Artist	Song
Everclear	Broken
New Found Glory	Hold My Hand
Smash Mouth	Story of My Life
Live	The River
Andrew W.K.	You Will Remember Tonight
Eve 6	Tongue Tied
Cake	Opera Singer
Ben Folds	Lost in the Supermarket
Hanson	Rain
McFly	Home is Where the Heart is
Good Charlotte	Seasons
Michelle Branch	Drops in the Ocean
Wheatus	Lemonade
The Darkness	Hazel Eyes
Def Leppard	Bringing on the Heartache
Saves the Day	Head for the Hills
Offspring	The Worst Hangover Ever
Bowling for Soup	Almost
Reel Big Fish	A-W-E-S-O-M-E
Cascada	Pieces of Heaven
Aqua	Back from Mars
Prozzak	Strange Disease
The Aquabats	Aquabat March
Allister	Racecars
The Caesars	May the Rain
Third Eye Blind	Horror Show
The Wallflowers	I've Been Delivered
Lit	Something to Someone
MxPx	Kings of Hollywood
Less Than Jake	Soundtrack of My Life

Comment:

Except me, of course. I still like all these bands. This is basically a guilty pleasure mix, only instead of songs it's musicians. It's made in honor of the recent releases of three bands - Everclear, New Found Glory, and Smash Mouth - whose latest albums I was looking forward to, yet who I realized all had completely disappeared from the limelight and from all relevancy. I mean, they never had respect, but now they don't even have fans, it seems. None of their new songs are prominent on the radio at this time, yet they're still doing good work. Granted, it's a bit redundant since none of them have effectively evolved since their heydays, but still, the music continues to be enjoyable. But I guess I'm the only person on Earth who thinks so.

It would actually probably surprise a lot of people to learn that most of these bands are still producing music to this day (with a few sad exceptions, like Aqua, Eve 6, and possibly Prozzak) - 80% of them have had new albums come out in the last year or so - and although I don't still follow ALL of them with the same fervor (Good Charlotte, for one, got boring with their last CD, as did Allister, MxPx, and LTJ, and others like Offspring and Third Eye Blind are well past their primes), I remain foolishly devoted to most of their careers. Most of them (like the pop-punk bands and '90s-era acts) I should have outgrown long ago, but I can't help it, I'm attached. They won me over in the days of yore and I'm a loyal guy. So this is a tribute to them - you all may fly under the radar (or just be universally reviled, a la McFly who I guess have stayed pretty famous in their homeland) or be ignored as just plain irrelevant, but there's someone out there who believes in you :)

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