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

Skrape - Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LiUDu809cs

Oh God, labels promoted the hell out of that Skrape album.

Collective Soul - Why pt. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dgUY6lsU4

Switchfoot - Dare you to move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOTcr9wKC-o

I don't know if this one has been forgotten but it was pretty big at the time and it's been years since I've oveheard it:

Orson - no tomorrow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmH4rr8vq0

Skye Sweetnam - Billy S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Mm4flx81E

I remember that Skye Sweetnam song, unfortunately.

Basically everything Vitamin C did besides the graduation song is forgotten now, though I guess now that I think about it "Smile" was big enough to probably not count. Feels like it was in some ads, too, or if it wasn't, it was REALLY begging for it.

Collective Soul had to be one of the biggest losers in the total collapse of the alt-rock market. I mean the were never very good (and often actively bad), and "Why" isn't a very interesting song, but y'know, the last couple albums had each mustered a couple of good-sized airplay hits. It probably didn't help that the cover seemed designed to trick people into thinking they were a boy band.

did enough people forget about nikka costa's "like a feather"?

also [posts any anastacia single]

Both Nikka and Anastacia had health problems but I don't know how that affected their careers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGtBZX32I0

The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk - Maybe borderline on the forgotten front, as the parent album went gold and this was the only single that went anywhere. But my sense at the time was that they had somehow missed the boat and failed to capitalize on "Hate To Say I Told You So" landing well in the US. Actually I feel like I read they had some label or management problems involved... anyone remember anything about that? Wikipedia is unavailing, though we do learn that The main riff is similar to that of The Who's "I Can't Explain", and even more similar to Sonic 2's Metropolis Zone. Anyway, it's an energetic, hooky rocker, undone only by length - clearly wants to be a good forty seconds to a minute shorter. Small quibble though, it's good.

I thought about posting that one -- I attributed its flopping to audience/radio bafflement at its AC/DC-meets-Wire sound.

Anastacia...i remember "Not That Kind"

Re: Hives - This was also around the time (2004) when MTV would relegate critical singles for alt bands to MTV2 rotation

Hives mention reminds me of this other forgotten 'hit':

Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_K36y-iLUk

Having flashbacks of early 00's bands like Starsailor, Keane, Stereophonics and have decided some things are best forgotten.

My regular internet's been wonky these past few days, so I having been able to partake of the festivities thus far, but expect some pithy comments from me on some of the included stuff thus far soon.

Anyways, that Fu Manchu cut their hair, dropped a disco beat, and actually got some Album Rock action with a little ditty called "Squash That Fly"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqhLPE3G1w

...and then there's the truly forgotten ones-

Thirteen senses - into the fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFroDCsVCeY

XP "I haven't been able to partake" & "Would you believe that...?" even...

Having flashbacks of early 00's bands like Starsailor, Keane, Stereophonics and have decided some things are best forgotten.

They (labels) tried to break Travis, Supergrass and Ash in America, in that order if I recall... Busted and The Streets too

For the past several years he's been a sideman to the stars (and as of late, the boyfriend of Renee Zellweger), but back in 2001 RCA tried to pitch Doyle Bramhall II as the white Lenny Kravitz in the video for "Green Light Girl", a song initially featured on the soundtrack to the forgotten Sly Stallone/Burt Reynolds racing epic Driven. I still hear this occasionally on a local community college's FM rock station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZYppH82U4U

More Trivia: The backing singer in the clip was Bramhall's then-wife Susannah Melvoin, former Prince girlfriend, daughter of session legend Mike Melvoin, and sister of Wendy (of "...and Lisa" fame) and the late Jonathan (who O.D'ed and died in the presence of Jimmy Chamberlin in '96).

XP Supergrass actually got a decent push as early as '97, with "Cheapskate" getting minor Modern Rock play.

"Do Right" was on the other thread, and rightly so because it was a 90s song. This was totally on the radio in the 2000s (in the southeast US, anyway) and begs the question of why you'd wanna do a duet with a dude who sounds just like you anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzf9-HkpKMQ

xp You're probably right about "Bandages" being forgotten for most people, although I still pump that song and "No Not Now" because they're both awesome.

xp That one Keane song ("Somewhere Only We Know") is way better than anything else those 6-7 bands released in the 2000s, and I still hear it on muzak frequently.

