#3 Modern Rock Hits: The Nu-Metal craze

Definitely some awful "heavy" rock here, although several songs that seemed ubiquitous. Not sure how these didn't make it to #1: Clint Eastwood, Sour Girl, Somebody Told Me, Southside.

Nonetheless, voting Franz Ferdinand.

probably can't not vote for "change (in the house of flies)" which manages to be both sonically of its time and one of the oddest things on here

but i also really enjoy:

warning (wholesale rip of "picture book" still sounds really smart to me)
toxicity
prayer
talk shows on mute
vitamin r

What's this Warning - Warning?

hoobastank obv

Ahh. It looks like the second Warning should be listed as being by Incubus.

I have never heard this song before.

nookie easily

Green Day or Franz or Gorillaz, all this other bullshit is completely off the table.

nookie easily

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take a picture > clint eastwood > nookie

franz ferdinand will win tho :\

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

oh i love incubus' "warning." their best song probably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv4fCYDEQJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enh9DussoUo

Gotta say this makes the worst of the previous lists look like candy. The only listenable songs after Gorillaz are "Take Me Out" and "Toxicity." The rest is just aggressively horrible. Indeed, I pretty much stopped listening to these stations at this point, but I was also in college and discovering other things.

Even in the top-end there's some laughable crap. "Nookie" is noxious but at least catchy, whereas "My Way" is just ridiculous, Durst squealing out dad slang and trusting the chorus effect to make his vocals sound good. "The Dolphin's Cry" is...I mean, that title! Lit had better songs, the STP comeback was pathetic, we've already touched on "Wonderful." I don't mind "Warning" (I think I've defended it on ILX before) but it is kind of pointless and obligatory: was it really the third-most-popular song on the radio or did Green Day just get an automatic airplay pass?

"Clint Eastwood" was kind of cool at the time but I never need to hear it again. I'm tempted to vote for "Take A Picture" which I think is underrated (and to which I related at just the moment that it came out) - - - but I honestly think "Toxicity" is the only thing here where I look at the list and go "hey, yeah, put that on."

Southside

"The Dolphin's Cry" is...I mean, that title!

rofl

that song was my first exposure to Live

ive tried to make sure it was my last

that song was my first exposure to love

few band names are worse than hoobastank

this time i'ma let it all come out. this time i'ma stand up and shout.

"Take Me Out" just over "Clint Eastwood" and "Somebody Told Me."

I like Nookie (sorry, it's funny), Warning, Southside, Clint Eastwood, Take Me Out, and Somebody Told Me. Going for Warning.

but yeah, I can't imagine anyone on this board was a fan of this music in general.

which of these are non-american? gorillaz, jet, and FF?

My bad -- that second warning should be incubus

Glad to see filter get some love -- a close second for me

As much as I love "Take Me Out" and "South Side", my vote goes to "Take a Picture" (one of my all-time favorite modern rock singles; you gotta love the "What do you think about your son now" part)

Me, on Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2000 re: Take a Picture:

I stan for this one - - once again, too long but it kinda hit me at that time, maybe cause I'd had my first romantic experience, on a vacation, unsure if I'd see the person again so the whole idea of a picture holding a memory together, while obviously not an original theme in pop music, came at the right place at the right time. I also love how the Oedipal rage of "Jurassitol" manages to sneak into this seemingly gentle, contemplative soft rock song. HEEYYYYYYYYYYYY DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR SON NOOOOWWWWW"

Yeah, hrm. Maybe I should change my vote.

Wow, there is absolutely *nothing* on this list that I really like; I actually struggled to find anything to vote for. And though I have really mixed (mostly negative, but mostly contextual*) feelings about the song, I was relieved to see Take Me Out there, so I could find something I didn't completely loathe.

(*It took being in a shitty indie covers band to make me not hate Take Me Out, because it is a really fun song to play.)

"Take Me Out" easily. Feel grateful I don't know most of these, really.

jesus christ. what a fucking terrible list

deftones by default gets the vote

jet lol

so glad the nu-metal years are over.

I've only listened to about half of these, but I have a feeling every single one of the nu metal/post-grunge hits I haven't heard are still more tolerable than "The Dolphin's Cry"

I forgot that Nookie quotes the powerful Eve 6 line "put my tender heart in a blender." Homage I guess?

Ha -- never noticed that before!

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Hahah, we just recently (ish) went over that one here Word(s) that only ever appeared in one (hit) song, ever.

Thanks ... Great thread

Such douchebaggery in this clip...

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

The worst of these five are heads above the best of the rest.

2000 - Deftones, "Change (In The House Of Flies)"
2001 - Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood"
2002 - System of a Down, "Toxicity"
2004 - Jet, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?"
2004 - Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out"

And the last two are from bands that I don't really love but those songs are earwigs which command respect.

Picking System over Deftones.

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Deffinetly greatest band ever

Franz Ferdinand.

voted filter. surprisingly it's the only song here for which i have any affection.

haaaay daaaaad what do you think about your son noooooooww

a lot of these it's hard to believe they were even singles let alone hits

I have fond memories of being in a corner shop and hearing two middle aged local radio DJs play 'Toxicity' whilst doing the top 40, and then play the last five seconds of it twice again while pissing themselves laughing. 'this is what the kids are into nowadays, apparently'

lol actually i might vote for incubus

Nobody else is gonna vote for the Killers, so I think I will. I always liked them. But good God this list. What a fucking shitshow. What the fuck happened to rock music between the last poll and this one? When "Take Me Out" came out everybody was so relieved to finally hear a good rock song on the radio again that they voted it #1 in P&J singles poll.

