Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?

[Ed Hocken]

Yeah, that band self-destructed real fast. Hives could play really fast if IIRC.

[Abraham Smashington]

The Vines were the only good ones to come out. It's a shame the lead singer has aspergers. Dude had some skill.

[Ed Hocken]

There was The Srokes, The Hives, The Vines. I remember this well. I own the major album of The Hives, some swede band that went nowhere fast.

[BillyG]

I don't even know who The Strokes are. Music really vanished for me from like 1997-2008 or so.

[Ed Hocken]

Ah yes, that may have been the start of hipsterdom right there. But before that we had full blown emo-pop in the middle of the 00s.

Someone get the Irish Bear in here for further elaboration.

[Abraham Smashington]

Fucking hat The Strokes. SO FUCKING MUCH

[Ed Hocken]

Funny you should say that Billy because I remember in 2001 the start of the garage band sound with the The Strokes.

But there was also Disturbed in '02.

[Abraham Smashington]

One of the few bands I've EVER seen where their stage show sounds EXACTLY like the album.

[Abraham Smashington]

Linkin Park has fucking amazing production skills. The music is debatable, but Chester can FUCKING SING.

[BillyG]

This installment made me a sad panda. You could not escape all that shit for about 5 solid years, and right when it started to fade away Linkin Park shows up and explodes.

[Ed Hocken]

I'm pretty sure 1998 was the year Rob had that short lived career being the frontman of Orgy.

[PHEDG]

Remember these?

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[Ed Hocken]

I have to agree that Wes Boreland kind of did look like a monkey.

I was also surprised to be on the subway one day and noticed some teenagers wearing Korn t-shirts. I didn't know the kids still listened to Korn.

I still can't believe that Linkin Park has existed for now ten years and I can't deny that I dug it at the time due to continuing lack of musical taste.

[Abraham Smashington]

Still stand by my assertion that 3 dollar Bill Yall is a decent fucking album. And they put on a hell of show when they opened for Korn prior to that album dropping.

WES IS AWESOME.

[Ed Hocken]

1998: Limp Bizkit, Korn, and when things got really really angry