Top 10 Artists and Bands of the 2000s

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This will continue the epic music spotlight we

have planned here at GCR. I am one of your hosts,

Adrian Mike, and joining me is Dustin Vancour.

Hello. Good day, sir. Yes, this is the first

time you've been on this podcast, I believe.

I think this is the first time you've been on

the Geekcast Radio Network. You've been on that

Canadian stuff this week in Geek, but I don't

think you've ever really been on any of our shows.

I have not been on Geekcast Radio Network yet,

no. Yes, well, this is, you know, we're popping

your cherry right here. Well, thank you for having

me. Be gentle. Would you like some pie with that

cherry popping? Sad thing is, I don't really

like cherry pie. That was a really, really bad

warrant and cherry popping daddy's joke right

there. Oh, I know. I cry. And what we're here

to do today is we're here to talk about and count

down our top 10 favorite artists or bands from

the 2000s. This will be the final countdown that

we do in the music spotlight. And this for me

was, I did some finagling here and there, I moved

stuff around, but for the majority, my list is...

Pretty much anything and everything I listen

to currently or stuff that I've listened to from

like, you know bands that have been around for

ten years and I listen to and stuff like that

and just let everybody know that neither Dustin

or I have seen to this list So there may be we

don't know if there's gonna be overlap. We don't

know if I seriously doubt we're gonna have the

same number one seriously doubt it No, I can

pretty much guarantee it. Yeah, but But yeah,

so why don't you introduce yourselves to the

introduce yourself selves? Yes, right. You have

multiple personalities now I do yes. Yes Introduce

yourself to the geek cast radio audience Well,

I my name is Dustin Vancouver. I go by Dustin

miss prime on most online communities I run the

website called one up your life Which is a kind

of a health and wellness site geared towards

geeks and nerds And that's really about it. I

just recently became a father which is why I

haven't been on any of the shows in the last

six months so Yeah, that's pretty much it. Yeah

kids take priority over podcasting. Yes, absolutely

All right, so before we get into the actual countdown

And just in case anyone has forgotten how we

run our countdowns here is we go ten to one and

we go back and forth So if I say Dustin, what's

your number ten? You'll go and then I'll go with

mine and then we'll move on to number nine and

so on and so forth Before we get to that though,

we've got some honorable mentions that did not

make our lists Why don't you go first? What do

you got for honorable mentions? My first honorable

mention was actually set at my number ten until

I went back and re -looked at it But I actually

had Limp Biscuit set up in there at number 10.

And the only reason I had them set up in there

is because up to Chocolate Starfish and the Hot

Dog Flavored Water, I really enjoyed what they

were. The only problem is that album came out

in like 2000, I believe it was, and they really

haven't done crap since. So, yeah, that's kind

of why I just kind of bumped them off into an

honorable mention. They did kind of set the tone

for kind of the music that would inspire what

I would listen to later on in the future. So.

Anybody else? Weird Al Yankovic. I do enjoy Weird

Al. I enjoy his entire lineup of albums. The

only problem with that is that Weird Al has been

around since the like... What late 80s early

90s? So I think he's had a pretty solid run -up

until now and probably to just call him a 2000s

artist probably isn't fair Actually, it kind

of is fair because we actually did a spotlight

Steve Megatron and I did an artist spotlight

on him in in in the 2000s and the reason why

that I put him in the 2000s is because I did

not know. I mean, I knew of him. I knew that

he did dare to be stupid in the Transformers

movie in the eighties, but I did not know of

his actual other music career other than, you

know, watching UHF and watching the Transformers

movie. I had no idea what he was doing. And then

I started listening to him like late 99, early

2000. And that's really where he got his popularity.

It took him 23 years to get popular. So. Well,

he had lots of covers like Like A Surgeon, and

Eat It, and stuff like that, the white stuff.

Those were all covers of really early 90s. Well,

right, yeah. But what I'm saying is, though,

in the 80s, he wasn't a Hall and Oates. He wasn't

an ACDC. He wasn't a white snake. He wasn't an

Aerosmith is what my point is. His popularity.

did not really hits until the late nineties early

two thousand i would say he probably became a

mainstream name problem right amish paradise

was probably his own yes most definitely and

my last one I'm gonna feel bad for saying these

guys' names as an honorable mention, but Foo

Fighters, I love the Foo Fighters. They're just

not a solid genre that I listen to constantly.

Great rock band, absolutely deserve everything

they've ever gotten. They just aren't something

I listen to on a regular basis, so... Yeah, I'm

the same way. Foo Fighters, for me, is if one

of their songs shows up in a movie I like...

i really dig on its uh... but they're not a band

that i can listen to all of their albums i just

and plus you know when they came out it was all

about radio airplane over playing songs and learn

to fly was like bore into our brains uh... yeah

absolutely because of radio airplane you know

playing it once an hour twice an hour every you

know every fifteen seconds you know it just Anyway

from my honorable mentions There was a band that

came out I believe they came out in 2008 or they

might have been around before that I don't I'm

not actually looking at any information. I'm

not looking at Wikipedia, but I found them through

WWE Jet Black Stare they did the One of the pay

-per -view themes ready to roll a couple years

ago, and I got their first album in this life

and just absolutely loved it. They're in the

same kind of style I would say as... They're

kind of soft but they're also hard as well. They're

not as hard as like Godsmack but they're not

as soft as like what Three Doors Down can do

sometimes. They're kind of like in the middle

there so I like them. Another one that... WWE

has the fault of me finding out about his rev

theory who was revelation theory then they just

shortened it I do like rev theory a lot yeah

they're they're pretty awesome they did the WrestleMania

24 theme song with light it up they also did

a couple other theme songs for WWE as well I

slipknot is too hard for me like I can listen

to spit it out but Slipknot in general is just

way too heavy for me. But I do like Corey Taylor.

This actually came from his mouth on an interview.

Stone Sour was around before Slipknot as far

as his involvement. I absolutely love Stone Sour.

They have a bunch of really great songs. They

really hit big in 2002 when they had Bother on

the Spider -Man soundtrack. And they they do

really really good stuff my final one is a band

that came out in about 2001 2002 And then they

essentially took six years off and didn't do

anything Course of nature who Mark Wilkerson

and and crew Mark Wilkerson as is actually the

husband of Melissa Joan Hart believe it or not

But course of nature back in 2002 they had Wall

of Shame, that's what it was. Wall of Shame,

Caught in the Sun, and Someone Like You. Caught

in the Sun, everybody knew. Caught in the Sun

in 2002, everybody knew that. These guys, like

I said, disappeared from 2002 to 2008. 2008,

they released Damaged, which has stuff like Anger

Cage and Memory of You, The Window, Live Again,

Gone. Really, really great album. I would equate

them to... Not they're not as soft as they have

a harder edge sound so I would probably equate

them to like a 12 stones or a or you know something

like that, so But that's really all I have for

honorable mentions So I think we're gonna go

to a musical interlude and we'll come back to

kick the countdown off To kick off the countdown,

what is your number 10, sir? My number 10 is

a gentleman whose real name goes by Damien Hess,

and most people will know him as MC Frontalot.

I do enjoy his music a lot, but to be honest,

I really wasn't fully introduced into any sort

of nerd core in the last couple years. So when

I did my research on him, I found a lot of his

stuff, and he's got to be one of the catchiest

dudes on the planet. He's so addictive to listen

to. He obviously gained his popularity at PAX,

even wrote the Penny Arcade theme song, and he's

just created a huge following ever since. I actually

got the chance to see him last year personally

here in Boise. It was just a really small personal

set, maybe 50 people. I was at the little place

here called the Neuralux. I honestly don't think

he's as big around here as he is probably in

other places, but it was just me and like 10

friends and we all went and checked him out and

he was fun as hell. Awesome. Awesome. I was debating

whether to put these guys as an honorable mention

or to put them at my number 10. And while someone

slams their door, I don't fit much. Anyway. My

number 10 is Three Doors Down. I liked a lot

of the songs off of The Better Life, their first

album. However, both Loser and Kryptonite, again,

got radio airplayed so much, I got so sick of

these guys. And then they released Away from

the Sun, the second album, and I absolutely loved

them for... for that second album. They released

a few more albums. They released 17 Days and

then they released a self -titled album. They

have a new album now. Again, I don't have information

in front of me for it, but these guys are essentially

hit and miss for me. It's like, I like a song

here, I like a song there, but there's not any

of their albums that I like the entire album.

I like maybe six songs off the self -titled album.

Train, Citizen Soldier, Runaway, songs off of

Away From the Sun, the sophomore album, and traditionally

sophomore albums it's like hey we have to live

up to what came before it, you know, what our

debut was, and traditionally sophomore albums

for some bands kind of suck. This one... actually

didn't. I think this is minus maybe three tracks

off the album. I think this is the one album

of theirs that I can listen to all the way through.

Stuff like Here Without You, When I'm Gone, which

is the hit single, Ticket to Heaven, Running

Out of Days. I just love that one album from

them, so that's why they hit my number ten. What

is your number nine? My number nine is, again,

another band that helped define what I would

listen to, is Korn. I love Korn. Jonathan Davis.

as a singer has quite possibly some of the most

amazing vocals that there are. I saw one of their

DVDs where they were practicing before they went

on stage. And there's this hidden cam video of

Jonathan Davis in the back room doing keys, the

la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. And he sounds

amazing. He could do regular pop singing if he

wanted to. But this is like he chose to do the

new metal way and helped pretty much carve that

into popularity. The cool thing of what I like

about Korn too is that they are a band who seems

to be able to stay grounded with their roots.

They never really veer away, but at the same

time, they have a way of evolving at the same

time. I think they really did that. One of their

best was last year's album, The Path of Totality,

where they got a mashup with a bunch of dubstep

artists and created a really amazing album. Yeah,

I remember. I think it was in the mid 90s. I

don't know. It was after they came out. It was

like right when they hit it big with Follow the

Leader and Freak on a Leash and all that stuff.

And one of my cousins asked me, you listen to

Korn? No idea what the fuck she was talking about.

Didn't even know about them. Yeah, and I had

no idea I was like I'm still stuck in the 80s

with Hall and Oates and Cyndi Lauper and Billy

Joel and all that stuff Madonna, but But no corn

now. I do like a lot of their songs. I do like

a lot of stuff. They've done Surprisingly enough.

I you know I've mentioned in the in the music

spotlight here on geek cast radio that I'm not

that much of a Fan of rap or hip -hop at all

it's just not my style it's just not my thing

but there are certain rap and hip -hop songs

that i don't mind and i think they did a collaboration

with exhibit for a song off of the triple x state

of the union soundtrack called fight the power

and i just i don't know what it was i just absolutely

love that song i thought that was a really cool

song i I love collaborations when two people

from completely different genres get together.

It's usually magic when it happens. My number

nine is Default. We did a music spotlight episode

on them. We did an artist spotlight on them.

Myself and JT from Saskatoon did one. Sadly these

guys started out pretty damn good but they essentially

got screwed over by their record label because

their record label had a bunch of issues and

they had to leave and I don't know it took them

about I don't know five years between albums

before they could actually find a decent record

label but stuff like Wasting My Time and Sick

and Tired and Live a Lie and Blind from the Spider

-Man soundtrack that was a really good track

Overall a decent Canadian rock band I would say

but they again they they hit it really big With

wasting my time. I mean that song was gangbusters

when it came out well and that entire album I'll

be honest I again not entirely my style of music,

but I enjoyed every song on that CD at least

yeah Yeah, yeah fallout was just amazing You

know, what is your number eight? My number eight

is Stained. I was a big Stained fan back in the

early 2000s when they came out with Break the

Cycle. Break the Cycle was an amazing album,

every track on it worth listening to at least

once. Aaron, they kind of veered away from that

style of album after that and I really haven't

gotten... really back into them. Their most recent

album had a song called Eyes Wide Open, which

was actually really good. They had a couple other

singles out there that came out that I thought

were all right, but the rest of the albums they've

come out with since haven't really sparked anything

with me. Aaron Lewis actually even came out with

a solo country album, which blew my mind. The

one song that they were playing on the radio

was decent, but it's nothing I would listen to

on a regular basis. Great band, Aaron Lewis,

again, solid vocals. That dude's got a voice

that could sing to angels, but I wish they would

go a little more hard on, like they did with

Break the Cycle. Yeah, yeah. Stained for me,

again, it's not so much whole albums. It's whatever

the singles are or whatever song grabs my attention.

What I really liked about them was when they

did Mud Shovel Live on the Woodstock 99. No,

not Woodstock 99. Family Values Tour 99. There's

a live version of Mud Shovel. And I don't normally

like live versions because they're so different

from the studio produced version of the song.

But no, they're a pretty decent band. I haven't

paid attention to them in years though. I had

mud shovels one of my favorite songs I I actually

didn't hear that until after break the cycle,

but I can't I can't count that song because it

was Released prior in like 99 or something like

that. So I can't yeah. Well still My number eight

is I told this story on one of the other music

spotlights. I think I told, where did I tell

this story? I told it somewhere in the music

spotlight here on GCR. It was me and JT from

Saskatoon doing something. Oh, I know what it

was. It was the default artist spotlight episode.

My number nine and my number eight for me have

a certain connection because I made them have

a connection. My number eight is Seven Dust.

The only reason why Default and Seven Dust have

a connection for me is because when the fallout

for Default and Seven Dust's Animosity album

came out, I would play Default's One Late Night

and Seven Dust's Dead Set back -to -back. So

it'd be Default, Seven Dust, Default, and those

two songs would play back -to -back with each

other. I have no idea why, but... But LeJohn

Witherspoon and his crew, I actually did not

know the guy was black at first. He's essentially

the Jimi Hendrix of hard rock, of this, of our

generation. I mean, the dude can sing like nobody

I've ever seen. Let me just put it this way,

Seven Dust will show up later in my list. Yes,

that's fine. Seven Dust, again, changed labels

multiple times because they were also on the

same... That's another reason why I lumped them

in with Default is because Default and Seven

Dust, at the time when they first released their

albums in 2001, they were both with TVT Records.

And the animosity album is just great. I absolutely

love that. I love their Is it a two CD set or

a four CD set? I forget what it is. Oh god Southside

on the double wide that big big box and I absolutely

love that I loved live again. I loved Angel's

son Just an overall Mean they can go really really

hard. But again, they can also go really like

angels son is a slow rock song Oh angels son.

I straight -up told my family like when I was

like 18 or no That must have been like early

20s. I see I've told him it's like if I die you

play this at my funeral. God damn it And if you

come back to life they play prodigal son, yes

What is your number seven? My number seven is

kind of it's it's weird. It's it's a loose one

because I chose Alice in Chains and The reason

I chose them is because even though Wayne Staley

passed away several years ago they obviously

did come out with one more album just recently

back in 2008 called black gives way to blue and

Jerry Cantrell totally does every vocal justice

to what Lane Staley would have done. I mean,

in fact, when I heard the song came out, I was

like, Lane, is that you? I was like, I was like,

dude, seriously, I thought he'd come back to

life. And I did the research and then I was like,

oh, shit, that's Jerry Cantrell. And then so

when I heard Check My Brain and Looking In View,

I was like, man, these songs are nuts. I went

back and checked the rest of the album and the

whole thing is absolutely worth looking to. And

I mean, these guys did absolutely great. Coming

back from probably one of the most horrific losses

in rock So these guys did awesome Yeah, I love

Alice and Shane's I love a lot of their songs,

but Really what I took notice of and again this

goes back to my whole soundtrack thing Going

back to 2002 in the spider -man soundtrack Jerry

Cantrell had she was my girl on that And I just

absolutely love that song so I can see what you

know yeah, and I can see you know how you would

think that that would be Laine Staley because

there are just some musicians out there I mean

just like voice acting there are some musicians

out there that can imitate other musicians which

is very very creepy and awesome all at the same

time well and uh I was actually going to bring

this up later, but even Sully Erna from Godsmack

completely like gives almost all his vocal credit

to Layne Staley. Like he idolizes him. So I thought

that was pretty cool too. My number seven is

saliva. It's the dumbest thing ever. Okay, no

no no the story. I'm gonna tell is the dumbest

thing ever because So just I don't know man.

I've heard some dumb stories in my day, so no

this is pretty damn dumb, okay? Don't disappoint

me I forget what year it was it might have been

2003 It was just after so just after Back into

your system came out. It was just after their

second album back into your system came out I

actually had a chance to see them live and They

had These two other super death metal bands on

before saliva at this at this place called Jillian's

and I was like, okay Let's get through these

sets, get through these sets, because my problem

was I rely on public transportation. And going

to a concert that starts at 8 .30 and doesn't

get over till 1 a .m., it's not a very good option

when you have to rely on buses and all that,

because there's a certain time that the buses

stop running at night. I actually had to hang

out with the band, got my CD signed, it was really

cool. I actually got to hang out with everybody

except Josie Scott because he wasn't around or

he wasn't in that area, which was so stupid.

I don't know why he wasn't there, but I got to

hang out with the rest of the band and the radio

station that was promoting the show. I stayed

for the first, like, the first two bands and

then I looked at my watch and I'm like... fuck

it's either be here and be stranded and have

to beg a ride from someone or go catch a bus

now and i went to a saliva concert to see saliva

but i never actually got to see them because

i had to fucking go home to make sure i got home

on time on time it was like i and it wasn't like

i paid for the tickets because they were free

concert tickets so i mean it wasn't like i lost

any money but still i wanted i wanted to see

them live and i just never did But no absolutely

love, you know stuff like click click boom and

your disease and Not all of the songs off of

the second album back into your system I like

but I like a majority of them like always and

the title track and Superstar 2 and all that

good stuff some of their other stuff that they've

had since then I really got back into them when

they did Ladies and Gentlemen, and that was done

for one of the, I think that was WrestleMania

23's theme. But, I mean, those guys just rock

out, and I just absolutely love them for that,

so. What is your number six? My number six is

actually somebody I don't know 100 % about, but

it's hard for me to like... look past him considering

how much he's done, but Eminem, I'm not big on

hip hop music, but what I have heard of his,

it's actually really good to possibly one of

the most talented lyricists ever to hit the hip

hop scene. I mean, the guy is absolutely talented.

