Let's not forget "Got Your Money" by Ol' Dirty Bastard, which led to the greatest wikipedia entry of all time:
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| Author: | W_Z [ Tue May 19, 2015 7:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Worst Year in Popular Music |
Off the top of my head, without doing much research on the matter...i'm going to say it was 1999. Here were some of the "hits"... "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" - Eiffel 65 "Bawitaba" - Kid Rock "Dolphins Cry" - Live "Believe" - Cher "All Star" - Smash Mouth "Amazed" - Lone Star "Bailamos" - Enrique Iglesias "Desert Rose" - Sting "Every Morning" - Sugar Ray "Genie in a Bottle" - Christina Aguilera "Freak on a Leash" - Korn "Higher" - Creed "With Arms Wide Open" - Creed "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer "Livin La Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" - Lou Bega "Nookie" - Limp Bizkit "Sandstorm" - Darude "She's So High" - Tal Bachman "Slide" - Goo Goo Dolls "That's The Way it is" - Celine Dion "(You Drive Me) Crazy" - Britney Spears "You're Still the One" - Shania Twain and of course...the #1 90's song..."You Get What You Give" - New Radicals...i think that's CH's favorite song ever. Now...on top of some of those smarmy shitty songs already listed, this is when you had all that boyband craze shit start. A Teens, Aaron Carter, 99 degrees, all that shit... and i mean, how did the world not end when you had Creed, Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Kid Rock leading your "rock and roll" charge? Oh...we had to wait for Puddle of Mud, I guess. So I'm sure that anywhere between 1951 and 2015 qualify...but god almighty, 1999 was just...awful. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Tue May 19, 2015 7:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Something bad happen to you in 1999 that these thoughts broke loose? |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Tue May 19, 2015 7:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
yes. i started thinking about the music. |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Tue May 19, 2015 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
oh and how could i forget..."Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)" - Blessed Union of Souls. and what the fuck kinda band name is that?!? |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Tue May 19, 2015 8:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
and "Summer Girls" by LFO... |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Tue May 19, 2015 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Never heard of any of those songs |
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| Author: | IMU [ Tue May 19, 2015 9:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Some of those were bangers. |
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| Author: | Urlacher's missing neck [ Tue May 19, 2015 10:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
"All Star" continues to get worse every time I have the unfortunate experience of hearing it. |
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| Author: | Spaulding [ Tue May 19, 2015 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
2014 was pretty bad. |
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Wed May 20, 2015 4:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
1999 was pretty terrible...I do like Freak on a Leash, though... Some music gets better with age. However, I feel like some of the most popular music of the last few years will not. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
I like a lot of those songs! 92.7 Kiss FM was my jam in 8th grade. W_Z wrote: and of course...the #1 90's song..."You Get What You Give" - New Radicals...i think that's CH's favorite song ever. It's on the list. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
The more I look at this list, the more it pisses me off. A perfectly acceptable alt-lite song like "Slide" has no business on a list with anything by Ricky Martin, Limp Bizkit, or Creed. I'd hate to see what you think of "Iris," the best late-era Replacements song they never wrote. |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
That "She's So High" song by Tal Bachman was, is, and will forever be terrible. But I do like a couple songs on Zack's shit list. Desert Rose, You're Still The One, and Slide hold a special place in my heart for purely sentimental reasons. |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Westerberg co-wrote "We Are The Normal" with Goo Goo Dolls. GGD use to be taken seriously, until Johnny decided he wanted to be Jon Bon Jovi. Still some good tunes in the mix, though. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
shirtless driver wrote: Westerberg co-wrote "We Are The Normal" with Goo Goo Dolls. I want to believe that Westerberg wrote all their songs. "Name" could have been his. I'm weird in that I can't categorize the popular music of my youth by year, I do it by school year. Some of the songs I think of as '99 songs may have been '98 or 2000. "Heartbreaker" was late 1999, right? Can't deny how good that one was. And "Blue" was a classic, as was the eiffel-65 remix of "The Bad Touch." And "The Rockerfella Skank"! Good times, great oldies. |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams came out in 2000. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
I was referring to the Mariah Carey/Jay-Z duet. |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
I'd probably know it if I heard it. P.S. - "Every Morning" isn't that bad. If you took out the vocals from Bawitaba, Nookie, and Freak on a leash - those are actually pretty good (from a drummer-trying-to-warm-up point of view). It's the lyrics and vocals that sink those tunes. |
