Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2003

I am embarrassed to admit I really like that Chevelle song.

QOTSA, without hesitation.

Torn between Faint, No One Knows, Seven Nation Army and Bring Me To Life

ugh just realized this is my first nostalgia thread that covers when i was posting here

the Ataris' cover of "Boys of Summer"

this fucking thing

Queens of the Stone Age, "No One Knows"

i'll have to listen to these all again when i get home - remember liking the QotSA the most out of these but can't summon it up in my head anymore.

i remember liking "Can't Stop" back then but it does the total blueballs thing where there's no final chorus at the end and that pisses me off for some reason

i remember some buddyhead-associated prank call a friend had where someone called the ataris' manager and tried to get him to agree to some phone product placement, which is less hilarious now that you legally aren't allowed to get a video on TV unless someone use a mobile device in it.

One vote for APC

I still play that album once every two months or so for several days at a time.

QOTSA for me.

the APC is probably my least favorite of their singles tbh, otherwise i'd snap vote it

Don't really listen to either of them too much these days but a Trail of Dead/QoTSA show I saw in 2002 (ish) was one of the best live shows I've ever seen.

huh, I can only bring five of these to mind. None of which are that bad, really. I'll trust that whoever Trapt are, they're just as adequate. 'No One Knows' wins.

QoTSA.

This list isn't so bad, but it's pretty clearly "No One Knows". But I really like "Faint" and "Numb" too, the Evanescence one is still their best song, and I've never been crazy about "Seven Nation Army" but it's pretty good too.

songs on here I dig (that I remember):

Queens of the Stone Age, "No One Knows"
Evanescence, "Bring Me to Life"
Trapt, "Headstrong"
White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army"
A Perfect Circle, "Weak & Powerless"
Linkin Park, "Numb"

coin flip between Qotsa and white stripes, went with white stripes because it looks like qotsa is going to sweep this, also because typing qotsa is really irritating and i think they should be punished for that as well

I always liked "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" and "Go With The Flow" more than "No One Knows", which I think causes me to underrate "No One Knows"

"Feel Good" and "Flow" are both way catchier than "No One Knows." But it does have that awesome video with the maniacal deer.

is it brorock?

bring me to life > no one knows > seven nation army > all the linkin park songs

saliva's the right answer

done w/ u, done w/ u, done w/ u

haha, these threads are depressing. i feel so lucky the internet saved my life.

reading these lists is like safely and comfortably watching a wild animal behind a reinforced glass wall. if it weren't for that technology it could have been a dangerous situation for me!

I was intentionally trying not to pay attention to rock radio at this point but a few things did seep through...

Foo Fighters, "All My Life" - very bland track
Saliva, "Always" - much better than I expected from a band named Saliva. Good groove and the chorus is almost like angsty pop-country.
Queens of the Stone Age, "No One Knows" - inescapable, didn't know this was by QOTSA until now
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Can't Stop" - these guys had quite a paint by numbers scheme going
Evanescence, "Bring Me to Life" - terrible
Linkin Park, "Somewhere I Belong" - the only thing worse than high-BPM Linkin Park is low-BPM Linkin Park
Audioslave, "Like a Stone" - serviceable, strangely low-key hook for a #1
Trapt, "Headstrong" - never heard this before, horrible perversion of the soft-loud-soft Pixies/Nirvana pattern for the age of compression, where the soft and loud parts aren't actually softer or louder. See also "Since U Been Gone".
Chevelle, "Send the Pain Below" - makes me think of a depressed teenager with frosted tips riding around in a Tercel
White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army" - if anything this has become MORE overplayed with time. Penn State association doesn't help.
Jane's Addiction, "Just Because" - good vibes from this one just for their first two albums, which I love
Linkin Park, "Faint" - better than the other Linkin Park track I suppose
Staind, "So Far Away" - exceedingly pop-country, pretty good hook wasted
A Perfect Circle, "Weak & Powerless" - at least this one has something you can tap your foot to. Very Tool-esque.
Linkin Park, "Numb" - more? really?

Voted for QOTSA.

it've never heard this A Perfect Circle song in my life. which is saying something, coming from me. it's not "Judith." how the fuck did this get to #1?

voted for "Faint" over "Send The Pain Below"

would like to give a shout out to Morello's solo on "Like A Stone" - def the best Audioslave song fwiw

would have liked to hear the RATM 3 tackle pop-rock without a depressed Sammy Hagar on vox

it've never heard this A Perfect Circle song in my life. which is saying something, coming from me. it's not "Judith." how the fuck did this get to #1?

IIRC APC hype was in super overdrive when The Thirteenth Step came out and everyone instantly glommed onto "Weak and Powerless" for about 5 minutes as a result. I think both "The Outsider" and "Blue" were better singles but I still love "Weak and Powerless".

to the vague, dispiriting extent that i'm able to rank Audioslave songs, "Like A Stone" is my least favorite -- would rather tolerate "Be Yourself" or "Show Me How To Live" if i had to listen to any of them

so much of this shit was WHAT I LISTENED to back then

like, i wasn't buying too many records, wasn't reading pitchfork

it was, like, waaf and maybe mtv and shit

i think i probably cared about music way more back then too

by the second half of 2004 i was starting to get into indie

i was firmly stuck in hardcore + metal at this point

i'm with markers except i was totally reading pitchfork

hahaha you were ahead of me!

anyway either "no one knows" or "weak and powerless"; inclined to vote for the former but i love how the latter just trembles and circles around itself

dan's right though, the perfect circle record is fucking great, but my favorite tracks would include, like, *thinks* gravity, the noose, vanishing or something

actually, i like this evanescence record too

03 was actually the year i started reading pitchfork iirc, so the first half of these i was listening to a bit but by the end of the year i was fully assimilated

haha do we need to do a "mainstream alternative radio: what year did you get off the bus and start reading pitchfork?" poll

i spent '04 only listening to pitchfork recs and as far as i'm concerned that was my worst music-listening year ever

'05 i got back into metal

Probably would have voted for 7NA at most points in the past ten years, but I'm tired as fuck of that song, so I'm voting for Evanescence f/ SHOUTY GUY.

