Bands/Pop stars that are quickly becoming relics of the earlier part of this decade?

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In the same way that A Flock of Seagulls is used as the whipping boy for early '80s synth pop and fashion whenever someone needs one, what bands do you already see as defining, though slightly obscure relics of the earlier part of this decade? It's sort of hard to tell but it's becoming clearer as the decade moves towards the end.

It's already gotten to the point where I mention Alien Ant Farm to some people and they'll say that they've forgotten all about that band, though they do remember them and forgot how big they were for awhile. The nu-metal genre as a whole can almost be thrown into this lake of fire, but that'd be too easy.

A lot of the bands aren't so far out of the pop culture memory that it's time for the Surreal Life, but there are some that are quickly entering that sort of "I'm a $5,000 trivia question" stage of their careers. Also, a lot of the bands I'm trying to think of are still thought over as holdovers of 1990s pop music trends, but they'll be reconfigured as the years go by to this decade.

Let's think of some more along the lines of Alien Ant Farm.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

American Idol winners

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about that Shakey, I see Fantasia and Kelly having pretty long careers.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well, some of them. I could get it out of the way and say something really rude about Justin Guarini, but I'm feeling especially nice today.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

considering that they're all tied-for-life to a corporate parent+industry model that's rapidly collapsing, I don't think any of 'em have a prayer for longevity.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

(but yeah most of the other acts I'm comin up with are actually from the 90s... maybe I just blocked out most of the charts for the last 7 years)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

New Found Glory?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, as I sort of alluded to in my post (I thought I included this in there too, but I guess I accidentally deleted it), it seems like most simplified pop music trends that we associate with being as part of a certain general "decade" actually really take place towards the very end, and then kind of roll over into the next decade.

I think that, generally speaking, 1955-1965 has a lot more in common (both musically and culturally) than 1960-1970. The same goes with almost all of the clichéd and simplified trends that have occurred every decade. People remember the 1950s as "rock" when that came on towards the second half and continued in that same way till the middle of the 1960s, the 1960s with "hippiedom", the 1970s with disco, etc. The end of one decade and the first half of the next are more complimentary than the decade as a whole.

The same thing with 1990s music. As the years go by I think we'll think of people like Fatboy Slim or the Backstreet Boys as being as much of a part of defining the decade's sounds and fads as any "alternative" thing that happened the beginning. The reason being that the alt rock movement will by then have connotations with 1980s rock, while it will be easy to think boy bands, big beat and little indie trends (Napster!) as being starts to things that rolled over into the next decade.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 20 January 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dance punk.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

Anticon

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

LIMP BIZKIT

― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

much bigger than AAF obv. but so over by the middle of the decade to the point where you start marvelling at just how popular they were only a few years before.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ja Rule/Ashanti

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

LIMP BIZKIT

-- vita susicivus (n...), January 20th, 2007.

Durst knows no decade

― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ja Rule/Ashanti and Bizkit OTM

and "Durst Knows No Decade" sounds like the name of an irony-loving punk band started by my middle-child in 2020

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Strokes

― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Mario (of "Let Me Love You" fame)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Eminem

― lovebug 2.0 (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Peaches, Chilly Gonzales, Gold Chains

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 20 January 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Blazin' Squad

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 20 January 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Distillers

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 20 January 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Clinic, Radio 4, !!!, The Rapture

― Squid Sandwich (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 20 January 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Afroman

― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

white stripes

― alext (alext), Saturday, 20 January 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Houston

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 20 January 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

blink 182
busted

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Saturday, 20 January 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

The Streets

― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

cldplysnwptrlkn

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

jet

― maura (maura), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dance punk.

Very OTM.

I also disagree re: American Idol Winners ... Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood have enough hits and have sold enough records to transcend the "Idol winner" stigma.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Q Magazine Best Music Of 2002 cd i just found in a box:

the cooper temple clause

the hives

electric soft parade

black rebel motorcycle club

athlete

minuteman

tom mcrae

british sea power

josh rouse

von bondies

kosheen

telepopmusik

the dirtbombs

simian

gemma hayes

mull historical society

ed harcourt

dot allison

alfie

lorien

ben christophers

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Q Magazine OTM, although I only remember about half of them.

― strom (strom), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

British Sea Power and Alfie OTM

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

How about Good Charlotte? They were pretty huge on TRL. I think the singer goes out with Hillary Duff now (or at least did for a while).

