Hate Pit Jukebox!

[JonFromMaplewood]

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Keep balding balding balding balding

[JonFromMaplewood]

uh.  lemme try that again.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKAIlrkSZOg[/youtube]

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i knew a girl in high school (i didnt say we were friends) who got 'fred durst' tattooed on her shoulder blade.

i often wonder where she is now and what has come of that tattoo.

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i knew a girl in high school (i didnt say we were friends) who got 'fred durst' tattooed on her shoulder blade.

i often wonder where she is now and what has come of that tattoo.

I'm hoping she's faired better than Fred Durst himself has...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNtEtFz6wO4

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You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.

It's probably my own perception of things... 1996 was a really great year for great music (a lot of my favorite albums from the 90s came out that year), but it really seemed as though 1997 was the point where the nineties started going south.

[Son of Dorvid]

The only song that aggravates me more than "Let's Get Retarded" is the multi-platinum wuss-anthem "Let's Get it Started".

[chrisfoll577]

You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.

It's probably my own perception of things... 1996 was a really great year for great music (a lot of my favorite albums from the 90s came out that year), but it really seemed as though 1997 was the point where the nineties started going south.

That's funny because I've always had this theory that 1997 was a great year for music because some of my own all time favorite albums like OK Computer, Urban Hymns and Homogenic.  But a quick scan of 1997's Albums released on Wikipedia proves me wrong.  Two Spice Girls Albums, Smashmouth, Hanson, Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizkit etc. pretty much neutralizes 97's legacy as a good year.

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There is, without fail, a few great albums every year.  I think that overall 1997 represented a turning point for the nineties away from the grunge/"alternative" era (which no doubt had its own share of garbage).  For me, it represented rave/techno music reaching the mainstream, DJs as "rock stars", the temporary decline of live bands that resulted and the eventual rise of nu-metal that came in the latter part of the nineties and continues to date.

[Sloppy Joe]

A song I don't like is the one that goes:

Joooooooooooooy (keep it going keep it going) / and pain
Suuuuuuuunshine (pump it up pump it up) / and rain

Also, the Supertramp song that goes:

She's not much of a girlfriend / but she's the only one I got

[jbissell]

A few recent ones:
Weezer "Heartsongs"
My Morning Jacket "Highly Suspicious"

[namethebats]

I'm going to go ahead and throw the entire calendar year 1997 into my Hate Pit. From my research, no other year has provided as full a list of utterly unlistenable hits. Take a look:

You can't name me a year that can fuck with '97's awfulness.

1999, with the twin ascendancy of teen-pop and rap metal. As other people have pointed out, '97 had the saving grace of a few unassailable albums (off the top of my head, I'd add I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One). There were good albums in 1999, but nothing great enough to neutralize the despair you felt turning on the radio that year.

A sampling:
LFO - "Summer Girls"
Lou Bega - "Mambo #5"
Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"
Ricky Martin - "Livin' La Vida Loca"
Limp Bizkit - "Nookie," "Break Stuff"
Christina Aguilera - "Genie In A Bottle" (OK, this one's grown on me a little)
Santana ft. Rob Thomas - "Smooth"
Eiffel 65 - "Blue"
Kid Rock - "Bawitdaba"
Mandy Moore - "Candy"
Creed - "Higher"
Shania Twain - "That Don't Impress Me Much"
Marc Anthony - "I Need To Know"
Blessid Union of Souls - "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"
Orgy - "Blue Monday"


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[TL]

Eiffel 65 - "Blue"

Blessid Union of Souls - "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"

Blue = awesome.  I don't know why - don't judge!
She Likes Me For Me = a song that I never thought could become worse in my mind until you just told me the name of the "artist" who "sang" it.

[Stupornaut]

My office building has music piped in through the hallways and also the restrooms. This is how I was reminded how wretched "Walking in Memphis" is.

[jbissell]

My office building has music piped in through the hallways and also the restrooms. This is how I was reminded how wretched "Walking in Memphis" is.

Oh god, my roommate freshman year loved that song. He would play it whenever he was feeling especially introspective.

Another song from that same period that I would hear from the guy across the hall was a Howie Day cover of Toto's "Africa". The guy when then try to replicate it on his acoustic.

[Martin]

More good albums from 1997: Homework, Uptown Saturday Night, Baduizm, New Forms

Every year is a good year for music, movies, other shit.