Best track on "Buzz Cuts: 30 of the Biggest Alternative Rock Hits of All Time"

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I just saw this advertised on television and I knew immediately that it was begging to be made into an ILM poll. I just wasn't sure to ask for the best or worst song from the compilation.

As seen on television, the new Buzz Cuts cd is a compilation of 30 of the biggest alternative rock hits of all time.

If you're a lover of alt rock then this cd is a definite must have, with blazing tunes from 3 Doors Down to Alien Ant Farm, Sum 41, Creed and many other artists.

The Buzz Cuts cd is a double cd and the track listing can be found below as well as videos of some of the artists and songs.

I know a third of the songs, vaguely know another third, and the last third is completely unknown (or so I think). Sugar Ray wins...if there is a real, clear-cut winner here.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Celebrity Skin - Hole 41
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit 9
I Miss You - Blink 182 7
Sour Girl - Stone Temple Pilots 7
The Way - Fastball 6
Fly - Sugar Ray feat. SuperCat4
Fat Lip - Sum 41 4
Butterfly - Crazytown 4
The Chemicals Between Us - Bush 3
Lakini's Juice - Live 2
Inside Out - Eve 6 2
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm 2
Hanging Around - Counting Crows 1
Whereever You Will Go - The Calling 1
Send The Pain Below - Chevelle 1
I Will Buy You A New Life - Everclear 1
Hemorrhage (In My Hands) - Fuel 1
Meant To Live - Switchfoot 1
Kryptonite - Three Doors Down 1
Last Resort - Papa Roach 1
What It is To Burn - Finch 1
Hanging By A Moment - Lifehouse 0
Running Away - Hoobastank 0
I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace 0
Bodies - Drowning Pool 0
Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace 0
Blurry - Puddle of Mud 0
Higher - Creed 0
I'd Do Anything - Simple Plan 0


Cunga, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Everytime I see the commercial, I think "this really would be my own personal hell".

Still, I can't help liking the songs by Fuel and Lifehouse.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

1997-2003 was apparently the hayday of alt-rock?

This CD is the reason why the genre is so hated.

billstevejim, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

I still like "I Miss You" and "Sour Girl."

billstevejim, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

Voted for "Butterfly" by Crazytown.

Also like these (of the ones I know, anyway):

Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
Sour Girl - Stone Temple Pilots
I Will Buy You A New Life - Everclear

xhuxk, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

And oh yeah:

Celebrity Skin - Hole

Didn't hate "Smooth Criminal" at the time, either.

xhuxk, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

hole innit

electricsound, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

hole vs. lit vs. sugar ray

altho i don't hate last resort by papa roach either, actually i like a bunch of these songs despite my better judgement.

M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

"Celebrity Skin" is the best Hole song and "Lakini's Juice" is the best Live song.

And neither of them sound like Hole or Live!

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

I actually really like "My Own Worst Enemy".

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

That Bush song is pretty nice too actually.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

all complete shit

banriquit, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

this is nearly impossible

J0rdan S., Monday, 24 March 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

voted sum 41

J0rdan S., Monday, 24 March 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

I actually really like "My Own Worst Enemy".

Yeah, I forgot about this one.. Guilty pleasure.

billstevejim, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

Damn. I believe this is the worst compilation tracklist I have ever seen. Clearly, the one redeeming virtue in this miasma of suck is Fastball's "The Way."

Pillbox, Monday, 24 March 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Sour Girl" is basically the only listenable one here.

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

top 5:
Fat Lip - Sum 41
Hanging Around - Counting Crows
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Lakini's Juice - Live
Send The Pain Below - Chevelle

Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 24 March 2008 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure I've heard most of these and for the life of me can't recall what a single song sounds like. Is there such a thing as musical PTSD? Who in the world would buy this?

leavethecapital, Monday, 24 March 2008 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

This disc features some of the worst, most banal songs I've ever heard.

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 24 March 2008 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

there are 5-6 stone cold classics on here

J0rdan S., Monday, 24 March 2008 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

Fat Lip - Sum 41
Last Resort - Papa Roach
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Butterfly - Crazytown
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit
Fly - Sugar Ray feat. SuperCat

J0rdan S., Monday, 24 March 2008 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

"Celebrity Skin" and "Fly" by some distance.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 24 March 2008 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

This is pretty much a Nuggets for late-90s/early-00s rock music. Nobody remembers any of these songs and yet they all were hits. And most of them were one-hit wonders.

Replace "The Chemicals Between Us" and "Sour Girl" with "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus and "Flavor of the Week" by American Hi-Fi and it'd be even better.

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 24 March 2008 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

Best song: "Wherever You Will Go"

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 24 March 2008 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

i cringe every time i hear the name 'hoobastank'.

actually, now that i look at it, all but just a couple of the band names here are really awful.

phantompenguin, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

Celebrity Skin or Butterfly...but really this is like the ladies competing to win Bret Michaels on Rock of Love.

