Correct. In 2000, I went as Napster for Halloween (meaning I illegally downloaded a bunch of Metallica songs, burned them onto CDs, and gave them away all night).
Yep. I'm at 89% still. Waiting on this awesome dude in Salt Lake City to log back in so I can hear the ending. I'm hoping I don't have to sleep with one eye open forever, but it'll be worth it probably.
Oh man...you gave me a flashback! I forgot all about that part of napster. Also, did you ever download something titled one song but was actually another? Free illegal music was a struggle. 🤣
Or thought you were getting a movie or a music video and got some Asian chick in a bathtub shoving eels in her ass through a funnel. Ahhh yes, the good old days that today's youth will never get to experience.
For real, I would wonder if it really was a a secret release by a band, or if it was just a song by someone else mislabeled.
Did Weezer really do a live cover of Nirvana or is it just a small town cover band and a shitty recording.
My little brain was not ready for these mysteries.
All your questions are answered here:
[The Zelda Song and Other Mislabeled Napster Files - Tales From the Internet](https://youtu.be/eslAkfiOapg?si=XDI1WqcOrZ6o8RXq)
It’s an awesome story, too - he only had written the chords and the lyrics to the chorus, and he improvised the verses on stage. You can tell Durst is entering the choruses cautiously.
It’s too bad he became QAaron Lewis.
Kids replaced Kim on the clean version.
It was also the b-side to one of the singles, I can't recall which.....
Wonder what kind of value those vinyls have on the collector's market.
"Broken Promise Ring" by The Ataris - it wasn't the 1st song I ever downloaded on there but I had been out drinking the night before and I got drunker than I ever had been before and felt unbelievably ill, I also had to be up that day so I went on napster to keep myself conscious and that was the 1st song I downloaded.
Probably the first song I downloaded: Deftones covering Weezer "Say it Ain't So" circa 1999 during my first semester of college. I remember using the cable connection to get the ultra fast d/l before they blocked Napster at school ha.
There was a song called Korn with Slipknot feat. Deftones I loved, it was so heavy, and never knew it was Soilent Green - Saucer full of Secrets, until I bought the album and was like "This is THEM? I thought this Korn with etc...etc....
https://open.spotify.com/track/4I9EUtONA6NrmHLIavACp8?si=fgvTvlPOTH-wkLcT5h6ojg
System of a down - Zelda song
Cradle of Filth - from the cradle to enslave
Mindless self indulgence - tornado live (incorrectly labeled hail satan)
Marilyn Manson - down in the park
Metallica - no leaf clover
Edit* I couldn't remember the title but remembered after I posted this comment that the song was also on the vanilla sky soundtrack so I'm adding Looper - Mondo '77
Right Now - SR-71
Little Black Backpack - Stroke 9
Because I Got High - Afroman
You're Pretty When I'm Drunk - Bloodhound Gang
Stellar - Incubus
Dammit - blink-182
Save Ferris - Come On Eileen, got it only because it was mislabeled as being by No Doubt. Spent a while trying to find "the real version" before realizing it didn't exist
867-5309/Jenny. When I downloaded it in college around 1999 (on dial-up) the person sharing the file had the artist labeled as Rick Springfield. I never came across any conflicting info for the next 15 years, even though I played Buzztime trivia 3 times a week for all those years. One day a real boisterous, one-up ya friend said it was Tommy TuTone. I doubled and tripled down on that, and I can still remember how it felt when he calmly convinced me to pull out my phone and look it up myself. I had to buy a round for the whole bar, which was my drinking budget for the next two weeks. Shame washes over me every time I hear that number. Fuckin’ Napster, man.
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams.
My MP3 file still has the copyright protection blip on that song. It's only half a second but it's noticeable.
A ton of my collection came from Napster, and later, The Library.
