Again, a group of songs I’d never listen to of my own volition in a million years. Green Day’s the only one that’s halfway listenable, IMO.
What you said, but replace Green Day with Blink 182.
Dire, dire, dire.
Went for Red Hot Chili Peppers, just a hair above Fuel so it was really close. My first time voting for the Chili Peppers. Fuel’s song deserves a silver.
Californication, but I almost went with Blink.
ETA: Regretting my vote; I was confusing Californication with Dani California.
What an awful selection. Blink, because it’s one of two that weren’t terrible (with Green Day.) Why isn’t Stiff Upper Lip on this list?
What? People complaining? About what - there are at least 3 good songs - “Kryptonite” (my vote), “Californication”, “Minority” - on the top billboard modern rock list.
The also-rans for 2000 are here, and also includes some pretty good songs (IMO, of course) such as
U2 - Beautiful Day
COLDPLAY - Yellow
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Sour Girl
EMINEM - The Real Slim Shady
MOBY with GWEN STEFANI - South Side
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Renegades of Funk
and a number of others (that I can remember without YouTubing).
I had many (non-musical) reasons to be happy that year, but it didn’t hurt that the soundtrack of my life that year didn’t stink.
You, sir, are wrong. I distinctly remember saying that somebody needed to shoot up Scott Wieland and Anthony Kiedis so they could write good songs again in a roomful of people and getting a standing ovation.
Interesting factoid: Californication is the last CD I ever bought.
As always, here are some alternative songs I actually liked from 2000: Elliott Smith, “Son of Sam”; PJ Harvey, “You Said Something”; The Avalanches, “Frontier Psychiatrist”; Belle & Sebastian, “Women’s Realm”; Sleater-Kinney, “You’re No Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun”; Yo La Tengo, “Our Way To Fall”; The Go-Betweens, “Going Blind”; The Delgados, “Accused of Stealing”.
A couple of good songs but I went with Minority.
Otherside. I still like both the RHCP songs listed.
I figured why not give a listen to the songs Woodstockbirdy listed via the Magic of YouTube, to find out why they’re so down on the official top modern rock “hits” on the list. I had heard PJ Harvey, Yo La Tengo, and The Delgados before at the time (on WLIR, of course - by this year the great NY Alt-Rock Radio Shift had ended and the other stations went back to Classic Rock or R&B formats), but wasn’t a big fan. The other bands I couldn’t readily identify by name.
IMO, except for two songs, the songs are fairly mellow, with Elliott Smith’s “Son of Sam” in particular sounding like it came from one of the post-breakup Beatles in the 1970s.
IMO, the only two “unmellow songs” on wood’s list are “Frontier Psychiatrist” which at the time I would have considered a leftover from an old Doctor Demo broadcast and ignored (I do like the wiki Genre classification of it - ‘Plunderphonics’), and the Sleater-Kinney entry “You’re No Rock 'n Roll Fun”, which was pretty cool and catchy, and which I’m sure LIR played at the time, but I completely forgot about.
I like “Beautiful Day”, “Sour Girl” and “Renegades” better than any of the songs in the OP.