# Best #1 Modern/Alternative Rock Song of the Year: 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686 "2014-11-26T16:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/1 "2014-11-26T16:48:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/2 "2014-11-26T16:53:07Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/3 "2014-11-26T17:55:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/4 "2014-11-26T17:58:20Z")
Californication, but I almost went with Blink. ETA: Regretting my vote; I was confusing Californication with Dani California. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/5 "2014-11-26T17:58:23Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/6 "2014-11-26T18:37:47Z")
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](http://www.playlistresearch.com/2000s/2000modern.htm), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/7 "2014-11-26T18:43:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/8 "2014-11-26T19:18:26Z")
Interesting factoid: _Californication_ is the last CD I ever bought. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/9 "2014-11-26T19:38:27Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/10 "2014-11-26T20:33:19Z")
A couple of good songs but I went with Minority. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/11 "2014-11-27T08:19:52Z")
Otherside. I still like both the RHCP songs listed. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/12 "2014-11-27T16:08:16Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > 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”. 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”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3AZ12xf6s) 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”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCy1VIy8Hj0), which was pretty cool and catchy, and which I’m sure LIR played at the time, but I completely forgot about. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-modern-alternative-rock-song-of-the-year-2000/705686/13 "2014-11-27T18:10:41Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > 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](http://www.playlistresearch.com/2000s/2000modern.htm), 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. I like “Beautiful Day”, “Sour Girl” and “Renegades” better than any of the songs in the OP.