Now That Was Totally On The Radio and Stuff! Vol. 2: Forgotten Singles of the Early 2000s

(n.b. "your local poster" =/= "me")

I heard "Gotta Tell You" as muzak a few months ago

Blaque - "Bring It All To Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4mjAOgHLvU

if someone already posted this i'm sorry i'm not going to click on every unlabeled youtube video in this thread

ah i love that blaque song

Brian McKnight "Back At One," lol

ONE, YR LIKE A DREAM COME TRUEEEE

City High - What Would You Do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahcSFleKm8

haha I couldn't decide between that one or their other hit yesterday.

I always hated this song, not just because of the cheesy melody to go with the really dramatic subject matter, but how the 'narrator' of the song is all like "man just snap out of your shitty life"!

the standards for "forgotten" are slipping more and more

this song was mentioned in the princess diaries series and everything!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfoUSZ8suAM

idk their second hit is a lot better remembered than What Would You Do....

"back at one" maybe not so forgotten but i stand by the other two as long-forgotten (source: me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJ9Nvzp8VY

I hear that Blaque song on the rhythmic AC station here about once a month (in a JC & Lance-free version?!)

I feel like optimally for this thread they should be songs no one really took that much note of at the time.

billstevejim - It's a big-tent kind of thread! The only ones I'd personally wonder about would be "When It's Over" which was a pretty big hit and can't have really gone away too much, and Afroman, which (IMHO) has vanished only in the way that most novelty/comedy songs do - the joke ran its course, people collectively agreed not to tell it again for a while. But I'd 100% expect it to appear on a K-Tel or Time-Life comp of the era, if such things were to come back into fashion. I also wonder about the D-12 ones but those might be right at the border. If any of theirs sank without a trace it was probably the "we're tough" number, "Fight Music."

Those aside, your other picks are like exactly what I'm thinking of with these threads! .. like, god, that Bloodhound Gang song was such a non-starter. Amazing how unfunny (and just generally kind of... weird in tone) the video is, given their bread and butter.

And yeah, the back ends of Now! comps are actually pretty rich veins - under the big big hits they had to pad them out with something.

I considered "The Whole World," then ruled it out.... but now that I see it here I think it fits totally. New song added to a greatest-hits record to try and lure people who already had Stankonia but weren't familiar enough with the earlier stuff to be sold already. Got a lot of play at the time but maybe because it was ideally timed to catch the momentum from the hugeness of "Ms. Jackson." I feel like if you asked non-fans to name an Outkast song, or pick one to add to a playlist, they might eventually get there but not for a good long while.

I knew of the existence of this song but apparently not what the verses sounded like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnm53N_nCJA

this wasn't even on the radio but fuck it

to a certain contingent of kids born in the 90's, you might remember the movie Snow Day, and on the soundtrack was this pretty little strummer. kinda like Juliana Hatfield or something.

the year two thousand was fifteen years ago....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohgUxSVuQ00

early-'00s teen movie soundtracks are a fucking goldmine for this stuff. (also, the greatest genre of music. add late-'90s teen movie soundtracks and their power-pop and you could never listen to anything else in your life.)

here, Darkchild trying his hardest to be Max Martin, aka "what happened to the 'Baby One More Time' rips?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx24jSOmtI

a single by one Greg Kurstin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVN2DOChfDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrCsubL_OSQ

I'm so glad Ashanti's been forgotten. Ech.

That song doesn't belong in this thread & Ashanti hasn't been forgotten at all

blaque & city high aren't forgotten either imo but ymmv

My sister and I used to/still laugh about how dated that Ashanti song sounded when it came out.

Was going to post "There She Goes" by Babyface but I saw that it peaked at #31 on the Hot 100.

Screw it - it's "forgotten" compared to the other just-as-good Neptunes hits from the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dBKezTShE

made it to #45 on Billboard but only has 22k YouTube views in 6 years and the album tanked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_ru7dNyYQ

this one counts for the U.S. because it basically ended his career there

Craig David - What's Your Flava?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XouvzxGfsbc

Skrape - Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LiUDu809cs

Oh God, labels promoted the hell out of that Skrape album.

