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Is Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" going diamond the most ridiculous event in music history?
- Thread starter Man with Knife
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I never bought a Kid Rock album but him and his band were surprisingly good in concert. I saw them at the Experience Music Project opening concert in 2000 in Seattle with Metallica/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Filter/Snoop Dogg/Eminem.
I need to get my brain bleached
On that note, wasn't there a early 2000s band called Creed?
I think I still have a bootleg of this and a Fred Durst cd somewhere. Haven't listened to it in years, but I'd take it over hearing "All Summer Long" any day of the week.
Eminem hit it big around the same time.
Never understood why people hated "All Summer Long", it's a fun summer song. So what if it samples two old rock songs, it's still chill.
I thought so! Your other film you did "Computer Fighters" is my favorite.
Not really. I don't care a lot for it, but I've heard some other "artists" that are much more insulting to be even called music.
Besides, it contains the most confusing chorus of all time.
"With the top let down and the sunshine shinin' " and "Ride at night 'cause I sleep all day" in the same chorus. Thinking about that gives me a headache.
Besides, it contains the most confusing chorus of all time.
"With the top let down and the sunshine shinin' " and "Ride at night 'cause I sleep all day" in the same chorus. Thinking about that gives me a headache.
they both reaped the benefit of the failure of Vanilla mixed with Ice.
one actually wanted to be a rapper, one was just willing to fake it and meld it with his "southern outlaw" routine.
Yodeling in the valley.
I think the first time I heard Kid Rock was on Road Rash 3D. Man, that soundtrack is dated as hell. Pre-"Fly" Sugar Ray, anyone?
I think the first time I heard Kid Rock was on Road Rash 3D. Man, that soundtrack is dated as hell. Pre-"Fly" Sugar Ray, anyone?
I am unashamed to like the singles off Cracked Rear View. I've never heard the whole album but "Hold My Hand" is a great damned song.
I bought it in 1999. I still enjoy Devil Without a Cause and Limp Bizkit's Significant Other without irony or apology.
The hook machine rap-rock offensive-for-offensive-sake genre lived and died with those two albums. I listen to them because knowing the lyrics makes me nostalgic for blasting it in my friend's crappy apartment. Also the drops get me amped up to drink with old friends/mowing the lawn/driving to work.
The hook machine rap-rock offensive-for-offensive-sake genre lived and died with those two albums. I listen to them because knowing the lyrics makes me nostalgic for blasting it in my friend's crappy apartment. Also the drops get me amped up to drink with old friends/mowing the lawn/driving to work.
That was before filing sharing became so pervasive and album sales really started to fall for everyone. And while it doesn't hold up well, it was still better than all the cheap boy band pop of the time. Kind of a crap period of music. The 90s started strong and went out with a whimper.
RIAA counts shipped for the tiers, so for example they counted Soundgarden's Telephantasm being included with Guitar Hero as shipped copies so that album had a day 0 Platinum even though WoR barely broke 100k in actual sales across all platforms.
I love the drop off in sales for his second albumWilliam Hung sold 200,000 copies of his first album
And he still lands headlining gigs in large country music festivals...
It just seems weird to me. Like that the fanbase would be totally incompatible.
Either that or it just proves that people relate more with musicians themselves than specifically with the music that they make.
you could also buy the album on cassette, for when your jacked 76 Chevy doesn't come with a CD player.
This isn't what you are looking for.
Close in date though is something far more crazy and ridiculous in the music industry.
That is Woodstock '99. People died, things burned down. It was chaos. All at the hands of the great Fred Durst.
Close in date though is something far more crazy and ridiculous in the music industry.
That is Woodstock '99. People died, things burned down. It was chaos. All at the hands of the great Fred Durst.
"Black Chick/White Guy" is a classic.
His early stuff didn't really have a ton of country influence. It's actually a lot more Beastie Boys inspired. He opened for Ice Cube at one point in the early 90s. All that country shit came later when he realized that making money off the walmart hillbilly crowd was a lot easier than trying to be taken seriously in the rap/pop scene.
On topic, the inflated sales numbers of that era are crazy to look back on in retrospect. Really highlights how the entire industry has changed. Having a single hit almost guaranteed you were at least going platinum.
His early stuff didn't really have a ton of country influence. It's actually a lot more Beastie Boys inspired. He opened for Ice Cube at one point in the early 90s. All that country shit came later when he realized that making money off the walmart hillbilly crowd was a lot easier than trying to be taken seriously in the rap/pop scene.
On topic, the inflated sales numbers of that era are crazy to look back on in retrospect. Really highlights how the entire industry has changed. Having a single hit almost guaranteed you were at least going platinum.
Kid Rock was on the Road Rash 3D before making it really big. That's where I first heard him. I liked him when I was 12, too.
Hilarious to watch that Woodstock clip now.. haha
My grandchildren "What's this CD thing you're talking about and why is it platinum?"
Silver Side Up by Nickelback was released on September 11th 2001
Make no mistake, that diamond was legit as younger me bought both Devil Without a Cause and History of Rock cassettes back in the day. And I still listen to Only God Knows Why, My Oedipus Complex. and Prodigal Son to date.
So don't hate, OP. And please remember,
If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
So don't hate, OP. And please remember,
If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
Or maybe the music was never really that great in the first place and that flavor of rap rock disappeared as quickly as it appeared for a reason.
Really good album back then and even okay now.
I was 17 when it came out, and we did a lot of drinking with that cd in the background - fun times.
I was 17 when it came out, and we did a lot of drinking with that cd in the background - fun times.
Significant Other is an absolute fucking banger from start to finish!
I rocked this album, Cypress Hill's Black Sunday and White Zombie's Astro Creep: 2000 as a youngin'. They were all edited cassette tapes from Walmart.
I also remember Devil Without a Cause being a huge hit with my AYSO team at the time.
I also remember Devil Without a Cause being a huge hit with my AYSO team at the time.
Damn, just had a flashback of when I went to the 1999 KROQ Weenie Roast and saw him live. RIP Joe C. In fact, what a wild ass setlist now that I think of it...
Kid Rock
Metallica
Limp Bizkit
RHCP
Moby
Pennywise
Blink 182
Sugar Ray
a couple others...
and motherfucking Smash Mouth!
That lineup was fucking nuts and I loved every second of it. xD
Kid Rock
Metallica
Limp Bizkit
RHCP
Moby
Pennywise
Blink 182
Sugar Ray
a couple others...
and motherfucking Smash Mouth!
That lineup was fucking nuts and I loved every second of it. xD
The edited version of Black Sunday is an absolute masterpiece and I refuse to believe otherwise.
It really is haha. Not a huge fan of Kid Rock, but that was kind of badass. Also, I miss how popular music back then had singers with stage presence. Hell, the whole band is killing it.
Man, that lineup is making me super nostalgic.!
Also, OP, keep in mind that Uncle Cracker has a double platinum album haha.
"Follow Me" was a great song though.
William Hung sold 200,000 copies of his first album
Man, he should've named his second album Wile E. Coyote because it fell off a fucking cliff.