9 Myspace era songs that are impossible not to sing along with
Call it “neon punk,” call it “Myspace-core,” call it something even nastier, but we won’t stop listening to the weird-ass genre that emerged in the mid-2000s. Some of these artists went on to have huge mainstream success, and others, well…you can’t delete anything off the internet, right? Bring the party on, studded belt and all.
Check out 10 songs you definitely heard on Myspace that are still impossible not to sing along to.
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1. 3OH!3 – “PUNKBITCH”
2. Cobra Starship – “Bring It! (Snakes On A Plane)” featuring the Academy Is…, Gym Class Heroes and the Sounds
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3. Millionaires – “Alcohol”
4. The Medic Droid – “Fer Sure”
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5. Family Force 5 – “Love Addict”
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7. Metro Station – “Shake It”
8. Brokencyde – “Get Crunk”
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9. Cash Cash – “Party In Your Bedroom”
10. Breathe Carolina – “IDGAF”
More on Myspace
After Myspace lost over a decade’s-worth of material, some anonymous internet superheroes have come to save the day.
Nearly half a million songs uploaded between the years of 2008 and 2010 have been recovered an entered into an archive that anyone can use.
According to Jason Scott, the proprietor of textfiles.com, an archive coined the “Myspace Dragon Hoard,” has rescued around 450,000 songs that were deleted as a result of the Myspace server migration.’
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Scott says the files were recovered by an academic group who took mp3s from the site between 2008 and 2010 while studying music networks.
“This set of 450,000 songs was done by an anonymous academic group who were studying music networks and grabbed 1.3 terabytes of mp3s to study from Myspace in roughly 2008-2010 to do so,” Scott says in a tweet. “And someone asked me, ‘Hey, do you want these, since they were lost?’ Yes, yes I did.”
Originally, Myspace lost all pieces of music uploaded from 2003 to 2015. All in all, the loss equated to about 50 million songs from 14 million artists. Additionally, many users reported that old photos and videos would also not show up.
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“As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace,” the site says in a statement. “We apologize for the inconvenience.”
You can check out the archive here. However, as pointed out by Mashable, the files are “named by Myspace’s CDN,” which means it will be very difficult for everyday users to search and find specific tracks.
