He was so young! He wrote “Kryptonite” when he was 15! That song is my jam!
Rest in peace.
Ya cared enough to sign up for an account and post to this thread.
I always get 3 doors down confused with 3 days grace. I also get them confused with 7 mary 3.
That would explain why my first reaction was “Aren’t they Canadian?” (Doors no, Days yes).
Are you sure you aren’t thinking of 311 or Third Eye Blind?
What else did they do besides “Kryptonite”? Were they a one-hit wonder?
They actually had a lot of songs that were pretty popular. ‘Here Without You’, ‘Be Like That’, and ‘Duck and Run’ come to mind.
Or Blink 182?
ETA: Post #2 was a response to a troll who was since booted; he’s not just rambling like an idiot — that’s my job.
Did anyone ever figure out what happened to Matchboxes One through Nineteen?
Or Three Dog Night.
<Dr. Daystrom voice> Matchboxes One through Nineteen were not successful.
They were destroyed in series of small fires. Somehow, the insurance investigators weren’t fooled.
Oh, I know “Here Without You”.
I linked Mom to “Kryptonite” and she told me she’d never heard it before. I find that inconceivable in 2026.
I knew that there was a band by that name, but I always wondered where they got the name from. There was a head shop in the Pontiac MI area by that name and wondered if either there was a connection or a common origin.
Unless she listened to then-current pop and rock music in 2000, and/or listens to music from that era regularly, it’s not at all inconceivable to me. “I’ve never heard that song before” is an extremely common response in a lot of threads about music here on this board, for example.
It’s also possible that she heard it a few times back when it was a hit, and it just didn’t stick in her memory enough for her to remember it a quarter-century later.
Regardless, RIP, Mr. Arnold. 47 is far too young.
Just based on this board alone, yeah. I usually get crickets whenever I mention two of the biggest 90s rock bands - Weezer and Green Day.
I didn’t really like the direction rock music took in the early 2000s. But 3 Doors Down was among the more tolerable bands to hear on the radio in that era.
And any way you slice it, 47 is too young to go.