Questions about songs by 311 that have made the Billboard Modern Rock chart

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"Do You Right" (1993) #27
"Don't Stay Home" (1995) #29
"Down" (1996) #1
"All Mixed Up" (1996) #4
"Transistor" (1997) #14
"Prisoner" (1997) #21
"Beautiful Disaster" (1997) #27
"Come Original" (1999) #9
"Flowing" (2000) #17
"You Wouldn't Believe" (2001) #7
"I'll Be Here Awhile" (2001) #15
"Amber" (2002) #13
"Beyond The Gray Sky" (2003) #39
"Creatures (For A While)" (2003) #3
"Love Song" (2004) #1
"First Straw" (2004) #14
"Don't Tread On Me" (2005) #2

a) how many of these songs have you heard?
b) how many of these songs can you remember?
c) which one is your favorite?
d) how much would you have to be paid to get you to sit naked in a padded cell and listen to these tracks in chronological order? how much for you to do this twice in a row?
e) how has this band survived?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

a) 7
b) 5
c) "All Mixed Up"
d) If I have nothing better on, I'd take slightly more than minimum wage
e) Inability of people to discern quality.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

a) two, i think - maybe more (well, i'm only 16, though..)
b) two (Amber and Love Song)
c) neither - ok "Amber" - just because, well, need i explain why "Love Song" is such a sucky cover?
d) a few hundred would be nice, but i'm desperate for money
e) eff-argh-eh-tee boyz, yo!

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

a) 3?
b) 0
c) can't remember any, so hard to say
d) plenty
e) the lead singer of my band has inexplicably liked them for years. there are people like him in the world.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I've jsut remembered how "Prisoner" goes, wooah prisoner, dang. So I can actually say I remember how 6 of these go.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Heh. I remember two of those songs, and not very well at that. My brother had one of their albums.
I remember them best from a movie called Omaha that featured roving bands of kickboxers from Iowa. They have a weird live appearence in there. The movie's worth renting, if you ever see it.
I guess Don't Stay Home is my favorite, though I can only remember Down and that one.
I'd probably have to be paid at least $10 an hour. Not all that much, I guess. It's not like Burzum or something that would be hard to tune out.
(For some reason, in my head I keep trying to think of other songs from them and all I can remember is God Lives Underwater riffs...)

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

I should probably do this myself.

1) 11, assuming "You Wouldn't Believe" is the video where they play b-ball with Shaq and that "Beautiful Disaster" was on Transistor, which I had to review for the teen page of the local paper in high school (2 out of 10, published day of concert, Mark McGrath - Sugar Ray was opening - allegedly chastised the piece, "311 Whips Out More Tuneless Drivel," on stage).

2) 8, ironically not including "Don't Tread On Me," which I just witnessed on Fuse an hour ago, inspiring this revived and extensive declaration of wtf.

3) "Love Song" never fails to put a smile on my face.

4) $50,000. $100,000.

5) I have no goddamn clue. They have endured, nay, thrived, despite sucking in the most egregious manner possible (saying that a reggaefied Cure cover recorded a decade after your first album is your most enjoyable track hardly qualifies as Defending The Indefensible). It's like doing your taxes in cow shit. Who the hell likes BOTH?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I only know "Amber" and "Don't Tread On Me" from that list. I don't mind DTOM at all, really. I didn't have strong feelings about "Amber" one way or the other. A guy I worked with used to put on 311 in his car sometimes. I never had any particular problem with it. I'm trying to think how much I'd charge but I just keep wondering why I'd need to be naked and how cold the cell would be, would anyone be watching, etc.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

a) 10
b) 7
c) "Come Original" had a catchy hook for the chorus, none of the other ones jump out at all.
d) I need money, and their music isn't particularly grating, so about $80
e) Drugs and frats

― Schade (Schade), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Are these the guys who were, like, Michael Jackson's nephews or something?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

That was 3T, Tuomas. I can only remember "Anything" by them. 311 are practically ear worm geniuses in comparison.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I've never heard of such a band. They've probably never crossed the Atlantic, commercially that is.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

I've heard "You Wouldn't Believe", er, more times than you'd believe. It's available as a mulit-track demo session for Pro Tools HD, so it's gotten more air time at our store than is strictly healthy.

Anyway, Tuomas, just imagine Limp Bizkit as fronted by a couple of sensitive-jock snowboarder types, and replace the nu-metal angst with stoned-out white reggae, and you've pretty much got it. They make Good Charlotte sound like GG Allin.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

just imagine Limp Bizkit as fronted by a couple of sensitive-jock snowboarder types, and replace the nu-metal angst with stoned-out white reggae

plus space alien imagery!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

a) 12
b) 11
c) I'll agree with my 7th grade self and say "Down"
d) $10 the first time...probably $50 for twice
e) It's all about teh rappin'

― running in circles (running in circles), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

a) 6
b) 5
c) transistor
d) $12 $22
e) No idea! I was amazed how many of the songs were hits after the band dropped off my radar (2001?).

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

a) 13, just looking at the titles
b) 11! I had to think hard for a couple of them though
c) Amber
d) The naked and cell parts bothers me more then the music, which is average. Let's say $15 and $25
e) Probably the same people that worship Sublime today. Didn't they make like one album ten years ago?

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I was amazed how many of the songs were hits after the band dropped off my radar (2001?).

Me too! I really thought they were done as of 1998, to be honest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

a) 7, I think
b) 4
c) All Mixed Up
d) $20, $50
e) Satan

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

a) Not sure - don't exactly remember any - the was this one video where the singer was wearing the lightning strikes the whitehouse bad brains t shirt.

b) I definitely remember hearing 311

c) I remember there was this one I thought was kind of catchy in a we're pimping hardcore sort of way I think i was in high school so it must've been "Do You Right" (1993) #27 - I think my friends little sister liked them

d) really depends on the temperature and is anyone watching and is it a gross cell and stuff

e) they smoke magical reggae

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

a) 5
b) 4
c) "Amber"
d) If Nick Hexum is sitting naked in the padded cell with me, no charge.
e) They've survived by not taking any long vacations. How many other bands have had chart entries nearly every year for the past decade? No one got around to forgetting about them. Seriously, it's their work ethic more than anything else that keeps them around.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

a) 8
b) 6
c) All Mixed Up/Come Original/You Wouldn't Believe
d) I don't mind 311, but naked in a padded cell? $10 million
e) Cause it's reggae, rap, and rock together, dude. And it's nice to hear if you're in West Bumblefuck smoking a lot of week...I suppose. They're just about as inoffensive as it can get really. And Nick Hexum is cute. Is he still dating the Pussycat Girl chick Nicole?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea that 311 ever charted before "Down."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

a) probably all of them, my brother who usually has stellar taste in music, for some reason, loves them.
b) 2 - "Amber" and "Come Original"
c) Amber
d) Is ice-cream involved?
e) Guys like that dude from Crazy Town.

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

a)all of them
b)all of them
c)flowing
d)idk lol
e)great music,solid fanbase,originality

― brooks, Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Brooks, they made this thread for you.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

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