This song came on my 2000s playlist yesterday while I was doing some housework, and I had to look at my phone to remember what it was and who sang it. Which is wild, because I used to play the crap outta this song on LEGO Rockband back in the day (and in regular Rockband).
A lot of this band’s fans came to them more organically, listening to alternative rock, post-grunge, and emo music, but I wasn’t listening to that stuff at all. I’ve said this before with other bands. I gave them all a big miss when they came on the radio and I was not buying their albums, but when they came up in Rockband, I found that they were very fun to sing, and that’s what got me hooked.
This version of the song rocks just a little harder than the one I have. I’m not sure if there’s a pop mix or if they just made a different mix for LEGO Rockband. There’s nothing offensive in this version of the song that I could hear, but the interesting thing about LEGO Rockband was that it had a lower age rating than the regular Rockband games, so violence and sexuality could not be portrayed anywhere in the game or the song lyrics. It was cool because, every Rockband song was being rated either FF (Family Friendly) or SR (Supervision Recommended), though IIRC those ratings were not exposed to the user before. But LEGO Rockband would not read the SR-rated songs. However, any FF-rated songs you’d bought or exported from another Rockband game would load into LEGO Rockband and were playable there. (Unlike The Beatles: Rockband, where no songs outside the game were playable, because the surviving members of The Beatles refused to let their digital likenesses play songs by other people, nor would they agree to exporting, because they did not want the generic digital avatars playing their songs.)
no business having a chorus that big on a debut record. still holds up
I never listened to the whole album. That song, and The Great Escape were in Rockband and we played them up there.
rock band did more for that album than radio ever did honestly
Rockband did a lot for music in the late 2000s and early 2010s that doesn’t get acknowledged much. Of course, the developer was comprised entirely of musicians. Making music better and more accessible was the whole point. They wanted to rope people in with popular tracks and introduce them to new stuff, and teach them a bit about music theory and composition along the way, while still making a fun party game and also a karaoke system. It was a rare game that was actually a bona fide game, while also being a useful application. And it printed money selling music, and it also led to mods (user generated content) on consoles.
the plastic drum kit taught more people to keep a beat than a lot of actual lessons did, i’d bet. and the song library alone made it worth it
I think I read somewhere that if you had a four-piece drum kit, the tracks were accurate to how you’d play them (on Expert). Of course, you couldn’t simulate a bigger drum set with just four pads, even with the three cymbal attachments.
makes sense. the cymbals were always the part no plastic kit could really fake
