

Tori Amos - Strange Little Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7D27mL2JkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4VpE-0zitU

Cypress Hill - "(Rap) Superstar" and "(Rock) Superstar." Saw "Josie & the Pussycats" the other night and was startled into memory of this dual-marketed track by the odd decision to have Alan Cumming quote the chorus at one point. Feel like I heard these about thirteen times each back in 2000, and then never again since. The "rock" one is really just a rock remix of the same song, similar to "All About the Benjamins" but with more limited meddling.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ

Cannot fathom this being released in 2003

jesus christ at those tans. early undocumented teal-and-orange color timing job? what a weird video premise btw. jurassic five obviously one-upped them tremendously on the viewmaster gimmick with "quality control."

it was a very saturated era for pop video colors. i just started watching the "who let the dogs out" video on mute while this one still was playing and it was syncing up eerily well.

Cannot fathom this being released in 2003

That's because it was released in 2000.
Or do you mean you couldn't fathom something like this being released anytime later than 2002?

Recently identified this video that I had vague memories of. Mostly remember it for the video, since the song isn't very good:
Handsome Devil - Makin Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRieAoGTW0

Not exactly forgotten but curiously far from every day consciousness.

The video isn't even on YouTube, although that's possibly for NSFW reasons.

Add N to (X) - Plug Me In

https://vimeo.com/88573125

yikes, NSFW indeed.

no memory of that one at all - a UK thing maybe?

I guess mileage does vary with this kind of stuff, but a lot of what's in this thread I never even heard of. Granted some of these that I've googled were VERY minor hits, if that, (ie. never charted at all or hit like #67 on the rap single sales chart for a single week or received airplay in certain markets but didn't really impact elsewhere or w/e)

Either way still cool to be exposed to these songs - some which reveal quite clearly why they never really "made it".

Anyway, my contribution for "once a hit, now totally forgotten" would be Guster's "Satellite" and their lesser hit "Amsterdam"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekt6PELAcEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0TQVbiWeEs

Once recurrent on Triple A / Adult Top 40 stations (my local "Dave Matthews and friends" AAA certainly did anyway) circa the mid-late 00s, I don't recall having heard these played anywhere this decade whether on terrestrial radio, satellite radio, grocery store/mall PAs. In fact, I totally forgot they existed until some music journo types brought them up on twitter.

saw a promo 12-inch for this one in the racks at a record store recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBe1ybJarMo

don't ask me how, but i recognized it as one of a number of tunes pushed to top 40 radio from new/unestablished artists in 2001 that ended up going basically nowhere.

a few others fitting the same description:

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

this one i remember hearing, but very little. it might have gotten voted off the new music battle that my local station would air on weekday evenings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAo7TTM81gU

like "hottie," another example of the sort of youthful 'rhythmic'/dance hybrid sound that was being somewhat more successfully taken to airwaves via artists like jessica simpson ("irresistible") and christina milian ("am to pm")

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

i definitely heard this, but i'm not sure if it was on the radio or on tv?

Oh yeah, “Miss California”, massive hit in Europe (number 1-ish in these parts) - but true, I had completely forgotten about it, even though I quite liked it at the time.

Also in People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Thomas

oh i had no idea "miss california" was a big hit internationally. makes sense tho, pretty catchy tune even if the artist is not an especially distinctive presence on it... lol that wiki page is really something

listening to the lindsay pagano song again and tbh the chorus melody is kinda great, too bad the verses are horrible/clunky/aimless and sound like they're part of an entirely different song

you're good, dyl! these threads inherently involve subjective experience and the vagaries of memory. i mainly just want to shake out things a step or two above "effectively unreleased and unheard," but below stuff that nobody on ILM needs reminding of even if it's faded away a little.

the production on that ashley ballard one is a real time capsule of like, two years before it came out, and amanda's "everybody doesn't" isn't much more a creature of 2001.... or did this stuff hang around longer than my brain is remembering? the hooks just all sounds like rewrites of "sock it 2 me" and "genie in a bottle" to my ears.

huh wow i've definitely heard that Satellite song plenty of times but never knew it was Guster, who i figured must have broken up after their contributions to the late 90s equivalent of this thread. it's from 2008 though - is it time to establish a late-2000s edition?

just updated the spotify playlist with various recent additions. "Miss California" isn't available but that's no mark of shame - to this day, "Land of a Million Drums" languishes off the grid. sigh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYSW8swX5I

Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk