Remember when Rock-Hip hop was next big thing?
Grafwritah
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I remember back in the early-mid 90s when it seemed like the media was certain that rock-hip hop fusion was going to be the next big thing. Of course you had Run DMC and Aerosmith a little earlier, but it seemed like right in this time frame that it was poised to blow up.And it didn't.I'm glad, I thought the shit sucked for the most part. And I still do (cough Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit).Looking back it seems more like the push was simply an easier way to pick more white kid pockets than actually an organic artistic movement, but hey, whatever.Any thoughts?Anybody remember the Judgment Night soundtrack with all of the songs being a collaboration between hip hop and rock/metal artists?I didn't like most of them but I did like Fallin' - although it really appears Teenage Fanclub did nothing more than what hook-only singers do today:
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A TISM plate? hehehehe I can picture them dudes driving this car....
For the recrod I hate Fred Durst and all his little clones. i was at the BDO the day the girl died in their mosh pit.
I lost count of how many fuckwits with red NY hats we had to put in check that day. I hope fred Durst gets squashed to death by all his teeny bop try hard fans one day.
helmet was dope.
couldn??t find better quality video
Hip Hop Rock = Caucasoids w/ their hat backwards that try to mc over garage band trash. Not even Hip Hop at all. Rock on its last legs finally giving in to influences they denied for 15 years.
I really dont think it was a genre that ever really gelled.
Shit did blow up, and was the Next Big Thing for at least a few years. Sure, it was horrible. But it dominated the radio, TV and charts for a while.
And, rock is on its last legs? Because you don't like it, it's somehow dying?
I was flipping radio stations a few weeks ago, on a road trip to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival of all places, and caught a song by Linkin Park; sounds like they went adult contemporary.
I have no recollection of this.
Let's just keep figuring out new marketing schemes and ways to homogenize things!!
Blech.
I assume the reference is the late 90s popularity and radio dominance of Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Korn, P.O.D, Papa Roach,et al. There was a time when turning on Rock/Alternative radio meant hearing rock-rap, rap-metal, what have you. I am sure in many desert communities in the SW, as in cornfield towns in Iowa, this sound is probably still big with kids.
Examples pleez?
What Radio stations?
I did see some videos but "dominate" - means it was the only thing u saw.
Charts?
side note:
Song parody comedy format (one of my least favorites) can still be funny.
as can Canadians...
wow.
good vid!
This was all that used to play on your local "alternative" rock station, aka the station in between the all-Beatles oldies jams station and the all Led Zeppelin/Pink Floyd station. The same station that now plays nonstop Fall Out Boy/Nickelback/metalcore. Have people really forcibly erased this time period from their memories? (And if so, how?-plz to share)
I had co-workers that listened to those "alt" stations and I dont recall The Rapp-Rock being pumped ALL DAY.
http://top40.about.com/od/top10lists/tp/1999top10.htm
^ some big hits there, so I guess rockCrap could've passed you by.
However, here's an excerpt from the Korn wikipedia entry about their 1998 album "Follow the Leader" with some of the factistics you requested:
"The album was a complete success, debuting at #1 on Billboard with 268,000 copies sold,[12] and spawning the singles "Got the Life" and "Freak on a Leash". They both exposed Korn to a wider, mainstream audience, with the music videos being mainstays on MTV's Total Request Live. "Got the Life" was the show's very first "retired" video, with "Freak on a Leash" reaching that same success months later.[13] The singles also fared well on Billboard, with "Freak on a Leash" peaking in the top 10 of both Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock, the latter of which it spent 27 weeks on???more than any other Korn single to date.[14]
"Freak on a Leash" won a Grammy for Best Music Video, Short Form, and received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance.[15] The video also earned nine MTV Video Music Awards nominations for Video of the Year, Best Rock Video, Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Viewer's Choice.[16] It eventually won two, for Best Rock Video and Best Editing. Follow the Leader is the band's most commercially-successful album, being certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA and having sold almost ten million copies worldwide."
Good point on that one.
And that would probably be outside the daily track list of your average strutter.
I'd forgotten about this. I remember all the hype and then picking this up when I was in elementary school and being majorly disappointed. I was like... what's with all the f*cking rock music...
just one more reason to hate Aerosmith.
Thou doth protest too much - weren't you the dude who PM'd me several years ago saying "I expected to hate Jigga's collabo with Lincoln Park, but I think it might be even better than his live album with The Roots."
^^^^^OWNS THREE DIFFERENT WHITE LABEL LINKIN' PARK/DILATED PEOPLES COLLAB 12"S; CLASPED THEM TO HIS CHEST IN RESPONSE TO MY JOKING REQUEST TO PURCHASE ONE; WAS HEARD TO STATE "I COULD NEVER SELL MY BABIES"
That is the most blasphemous shit I have ever heard.
Were they cuacasoids???
I am saying!
Faux_Rillz needs to answer to this charge, rather than trying to distract the crowd with references to my superior limited edition white vinyl game.