He's produced, he's done music, he's come up

from probably one of the worst upbringings ever.

It's funny, because the Slim Shady LP, I actually

did hear that album, and I didn't really like

it. I mean, that's the one where, my name is,

you know, whatever. I didn't care for that song.

But it was the Marshall Mathers LP, his sophomore

album, that if you want a true definition of

what this guy is going to be like, that was the

album to listen to. I mean, that whole album,

when it came out, was like, this is me, this

is who I am, deal with it, or get the fuck off

the bus. And it's just... He came out with songs

like Stan, which was amazing the way I am the

way I am I mean that's pretty much a three -minute

biography Kim was an insane one and The real

Slim Shady yet. I can't think of anybody who

wasn't like bouncing up and down to that back

in the day He's come out with a couple of really

good ones since then like just lose it which

was you know all about him his upbringing into

the hip hop world and Love the Way You Lie, which

is the duet he did with Rihanna, which again,

really catchy song. But Eminem, dude, I mean,

he is like, if rap had a metal category, it'd

be this guy. So I mean, Eminem is awesome. I

really, again, not big on hip hop, but I would,

if you put Eminem in, I will listen to him. Yeah.

can listen to him a little bit, but it's more

so for those cheesy songs that no one likes like

without me and lose yourself and I Mean lose

yourself really isn't a cheesy song It's as you

said it's more of an autobiography of himself,

but like Slim Shady and all that stuff, but I

don't know I just He's essentially to the late

90s or early 2000s as to what Vanilla Ice was

in the late 90s. You cannot compare M &M to Vanilla

Ice. Yes I can. No, other than the skin color,

you cannot compare those two. Vanilla Ice lasted

for a fart in the wind and M &M's been around

for a solid like, what? 13 years now and he's

like major producer and all that fun stuff. I

mean he's he's got it all going for him He did

it, right? I'm sure I'm sure M &M's has a flavor

of vanilla ice out there somewhere My number

six is shine down absolutely love these guys

Saw them in concert actually you lucky bastard

Just looking at at the track listing off of leave

a whisper, you know, obviously 45 What was the

other one that's off here? God Yeah, what was

the other one that was on this that was a single

45 fly from the inside Burning bright didn't

shine down have a song for a pay -per -view for

WWE recently. Oh, yes, they had plenty But I

like the legal whisper album. They did the next

album after that was us and them with heroes

save me and I dare you Those were some singles

off that album and then The album right before

the new one that just came out was Sound of Madness.

Now Sound of Madness is the first time that I've

been able to listen to a Shinedown album from

cover to cover because all of those songs were

just amazing. Devour was one that they did for

WWE, but it's also on Sound of Madness. Second

Chance, if you only knew, great. The Sound of

Madness album is just awesome. They just released

a brand new album. It was released March 27th

of this year called Amaryllis. I have yet to

check this one out, but it looks like it's pretty

damn cool so far. What I loved about them was

when I got to the Sound of Madness album, it

was just pure, anthematic rock. that you just

can just rock out to. And it was just so awesome.

So what is your number five? My number five is

the one and only Disturbed. I am a huge Disturbed

fan. I enjoy their music a lot. It's kind of

hard to... I would say that their only downfall

is actually that a lot of their songs actually

sound... They're similar, you know, they all

kind of have the same thing going for them. But

they do have a really I mean, a lot of their

singles that come out on the radio are they're

hard. They're awesome to listen to. It's kind

of hard not to enjoy stuff that they put out.

I love David Draymond's voice. David Draymond

is quite possibly, again, another one of the

I'm a big in the vocals, obviously, if you can't

tell. The way I like to describe him is he's

got a very rock operatic type voice like you

know when he said when he sings prayer you know

there's songs in there there there's parts in

there where it's really hard and he's like when

he hits this is the way i pray and he's like

he just hits it just bam and uh it's just awesome

i i love disturbed without doubt whenever there's

a new song or a cd out i'm on top of it yeah

i found it really weird that Was it last? Yeah,

it was last year. It's in 2011. In 2010 they

released a new album. Last year they released

a new album as well, but it was an album of covers.

Covers and rarities, I believe, or something

like that. Yeah, I actually first heard of these

guys from the original run of MTV's Tough Enough.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Because Stupefy was on there.

was on that soundtrack and that's how I found

out about them and then I had heard Down with

the Sickness and all that stuff and it was just

an amazing, amazing album What really shocked

me about them is that they do covers It's not

a bad thing, I absolutely love their covers,

they're great but hearing them do Shout by Tears

for Fears Oh, that song's awesome. No, the song

is awesome. It is very awesome. But the thing

is, the guys from Tears for Fears actually went

to, back in the 80s, they went to scream therapy

so they can, so they would know how to get that,

that note of shout, shout, let it all out thing.

And I'm like, well, yeah, this makes total sense

for Disturb to do this because hell. draymond

is a screamer and he can scream those lines uh...

they also had like land of confusion and uh...

i still haven't found what i'm looking for is

a u two cover that they did yeah i absolutely

love them i think the latest album that i had

from them was the asylum album and it's got a

lot of good stuff on it so very very cool my

number five is blackstone cherry now The only

reason why they made it to number five is because

I like their entire third album. I had heard

of these guys beforehand, but I hadn't really

checked any of their stuff out. They've been

around since 2006 and I heard so much about them,

but I didn't actually really get into them until

last year when they released Between the Devil

and the Deep Blue Sea. uh... they were on uh...

rock line radio with bob coburn uh... was part

of uh... promoting the uh... almost never tour

uh... the carnival of madness tour it was then

three of a dead man uh... uh... and i and like

three or four other bands and they played uh...

On that radio show they played one of the singles,

Blame It on the Boom Boom. Heard that song and

I'm like, yeah, I need to hear this whole album,

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. And

it's just amazing. Entire album, front to back,

just amazing. You know, they range from hard

rockin' type of stuff to a little bit of soft

rock, but it's just... They're just a great band.

