IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU NEVER FORGOT
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Friday, 26 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
(xp: even if whoever runs Wyclef's youtube channel forgot that his brother and sister were a group)
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Friday, 26 January 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
tbh I hadn't thought of it since Tuesday night, when I saw 2manji
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Friday, 26 January 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
and imagined The Rock still having hair
I think Wyclef "911" fits for this.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGgycFEg64
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girl
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 June 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ
Cannot fathom this being released in 2003
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
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?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
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 Moneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRieAoGTW0
― MarkoP, Friday, 29 March 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
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
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Monday, 18 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
yikes, NSFW indeed.
no memory of that one at all - a UK thing maybe?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― gregorianpants, Thursday, 21 November 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link
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?
― dyl, Thursday, 21 November 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link
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
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
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
― dyl, Friday, 22 November 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
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
― dyl, Friday, 22 November 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
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!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYSW8swX5I
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link