Nicole, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:06 (eighteen years ago)

This is pretty much a Nuggets for late-90s/early-00s rock music. Nobody remembers any of these songs and yet they all were hits. And most of them were one-hit wonders.

Anyone who 'doesn't remember' these is lying or was in some never-neverland devoid of radios and TV from 1997-2004. Except for three of four, even if you don't recognize the song immediately, you should be able to remember the band.

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

It should be called "Buzz Cuts, 30 of the biggest post-grunge hits of all time" and people wouldn't be inclined to hate it so much.

kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hole, easy, but I don't know the blink 182. The STP song is ok.

gabbneb, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

That will probably be the only time in my life that my eyes actually lit up at Stone Temple Pilots as a choice in a "best track" poll.

Z S, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

The only name I don't recognize is Finch.

Z S, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

I spent a lot of evenings "voicetracking" our alternative rock weekends back in the early part of this here century. Since I was voicetracking, I usually only heard the last ten seconds of each song.

This is about the time that my passion for music kinda died.

However, if I have to pick one, I'd go for "Last Resort" by Papa Roach. That little "durh-na-nuh-na-na-nuh-nuh" guitar line was the tits and it's the only song from this list that my band ever covered (as a drunken joke.)

Also kudos to Papa Roach for having that video for "Broken Home" where they actually break a home.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

god, this CD is packed fulla shit

Eisbaer, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

i am pretty sure there was a as seen on tv buzz collection that covered the early to mid 90s

artdamages, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

ok yeah, theres buzz ballads and killer buzz collections too

artdamages, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

Buzz Ballads

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

I had a mid-90s MTV Buzz CD w/ Bush and a bunch of grunge also-rans.

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

i like a lot of these songs, but i'm blanking on a some of them. i don't remember how that live song goes at all.

artdamages, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

this one - which is actually better than I remember

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

xp - it's the one that sounded just like every Live song

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

mtv partys to go > buzz bins

artdamages, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

did the video have a swimming pool? off to youtube!

artdamages, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

Party to Go Vol. 1 - MC Hammer, Bel Biv Devoe, Paula Abdul, Tony! Toni! Tone!. . . Depeche Mode.

milo z, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

+ tom's diner, knockin boots and the humpty dance

you cant really fuck w/that

artdamages, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

Were the Nuggets songs really hits back in the day? I mean, really?

Reatards Unite, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

And I agree with Milo - if you claim to not remember these songs then you've got your head jammed so far up your hipster little asshole that there's no hope for you. You're a jackass for life.

Reatards Unite, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, I don't know about that.

I remember all of those songs, because I was in high school/undergrad at the time and it was kind of hard to miss.

But in a decade, when they're doing awful compilations of 2004-2008, I will claim truthfully that I don't remember the songs, because I have one channel on my television, I don't drive/listen to radio while driving, and I do most of my shopping online and don't hear pop hits while I buy jeans or something. Why is it so impossible to believe that you can live in a way that doesn't include being familiar with every shitty hit?

Z S, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Sour Girl" is like the only STP song I actively listen to. Let's go with that.

"Last Resort" was pretty classic when my science teacher blasted it during a test.

clotpoll, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

Foo Fighters?
New Radicals?
Smash Mouth?
Harvey Danger?

PappaWheelie V, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

xp - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrwK4iuS4VA&feature=related

gabbneb, Sunday, 30 March 2008 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, I have seen this commercial too many times and I rarely watch TV. I love the way the announcer says "DO IT NOW" at the very end.

Anyway, I'd say that I know more than half of these songs and I voted for My Own Worst Enemy. That's the only one I hum along with when the commercial comes on.

St3ve Go1db3rg, Sunday, 30 March 2008 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

the intro to "Blurry" is really a guilty pleasure for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGmrL2h8lrE

Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 30 March 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

man. this was the soundtrack to my first year of college.

Emily Bjurnhjam, Sunday, 30 March 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think "My Own Worst Enemy" is enjoyable if taken as more pop and less rock, which is the same way I'm able to enjoy (or even love) songs like "Flavor Of The Weak" or "Just The Girl" or "Stacy's Mom."

billstevejim, Sunday, 30 March 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Awful and horrible... yet I could POV and be happy...

