Forgotten Songs of the '90s: Flight 16
Forgotten Songs of the ‘90s: Flight 16
Back in 1998, there were many, many bands trying to hop onto the dying grunge bandwagon, many of them became almost as famous as the bands they were imitating: Creed, Nickelback and Matchbox Twenty while others just withered and faded away: Big Wreck, Athanaeum and the English band Flight 16.
Flight 16 were trying to be like Pearl Jam or STP but couldn’t pull it off; the fact that they aren’t even remembered today isn’t really that much of a shame. But there is one thing that should be remembered: one song from their self-titled 1998 debut, “If All the World Hated Me.” While some people may say that the song is derivative and non-original, to me there’s no denying the power of the opening riff and the power that drives the song.
Hearing the song for the first time eleven years after it was first released, you know it came from the nineties because it sounds the same as all the alt-rock songs of the decade. But it still sounds so good and interesting it cannot be denied. Whether one wants to or not, you will have the song stuck in your head for eons to come because it’s so damn catchy.
The band got dropped and disbanded before the end of the decade but the video still exists out there and the song is still waiting to be heard. So go and check it out and decide what you think from there.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=pl-pl&vid=b7984c1b-8970-4798-aaec-acafadc1c988
Back in 1998, there were many, many bands trying to hop onto the dying grunge bandwagon, many of them became almost as famous as the bands they were imitating: Creed, Nickelback and Matchbox Twenty while others just withered and faded away: Big Wreck, Athanaeum and the English band Flight 16.
Flight 16 were trying to be like Pearl Jam or STP but couldn’t pull it off; the fact that they aren’t even remembered today isn’t really that much of a shame. But there is one thing that should be remembered: one song from their self-titled 1998 debut, “If All the World Hated Me.” While some people may say that the song is derivative and non-original, to me there’s no denying the power of the opening riff and the power that drives the song.
Hearing the song for the first time eleven years after it was first released, you know it came from the nineties because it sounds the same as all the alt-rock songs of the decade. But it still sounds so good and interesting it cannot be denied. Whether one wants to or not, you will have the song stuck in your head for eons to come because it’s so damn catchy.
The band got dropped and disbanded before the end of the decade but the video still exists out there and the song is still waiting to be heard. So go and check it out and decide what you think from there.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=pl-pl&vid=b7984c1b-8970-4798-aaec-acafadc1c988
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