Some other good 2003 songs that didn't hit #1:

Radiohead, "There There"
Foo Fighters, "Times Like These"
Dandy Warhols, "We Used to Be Friends"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps"
Postal Service, "Such Great Heights"
Strokes, "12:51"
Blur, "Out of Time"
Hot Hot Heat, "Bandages"
Grandaddy, "Now It's On"
Coldplay, "Clocks"

lol I probably haven't even thought about Hot Hot Heat in a couple years, and probably haven't listened to them in even longer. "Bandages" was pretty tight, tho.

Emo-metal... the worst of both worlds.

ehhhhh. the used were pretty traditionally third wave emo (i feel like i'm making this all up as i type it, forgive me if i'm totally wrong), they just screamed more? but they're part of the same cloth that also contained my chemical romance and to a lesser extent fall out boy and panic at the disco, whereas "emo-metal" better describes the the iteration of metalcore from 2005-current

Who sang that "I'm not Okay" song? Was that The Used?

the used were definitely the worst of the bands from those few years when it seemed emo might take over

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:14 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Some real selective memory here

Might I remind you a band called A SIMPLE PLAN

I think Three Days Grace was the worst; Simple Plan was not far behind

pop-punk =/= emo

though the two interact

Who sang that "I'm not Okay" song? Was that The Used?

my chemical romance

also gonna say the first few simple plan singles (especially "i'd do anything" and "addicted") are pretty good imo

"Perfect" is maybe the worst song in the history of time

wouldn't disagree

Went to a wedding in Vancouver BC in 2002 and A Simple Plan was on their version of MTV constantly... like nonstop, heard the same song 12 times that weekend.

Good I didnt want you to like The Used anyway fuck you

Seriously, the vague memories of shit like Simple Plan's "Perfect" and Hawthorne Heights' "Niki Fm" makes The Used seem like a fuckin cakewalk

dude spotify has an instrumental version of the first hawthorne heights record

which i sing along to every day now

also man i am having a hard time believing "niki fm" or "ohio is for lovers" caught fire beyond mtvu but maybe i am wrong

Your memory is bad if you think they were worse than Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup, New Found Glory, The Calling, The Starting Line, Dashboard Confessional, Greenwheel...

xpost i dunno, dude, I'm familiar with it and I certainly only gave the most cursory glances to this shit music

Yeah, mean billstevejim still otm even though The Used were a terrible band

wtf were The Calling? like a crossbreeding experiment combining emo with nickelback...

wait have Bowling For Soup or Three Days Grace ever been called emo before this thread?

hahaha

I can't think of Bowling for Soup without thinking of that Buddyhead post that called dude "The fattest thing to ever hold a guitar"

I always thought Bowling For Soup were marketed in that direction although they might not be emo.

It's hard to tell the difference sometimes because the production qualities for most of those Warped Tour bands are essentially identical.

my only knowledge of Bowling For Soup is that they a) were famous for winning a Grammy without being at all famous before that and b) thereafter had some moderate VH1 rotation with a song written by the guy from SR-71 that seemed basically like an attempt to occupy the same niche Fountains of Wayne had with "Stacey's Mom." and they have never played the Warped tour.

I'm positive they played Warped Tour because I went once to see Rancid and we walked by as they were playing "Girl all the bad guys want" and wished i was dead.

They played the Warped Tour like every year, dude!

They called out to me specifically and said "I wish you were dead."

They werent stylistic "emo" but embodied that same "late term pop-punk bands that emo kids like" like New Found Glory and Reggie and the Full Effect

i'm sorry guys, there is a fucking 700-word section entitled "tours" on Bowling For Soup's wikipedia entry that doesn't mention Warped once, i thought foolishly that that meant something.

"my only knowledge of Bowling For Soup is what i just read on wikipedia"

thats why ppl underestimate the influence of max b iirc

i literally posted "my only knowledge of Bowling For Soup is..." before stating two flimsy facts about them, so yeah obv i was not playing the expert here.

Not a huge fan of that one SR-71 hit either.. not really all that surprising that "1985" was a cover.

1985 was a cover? Back to the Neon Trees' 1983 for me.

SR-71 also had a local hit in Maryland around the same time called "Axl Rose" that was pretty much the exact same song as "1985"

For when Honor Among Thieves isn't shitty enough of a band name.

only thing i can think of when i think of a simple plan is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fAr0FEefPU

hahahaha

i alwayts think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBzfxt3UqLs

That song was a big YTMND meme back when I was fuckin with YTMND. I miss it.

wiki:

When performed live, the guitar solo in the middle of the song is performed by Bouvier. Lead guitarist Jeff Stinco plays a semi-acoustic guitar until the end of the solo, while rhythm guitarist Sébastien Lefebvre and drummer Chuck Comeau come in at the beginning of the solo. Bassist Desrosiers' main role in this song is backing vocals, with his bass easing back a bit.

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

Okay maybe I should've voted for RHCP

i just tried to remind myself of 'like a stone' and... nope. i may as well have never heard it, and i listened to that album like five times, never mind hearing that song elsewhere! i tried hard to like it!

"Seven Nation Army" is a monotonous bag of shit so i'm happy for any unlikely victory over it

^yeah. That bassline is awful, the worst wet-fart/dying tuba horseshit egregiously conceived.

tbh like a stone is my 2nd fav audioslave joint after Doesn't Remind Me