I can't wait to see what they've what they're

gonna come out with next I probably should go

back and check out their their other stuff, but

I just like That third album so much that I don't

know if I will go back and check it out So what

is your number four? Number four is Lincoln Park

No, go ahead. Here's the thing The first thing

I'm going to straight up admit is that pretty

much after Meteora, there was just nothing but

crap in my opinion. But the thing is that I think

what they've done for the industry as far as

pretty much mashing a bunch of styles of music

together and to form one kind of thing. And they

kind of got away from that, which I didn't really

like. Mike Shinoda is a great lyricist and Chester

Bennington has a great rock voice. the DJ shit

I forgot his name great guy he's talented as

hell too so when their first album came out Hybrid

Theory and then Meteora I was all on top of that

and then after that it just kind of went down

from there. The only problem is that Linkin Park

still tends to remain a mainstay in music. They've

been around. People still like them. And I think

what they've kind of done is they've kind of

reshaped the way they do their music to actually

appeal to a slightly younger crowd instead of

sticking with what they originally had and kept

the same fans going. Yeah, I completely agree

with that. As you said, were you going to say

something else? No, not really. I mean, I I'd

really wish I know Chester Bennington had his

own thing going for a while and I know Mike Shinoda

has another group Help me out here He has a hip

-hop group that's Really good actually and I'm

trying to think of it their name. I've got it

here Fort Minor Fort Minor. Yeah, Fort Minor

is actually really good and I He's an extremely

talented guy I just wish they would stick more

with what made them popular at first and then

you know build on that instead of Completely

changing it all together. Yeah. Well what really

I think where they went in downhill and you know,

people are gonna comment on this episode be like

no you're wrong blah blah blah Between Meteora

and minutes to midnight Is when they had and

found in 2007 Paramount wanted to get licensed

artists for the Transformers movies and they

created God let's name that stupid song what

I've done. It's actually on their minutes to

midnight album But what I've done was used in

the first transformers movie, and it fits that

movie I don't disagree with that, but after that

in 2009 when revenge of the fallen came out they

created a song just for that Movie just for that

soundtrack called a new divide And there is an

instrumental version of New Divide out there

somewhere that I have. I like the instrumental

version better than the actual lyrical version.

I don't know, it just didn't... I think what

happened was Paramount and Hasbro and Michael

Bay just threw a bunch of money at them and say,

here, create a song for our movie. And they essentially

bent over and sucked Michael Bay's dick. Because

after that you have a song thank God it was only

a well it was in the movie a little bit, but

a song off of Is it off of an album I forget

Yeah, it's on their their latest album a thousand

suns that was used for Transformers Dark of the

moon and they just they've gotten to the point

where They want to make everybody happy they

want to you know like you said cater to the young

crowd and and just do all that and it's like

oh God go back to what you were. I will admit.

I did like their two remix albums, too They had

reanimation which I really liked that was catchy

as hell, and they like the fact they brought

on Other artists to perform like Jonathan Davis

from corn and stuff like that and collision course

which was a complete mashup album between them

and hip -hop artists, I think mostly Jay -Z if

I remember correctly. So that was a great album

too. So I think they did really good as far as

that goes, but as soon as those were done, they

started making other albums, like you said, pretty

much minutes to midnight, and after that it was

just meh. Yeah, exactly. My number four is 12

Stones. absolutely love these guys if you guys

listen to the artist spotlight on them I actually

met and hung out with the band twice I at the

time I don't know if he's I don't think he's

still with the band but AJ fantastic also known

as god what's his name Aaron something Aaron

Gaynor I met him as a DJ in Mississippi and then

he's like, hey, I have this band. I was like,

oh cool. But no, they are one of those bands

that just every song, not every song, but a majority

of their songs I just absolutely love. And a

lot of people classify them as Christian music

or Christian rock. And I just, I don't see it.

I just see them as a regular, you know. rock

you know mainstream rock band but you know songs

like lie to me and broken and shadows and their

their new album comes out later this month beneath

the scars and I've got I actually pre -ordered

it and I have the first the first like six tracks

and just absolutely absolutely awesome awesome

awesome stuff So what is your number three? Number

three is gonna seem completely out of the blue

Especially since it doesn't have anything to

do with pretty much any of the other stuff that

I've mentioned, but Lady Gaga Well, here's the

thing I chose her because of what she has done

I try I tried to Be a little eclectic with some

of the stuff I chose The reason I put her at

this point is because of what she's done for

pop music is very reflective of what Madonna

did for pop music You know, she's very out there

You pretty much can't go to a club or radio station

without hearing one of her songs on it And the

cool thing about her songs too is that a lot

of her songs have a message Especially born this

way born this way had a huge obviously Following

from everybody because it was basically, you

know about you know, you're born this way gay

straight bisexual whatever yeah and and everything

that she does has a catch to it, you know, everything's

I mean, it's hard not to hear her songs and like

even if you're not a fan You're just kind of

like in the car, you know, this is catchy. I

could bounce this my wife's a huge fan of Lady

Gaga. She's also a huge fan of Katy Perry, who

I also thought about putting in as an honorable

mention, but meh. Why have two of them? You're

ruining Sesame Street, damn it. Well, she also

had, if I remember correctly, there was a show

that she was a guest on as like a judge or something

like that. And she had, the censors had missed

it, but she had a pair of high heel shoes on

where the heels were made of dildos. Oh my god.

And that was amazing. I was like, that's totally

Lady Gaga. We're talking about the lady who wears

a meat dress and cross dresses as a boy with

an alternative personality. So she dressed up

as Justin Bieber. No, she dressed up as like,

it's weird, almost like a Guido type character

who wears a wife beater in black pants and smokes

a stogie. I don't know. It was pretty funny.

She dressed as this character, I think, at one

of the musical awards. I can't remember which

one off the top of my head last year. And it

was pretty funny. But anyway, that's why she's

on there, just because she seems to have done.

She brought shock back into some pop music, is

what she did. And I think that's something that's

been missing from pop music for a while. So I

give her props for that. My number three, and

people are gonna be like, what? He ranked them

only at number three, but it has a purpose. My

number three is Nickelback. I know people are

like, slack -jawed at this point, because people

were expecting me to put them at number one,

but... I need a minute. Hold on. I'm in shock

right now. Back here, shut up. I think I skipped

the beat. Okay, go. I like a lot of their stuff.