Celebrity Skin
Sour Girl
The Chemicals Between Us
Hanging By A Moment
Hemorrhage (In My Hands)

I voted for one of those.

rogermexico., Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

The Chemicals Between Us - Bush
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Higher - Creed

This sequence inspired fear and trembling.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

is any of this even "alternative" rock? what were they alternative to? this was chart rock in the late 90's, most of these bands i wouldn't classify as being alternative at all.

anyone who voted "butterfly" needs to be taken out back and shot in the face. there is nothing ironic or cool or funny about liking that gigantic turd of a song. easily one of the worst pop songs of my lifetime, i would rather listen to just about anything else than that song.

my jams on here:

Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit
Inside Out - Eve 6
Fly - Sugar Ray feat. SuperCat

everything else is shit that makes me change the dial when it comes on. out of those 4, really it has to be Eve 6. which is sad. i love me some STP and even some Hole, but their representative tracks were from their poop albums. disliking sugar ray is also just retarded, i wish they were still putting out a summer jam every year.

pipecock, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

^^ this post is full of fail

rogermexico., Monday, 31 March 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

concentrated shit, almost all of it. the lit song is okay though.

res, Monday, 31 March 2008 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

Also kudos to Papa Roach for having that video for "Broken Home" where they actually break a home.

This has been cracking me up all morning.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

WOW

Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

oh come on this is not surprising at all

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

have you ever checked a Hole thread. lots of courtney love around here.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Rule 259: It's Always Courtney's Fault.

latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

have you ever checked a Hole thread. lots of courtney love around here. the rest of the shit on that comp?

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:17 (Yesterday) Link

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

jesus...

Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

omg

electricsound, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

nfw

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone who 'doesn't remember' these is lying or was in some never-neverland devoid of radios and TV from 1997-2004.

...or lives in the uk/not america. i count 21 songs that didn't even make the slightest mark in england.

CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

all those songs are terrible except "celebrity skin," but that doesn't mean it isn't pretty great.. the whole album is great.

daria-g, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

that has to be one of Hole's worst songs. i guess i only really like the album that Kurt wrote anyway, but man i hate that track in particular.

pipecock, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

dude across from me in the library right now is listening to "smooth criminal" on his headphones VERY LOUDLY

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

sounds fucking awesome tho

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

God, I accidentally played that as bumper music at the station the other day and was humiliated.

roxymuzak, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

this is bullshit.... thats like the 15th dopest song on here

and what, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Can someone hum a few bars of "Lakini's Juice"?

roxymuzak, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

ethan do you mean the hole song?

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Corgan wins again.

billstevejim, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Butterfly - Crazytown 4

Who ARE you people?

youcangoyourownway, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

Can someone hum a few bars of "Lakini's Juice"?

Bra DANNG da dik
Bra DANNG da dik
Bra DANNG da dik
ba DUND do DEWW,

(repeat for a while, then get slow n spooky in prep for the chorus:)

doo, doo do doodle oodle doo, doooooo dooooooooooooo

LET ME RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE
BURN MY EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES

(etc)

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

OMG

roxymuzak, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. I do know this song.

roxymuzak, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Love will lead us, alright, love will leave your shit with me

billstevejim, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

that has to be one of Hole's worst songs. i guess i only really like the album that Kurt wrote anyway, but man i hate that track in particular

I assume you have documentary evidence. Wait, never mind -- plenty of paranoid documentaries already exist.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

"I assume you have documentary evidence. Wait, never mind -- plenty of paranoid documentaries already exist.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn"

all i need is ears. listen to everything else Hole ever did, and listen to what Nirvana did and you tell me which catalogue "Live Through This" sounds more like.

pipecock, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

"Lakini's Juice" is so fucking awesome.

HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

Since Courtney Love's lyrics read nothing like Cobain's and are often more coherent and make some literal sense, I'm prepared to give her more credit, especially when they show no sign of slackening on Celebrity Skin. I've always wished In Utero, fine though it is, was as fine song for song as LTT.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost)

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

CL is a vastly better lyricist than both the people who are alleged to have written all her songs

electricsound, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

People who believe she was her husband's puppet either (a) can't reconcile "Entertainment Tonight" crackup stories and good songwriting, and (b) have strange notions of how artistic influence works.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

i think you guys need to lay off the heroin.

pipecock, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

U ARE BORING

deej, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

list of good posters who've gotten duped into arguing with pipecock:

tim f.
alfred, lord sotosyn
moonship journey to baja

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 April 2008 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

i count 21 songs that didn't even make the slightest mark in england.

QUIT BRAGGING.

Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 2 April 2008 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

wtf, I have really distinct memories of writing a lengthy defense of "Broken Home" and posting them on this thread last night. Shit!

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

list of good posters who've gotten duped into arguing with pipecock:

tim f.
alfred, lord sotosyn
moonship journey to baja

-- J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 1, 2008 11:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i count 1 1/2 good posters here

and what, Thursday, 3 April 2008 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

"i count 1 1/2 good posters here

-- and what"

thats about 12/8 more than i saw.

pipecock, Thursday, 3 April 2008 03:05 (eighteen years ago)


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