Episode 21 - The Year 2000

This episode finally goes INTO the 2000s. Napster and file sharing. The dot-com boom. The y2k bug. The World Trade Center was still standing. Boy bands and music that was more commercial than ever. The late 90s and transition to the new millennium for rock was a confusing mess of bands that were trying to change up their sound to compete with what was selling records and in music videos, while others desperately tried to hang on to whatever was left of the “old” alternative rock of the mid 90s. Alternative rock couldn’t have sounded more disparate heading into a new decade. Radiohead was going deeper into their art, rejecting fans that were gathered by OK Computer and releasing the obtuse and standoffish Kid A. With the release of Linkin Park’s debut, Nu Metal was hitting its peak but the scene would flame out early into the decade. Another debut, Coldplay’s “Parachutes” would give us the single “Yellow”, and we would witness the birth of the new “biggest rock band in the world”. 3 Doors Down still thought it was 1996. And underneath all that, the garage rock revival scene was getting underway in places like New York, and we would soon hear from The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. All the songs on this list were from 2000. Next stop: 2001!

Original airdate: November 2, 2024

1. The Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze
2. Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song
3. At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
4. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
5. A Perfect Circle - Judith
6. Deftones - Knife Prty
7. 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
8. Green Day - Warning
9. Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
10. Coldplay - Shiver
11. Richard Ashcroft - C'mon People (We're Making It Now)
12. Doves - Here It Comes
13. No Doubt - Simple Kind Of Life
14. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place