― Stingy (stingy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Destiny's Child

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Clinic? c'mon.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

god, remember interpol? good times, good times.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

aww man I dig the latest Peaches :/

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Yorn
Rival Schools
Hoobastank
Dashboard Confessional
Yellowcard

― alexander craig (alexcraig), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

So Solid

― acrobat (elwisty), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

2nd the Strokes/Hives/Von Bondies

― edde (edde), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Dashboard Confessional have a pretty big album late last year?

Dance-punk/garage-revival OTM with very few exceptions (DFA, the White Stripes seem to have legs outside their genre)

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

also: grime

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

At least the Strokes, Hives and White Stripes are still in the public eye. Where the hell are the Von Bondies? Enuff promo to choke a horse, then they just split the scene altogether...

Also: just about every boy and girl band*** you can name...that phenomenon is out the back door now.

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***"band"...none of them played instruments so I don't see why they were called that
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― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

electric soft parade

Sadly, yes. And they are to blame themselves as they did something completely different (and nowhere near as good) on the followup.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Enon seem to have disappeared — High Society seemed to be a fairly big deal in 2002, but they haven't had a proper new full-length since 2003.

― eatandoph (eatandoph), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

geir, wtf are you talking about?! their second album was WAY better and has WAY more staying-power than their (already dated) first!

and their album coming out this year will be incredible. just y'all wait and see!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Their first album was a great example of arche-English-sounding melodic pop. The second one was trying way to hard to sound American.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think in order to qualify for this thread they have to be either popular or critically acclaimed or closely identified with a particular sound or movement that's gone completely out of fashion. Nobody gave a shit about the Distillers or Clinic even then.

Anyway, Fischerspooner, The Vines, Gareth Gates, Hearsay, The Bloodhound Gang.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

C/D: Beta Band's Happiness And Colour/The Hut

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

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Puddle of Mudd seems like a pretty safe bet.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

America is like some crazy alternate universe where Reggae-lite fads like Sean Paul were culturally relevant and The Coral and The Thrills were... oh wait...

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Incubus
Samantha Mumba
Craig David

― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

America is like some crazy alternate universe where Reggae-lite fads like Sean Paul were culturally relevant and The Coral and The Thrills were... oh wait...

I'm not really a fan, but I have a feeling Sean Paul has slightly more name recognition world-wide than The Coral or The Thrills.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Geir OTM with Destiny's Child, the en vogue of the 00's
who's the new boyz II men?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

the quality of student music-writing is execrable, with cliche piled on cliche, misconception piled on ignorant generalisation.

HARK

http://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/717/1/

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

All those teen girl singer-songwriters (Avril, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch etc...)

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's very true ... it's blatantly obvious that the collected music of every "I am the anti-Britney" female artist will have 0.1% of the longevity of any number of Britney Spears hits.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

VEX RED

-- Dom Passantino (juror...) (webmail), Yesterday 1:39 AM. (Dom Passantino) (later) (link)

dom, you are my hero.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Shaggy.

Though he could stage a comeback... most would've thought he was a relic of the 90s before "It Wasn't Me"/"Angel".

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagesource.art.com/images/-/Sisqo--Dragon--C10292112.jpeg

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

outkast

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Artful Dodger

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ryan Adams
The Hives
Doves
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Wilco
The Vines

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

Cody Chesnutt

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

Avril Lavigne

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

50 cent

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

Fountains of Wayne pulled a rare feat in pop music. The way they almost became a breakout band and then faded away in the mid 90s, only to come back ten years later with a smash song that was promoted like they were a new band, is so very weird. It's almost like they've been a semi-successful band and then a one-hit-wonder, with no mainstream connection made between the two achievements. They're the pop equivalent of born-again virgins.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:31 (eighteen years ago)

Thinking of it, I think mentioning the likes of The Coral or any Sixties revivalists are a bit off-topic here, regarding their music are generally timeless, it could have been done 35 or 15 years ago as well. Bit listening A Flock Of Seagulls, they were so Eighties, that their music couldn't have made in a different era. That's why I think the typically 00s phenomenons are the correct answers: UK Garage, Dancepunk, almost everything produced by the Neptunes, etc.

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Fair enough. Their sound certainly wouldn't have been out of place during a number of times during the last few decades. I was just thinking about FoW earlier and couldn't help but notice the irony of them being left-field one-hit-wonders two decades in a row.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

"I may be thinking of The D4"

The D4 have broken up, yo.

― GLC (ZakAce), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

When I think late 90's, boy bands and Limp Bizkit come to mind.

When I think early 00's, I'm tortured by the hyper-compressed, over-produced, sore-throated sounds of the latter-day Creed knock-offs and Canadians. And basically anyone played on a radio station with the word "Mix" in the title.

Nickelback
Tantric
Fuel
3 Doors Down
Puddle of Mudd
Train
Staind
Godsmack

Et al

― Chris Wright (DrFunktronic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

England is like some crazy alternate universe where 10k selling rock acts (Thrills, Coral, et al.) were culturally relevant and Sean Paul was a flash in the pan.

it's not, it's just that a lot of the britishers on this thread are weird and barely know what cultural significance is. sean paul is STILL tres popular here, and no one cared about the other two even at the time

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

The Thrills are Irish, not British, you racist schweinehund!

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

Gorillaz might not be in this category yet, but (like them or not) they're sort of destined for this sort of infamy.

― John Justen is fucking sick of his username (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

The Coral's "Magic and Medicine" sold a lot more copies than both "The Trinity" and "Dutty Rock" over here.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

"The Invisible Invasion" outsold "The Trinity" but not "Dutty Rock".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

it's not, it's just that a lot of the britishers on this thread are weird and barely know what cultural significance is.

This from someone who once wondered why anyone would even want to know, or should care, about who shot JFK? And thinks Paris Hilton is an important cultural signifier?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

David Gray?

― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Also: just about every boy and girl band*** you can name...that phenomenon is out the back door now.

You've not noticed the love for Girls Aloud round here then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

Talk about cultural significance... I interpret "relic" as an artist or a band making a real impact on the int. musical community. Sean Paul makes a big difference, like it or not, fronting a new turn in American music. Bores like Nickelback and Avril Lavigne on the other hand are just tagging on to a already well-established genre, copies of Metallica/Staind and Britney etc, and will be forgotten with joy.

― the Dirt (FunkDirt), Thursday, 25 January 2007 09:14 (eighteen years ago)

FFS it's not about who'll be forgotten, it's about who'll be remembered for the wrong reasons. This probably won't include the Coral or The Thrills, who sold a shedload of albums if I remember correctly. It will include The Libertines though.

There's some astonishing bullshit on this thread, especially the idiot who argued that all dancehall except Sean Paul will be remembered as some flash-in-the-pan early 00s fad.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 January 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting thread in that it points up how there can never be another Flock of Seagulls, really, because the audience now is so fragmented. Every one of these relics will be Flock of Seagulls to their individual niche, but won't make a good punchline in a sitcom of the future b/c their appeal was not broad enough. This even though many of the bands mentioned sold many more records than Flock of Seagulls, strangely.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

matt, Dancehall, well in the UK at least blew up HUGE in the summer of 2003 and there were a large amount of threads on ILM about it and Wayne Wonder, Sean Paul etc were heading the charts. You just can't say this about the music climate today. Of course Dancehall is alive and well today but you just can't argue the all encompassing cultural significance that it had in 2003. Same as the charts in 1993 had a number of Dancehall/Reggae-Pop tunes by Shabba Ranks, Inner Circle, Shaggy etc. It's not that these acts stopped making tunes, they just stopped capturing the imagination of the public at large - at least till the next crossover hit.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Whew, I made this nine months ago? Wow. Any new entrants into this list?

― Cunga, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Birtney

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

MYLO.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

TRAPT

― gman, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Boy/Girl bands were sort of on the way out in 2001 already, no?

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I see that as a more typical 90s thing. Particularly the late 90s, but the decade started with New Kids On The Block, Take That and East 17, so boybands were around already by then.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

The Cooper Temple Clause
DJ Pied Piper & The Master of Ceremonies

― Gavin in Leeds, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

ARE Weapons

― nabisco, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

wow. what a shitty, depressing decade.

: (

― max r, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Neptunes.

― Tuomas, Friday, 12 October 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

The people we could fit in this thread seems to have tripled in the past two-and-a-half years.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 07:38 (sixteen years ago)

lool i was listening to the Q music cd scott mentions upthread the other day. pretty good really, though the lorien track has hell of creepy lyrics

sorry for the OT

― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 07:42 (sixteen years ago)

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Guy on the right looks familiar.

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 08:13 (sixteen years ago)

Beyonce and Nelly. In Europe, anyway.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 09:15 (sixteen years ago)

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