Reading NYCNative's post on the Billy Squier thread reminded me of what a barren wasteland top 40 radio was in 1981-82. But ffs, compared to this list, 1981 was 1966.

Will probably vote Gorillaz since Franz Ferdinand's retitled cover of "Not Great Men" never really did it for me.

'Craze' is definitely the right word for it.

Voted for 'Toxicity'. I still like those first two System Of A Down albums.

"take me out" is so bad

Toxicity might be my least favorite song on 2nd SOAD album

yeah...their whole catalog is solid but i've never really dug that one, certain tempos just make the drummer sound so wooden and limited

the problem w/ these threads is that most people use "best" as shorthand for "least removed from indie rock/early 90s 'golden age' alt-rock"

I mean I'm looking up and down the list and Deftones is the only one that I would include in my hypothetical 50 best songs of the 2000s so for me it's the best.

my god, so much bad music

the Killers have four other songs at least better than "Somebody Told Me"

I've got soul but I'm not a solider

Oh man "Dolphin's Cry" is a song that I heard all the time and rly loved and have not heard in 10+ years, what a headfuck

p tough call btwn "Take A Picture", "Wonderful", GD's "Warning", and "Clint Eastwood"

the late 90s simply shouldn't exist as part of anything anymore, even ILX polls

love'll lead us, alrut, love'll leave yo shit with me ye

yes this list is the best representation of the late 90s a time when everything was satanic

Also everyone in these bands was like 35 when they hit the radio, what the fuck

Hopefully taste-makers will take a look at this list and just drop the 90s nostalgia thing while it's still in LOLFULLHOUSECLUELESSOMG infancy.

Oh shit i meant 2000s nostalgia.

the Killers have four other songs at least better than "Somebody Told Me"

aka the othe four songs on the first half/side of Hot Fuss, one of the most comically front-loaded debuts ever.

13-yr-old me votes for "Take a Picture," which I always found both silly and haunting.

That video was fun to watch, at the very least.

incubus 'warning' by a hair over 'take me out' but man was the turn of the millennium garbage.

tell me everything is wonderful now

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oh man, take me out. I want to dance to that one again soon.

toxicity

Yo! Buddy on the wharf! Hidely-ho, disorderrrr, disorderrrrrr

the last 10 seconds of toxicity are *awesome*

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is it bad that i assumed this referred to the post-razorblade suitcase era

haha that's exactly what I thought it referred to on first glance (think somebody else also brought that up in the previous poll)

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

be ashamed, ilm

i am franz shaming you

ilm, what about the hoobastank voter

i did it all for the nookie

voting for "My Way" by Limp Bizkit, I mean

iPod rock wins.

lol otm

this does not represent hoobastank class people just trying to rub two dropped-c strings together to get by

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m509/VictoriaOrlane/tumblr_lba54n8IqA1qcyexx.gif

i did it all for the mookie

Thought there'd be more votes for Filter. Seems like there's a silent majority of FF fans.

what an awful era.

2000 - Incubus, "Pardon Me" 3
2002 - Hoobastank, "Crawling In The Dark" 1
2001 - Puddle of Mudd, "Control" 1
2001 - Limp Bizkit, "My Way" 1

^^^ not defensible choices by any of these sick, sad voters. would SB on sight if the government would let me. i mean the poll is full of crap but there are some pretty obvious "least crappy" or "the one non-crap" choices ffs.

http://img.cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/1BA7787061A29D9EE26B4AFF7B741665.jpg
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http://cdn.teenhollywood.com/video-previews/control-puddle-of-mudd-USIV20110026-308x174.jpg
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^^^ ILM 2014 favorites, ladies and gentlemen

i'll take 'my way' over that sad escape club b-side fart filter released. tbh mainly just relieved nobody voted for the lit track.

kinda interesting that the rock is back moment is effectively not captured at all - franz ferdinand the only 'legit' one (it won p&j iirc), the killers halfway there, jet the joke version. no strokes, no white stripes (yet, i think), none of the also rans like the hives or whoever that might've topped this if altradio had embraced that moment. also complete turn toward aggro masculinity, like they saw woodstock 99 and thought 'this could be the future - let's make it happen'. coincidentally or not also kinda the moment when you really start to see a decline in the format - stations either dropping in ratings, some starting to switch formats.

The important thing is that nobody voted for Default.

I was thinking there was some big exception to balls's point (aside from not just writing off Jet as joke version, though I dig the sentiment) but Google turns up nothing. Even ''Fell In Love With A Girl'' peaked at #12 on this chart! ''Hate To Say I Told You So'' at #6.... The format, and the average angsty kid, weren't buying. Actually I think this may have helped the ''return of rock'' bands narratively - if they really had barnstormed the airwaves at this date, the Strokes and Stripes would have lost their 'gateway indie' quality that got a lot of people from the magazine covers to other, perhaps better records, and possibly gotten blurred together with the big-name punkish bands of this era, which is to say Sum-41 and company.

So, nice as it might have been to see Meg and Jack White opening for Avril Lavigne and then sinking into obscurity, it's probably better for their career that they got to burble up slowly and peak at a more opportune moment. I suspect that for many people, White Blood Cells operates the way De Stijl and the s/t did for me - these unfamiliar, underground-seeming records from 'before they made it big' etc.

kinda interesting that the rock is back moment is effectively not captured at all

good point, tho as it turns out, very few of those "new rock vanguard" acts of the early 2000s had any sort of sustained success.

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last nite vs hate to say i told you so vs fell in love with a girl