Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2002

"the middle" and it's not even close

other than "the middle" i can't remember what any of these sound like

I am terrified by how many of these I actually like

Nirvana by default.

I haven't heard songs 2-5

Bleed American has the best run of singles from a rock album of the decade but "The Middle" has always been my least fav, voted for "By The Way"

Fun fact: No artist on the alternative chart has ever had back-to-back #1 songs, but Dave Grohl has the next best thing with Nirvana and Foo Fighters here.

You absolutely HAVE heard "Youth of the Nation" and "The Middle", Alfred

http://youtu.be/fFt5j8Yh6HA
http://youtu.be/oKsxPW6i3pM

Remembering what I listened to in 2002 I think there was no way I would have heard – as in, I don't know where I would have heard – 70 percent of these outside a singles jukebox context.

Nirvana, by a country mile.

oh yes I've head the POD track.

when i was in high school i saw a linkin park/hoobastank/POD show (ARENA STATUS) and when POD did "youth of the nation" they brought a bunch of kids from in front onstage (the youth of the nation, as it were) and they pulled up like three kids that me and my friends knew from school. had a very cool chat about that very cool concert the next day at school.

also I don't think I ever realized that "Blurry" was this song:

http://youtu.be/xJJsoquu70o

I used to get the Unwritten Law song confused with another 2002 hit with "seeing red" in the chorus, Chevelle's "The Red," which peaked at #4 around the same time but is on the radio now WAY more than "Seein' Red."

so that makes 5 songs on this list that I like, wtf me

ha I have never heard this Unwritten Law song before in my life

similarly, POD's follow-up to "Youth Of The Nation" was "Boom," which my wife still refuses to believe is not the same song as Saliva's 2001 hit "Click Click Boom" (xpost)

the dude from system of a down has one of those voices that at certain times i'm okay with but generally speaking drives me up a wall. basically he's the male avril to me. listening back to "aerials," it isn't really one of their best songs, is it? christ, it sounds MUCH MORE like incubus than i think anyone would want.

i love SOAD and "Aerials" is like my least favorite of their singles

"Aerials" is a little like SOAD for ppl who don't really like SOAD

also I know it's just the goth-pandering guitar tone but I fucking LOVE that POD song

yeah. the plodding instrumental breakdown really exposes how surprisingly lame their drummer is when he's not doing ridiculous breakneck fast shit. (xpost)

paying attention to the lyrics is making me like POD less ;_;

that guitar lick was what made me remember it

i'd probably rank this as

1. the middle
2. in the end (great song -- this video was mad TLC)
3. all my life
4. blurry (this song is dope, didn't remember it was called "blurry" tho)
5. by the way (didn't realize this was the "standing in liiiiiiiiine to see the shooow toniiiiiight" song)

DQing posthumous nirvana

i like the POD song too, this list isn't bad

Didn't the Hives have a song "Tick Tick Boom"?

"By The Way" is far and away the best post-Blood Sugar era RHCP song imo (although to be fair i think #2 is "Aeroplane")

the video is so so gross though

i remember when they debuted the "blurry" video on TLC and were selling puddle of mudd as fred durst's prodigies

and by TLC i mean TRL

haha i thought you mean its cgi landscape was reminiscent of "No Scrubs"

haha "T-Boz, no!"

haha i thought you mean its cgi landscape was reminiscent of "No Scrubs"

― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, June 4, 2012 11:21 AM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark

the "in the end" video does remind me of the CGI of those fanmail videos tho. see also, crazy town - "butterfly"

also this was the period of time when I was actively avoiding everything RHCP-related so I don't think I've ever heard "By The Way" before, which after a fear-filled beginning turned into something pretty great on the verses

"the middle" and it's not even close

^

Puddle of Mudd's first video before "Blurry" was "Control," which was directed by Fred Durst and features a hilarious shot of the drummer dropping a stick that was somehow left in the final cut of the video

man those first few Linkin Park singles are so my type of thing, they were basically nu-NIN with extra rapping

i've never heard this POD song

i must have heard this linkin park song but it's not exactly coming back to me

AFAIK that's the biggest Linkin Park single

(on the hot 100, that is)

blurry - the chorus is ringing a vague bell or two.