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| Author: | IMU [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Let's not try to give any credit to Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, or Korn... |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed May 20, 2015 5:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Let's not forget "Got Your Money" by Ol' Dirty Bastard, which led to the greatest wikipedia entry of all time:
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| Author: | Dave In Champaign [ Wed May 20, 2015 6:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
The Goo Goo Dolls were the band for people who found the Gin Blossoms a little too rough. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed May 20, 2015 6:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
I will not deny that nor will I deny that I still like half of Dizzy Up the Girl. |
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| Author: | SomeGuy [ Wed May 20, 2015 6:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Curious Hair wrote: I will not deny that nor will I deny that I still like half of Dizzy Up the Girl. Great album. The haterz can suck it. |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 20, 2015 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
IMU wrote: Let's not try to give any credit to Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, or Korn... Good musicians - shit songs, image, singers. Right place, right time. I've seen Kid Rock on a couple of different food shows, and I'd like to hang out with him and have a beer, or 12. Durst isn't the wurst. Korn I just never really understood, my childhood wasn't that angsty. But the guys in the band can play. That being said, I've never bought, nor do I currently have any of their albums. "Bands" like Godsmack and Disturbed bother me WAY more than LB, Korn, or Kid Rock. i dunno when crazy town's 'butterfly' came out, but it was in the late 90s vicinity, and that was the fucking worst. |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Wed May 20, 2015 7:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Curious Hair wrote: The more I look at this list, the more it pisses me off. A perfectly acceptable alt-lite song like "Slide" has no business on a list with anything by Ricky Martin, Limp Bizkit, or Creed. I'd hate to see what you think of "Iris," the best late-era Replacements song they never wrote. yeah and in 15 years, "safe and sound" will be considered "not that bad" by a lot of people from this generation too. "slide" is probably one of the least offensive on that list but it is still drenched in pop sweat and was overplayed to death. the point is, these weren't just random songs on the radio that year. some of those defined the end of the decade, and when you have ridiculously obnoxious frontmen like kid rock and fred durst leading the way, you're not exactly in for a renaissance. but it's funny that anybody defends any of the songs i knocked, because god forbid you like the beatles or u2 around here...holy shit, it's over. but "i'm blue", yeah, yeah that's ok. that's good. |
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| Author: | Ron Wolfley [ Wed May 20, 2015 8:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
W_Z wrote: Curious Hair wrote: The more I look at this list, the more it pisses me off. A perfectly acceptable alt-lite song like "Slide" has no business on a list with anything by Ricky Martin, Limp Bizkit, or Creed. I'd hate to see what you think of "Iris," the best late-era Replacements song they never wrote. yeah and in 15 years, "safe and sound" will be considered "not that bad" by a lot of people from this generation too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WTcc3XuLEM |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 20, 2015 8:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Safe and Sound by Capital Cities is a great song. That reggae version, not so much. 
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Thu May 21, 2015 5:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
W_Z wrote: but it's funny that anybody defends any of the songs i knocked, because god forbid you like the beatles or u2 around here...holy shit, it's over. but "i'm blue", yeah, yeah that's ok. that's good. I'm pretty universal in my music tastes. I love the Beatles, U2, and "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by the forgettable electronic duo Eiffel-65. But no, "Safe and Sound" will forever be unforgivably terrible. "Blue" is just silly and dumb. This song is rotten to the core. |
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| Author: | BigW72 [ Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Goo Goo Dolls used to play the Ballroom back in ISU before they made it big. I can handle a few of the hits from Dizzy up the girl, but going back to "Name" and "We Are the Normal"...ugh. I remember hearing them when released and thinking "this is garbage"....they haven't gotten any better with age. That overall list of 1999....man, that is some BAD music. There were some bright spots in the early 90's but if you check the billboard top hots from 1991-1993....holy shit that's some garbage. |
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| Author: | SomeGuy [ Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Worst Year in Popular Music |
Whatever years when Rap & Hip-Hop started on the long and terrible Hair Metal! path. By and large it still shambles about on the roadside. |
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