2004-2009 Music (RIP Heath Ledger)

[Big Papa Paegan]

Those Pig Destroyer and Disillusion releases are fucking incredible, too.

 

[MFer]

Usher owned 2004. The Confessions album was the last one to have 10 million in sales before Adele several years later I believe.

Those plus "Confessions, Pt II." and "My Boo" all hit #1.

 

[Hawk 34]

You basically just played that entire album at any school dance/party and you were set for the night.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

This was the period where I was really starting to transition from grunge/post-grunge into industrial and goth discovering Kidneythieves, Blacktape For a Blue Girl, Within Temptation, Collide, Android Lust, Voltaire, etc. so that was a good time of music discovery for me.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

You basically just played that entire album at any school dance/party and you were set for the night.

As someone who was in high school from 2003 to 2007, I think people really underestimate how huge Usher was during that era. People forget there was a brief window where he was challenging for the top guy in pop status. Now no one really thinks about him except when that overweight women sued him cause she alleged he gave her STDs. I guess it's not the worst fate for a fading pop star to have.

Other thing that stands about this era is it is when mainstream rock music turned to complete ass after a promising revival from '01 to '03. As bad as nu-metal is, at least it was memorably charmingly bad. Idk how many ironic Five Finger Death Punch and Hinder memes there will be in 10 years.

 

[Valeyard]

I dug everything Usher except "Yeah." But again I don't know if I could go back. Some really, really strong memories tied up there.

2006 was a hell of a year.

 

[Fall of Epic]

"Yeah" was the only song I i remember being played at my senior prom. Well, that and "Get Low".

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I remember Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" and Evanesence's "My Immortal" as slow dance songs. I usually tried to run outside cause no one wanted to dance with me and even if they did, the former sucked ass and isn't the latter about a dead person @HarleyQuinn ?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I remember Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" and Evanesence's "My Immortal" as slow dance songs. I usually tried to run outside cause no one wanted to dance with me and even if they did, the former sucked ass and isn't the latter about a dead person @HarleyQuinn ?

The latter is most likely about a dead person but never forget that people used The Police's Every Breath You Take as a legitimate love song to marry/dance to so...

 

[Valeyard]

Youtube told me to watch Gwen Stefani videos around the time she had those Japanese girls following her as her gimmick. I had forgotten how incredibly attractive she was. Then she sampled Fiddler On The Roof and that feeling of shame reentered my life.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Sean Kingston appreciation post.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I had forgotten how incredibly attractive she was.

Still is, man. She's going to be like Elizabeth Shue and just always be gorgeous.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

sobbing noises

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

She & Him Announce Brian Wilson Covers Album Melt Away, Share New Video for “Darlin’”

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward’s latest full-length is a tribute to the Beach Boys songwriter, who also appears on the record

pitchfork.com

She & Him's Brian Wilson tribute album is not the album I asked for but the album I need in the Summer of 2022.

No Northeast tour dates but multiple Oregon stops, @Valeyard , you lucky old so and so.

 

[Valeyard]

I'm not disinterested.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Of all the covers of The Beach Boys that have been done over the past six decades, this is certainly one of them.

 

[Valeyard]

They're a novelty band when it comes down to it, and interest depends on how badly one wants to insert themselves into Zooey. So eh.

I really do wish there was more "Heroes And Villains" though because I just love "Heroes And Villains."

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I was like "Wait. Zooey isn't dating M. Ward, right?" And I was right. Then I looked up who she is currently dating.

It's one of The Property Brothers

Spoiler

 

[Hawk 34]

Why can’t a lady have a nice kitchen you mean bastard

 

[Fall of Epic]

Speaking of weird celebrity couples, I just read that the dude from Crazy Town is dating Punky Brewster.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst Walks Off Houston Show After Two Songs, Band Suggests Karaoke Instead

On the right night, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst can be a truly electric, mesmerizing live performer. On the wrong night, Oberst seems like he’s love to be anywhere except up onstage. Last night in Houston, Oberst evidently had the wrong kind of night.

www.stereogum.com

Does anyone have Conor Oberst in their 2022 death pool?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

As Brooklyn Vegan reports,

lirl

 

[Mickey Massuco]

A publication with that name reporting on anything other than deep fried tofu at Coney Island

Also good board name change for @Brooklyn Zoo

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Brooklyn Vegan's been an indie music site since @Incandenza was in his prime.

Maybe Mayor Adams will inspire dietary change from @Brooklyn Zoo tho.

Edit---Wikipedia is telling me that Brooklyn Vegan did start out partly as a site to cover the indie music scene and NYC's vegan restaurants, @Mickey Massuco . I doubt Coney Island has any good fried tofu spots but maybe Mayor Adams will harass Nathan's.

 

[Valeyard]

Always hated Conor Oberst. I'd have dug that show.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Yeah, Bright Eyes was another band that all of my friends loved but I could never get into them no matter how hard I tried.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I'm surprised that bands continuing a performance after their lead singers suddenly leave is not an entirely infrequent occurrence. Of course, most famously there was that Foo Fighters show 7 or 8 years ago where Dave Grohl broke his leg and Taylor Hawkins took over for a few songs before they canceled. There was also a time when I was doing a comedy show and Wynonna Judd was supposed to play in the big room at the venue but got violent food poisoning before she went on stage. So her backing band played a set and a lot of the crowd just wandered down to the basement to watch my goofy mumbo jumbo.

 

[Incandenza]

I never read Brooklyn Vegan. Mostly because I stopped keeping up with new music at that point, and also because it's called Brooklyn Vegan.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

She & Him's Beach Boys tribute is coming to Maine in September. Tough decision between that and the bluegrass tribute to The Who (personally endorsed by Pete Townsend!) for concert that Valeyard would want to peer pressure me into going to more.

 

[Valeyard]

Bluegrass Who is the epitome of a show to get drunk at, I'm sure.