Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2000

fuel

All of these songs I liked initially until they got played to death for months.

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already voted for blink last time so going with Kryptonite over Hemorrhage

so easy to transpose these execrable titles! Such as: "All The Small Things (In My Hands)"

i....don't think i can vote

i always thought the line in "All the Small Things" was "a little bit nil" instead of the equally stupid "my little windmill"

i never knew the "real name" of that fuel song was hemorrhage

its interesting how the 98 chart had like actual "alternative" bands and then 99 --> radio was just like "fuck it"

id' like to credit it to Napster/YOUR HARD DRIVE, but i think it's just a coincidence that alt-rock was dyin

I relistened to the Green Day to remind myself that it was as dumb as I thought. Voted for Blink 182.

spin did their best to suggest nu-metal was alternative until woodstock 99 made that untenable

nah, spin's nu-metal coverage was pretty open about it's begrudgingness

back 2 my point doe, like the inevitable LimbsKing polls of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 are just gonna be Green Day, Chili Peppers, Offspring and Foo Fighters trading places and doing different versions of their formula

i didn't mean to suggest it wasn't begrudgingly doing this

save System of a Down, obv

a) I had completely forgotten about this Fuel song
b) lol @ Ryan Tedder and Jesse McCartney stealing half the imagery from this song for "Bleeding Love"

Superman 6: Last Resort Kryptonite

I had completely blocked this Green Day song from my mind, too

I am boggling that I am seriously considering voting for Papa Roach

as much as i hate elements of american idiot, the bright side is that they turned billie's guitar back up after this album

merican idiot is gr8

Since I voted for Blink 182 last time, I think this might be the end of the line for me. (I don't know--maybe something will turn up.) The early 2000s for me were all about Missy Elliot.

yeah yeah we know

xpost

i didnt know Minority was a #1. i remember seeing them playing it on letterman that year and thinking 'man these guys are washed up' lol

they were def going down the mellow pearl jam path until they apparently saw a U2 show and realized there was another option

voted Last Resotr

I don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding

I sometimes feel sorry for people who were born five years later than me.

I often feel sorry for ILXers born five years earlier than me.

lol, Blink's going to win two in a row

I really, really like "Adam's Song." It's sad in the most maudlin way possible, but the "please tell Mom this is not her fault" line gets me every time.

^yeah. that being said, it will be hilarious when ATST wins second poll in a row

not gonna xpost, since Eric refused to acknowledge that it's not just same band but same song

(tho I don't think it's a point lost on anyone)

not to into "Minority" but Warning era Green Day >>> any Green Day since

you should just write pre-2000 Green Day >>>>> any Green Day since

"Otherside" was the only thing from Californication that I kinda liked, so that. That Fuel song got played. the. fuck. out. on the radio back in the early '00s.

actually never mind, I'm voting for "All the Small Things." Even though it was on the 1999 poll too.

Hm, I haven't heard Warning but I really like American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. I heard "Longview" the other day. All it did for me was make me feel old.

I think modern rock radio made a major resurgence in 2004 with American Idiot and Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. (People 10 years younger than me get no pity.)

From about 2000 through 2008, most modern rock sucked. After that, some good bands started creeping back onto the top of playlists (Black Keys, Phoenix, Silversun Pickups).

Three Cheers is a classic to me, but imo the only time Green Day have been true to their fast fun roots in the last 10 years was on the album they released as the Foxboro Hottubs

I actually enjoyed Silversun Pickups when they came out but there's no way I'd rank them over the best emo of the mid-2000s or the White Stripes' hits from that time.

xpost Well yeah, they're not staying true to their pop-punk roots, which is why I like them.

Enjoy the Black Keys though.

Oh yeah... forgot to mention the Stripes. My favorite band of the nu-metal hangover era.

if we wanna talk about the whole decade there's a thread about one of my lorax-loved lists: al ship's top 50 rock singles of the 00s -- which is your favorite?

woah this is dire

Good list!

the only songs that i don't like are the rhcps and green day but it's definitely not the nineties no more

Way tempted to do a Change vs. Judith poll

Judging by these polls, I think the Modern Rock #1 shit parade started in '97

LimbsKing, may I suggest a short breather after the 2000 poll, maybe punctuated by something like a "worst Modern Rock #1 to get 0 votes in any of these polls" type poll?

I don't know if ILX Blink 182 love is funny or endearing in a "he ain't heavy, he's my brother" sort of way

Same goes with Green Day. They had some good songs on Dookie and a couple from another early album but that's about it

I actually really like the parent album for the Green Day single here, but that's one of the weaker songs on it. Fuel wins this one, then, by default.

