A little help--

[roxy]

My brilliant friends--what would teen Caucasian boys have been listening to in the late 90s-early 2000s? They probably weren't listening to the same stuff I was--by the way, Big Pun the greatest rapper ever was, no argument. I ask about music because I need it for my story, where I will pretend to know what teen boys back in the day were thinking about. Wish me luck! If I come up with a decent outline in the next two days I'm signing up for the SpN BB. (waits for the cheering-*cricket, cricket*)

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[orbiting-saturn.livejournal.com]

There were a lot of popular bands at the time, but if you're looking for you run-of-the-mill, normal white teenage boy who doesn't think he's black, you're probably looking at stuff like Staind, Creed, The Verve Pipe, Matchbox 20, Dave Matthews Band, Third Eye Blind, Eve 6, Blink 182, (basically the soundtrack to Can't Hardly Wait) Stone Temple Pilots and Jane's Addiction were still really popular, Godsmack, Disturbed had just come out around that time. The Foo Fighters. Tool and A Perfect Circle or Placebo, if you're looking on the darker side of things. The Gorillaz came out around then, for the funkier side of things. Maybe Sublime and the rest of the Ska-like movement.

Your friend Red listed some bands that were really more popular in the early to mid nineties, but Colin and Jeremy have some good taste. Especially Queens of the Stone Age (my favorite band!) But I don't think their break-away hit album came out until 2002. Audioslave also came out in 2002, if I'm thinking correctly. Radiohead is one of those better bands that kind of ruled that era of music. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Incubus too. And let's not forget Korn, who were super popular with teenage boys at that time. One of Pearl Jam's more popular albums was released in 1999.

I'm a huge, crazy music fan with a ridiculously large collection, so if you have any questions, let me know. That was right around the time I started becoming really musically aware too.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! I'll check with you as I go along--the story takes place in one summer in 2000, so there's not a lot of wiggle room I guess. And judging from the responses I've got a pretty good idea of which groups to use and I'll have to Youtube them all--the only one really familiar to me is The Gorillaz and just that one song.

I have weird musical taste. :)

There were a lot of popular bands at the time, but if you're looking for you run-of-the-mill, normal white teenage boy who doesn't think he's black

*falls down laughing!!!!*