Although I also heard that "Brighter Than Sunshine" song at Walgreens the other day which I definitely had not heard in 10+ years. Google tells me the band was called Aqualung.

anyone who has been in any megachurch over the past decade has not forgotten "dare you to move"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHMOZT9xYU

"Bandages" was big enough that I remember at least one band doing a kind-of-mocking partial cover of it, like a "ha ha this sellout rock song that's rocketing up the charts" kind of thing. But it turned out that it was basically already at the end of its lifespan.

"Falling Out" sounding REALLY familiar. Must have heard it in some context in Georgia but not regularly. I wasn't really listening to rock radio by that point though. I'm disappointed to realize they swung hard for this sludgey nu-metal-ish sound, going as far as recruiting the dude from Staind. I never actually liked the band but they were harmless enough as a dumbass ska-flavored party-rock outfit.

The only Stereophonics I remember seeing was the dour, plodding "Mr. Writer," which sounded like you'd taken an already-boring song and slowed down the tape. Guh.

omg i totally forgot about "supergirl"

the mention of "brighter than sunshine" made me think of posting an augustana single ("stars and boulevards") but i'm wary bc i don't think "boston" is very forgotten at all

Canadian Robyn knock-off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMAwNM3mAg

A few lead/early singles that were forgotten after the "Big Hit" was released:

Uncle Kracker, when he was modelling himself after Kid Rock's rap-rock side as opposed to his southern rock/country side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOXkkhkOyI

The lead single from Counting Crows' Hard Candy, the album which featured their hit cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" initally as a bonus track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOXkkhkOyI

Whoops, messed up that second link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ_MUfryl-w

And speaking of Kid Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFT0JqOL58A

I'm still refraining from posting a bunch of Can-Con few care about, but decided to post this one as one of those early 2000s examples of group writing a song about that new fangled thing called "The Internet":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZFS3SC_UE

Also, Prozzak's existence was mostly forgotten a year or two later when Gorillaz came along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YmPNcxhZ0

Jurassic 5 - The Influence. Did not chart, but I always liked it a lot more than "Quality Control." Cool sample, great forward momentum, and I like how they keep handing the mic around, but the title doesn't show up til the very last couplet.

Oh man, I didn't recognize the title to "Forever" but oh man, the stupid chorus, that stupid, stupid chorus. I take SOME-THING! and mix it with SOME-THING! It's basically an inferior "American Bad-Ass"... not a good place to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofXZ0j3XtI

Andrew WK - We Want Fun. An I Get Wet castoff picked up for the Jackass: The Movie soundtrack. In the context of AWK's career, it felt like a misstep, pinning down his broad, exciting vision of "the party" to something banal and fratty. His subsequent releases would swerve into a self-help vision in which partying is more like a metaphor for the path to enlightenment, so this really doesn't fit in. That only leaves the delightfully dumb title and the joyous trucker key change at the end.

Don't remember that Uncle Kracker song at all, but OTM about Kid Rock - I would have totally believed that was a Kid Rock song with a guest vocalist singing the hook.

a couple others that were on the radio and are not remembered by many nowadays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvf4ctqTrro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQt11Mfb4w

I remember when Lady Gaga released "Edge of Glory", I kept thinking it reminded me of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3qyTaLe5BE

That is impressive recall - and pretty accurate

I'm not sure if this song is quite forgotten since I remember still hearing this song at my local supermarket in 2005/2006, but that was also close to ten years ago (yikes!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhjHICy5tW0

I like that one :)

Oh my forgot about Sarina Paris such an annoying but catchy song.

i always thought 'we want fun' was great

/fratty

Wow, totally forgot about "You're An Ocean," and not sure I even knew it was Fastball at the time. Came and went very quickly. I guess it's okay? I have no real beef with Fastball but they don't do enough with the lift from "Rock The Boat" to make it much other than a lift. Kind of a weird arrangement/tempo; it definitely doesn't sound like much on the radio at that time so I'll give them that.

