It was an open-world action sports game before Tony Hawk 4 did it. It was on the soundtrack of a game so underrated and unappreciated that I could write a whole other blog post about (and might): Aggressive Inline. It was on the MLB Slugfest 2004 soundtrack. It was on the Fast and the Furious soundtrack. But they might have known “Crawling In The Dark” without realizing it, because it was in some truly awesome stuff.

I’m not here to defend it and I’m not even going to try. Most people know Hoobastank for “The Reason,” which is, as I am totally aware, a bullshit song. Turns out hindsight really is 8/10.Īnyway, back to Hoobastank, particularly “Crawling In The Dark.”

Or like how Pitchfork would have absolutely eviscerated Taking Back Sunday’s first album had they come down from their Neutral Milk Hotel-colored tower in 2002, but gave it an 8 in a 2019 review. Do a little research about how Rolling Stone originally shit on the first Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath albums. Music blogs and publications have sort of a history of doing this.

Incubus band sucks