I like off the first two albums off of The State

and Silver Side Up, I like a lot of the songs

between those two albums, but it wasn't until

All the Right Reasons, it wasn't until after

that when they did the Long Road, All the Right

Reasons, Dark Horse, and now the new album Here

and Now. It wasn't until those albums were I

started listening to their albums cover to cover.

There are certain songs that I just cannot stand

and there are other ones that I love and play

over and over and over again. I would say that

their latest album that came out the end of last

year, Here and Now, is probably the best album

outside of All the Right Reasons. Here and Now

is the best album that they've ever done. All

the right reasons simply because it was it was

what it was it it is essentially their Their

version of you know, whatever mainstream, you

know rock band or heavy metal band that you know

pick out Def Leppard's Hysteria or ACDC's back

in black or Guns N' Roses appetite for the for

destruction. All the right reasons was that album

for Nickelback. It's that album that really launched

them because that album it took them 2006 to

yeah They took two two and a half years to promote

that album and that album had like I don't know

eight singles off of it so It's very rare than

an album gets that much especially singles. It

gets that many singles but the here -and -now

that just came out is just just amazing It does

still have the Nickelback that everyone hates

would you know? uh bottoms up which is essentially

you know a bar song about drinking and midnight

queen which is a song about a stripper and whatever

else i mean but there are also songs like lullaby

and trying not to love you and don't ever let

it end on that album and it's just they're just

a mainstay in rock right now for me um here my

thoughts on nickelback this is another band that

i've actually seen live they They are, as much

as I don't really like their music, I think the

one song that I thoroughly actually enjoy by

these guys is Sight of a Bullet. I heard that

song for the first time, and I was like, this

is badass. This is not the Nickelback I know.

But I haven't really heard anything else since

then. Oh, yes, you have. I mean, well, I haven't

liked anything since then, really. I mean, they're

catchy. I mean, I admit it. But I don't really

like, they're not a band I would listen to consistently.

But to give them their credit You want to talk

about possibly one of the greatest live shows

I have ever seen? This day had their drummer

up on a pedestal spinning him upside down like

his kit must have been drilled to it and he's

just wailing on these drums for like 10 minutes

straight. Like just they're just rotating him

and lifting him up in the air. And it's just

frigging nuts. I was like, man, these guys are

amazing live. I mean, these guys can put on a

show. When did you see them? Not last summer,

but the summer before. So 2010? Yeah. That was

in the middle of the Dark Horse Tour. I wish

I could have seen them on the Dark Horse Tour.

That would have been so awesome. I saw them on

the All the Right Reasons Tour in 2006. And I

have always been... a straight edge when it comes

to drugs and alcohol I've I've drank before but

like when it comes to like smoking anything I

just will not do it it's just not my thing I

just I know better I was raised better than that

and plus I was a dare kid but when I left the

concert in 2006 I had the biggest contact high

and I was trying to tell my mom to punch the

pedal Meaning just, you know, get home, you know,

let's get home. Let's, you know, get out of this

traffic. It kept coming out as punch the pencil.

Cause I had such a contact high from being at

their show. But no, they're great live. They

are really great when, when they are performing

live. I was kind of excited because they did

open with, uh, uh, they opened with sick puppies

and breaking Benjamin that night too. So that

was a pretty sweet show for me. I actually. I

have a huge Breaking Benjamin fan, and I love

sick puppies too, so... Alright, what is your

number two? Alright, the next two that I have

are pretty much just basically stroking my personal

favorites at this point, so... Number two was

your number eight, which is Seven Dust. Again,

I am a huge... god damn seven dust fan i pay

attention to these guys as much as possible and

much like you i didn't really hear any of their

stuff until animosity and i i i woke up one morning

and i was flipped on i think it was like mtv

or fuse i can't remember which which station

it was but they played praise and i was like

this is badass and then uh that i realized and

i think what makes these guys absolutely unique

is uh Like you're saying, he's black and that's

what gives him his voice is that much more different

than the rest of anybody else, which gives them

that kind of edge in hard rock and metal. And

all their songs are just, I mean, freaking amazing.

I can listen to every single song that they came

out with and be absolutely happy. Even some of

their not so good albums. I think Alpha. I loved

Alpha because that album was so friggin hardcore,

like every song just made your ears bleed the

whole way through, which is interesting because

the actual logo is a guy with his ears bleeding.

And I've seen these guys live twice in concert

in a small venue, probably maybe 300 people.

It is you leave not being able to hear a thing

for like a day and a half. And it is the greatest

thing ever. When watching when watching Morgan

Rose hit those bass drums at like 100 miles an

hour is friggin phenomenal. I I cannot speak

highly enough of this band. I mean, I could again

just hours you put like all their CDs into a

mixer and I'll that's I can just listen to that

all day. Yeah, just looking at each of their

albums, you take the self -titled album that

came out. It was their debut album. It's got

stuff like Black and Bitch and Too Close to Hate.

It's got the Alice Cooper remake of School's

Out. You know, it's got all that stuff and I

like those songs you get to the next album after

that home It's got stuff like denial waffle licking

cream Licking cream was cool because they the

collaboration on that song was freaking cool

And again, not only was the not only was the

other singer black, but she was also female Yeah,

which again was really cool. I think that was

badass. I again cool stuff on on their part Yeah,

I mean, yeah, I, you know, I absolutely love,

you know, a lot of their a lot of their stuff

from from that album. And then, you know, like

you said earlier, you get to animosity and you

have stuff like Tits on a Boar, which they've

just now they just now used the initial. But

I remember when I had the album when I first

it actually said Tits on a Boar for the first

track. Yeah. Praise, Trust, Crucified, Deadset.

