Bodies

Here we are doing a full-on episode, but either which way.

So Highlight and I with the turntables was they were first off, they did a cover of Bodies by Drowning Pool.

Drowning Pool song.

Yep.

Okay.

And what was shown was effectively a 30-second four-box surveillance footage of various people experiencing a haunted attraction that maybe was too close for comfort or too real to be believed, set to Drowning Pool's song Bodies, which I know is one of your favorites.

And, you know, it was a very overt attempt at a viral Blair Witch style teaser.

Yeah.

We began this category with a hit single, and we should also end it that way.

I mean, we couldn't possibly discuss popular new metal of the early 21st century and not mention Drowning Pool's seminal hit, Bodies.

Now that's a fun song.

John, isn't that a fun song?

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne had Black Sabbath and War Pigs.

Blood, Sweat, and Tears had And When I Die, Blue Oyster Cultist, Don't Fear the Reaper, Drowning Pools as Bodies, which, as we'll discuss in a second, really had nothing to do with anything.

Kansas' Dust in the Wind, Megadeth's Dread and the Fugitive, along with Sweating Bullets, Mudvayne's Death Blooms, Skeeter Davis' The End of the World, and The Doors' The End.

And then there were references to New York City or specific Middle Eastern geography that were pulled out in order to maintain cultural sensitivity, as they say.

Jimmy Eat World had just released their breakthrough album, Bleed American.

Recognizing that the title was pretty insensitive in the new cultural climate, they re-released the album as a self-titled record and changed the title track to Salt Sweet Sugar.

Drowning Pool, the aforementioned Drowning Pool, was targeted because of the chorus line Let the Bodies Hit the Floor for their song Bodies.

The group were pretty disheartened by the restriction because, as radio program directors noticed, the lyrics actually referred to the innocence of a mosh pit and a celebration of the primal, glorious way of partying rather than having anything to do with violence.

Linkin Park heard Last Resort by Papa Roach and wrote this song.

And then Drowning Pool heard this song and wrote Bodies.

It's like you can see the timeline.

And I looked it up because I was like, which order do they come in? That's the order of release.

Like while they were writing this album, Last Resort came out.

And just after this album came out, Bodies came out.

And I'm like, they were all feeding each other.

And it's like I was saying, like a time capsule of that era of that music is that all of these bands and Linkin Park, not so much now because I've listened to this album through, but I would say before I would put it in the category with those bands like Drowning Pool, Papa Roach, where I know one or two of their songs when those singles would be played on mainstream radio and you would hear it on Rage.