What is this song I vaguely remember?
July 6, 2020 5:24 PM Subscribe
It's mid-late 90s. Hard alternative/early emo perhaps.
The song started with a simple repetitive guitar change. Vocals came in slowly. It had a big loud explosive chorus with distorted guitars and the singer had a fair amount of grit in his voice.
I believe either the band or the song had the word "red" in the title.
It had a music video. I believe the song was about kids running away from abusive households.
I think the band might have been canadian because I saw the singer intro the video on an episode of much music countdown.
The hosts tried to interview the singer about the songs meaning and he made it plain that he was encouraging kids to run away from abusive house holds and it was kind of awkward. I remember the singer also kinda looked like Roger daltrey from the who.
It's not runaway train by soul asylumn
I think the band might have been canadian because I saw the singer intro the video on an episode of much music countdown.
The hosts tried to interview the singer about the songs meaning and he made it plain that he was encouraging kids to run away from abusive house holds and it was kind of awkward. I remember the singer also kinda looked like Roger daltrey from the who.
It's not runaway train by soul asylumn
Response by poster: I looked up the treble charger and red house painters songs and neither of them appear to be the song I remember
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:52 PM on July 6, 2020
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:52 PM on July 6, 2020
Response by poster: Upon further thinking, this band was definitely a one hit wonder. And the time that this song was in rotation on much music would have been no earlier than 1998 and no later than 2003.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:56 PM on July 6, 2020
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:56 PM on July 6, 2020
Or, (not one hit wonder), Runaway by the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
posted by slightlybewildered at 12:10 AM on July 7, 2020
posted by slightlybewildered at 12:10 AM on July 7, 2020
Seein' Red by Unwritten Law?
posted by dusty potato at 6:39 AM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by dusty potato at 6:39 AM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: It's definitely not the red hot chili peppers. I checked out the stiltskin and unwritten law songs and neither of them appear to be what I remember either.
The song started with just clean electric guitar, no drums. The singer had curly kinda shoulder length hair that was sorta blondish. And I'm very sure this song was the bands only kinda sorta hit.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:23 AM on July 7, 2020
The song started with just clean electric guitar, no drums. The singer had curly kinda shoulder length hair that was sorta blondish. And I'm very sure this song was the bands only kinda sorta hit.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:23 AM on July 7, 2020
I recall a band called Rockets Red Glare from Toronto that had an album on the charts in the early 2000s, but I can't recall any specific song. Wikipedia says that the album title was Moonlight Desires.
posted by zenon at 8:12 AM on July 7, 2020
posted by zenon at 8:12 AM on July 7, 2020
The Red The White The Black The Blue by Hope of the States?
Maybe a bit of a long shot - the lead singer is sorta blond but isn't Canadian (British) and doesn't resemble Roger Daltrey, but it was released in 2003 and has the clean guitar intro, rocky chorus and gravelly voice.
posted by citands at 8:13 AM on July 7, 2020
Maybe a bit of a long shot - the lead singer is sorta blond but isn't Canadian (British) and doesn't resemble Roger Daltrey, but it was released in 2003 and has the clean guitar intro, rocky chorus and gravelly voice.
posted by citands at 8:13 AM on July 7, 2020
Response by poster: I checked out the rockets red glare and hope of the states songs and they don't appear to be what I'm hazily remembering.
My clearest memory is also probably the least helpful and it's the awkward interview on Much on Demand with the singer and Bradford how where the singer is encouraging kids to run away from home.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 10:04 AM on July 7, 2020
My clearest memory is also probably the least helpful and it's the awkward interview on Much on Demand with the singer and Bradford how where the singer is encouraging kids to run away from home.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 10:04 AM on July 7, 2020
I don't have any guesses, but I think the video shown would have had to have been around 2002-2003 based on your memory. I think that's when they changed the format of Much on Demand to have interviews with artists, which I remember because I used to watch MuchMusic all the time, but I have no memory of such a video!
posted by VirginiaPlain at 10:26 AM on July 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by VirginiaPlain at 10:26 AM on July 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
Best guess: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down?
Worse guesses:
based on the description of the singer and being canadian and nothing else: Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere
based on canadian and subject matter and opening with just electric guitar: Billy Talent - Devil in a Midnight Mass
posted by euphoria066 at 10:39 AM on July 7, 2020
Worse guesses:
based on the description of the singer and being canadian and nothing else: Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere
based on canadian and subject matter and opening with just electric guitar: Billy Talent - Devil in a Midnight Mass
posted by euphoria066 at 10:39 AM on July 7, 2020
Response by poster: Yeah the more I think about it this most likely between 2002-2003. It's not the red jumpsuit apparatus. They were a few years after the time period I'm remembering.
It's not hot hot heat. I love that band and would definitely remember this song if it was one of theirs.
It wasn't Billy talent. Sadly.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 12:03 PM on July 7, 2020
It's not hot hot heat. I love that band and would definitely remember this song if it was one of theirs.
It wasn't Billy talent. Sadly.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 12:03 PM on July 7, 2020
unwritten law?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgq77R0WbXs
posted by evilmonk at 4:18 PM on July 7, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgq77R0WbXs
posted by evilmonk at 4:18 PM on July 7, 2020
Response by poster: I've been through nearly every unwritten law song I can find. I don't believe it's them.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:28 PM on July 7, 2020
posted by tylerfulltilt at 7:28 PM on July 7, 2020
Here's a one-hit wonder alternative song from 2001-2003 whose title sounds like "red":
Abandoned Pools - Remedy
posted by rollick at 8:07 AM on July 8, 2020
Abandoned Pools - Remedy
posted by rollick at 8:07 AM on July 8, 2020
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