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

still love this song. every time i hear it (which is basically like never) i am made happy.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

DESTROY THEM ALL.

I actually really like the parent album for the Green Day single here, but that's one of the weaker songs on it. Fuel wins this one, then, by default.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, June 2, 2012 1:42 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

100% otm

It felt a little sad to vote for Fuel.

Wow Otherside is so much better than that overwrought Shimmer rewrite

(hey everybody I just got out of work and here's some opinions 4 u!!!)

I listened to "Otherside" in the past week because of this poll and I can't even remember how it goes.

(I'm not really expressing great passion about "Hemorrhage", to be clear.)

how long how long must I slide

separate my thiiiiiighs
for so long
i do believe it's haaaaaair
duh duh duh udh duh duh duh frazzle

<3 that snog

:D

I like Blood Sugar Sex Magik if it makes things any better?

Maybe I just have a block with processing the RHCP as gothy mopers?

It's kind of funny that everyone who voted for Fuel seemed to do it as a 'by default' sort of deal. Maybe I should have just abstained.

I actually looked up an interview with Blink 182 to see if they pronounce "things" like that when they talk.

(They do.)

it's cool sund4r. The whole Californication album has always seemed to me like RHCP's attempt to write a whole album's worth of songs like Soul to Squeeze, which is my favorite song of theirs. I don't think they get as horrifically bland as everyone here is implying until By the Way

I also think ILX underrates the singles from One Hot Minute and am tempted to check if that album is on Spotify.

californication's a good record. but i've always hated funk RHCP.

I actually feel a little bad that all I've done here is post dismissive opinions without thinking critically about anything. Ten years ago, I hated it when people in their 30s did that about stuff I liked. So it's more interesting to hear about why people like these songs. I think I'd love to hear a defence of "Kryptonite".

lol not touching that one. i will say this:

3 Doors Down now does music for Army commercials they play before movie previews.

― LimbsKing, Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:06 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do actually think 3DD's recent context as spokesband for the Army works really well for "Not My Time"

Wow Otherside is so much better than that overwrought Shimmer rewrite

― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:24 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

calling something a rewrite because it's the same band is lame, they don't really sound alike at all.

I also think ILX underrates the singles from One Hot Minute and am tempted to check if that album is on Spotify.

"Aeroplane" is my favorite of their "fast" ones.

yeah "Aeroplane" is secretly one of their best post-BSSM singles. "Warped" isn't bad too. it's just "My Friends" (and probably the rest of the album) that gives that era of the band such a stench.

calling something a rewrite because it's the same band is lame, they don't really sound alike at all.

that prechorus "too far away" is almost a direct quote from the chorus in Shimmer("too far away/for me to hold"); not the same melody, but def the same accents...which is not the same thing as a 're-write', but is some pretty bald recyclage. Of course it could also be intentionally self-referential (the immediately preceding lyrics are "don't you remember anything I said when I said") Still: lame.

That said, re-listening to this song now, it is a bit better than I remember, though I still like "Otherside" more.

Also I listened to "Parallel Universe", the only song from the first four on Californication that I didn't remember, and it was dope. That album might've aged better than I even thought.

"Aeroplane" is the worst fucking song, come on now

looking at the one hot minute tracklisting i seem to have excised most of it from my memory. 'aeroplane' is alright, 'my friends' is p dire, i vaguely remember 'walkabout' being terrible, and hey 'pea' is um some kind of charming. the rest, i've got nothing.

that prechorus "too far away" is almost a direct quote from the chorus in Shimmer("too far away/for me to hold");

To be fair, 1) he's saying "Don't fall away" and 2) the refrain's lyric is lifted straight from Bernie Taupin, so if you want to go after them for laziness, there's a pretty strong angle right there.

lol my mistake.

"Aeroplane" is the worst fucking song, come on now

you're the worst fucking song, come on now

alfred likes pleasure spiked with pain

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

lol

Daddy needs his medicine.

Green Day got their wish.

lol

at least theres no godsmack.

poor green day, i've never heard that 3 doors down song but my prediction is that it's worse than 'minority'.

so we have ten lurking papa roach fans who have, ten years on, finally made an impact on ilm.

shockingly, the 3DD song is NOT worse than "Minority" (they really should have tied tho)

I wish I knew what the story was behind using the line "I saw the world float to the dark side of the moon" twice.

Cannibalizing the mid-70s was apparently a "thing" around this time

Also: I tend to link Enema of the State in my head with some really awful times during my freshman year in college. I don't think I've ever forgiven Blink-182. (Though I confess to liking "Adam's Song")

please tell blink that it's not their fault

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