actually 02-06 are probably going to be one giant void for me because i was at school and had no idea what was going on w/radio music.

unwritten law - nope, ck & js - nope

I actually think that this is "In The End" by a pretty wide margin. I really liked that Jimmy Eat World album but I think that "The Middle" was far from the best song there ("A Praise Chorus", natch).

wait CAD how do you not know "Hero", that song was literally omnipresent

it was the theme song to the first Tobey Maguire Spiderman movie

I love these polls because they chart for me where my tastes went & where they didn't go. I haven't heard any of these songs.

i think i actually only know the middle and the nirvana song

bleed american also signaled the decline of jimmy eat world

eh i like futures a lot and half of chase the light is great

can't remember anything from that last record though

er, chase this light

Love these:
Linkin Park, "In the End"
Puddle of Mudd, "Blurry"
POD, "Youth of the Nation"

― da croupier, Monday, June 4, 2012 10:59 AM (29 minutes ago)

the hell?

"In The End": Alice Cooper/Depeche Mode/Vanilla Ice collaborate to swear they'll never whine again
"Blurry": ultimate unhinged co-dependency power ballad
"Youth Of The Nation": school shooting victim sympathizes with shooter over a tightened "another brick in the wall" that climaxes with martial drums and a "row your boat" vocal round

2002-2005 was easily the time i most listened to pop/rock radio aside from early childhood so these songs had a chance to get their hooks in despite surface buttnugget status

think there's a thread where i call "by the way" a "funky REM placebo" and I'll stand by that

"New fatherhood" songs on the alt-rock charts: "Blurry," "With Arms Wide Open," others?

the funny thing about "blurry" is that the song would be reason to call protective services if it was actually about fatherhood. Director Fred Durst was a fucking genius putting Mudd dude in a heart-rending weekend father scenario for the video instead of outside some girl's window clawing at his own face

Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott, "Hero" - wait, this isn't a Nickelback group track? Why does this exist?

Written for the Spider-Man soundtrack, iirc.

xp

yeah, "blurry" is definitely not about fatherhood, new or otherwise. it's about hating everything and hoping that the person you think you love will save you from it, then hating them, too, because you still feel shitty.

Can you take it all away
Can you take it all away
Well you shoved it in my face
This pain you gave to me

strange that so many accept the father & child video as the song's message when the chorus is a spiteful attack

^ so fucking many songs of the late 90s/early 00s have this theme. think "heart shaped box" might be the only one i actually like.

actually i'm listening to that 2010 jimmy eat world record and it's awesome

dunno i was bitter about jew over-cleaning up the awesome demo of sweetness that had been going around resulting with what was on bleed american, then, dunno i tried the couple of albums after but they didn't stick like clarity or static prevails. may re-try at some point

only the Nirvana do i know by name

fun youtubing to come

"the middle" and it's not even close

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 4, 2012 11:05 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

though i do think 'by the way' is a bright spot among later RHCP

"coffee and cigarettes" reminds me of what i liked about the promise ring circa very emergency. 70s power pop as filtered through weezer. (and maybe some traces of eric's trip?)

^ off that 2010 jimmy eat world album bradnelson mentioned. "my best theory" is pretty cool too, though a little generic.

I always thought "you know that I'll protect you / from all of the obscene / I wonder what you're doing / imagine where you are / there's oceans in between us / but that's not very far" had something to do with a young child you can't communicate with yet but I guess the video influenced that.

i've never before considered that this might be the case, but i think i genuinely like emo-pop, at least when it's energetic and not too dreary/angsty. big fan of certain songs and even albums by the promise ring, jimmy eat world, my chemical romance and fall out boy.

i can't even remember what i was actually listening to this year; my alt-rock phase ended in 2001 and i didn't start listening to pfork indie until 2003. i suspect it was mostly prog-rock and radiohead in between?

had to remind myself of what 'blurry' was and oddly i think i like it more now than i did then, even though then was my alt-rock period. i guess they weren't as ~authentic~ to me as foo fighters were, ffs. 'the middle' is an easy winner here, i loved it then and it still sounds good to me now.