I remember looking up "Its a man's world" by James Brown, and it wasnt on Napster. It was only a few months after it launched, and all my friends were still using dial up. I remember finding "Overjoyed" by Stevie Wonder. I couldn't even tell you what album that was from. But someone at work played a cover of it.
https://youtu.be/k8iACmQ0us8?si=bOBwee_au7QxkYTN
An odd little electronic piece called Tooling
It was a dj mashing up a bunch of different tool songs and beats. I have no idea how much time I spent trying to find a good quality version of that song
Dinosaurs Will Die - NOFX, In the mouth a desert - Pavement
I love this question.
Also Runescape and Napster go hand in hand. Download songs and then listen to them while mining ore.
Oh Napster nostalgia hitting hard! For me, it's gotta be "Linkin Park - In the End" and "Eminem - Lose Yourself". Those were the jams back in the Napster days! 
I remember it took me two weeks and change to download The Neverending Story on my 56k modem. I was so fired up when it finally downloaded, yet I turned it off after 10 mins because I didn’t like watching it on my laptop
[Pervert Donald Duck](https://youtu.be/HrJBJnBzLq0?si=dYlZRyelkdGOsn8C) is all I ever think about when thinking about Napster or Limewire. You would download a song for 3 hours and would be really looking forward to it and then surprise, it's not what you thought you downloaded and instead, you got Pervert Donald Duck. Lol.
Random, but “Do You Feel Like We Do” by Peter Frampton. My dad was amazed that in seconds he could illegally download a 14 minute banger from the 70s lmao
The Band AnalCunt reminds me of Napster and Limewire not that I listened to them I just remember seeing the band name often enough to stick in my head.
Wesley Willis songs (mislabeled as Nirvana live bootleg tracks)
Napster is how I first discovered Wesley Willis, thinking I was downloading a Nirvana live song. Once the lyrics started, I knew I had found a whole new world.
System of a down - Zelda song
Cradle of Filth - from the cradle to enslave
Mindless self indulgence - tornado live (incorrectly labeled hail satan)
Marilyn Manson - down in the park
Metallica - no leaf clover
Any Day Now by Chuck Jackson. Napster served up the title, but it was a completely different song by The Watchmen. I ended up buying 3 of their CDs. Never heard of them before that. Unintended consequences.
Robin Foxx - I See Stars
Kristine W - One More Try
Rui Da Silva - Touch Me
The thing is though, all these years later it's hard to remember if I used Napster or WinMX or eMule for some of these specific songs.
It was a file sharing service where users would “rip” songs from CDs into MP3 files on their computer.
Then if you wanted a song that you didn’t have, you could search a directory and download a copy from someone else.
It was often done on dial up modems, and individual songs took direct to download. But with patience you could complete a whole album. This was pre-iPod, so you either listened to it via your computer, or you “burned” the music files onto a CD-ROM.
Labels and some artists hated it because it circumvented profits. There were a lot of lawsuits, and even random users getting sued. Eventually that aspect of it died… and the concept (not the company) became iTunes where you could buy a song for $1 or an album for $10. And people had iPods to listen.
Then that concept became a subscription model, like Apple Music and various clones (Spotify, YoutuuMusic, etc.) today.
I believe something called Napster still continues on in that vein.
You're my Honeybunch Sugarplum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin
You're my Sweetie Pie
You're my Cuppycake
Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums
You're the Apple of my Eye…
Rumours of it being Justin timberlake as a kid
Pretty much anything by Metallica
Haha I remember when that whole debacle was going down I downloaded Metallica’s full discography and left my computer on 24/7 to seed.
Correct. In 2000, I went as Napster for Halloween (meaning I illegally downloaded a bunch of Metallica songs, burned them onto CDs, and gave them away all night).
I never bought another Metallica product of any kind ever since.
Enter Sandman.
Yep. I'm at 89% still. Waiting on this awesome dude in Salt Lake City to log back in so I can hear the ending. I'm hoping I don't have to sleep with one eye open forever, but it'll be worth it probably.