Deadset is one of my all -time favorite songs

by them. Live Again, Beautiful is also good,

and of course Angel's Son. And then you get to

Seasons, their next album, and absolutely loved

Seasons. I thought it was a really, really good

album, and it was one of those albums at the

time where I could just listen to it front to

back. And I think after that I kind of I kind

of stepped out of them I kind of stepped away

from them because I don't remember listening

to anything off of next I just don't alpha I

love their song that they did a Remember the

the that album that came out take a bite out

of rhyme. It was a bunch of like hard rock songs,

right? Yeah their rap covers is basically they

did a they did the song going back to Cali by

LL Cool J and that was that was badass Alpha

I I think I have the entire album and I think

I've listened to it once it's it's too hard for

me never it well for me it it's it's a little

too hard for me I do have Chapter seven hope

and sorrow That essentially is a is a not a compilation

album, but that's a collaborative album because

you have You know, you've got them, you know

with Mark Tramonte from Creed and Alter Bridge

with Chris Daughtry on on the past You know miles

Kennedy from from Alter Bridge on sorrow. So

That was also really good. I have yet to check

out the latest one that came out a couple years

ago, Cold Day Memories, so I've been wanting

to check that out from them. It's definitely

a softer album. There's a couple of good songs

on there that are harder, but it's definitely

a lot softer than what you're used to hearing.

Right, yeah. My number two is Live. Ed Kowalczyk

was such a nutball. Oh boy. Again, we did a whole

music spotlight on these guys. Stuff like The

Dolphins Cry and They Stood Up for Love and I

Alone and Lightning Crashes. Absolutely love

that stuff. Anything off of the 5 album or Birds

of Prey. Absolutely love that. A few songs off

of Secret Samadhi like Ghost and Insomnia and

The Hole in the Universe. I don't know, I just,

I latched onto them and just absolutely loved

them at the time and I know that they now have

a new lead singer, Chris Shin, and they're supposed

to be touring and hopefully putting out a new

album, but I've always said that a band, and

this is no disrespect to any band, but a band

can interchange anything except a lead singer.

Especially when you have, like, You know, I use

the example of what if Brad Arnold from 3 Doors

Down and Chad Kroger from Nickelback essentially

switched places and Brad was now the lead singer

of Nickelback and Chad was now the lead singer

of 3 Doors Down. First of all, people would go

fucking nuts. Second of all, it just wouldn't

be the same and I'm skeptically... Optimistically

hopeful for what new stuff live has to come out

of them with this new lead singer But at the

same time, I don't know how this guy Christian

is gonna do with like with like the concerts

because Are they gonna still play the classic

songs? I alone and lightning crashes and all

that cuz if so, I Don't think it'll I don't think

it's gonna sound the same as when you know, Koalchik

was with them But I absolutely love live. I love

listening to their music. I love reading books

and listening to their songs. I don't know, it

was just really, really weird when, I think it

was back in 2003, 2004, I forget when, Nicholas

Evans had just released The Smokejumper. And

I loved listening to Live's song Ghost, Rattlesnake,

and Insomnia in the whole universe while reading

that book. And I don't know, I just absolutely

love them, so. Any thoughts on live have you

ever listened any other stuff? I don't know enough

about them to even Say anything other than their

name, but I would think I do have to say is that

you just brought up the Switching out lead singers

like but did we do it? Do we not just say Jerry

Cantrell did Lane Staley justice for seven dust?

Well, that's something that's goddamn Alison

Jones Alison James No, right, but Okay, there

are certain exceptions. There are but my point

here is You get a band that's been around 10

20 30 40 years and you know All of their classic

songs in that voice and then you know You know

stuff happens in the band where the lead singer

leaves and somebody else comes in and whatever

else and that's fine. I Don't know. I'm just

really It's only with live that I'm really skeptical

about this because obviously none of the other

bands that I've mentioned their lead singers

are aren't going anywhere as far as I know so

Well, usually if a band dissipates it's never

it's never the other band members that form other

bands usually it's usually the lead singer will

go off and do a solo or Or form a different band

with that lead singer around it. Yeah, so it's

it's a I mean there are a few exceptions, but

I mean, that's definitely a Usually the case

I think And yes, after that epic drumroll, what

is your number one, as if I already did not know?

Godsmack. Which, I love Godsmack. Again, they're

much like Seven Dust. Kind of like I said before,

I'm pretty much just picking personal favorites

at this point. Well, that's the point of these

countdown episodes is our favorite artists or

bands from this, whatever this era is. Well,

I did try and give some credit to people that,

you know, to help define the 2000s to like Lady

Gaga and Eminem and. With your favorites. Well,

God's Mac. I freaking love God's Mac. So you're

in a hands down one of the greatest voices to

put into rock music. I even when he did his solo

album, that was friggin awesome. The album Awake

in 2000 was probably One of their best executions

There probably was wasn't a song on there that

you couldn't live they I mean they couldn't hear

from front to back and not enjoy Voodoo I can't

I can't talk about when you hear voodoo people

are like I know that song It's hard not for anybody

not to know that song Their songs are used in

the I believe in the Marines or the Navy. I think

it's the Navy commercials They were used in those

And obviously, some great songs from them. Voodoo,

Speak, recently is Whiskey Hangover. And if you

don't know the song, I Stand Alone, then you

need to go back and watch The Scorpion King again.

They just have really awesome albums. Oracle,

even their most recent one, was really good.

Didn't think that that's that album was gonna

be as good as it was to be straight -up honest

with you But when I heard it there was a lot

of good songs in there I it's funny because the

one song on there that I actually don't like

is one that gets radio play and that's Love hate

sex pain. I don't I'm not a I'd really do not

like that song to be sure to be honest with you

But the rest of the album is fantastic Yeah,

I'm just going through their discography here

Starting with their with their title album their

first album God smack, you know Absolutely loved

whatever moon, baby keep away bad religion vampires

vampires if you want a awesome What am I thinking

of here just an awesome listen to of that's nothing

but pure instrumental the vampires is Great songs

slowly doesn't even say a word through the entire

song other than I think he's does like a Across

the microphone and that's about it for the entire

song and then but the rest of it's just It's

just chuggy the whole way and it's amazing Yeah

looking at awake Obviously the title track and

greed and and all that Just yeah, absolutely

love those songs as well And then you know going

off of you know faceless you have straight out

of line Which is the one that is played in the

in the military commercials. I stand alone realign

And serenity I think You know just I mean these

guys are just amazing. I mean they just are they

know how to rock I thought one of the irony songs

was the Navy used the song Sick of Life as one

of their theme songs, which I thought was pretty

funny. I was like, wait a minute, isn't the title

of this song called Sick of Life and they're

playing it for the Navy? Like, if you're just

done with life, join the Navy. It's like, come

on. Wow. but we can't talk about these guys without

talking about the other side that EP that they

released and oh my god they released the other

side simply to showcase what a voice Sully Erna

has you know running blind, touche, asleep, realign,

just Just amazing, amazing voice. The Oracle

album actually came with an unplugged DVD. It

was like 10 songs, all acoustic, and it is just

them taking all their songs that you would consider

just ear -bleedingly awesome and turned them

into something very melodic and very... beautiful

and and so you're in his voice does every bit

of that justice you're talking about the and

evening with got smack dvd yeah yeah yeah that's

off of the uh... good times bad times ten years

ago smack oh yeah yeah you're okay yeah uh...