Puddle of Mudd is definitely a band I like a lot more looking back upon than I did when they were current

god, bleed american is such a great album. also the first cd a girl took from me and never gave back. i was livid (in eighth grade).

still livid actually nm

Linkin Park, "In the End" -- loved in 2001, hated in 2002, sold the cd for 50 cents
Puddle of Mudd, "Blurry" -- fucked w/'she hates me', this one is just tolerable
POD, "Youth of the Nation" -- loved it, still p good
Jimmy Eat World, "The Middle" -- was actually in middle school for it and i loved it, but not because it comforted me, just because it sounded nice. good thing "creep" still played on every rock station or i would've done something drastic
Unwritten Law, "Seein' Red" -- this is the point where i stopped listening to radio, no idea what this song sounds like
Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott, "Hero" -- no recollection, but every song after "how you remind me" sounds exactly the same
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "By the Way" -- it's nice, but this is the first time i remember thinking that they're too old, they're done, etc. first time i felt i had witnessed a band croaking. thought this album happened a couple years later.
System of a Down, "Aerials" -- loved it on the cd, confused it was a single.
Nirvana, "You Know You're Right" -- i was the biggest nirvana fan in the world around this time and i don't remember how this goes
Foo Fighters, "All My Life" -- everything i said about "by the way" applies here. lennon/nilsson and k-ci/jojo both did much better with the title.

Voted "Aerials"!
"Blurry" is the only song where I have seen my dad print out the lyrics and try to memorize them. There was a week or so where he was obsessed with memorizing this song. He would recite the lyrics at dinner and ask us to help cue him for lines when he messed up or couldn't remember. The only other thing I have ever seen him this dedicated to memorizing was the "Baa Ram Ewe" speech from the movie Babe.

from wikipedia:
Birth Name: Joseph Scott Sappington
Also Known As: Saliva Man

Saliva guitarist, Wayne Swinny, said that Scott had decided to leave the band to pursue a solo Christian career.
----

Sappington, the Saliva Man.

Yeah I voted "Aerials" too. That album's equivalent to "Spiders"; awesome heavy goth ballad. Plus, I love the paranoid lyrics. Plus, I really think Toxicity might be one of the best albums of the 00s.

(Plus, aero, I thought I remembered you repping for Toxicity in another thread. "Aerials" is the final track.)

I will never understand why people like System of a Down.

What happened to the 2001 poll? I want to vote for "Fat Lip".

^good question. I assumed that it had been merged into this one...? (Though I was shocked "Chop suey" wasn't an option. There was a time when that song was inescapable)

crut did 2001 last year Billboard Modern Rock Number One Hits: 2001

An interview was made with Chris 'soldier' Hesse, asking the same question all ask ... "How did the band come up with the name Hoobastank?" He replied, "Doug's brother is the vice president of BMW Motorcycles and lives in Germany. And there is this street out by his house that is called Hooba Street or something like that and before Doug could pronounce the name, he called it Hoobastank and it was kinda a cute thing and his brother still teases him about it to this day. When we were looking for band names it's almost impossible to find a band name that hasn't been taken. Anything remotely normal has been taken already. I don't remember how it came up but someone said it and we were like yeah."[3]

lol @ ILM love for Crazy Town

yeah what's that

Plus, I really think Toxicity might be one of the best albums of the 00s.

otm

1. aerials
2. the middle (remember this played during the credits for the superbowl broadcast or something - my brother asked me what the song was and proceeded to d/l it then play it forever)
3. by the way
4. in the end
5. blurry

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happy to see "Youth of the Nation" get a goose egg after all the absurd good vibes for it itt

I was considering semi-challop voting "Hero" so kudos to the person who actually did

just looked up that unwritten law song for the first time, never heard them. it's not bad actually i could take it over the middle

...well it is a bit bad but i could still take it over the middle

I think the Middle unfairly benefited from all the flesh on display in the video.

i didn't even remember the video when i voted for it so i don't think there was a flesh conspiracy

at the time 'the middle' felt to me like the most unlikely hit in the world, considering the landscape

see it struck me as the most likely rock radio hit for that moment in time

Would've given P.O.D. (which made my Pazz&Jop singles ballot that year) their only vote, if I'd seen this on time.

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