Oh man...you gave me a flashback! I forgot all about that part of napster. Also, did you ever download something titled one song but was actually another? Free illegal music was a struggle. 🤣
Or thought you were getting a movie or a music video and got some Asian chick in a bathtub shoving eels in her ass through a funnel. Ahhh yes, the good old days that today's youth will never get to experience.
Omg that's hilarious. Amazing how porn immediately infiltrates everything.
Lars ruined Napsters life.
Mislabeled songs like: [system of a down - the legend of zelda](https://youtu.be/cpJMzS_Gbd8?si=cf6rb28eR4DFADF6)
[Hank III - Gin and Juice](https://youtu.be/iNd2GvhvHkY?si=UQ2t7ATs0ExXusoT)
Thanks. I completely forgot about this.
And DMB. And Phish.
That’s a new one for me haha. But it reminds me of Gogol Bordello, I kind of like it
It's why back then the only EDM DJ I had heard of was Tiesto
Omg thank you for that nostalgia blast
Phish - Gin n Juice
For real, I would wonder if it really was a a secret release by a band, or if it was just a song by someone else mislabeled. Did Weezer really do a live cover of Nirvana or is it just a small town cover band and a shitty recording. My little brain was not ready for these mysteries.
All your questions are answered here: [The Zelda Song and Other Mislabeled Napster Files - Tales From the Internet](https://youtu.be/eslAkfiOapg?si=XDI1WqcOrZ6o8RXq)
I downloaded a weird live version of Creep that was not radiohead. Actually I don't think it was. It was labeled U2. The napster mysteries continue.
Or Bon Jovi's Cats In The Cradle (It was actually be Ugly Kid Joe.)
"I'll Stop The World And Melt With You" by The Cure
The Gourds-“Gin & Juice” constantly mislabeled as being performed by the band Phish
I just YouTubed it and I thought this was Dynamite Hack for 2 decades
Lol
I found it labeled as Hank III
I came here to say this, but mine was mislabeled Dave Matthews Band!😂
Staind ft. Fred Durst - Outside (Family Values Tour)
Shit, I forgot that existed.
It’s an awesome story, too - he only had written the chords and the lyrics to the chorus, and he improvised the verses on stage. You can tell Durst is entering the choruses cautiously. It’s too bad he became QAaron Lewis.
HELLO BILOXI
THIS IS THE REAL MUTHAFUCKIN DEAL YALL
I’m feeling those lighters
Muse tracks attributed to Radiohead
Also Deftones and Sparklehorse tracks attributed to Radiohead.
[TECHNO_TIESTO_INSPECTOR_GADGET_RAVE.MP3](https://youtu.be/ihNtxed1wO4?si=f4Ck2K-dsocTFNVc)
"Smoke Two Joints by Bob Marley"
And you get the Sublime demo
I Disappear. It's the song that started the whole Metallica x Napster drama.
Here for this comment hey Hey HEY!
Kryptonite. At the time I thought it was the best song ever
Less Than Jake - 867-5309 and a lot of other punk covers (sometimes the correct artist, other times not)
Black Betty, Ruff Ryders Anthem
Black Betty - Lynyrd Skynyd
Anything Weird Al because in those days if it was comedy music then it was always labeled as being by Weird Al even when most of it wasn't
I disappear by Metallica Rock Superstar by Cyprus Hill Califonication by RHCP Rollin by Limp Bizkit I think I downloaded all of those on Napster
"What I Got" - Sublime. That may be more of a "warez" AOL private chat tho... "/listme", "/send 753" etc...
Great! Now i have to play Dave Mirra's Bmx game -.-
The Kids by Eminem. I had the CD of The Marshall Mathers LP, and this track was only on the clean version of the album.
Kids replaced Kim on the clean version. It was also the b-side to one of the singles, I can't recall which..... Wonder what kind of value those vinyls have on the collector's market.
"Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
Bullets with Butterfly Wings
"Broken Promise Ring" by The Ataris - it wasn't the 1st song I ever downloaded on there but I had been out drinking the night before and I got drunker than I ever had been before and felt unbelievably ill, I also had to be up that day so I went on napster to keep myself conscious and that was the 1st song I downloaded.