uh... you know and and my thing is i i don't

normally by greatest hits albums I mean unless

it's the only thing that has the majority of

the songs that I like off you know from that

artist or band but I didn't buy Good Times Bad

Times 10 years ago smack but I didn't buy the

whole album but I did buy the first track the

title track good times bad times because that

was the only place you could see that and I have

I have the rest of their songs for the most part

I don't have all of them but I have I have a

good majority of them and yeah God smack was

just absolutely Ear -bleeding the awesome as

you put it For me and my number one I Don't know

people people probably aren't gonna be surprised

with this Considering it was the artist spotlight

that we just released before the countdown The

number one band for me or artist that I listened

to the most from the 2000s is theory of a dead

man I've seen these guys once It was like right

when they first hit when they released their

self -titled album. I Wish I could see them again.

I've had like several opportunities to see them

again. It just it just didn't line up It was

you know, eschewed out of line. So It's a bad

God smack joke But no, Three of a Dead Man, absolutely

awesome. All of their stuff is just great. Everyone

says that they are essentially the other side

of Nickel's Nickelback, and I disagree. They've

got really, really great songs. Stuff like, just

off of the latest album, stuff like Lowlife and

Hurricane. Hurricane's a great song. Head Above

Water is a great song, just amazing. They actually

did a song called Villain, and it's a bonus track.

It's a song that essentially says, why do you

want to be the hero when the villain is always

the one that wins? Because the hero never really,

half the time the heroes never really win. But

it was just... Just amazing, amazing stuff. I

love these guys. This is the one band that I've

kept track of since their inception, because

at the time, back in 2002, when they first came

out, they had already formed. They'd formed in

2001, but they first got radio play and everything

else in 2002 because their song from the self

-titled album, the song Invisible Man, the only

place you could hear it until the album came

out later on in that year was the Spider -Man

soundtrack. And just as soon as I heard the song,

I'm like, yep, I like these guys. And I've kept

track of them. And I actually interviewed one

of the guitarists, Dave Brenner. Very, very cool

to talk with him. Yeah, Theory of a Dead Man.

Everyone should at least give them a try. Give

multiple songs from each album a try. Don't just

listen to stuff like Bitch Came Back or Bad Girl.

I mean, you know, give them an honest, honest

try because they are just amazing. Yeah, these

guys seem to be WWE is a go -to band. It seems

like it's like, well, shit, we don't have a theme

song for this year's or this month's pay -per

-view. Well, call three of the Deadman, they'll

do it. What pisses me off the most about that,

though, is what pisses me off the most about

that is, and I know Vince McMahon is not in the

public eye that much. They've essentially kicked

him off of Raw. He's more so behind the scenes

running the business. And I think it was 2008,

they released WWE Volume 8. And Theory got a

chance to do Vince's theme, No Chance in Hell,

which was originally, when I first heard Vince's

theme, No Chance in Hell, it was originally done

by Dope off of Forcible Entry in 2002, or in

2000, I don't remember, 2000, 2001, some point

around there, I don't remember when the whole

damn album came out. So Theory of a Deadman,

Does no chance in hell But yet they never ever

used it on raw or smackdown when Vince would

come out They always use the classic dope version.

It's like God you had them record this song,

but you can't even use it once at one of your

appearances But so there you go folks that's

that's the countdown Overall, I think we have

a very I mean my list is pretty much all rock

stuff or kind of like soft rock or hard rock

type of stuff. You have slightly a more diverse

list for the most part, putting in crap like

Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga, MC Frontalot and Eminem

are probably the main three that kind of stick

out. Other than that, most of them are pretty

really just hard rock bands that I've thoroughly

enjoyed over the course of the last 10 years

or so. Alright, so we're gonna take a quick break.

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very interesting lists I think I would have liked

to have had at least one other person on here

to see what kind of more diversity we could have

had but you know I think our lists are very unique

to their own and you know obviously not all the

same choices and I I deliberately left God smack

off my list because I knew that they were gonna

be your number one Well, I think the only ones

we had in common with seven dust. Yeah, seven

dust was the only crossover Yeah, but yeah, so

That's it. You got anything you want to pimp

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a one -up mushroom on my stuff. So, Nintendo,

if you're listening, I love you. But I'm not

going to use your mushroom, because I don't want

to get sued. But anyway, I really want to revamp

the site. There's a bunch of stuff I want to

start doing, and I got a anti -bullying campaign

thing I'm trying to work on here in the next

couple months. really reaching out to a bunch

of people to see if they're willing to jump in

on that. So, here we go! Let's do it! Actually,

just to piggyback off of that, we've already

set aside, after the music spotlight, the first

episode of GCR, after episode 35, episode 36,

we actually moved our schedule around, and episode

36 of Geekcast Radio, will be probably me, you,

Steve, Megatron, and maybe one other person.

I don't know who else that fourth is gonna be,

but episode 36 will be, bullying must be stopped,

no matter the cost. Come on, it's a Transformers

joke, damn it! I'm sorry. We hope you enjoyed

this episode of Keycast Radio. I failed, I'm

sorry. Join us next time when we will be covering

in episode 34 in the music spotlight the one

-hit wonders. For now, I am TFG1Mike with Dustin,

DustinusPrime, Vancouver. Thank you for listening.

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