Collective Soul - Why pt. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dgUY6lsU4

Switchfoot - Dare you to move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOTcr9wKC-o

I don't know if this one has been forgotten but it was pretty big at the time and it's been years since I've oveheard it:

Orson - no tomorrow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmH4rr8vq0

Skye Sweetnam - Billy S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Mm4flx81E

I remember that Skye Sweetnam song, unfortunately.

Basically everything Vitamin C did besides the graduation song is forgotten now, though I guess now that I think about it "Smile" was big enough to probably not count. Feels like it was in some ads, too, or if it wasn't, it was REALLY begging for it.

Collective Soul had to be one of the biggest losers in the total collapse of the alt-rock market. I mean the were never very good (and often actively bad), and "Why" isn't a very interesting song, but y'know, the last couple albums had each mustered a couple of good-sized airplay hits. It probably didn't help that the cover seemed designed to trick people into thinking they were a boy band.

did enough people forget about nikka costa's "like a feather"?

also [posts any anastacia single]

Both Nikka and Anastacia had health problems but I don't know how that affected their careers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGtBZX32I0

The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk - Maybe borderline on the forgotten front, as the parent album went gold and this was the only single that went anywhere. But my sense at the time was that they had somehow missed the boat and failed to capitalize on "Hate To Say I Told You So" landing well in the US. Actually I feel like I read they had some label or management problems involved... anyone remember anything about that? Wikipedia is unavailing, though we do learn that The main riff is similar to that of The Who's "I Can't Explain", and even more similar to Sonic 2's Metropolis Zone. Anyway, it's an energetic, hooky rocker, undone only by length - clearly wants to be a good forty seconds to a minute shorter. Small quibble though, it's good.

I thought about posting that one -- I attributed its flopping to audience/radio bafflement at its AC/DC-meets-Wire sound.

Anastacia...i remember "Not That Kind"

Re: Hives - This was also around the time (2004) when MTV would relegate critical singles for alt bands to MTV2 rotation

Hives mention reminds me of this other forgotten 'hit':

Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_K36y-iLUk

Having flashbacks of early 00's bands like Starsailor, Keane, Stereophonics and have decided some things are best forgotten.

My regular internet's been wonky these past few days, so I having been able to partake of the festivities thus far, but expect some pithy comments from me on some of the included stuff thus far soon.

Anyways, that Fu Manchu cut their hair, dropped a disco beat, and actually got some Album Rock action with a little ditty called "Squash That Fly"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTqhLPE3G1w

...and then there's the truly forgotten ones-

Thirteen senses - into the fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFroDCsVCeY

XP "I haven't been able to partake" & "Would you believe that...?" even...

Having flashbacks of early 00's bands like Starsailor, Keane, Stereophonics and have decided some things are best forgotten.

They (labels) tried to break Travis, Supergrass and Ash in America, in that order if I recall... Busted and The Streets too

For the past several years he's been a sideman to the stars (and as of late, the boyfriend of Renee Zellweger), but back in 2001 RCA tried to pitch Doyle Bramhall II as the white Lenny Kravitz in the video for "Green Light Girl", a song initially featured on the soundtrack to the forgotten Sly Stallone/Burt Reynolds racing epic Driven. I still hear this occasionally on a local community college's FM rock station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZYppH82U4U

More Trivia: The backing singer in the clip was Bramhall's then-wife Susannah Melvoin, former Prince girlfriend, daughter of session legend Mike Melvoin, and sister of Wendy (of "...and Lisa" fame) and the late Jonathan (who O.D'ed and died in the presence of Jimmy Chamberlin in '96).

XP Supergrass actually got a decent push as early as '97, with "Cheapskate" getting minor Modern Rock play.

"Do Right" was on the other thread, and rightly so because it was a 90s song. This was totally on the radio in the 2000s (in the southeast US, anyway) and begs the question of why you'd wanna do a duet with a dude who sounds just like you anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzf9-HkpKMQ