#3 Modern Rock Hits: During Bush's 2nd Term

My god. Bring back the nu-metal!

"sugar we're goin' down" or "misery business"

Whoops -- that Falling Down track is by Atreyu (?)

Nonetheless, I'm voting Doesn't Remind Me. The best of a bad lot.

.... atreyu?

yeah, Atreyu. that song was pretty huge!

lol i forgot that a Jet ballad actually got played on the radio

"Misery Business" the best but fuck it i'm voting for "Photograph"

this list coincides with my modern rock column for Idolator, good lord i wrote so many words about The Flobots and Carolina Liar

Would not listen to any of these songs even drunk.

I might listen to Hey There Delilah drunk

Yikes

jesus h...

this era is as terrible as the one from the last poll. commercial rock is just awful today.

take that, fall-out-boy and tear-stained-eyeliner-band.

ilm seems to like paramore now

well, this is apparently three years of my life that i heard zero rock radio

thank god

2005 – Audioslave, "Doesn't Remind Me"

i always dug this

he sings about gypsy moths iirc

paramore's always had supporters here i think. back in 07 i would get them mixed up with flyleaf (i prefer their single btw)

well, this is apparently three years of my life that i heard zero rock radio

thank god

― j., Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:22 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i always had rock radio on in the car during this period, and was always changing the station 5 seconds into every song

to vote in this poll is to admit defeat

none of the above

didnt a bunch of people on here like Mr Brightside back then

yikes that list.
this might be the first one with nothing i'd ever listen to for pleasure on it! oof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBFdX37Qpnk

http://i.imgur.com/AMBrcGy.gif

Flobots

back then? i like that shit now

pretty sure it's the only song up there i've heard

nothing has made me feel quite as old as this list

God. Mr Brightside because of the Jacques Lu Cont mix I guess....?

Really like "Mr. Brightside" and "Big Casino," though it's hard to believe they reached the same chart position, as I remember the former being inescapable around this time, and the latter barely getting any play at all.

'mr brightside' crossed over, it went top ten on the hot 100 chart.

does Nickelback still get played on modern rock radio?

don't think so. they had several other chart hits, but the only song i remember was 'how you remind me'

2005 – Audioslave, "Doesn't Remind Me"

i always dug this

― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/357-out-of-exile/

Chris Cornell getting fired from Guitar World:
Chris Cornell: I like throwing my voice and breaking guitars.

nice.

Wow, this is even worse than the last poll.

we must poll all the music whether it's good or not

Brian Taylor1 week ago (edited)

I want you, to lick, way behind these hairy balls! I LOVE Serj, just a funny way to sing the song. lol
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jesus, this list. At least I could muster hatred for the nu-metal songs - most of these are just impenetrable ciphers. Not sure this format was ever so irrelevant, though I suppose some of these records sold by the truckload (e.g. Nickelback). Just so obvious that whatever was interesting in music at this point, even for a casual radio-listening kind of music lover, was wayyyy wayyyyyyyyy far away on the dial. The few of these I do know, I know from like, short TV ads for the band/album. Obvious exception of Hot 100 #1 "Hey There Delilah," which is also unbearable for more than about ten seconds.

so the local sports talk station's "Power Trip Morning Show" has a recurring guest, this dude from the band Motion City Sountrack, a sort a b-level pop punk/emo type major label band, seems like they do ok, the are from mpls....anyway, they do that thing where they run ads for their shows with funny highlights from a recent show, etc....

anyway, i only heard the soundbite in the ad, but i take it that one of the dudes in the band (or maybe some other guy they know) is a songwriter as well for bigger rock bands....

and scene:

He's supposed to meet Chad Kroger of Nickelback at a restaurant. The meeting is about how this guy might sell some songs to Nickelback for an upcoming album. So they are talking and he gives Kroger the demo CD, etc, and Kroger is like, "Well, are you going to sing them?".....the guy says, "Well, I'd prefer if you just listen to the stuff, we're in a crowded restaurant not really comfortable doing that".....Kroger interrupts and is like "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN YOUR SONGS IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BALLS TO SING THEM RIGHT NOW??"

then, Kroger stands up, kicks over his chair and belts out LOOOOOOK AT THIS PHOOOOTOGRAAAPH/EVERYTIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAAAAUGH like LOUD AS FUCK and the whole restaurant is obviously looking at him and Kroger just struts out of the restaurant and leaves the dude sitting at the table.

― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Shit sandwich.

I still love Mr. Brightside. I'm not ashamed dammit.

would've voted for Thin White Duke mix of "Mr Brightside," my single of 2005.

mr brightside's cool, i just heard it too many times

i was actively avoiding radio during the time of mr. brightside so i didn't hear it until much later and it still sounds glorious to me

yeah i started a heymanrememberthe00s playlist the other day and put two killers cuts on there and 'mr brightside' didn't require southland tales to make the cut

I love that scene in Southland Tales so much.

still easily the peak of timberlake's film career

And the killers'

"Sugar, We're Goin' Down" sadly

although misery business will prolly win

i kinda really hated when people used to say "Look What You've Done" sounds like The Beatles

It does sound like the Beatles -- Dear Prudence specifically

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10 people voted for Nickelback?!?!?

there was some other poll where that nickelback song got a lot of what were assumed to be troll votes. (but then again i find the song entertaining so...)

it IS the best Nickelback song

these poll results are worse than the poll itself

on a website that skews poppist and mainstream, where haim,paramore,fall out boy etc are popular, why are ilxors too scared to admit that some on ilm also like nickelback? Its pretty funny when everyone goes TROLLS! when infact theres just 10 people with incredibly shitty taste!

I doubt there's a band/artist on ILM that everybody on the website all hate.

Photograph is such garbage. Course I might've voted Flobots if I'd voted so

on a website that skews poppist and mainstream, where haim,paramore,fall out boy etc are popular, why are ilxors too scared to admit that some on ilm also like nickelback?

its the nickelbackians who are scared, to make themselves visible

I doubt there's a band/artist on ILM that everybody on the website all hate.

― ۩, Saturday, February 1, 2014 1:24 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is true tho, there was a thread a while back where everyone tried to figure out what that one act everyone hates is and nobody found it. someone even said they liked lenny kravitz

its the nickelbackians who are scared, to make themselves visible

cant blame them tbh!

*eyes narrow* are u one of them

i don't get the 'you like an occasional song by this very popular singles act? you really enjoy this multiplatinum hit song? seriously?' browbeating. you can claim membership to the fanbase of some underground act that numbers in the dozens and it's all gravy, but if you say you're one of the millions who has tapped their toe to "Photograph" suddenly it's the Spanish Inquisition.

im sure youve at some point been like 'lol really?' when someone said they liked something that you thought was self-evidently awful... its not any more complicated than that. also im not surprised YOU like it but i just didnt think it'd get double digit votes since these threads are like 90% people going 'my god i want ot boil my ears off with acid @ these songs'

almost every post: thank god for Franz Turdinand during these dark days
almost efvery vote: nickelback

ade> no!

im sure youve at some point been like 'lol really?' when someone said they liked something that you thought was self-evidently awful

*brings up cobra starship*

find out if you have fb friends who licked Nickelback
https://www.facebook.com/browse/friended_fans_of/?page_id=6248267085

licked? hahahaha damn auto correct. LIKED

if anyone has licked Nickelback call the doctor

im sure youve at some point been like 'lol really?' when someone said they liked something that you thought was self-evidently awful

*brings up cobra starship*

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, February 1, 2014 1:58 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, Cobra Starship was never really that popular. and the one big sellout pop hit they had, i liked!

you are the major eye roller at poll results though tbf

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lux0gsbASN1r1zm0zo1_500.jpg

Major Eye Roller

I for one still really dig Franz Tudinand's firat album

Wow fail

Their frat album could have been pretty good, I dunno? Get some Marley and "Sweet Home Alabama" in their sound, you might really have something.

Was going to post about Killers being #1 than i looked at the rest of the list