At last, a Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/682AFwRyNlwUxoGEZYiEGH

(Late '90s one is still here: https://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/2taIeJ0IhYbdEJWgGXJBsK)

Not on Spotify:

Mil - Ride Out
True Steppers - Out Of Your Mind
Jelleestone - Money Can't Buy Me Happiness
Jive Jones - Me Myself and I
Moxy - Mz. Popularity
One Ton - Supersex World
Outkast - Land of a Million Drums
Little T etc. - Shaniqua
Eden's Crush - Get Over Yourself
Jupiter Day - Empty Space
Eskobar - Someone New
D-12 - Purple Pills
D-12 - Fight music
Custom - Hey Mister (pretty okay with not having to hear this btw)
Schuyler Fisk - It's Not Her
Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Falling Out
Krystal Harris - Supergirl
Prozzak - www.nevergetoveryou

I think some of these get burned by being on movie soundtracks with presumably thorny rights arrangements... "Land of a Million Drums," by the way, is available on a horrrrrrrible Outkast "tribute" album by someone called the Urban Underground Society, worth skimming through because their spree of soundalikes features a number of completely flubbed lyrics apparently derived from a quick quasi-phonetic transcription of the song. "Ms. Jackson, my intentions were good, I wish I could / become a magician to abracadabra off the Seder."

I left in most contested entries, though they may be a bit jarring - Fuel in particular are a couple leagues above the rest of these in terms of Spotify plays with 8 mil versus 300K for something like Rehab, even less for Busta's duds. Stacie Orrico, who I've never heard of before, might be the other breakout star here with nigh 3 million plays. Oh, and Green Day is right around that point too. I went ahead and threw in their "Waiting" since it's got less plays than "Warning" and is plausibly more forgotten. However, I made a special exception for Eamon - at 18 million Spotify plays, that's verifiably an enduringly remembered, perhaps even popular song. Korn's "Word Up!" is even higher at 20 mil. Obviously some of this could just be an artist's cult spinning their lesser-known tracks ad infinitum, which is the only explanation I can see for 13 million plays on "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" (which I did include after realizing it wasn't even the song I was thinking of upthread with the bad video - that was their curious cover of "Along Comes Mary"). I left in Ashanti, Blaque and City High all - considerably less-played than Fuel. But this is an inexact science. If anyone wants to make a case for re-including anything I cut, I'm open!

Not identified: that "ohohohoh" zombie 5000 whatever it was called... Is this a Powerman 5000 reference?

Meanwhile, finally checking out some of the songs I passed over as Youtube embeds. Hoku - "How Do I Feel" has a certain low-budget "off-brand recording studio trying for the big sound" feel but I can imagine it being a bigger hit with more money in it, it's not totally generic, and the burrito line is smartly placed for adding a memorable quirk early in the song. God the production just piles up silly things as it goes though. They were tryin'!

Peter Searcy meanwhile is kind of amazing for how much he wants the first two seconds to sound like "Semi-Charmed Life."

that "ohohohoh" zombie 5000 whatever it was called..

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
And I would definitely not consider that one forgotten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byoCjcJwoO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ2t4jfVTiU

Alien Ant Farm - Movies - the followup to "Smooth Criminal," with an inevitable "they get dressed up like it's different movies" video, though somebody clearly forgot to order enough costumes for a three-minute song (or they spent the money on Pat Morita's appearance). Amazingly, this had three videos, tracking the band's rising stardom (?).

The chorus is fine but you can see why someone figured the most commercial thing on this album was the obligatory gag "we cover a pop song" track. If it wasn't for the lead guy's dumb face I'd probably regard this band more fondly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34u_3Z9_LUw

Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs - his first "solo" outing from his first "solo" record, of the same title. A pleasantly insubstantial ditty wasted on a string of mostly-unfunny jokes. Weird Al directs, amidst a late-career slump pre-White & Nerdy, which he seems to have spent learning how to use blue screens and a video toaster. Nobody's best work but it used to get stuck in my head a lot, with different rockers inserted in the chorus ("Just like Calvin Johnson did..."). Meanwhile: A remake of the title track featuring William Shatner appeared in the soundtrack for the 2006 film Over the Hedge, which stars Shatner as an opossum named Ozzie.