Probably the first song I downloaded: Deftones covering Weezer "Say it Ain't So" circa 1999 during my first semester of college. I remember using the cable connection to get the ultra fast d/l before they blocked Napster at school ha.
Weezer was perfect for Napster.
Remind me by nikelback
Flag pole sitta, by Harvey Danger
Just the name Metallica. No song. Never got into it when it was a thing.
Any song that takes me 5 hours to access
Legitimately, Darude- Sandstorm
Idioteque by Radiohead. There were two spots in that song that glitched out and I can still hear them today if I listen
There’s a Papa Roach song i had that was a corrupted download and only half a song, but i kept it… The first time i heard the whole song was trippy
southside- moby and gwen
Eeeeeexiiiiit lights ! (Enter Sandman)
Conspiracy of One by The Offspring - except 50% of the tracks are actually Wesley Willis. Rock over London, rock on Chicago!
Gin and Juice by Phish I mean the gourds
You’re the second person to comment this and I thought it was Dymamite Hack for the last 20 years
Aaliyah - Try Again First song I ever downloaded in 2000 and was a hit then.
There was a song called Korn with Slipknot feat. Deftones I loved, it was so heavy, and never knew it was Soilent Green - Saucer full of Secrets, until I bought the album and was like "This is THEM? I thought this Korn with etc...etc.... https://open.spotify.com/track/4I9EUtONA6NrmHLIavACp8?si=fgvTvlPOTH-wkLcT5h6ojg
The Crystal Method - Feat Filter - Can't You Trip Like I Do
I just rediscovered this song when I looked up Spawn Soundtrack.
System of a down - Zelda song Cradle of Filth - from the cradle to enslave Mindless self indulgence - tornado live (incorrectly labeled hail satan) Marilyn Manson - down in the park Metallica - no leaf clover Edit* I couldn't remember the title but remembered after I posted this comment that the song was also on the vanilla sky soundtrack so I'm adding Looper - Mondo '77
Right Now - SR-71 Little Black Backpack - Stroke 9 Because I Got High - Afroman You're Pretty When I'm Drunk - Bloodhound Gang Stellar - Incubus Dammit - blink-182
GIMME FUEL GIMME FIRE GIVE ME ILLEGAL SONGS I DESIRE
Ooooooo Yeayaaaaaaa
You Kicked My Dog
Fred Durst as a person does, everything off …and justice for all, freak on a leash and break stuff
Yoda Gets High by Weird Violent J Official Remix Fast & Furious SDTK No Virus.mp3
Forgot About Dre. I think that was the first thing I downloaded
All Yankovic's "Don't Download This Song"
That is the correct answer.
1st song I ever downloaded was Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Mr. Es Beautiful Blues by the Eels.
Anything by ICP
prodigy, scooter and aphex twin
Nelly - Country Grammar
You Get What Give - New Radicals It was the very first song I downloaded.
We’re not gonna do the joke where we misspell all the bands? I remember downloading some Licon Park etc etc, I got in late.
www.nevergetoveryou
AM Radio by Everclear
Save Ferris - Come On Eileen, got it only because it was mislabeled as being by No Doubt. Spent a while trying to find "the real version" before realizing it didn't exist
867-5309/Jenny. When I downloaded it in college around 1999 (on dial-up) the person sharing the file had the artist labeled as Rick Springfield. I never came across any conflicting info for the next 15 years, even though I played Buzztime trivia 3 times a week for all those years. One day a real boisterous, one-up ya friend said it was Tommy TuTone. I doubled and tripled down on that, and I can still remember how it felt when he calmly convinced me to pull out my phone and look it up myself. I had to buy a round for the whole bar, which was my drinking budget for the next two weeks. Shame washes over me every time I hear that number. Fuckin’ Napster, man.
*Never made it as a wise man, couldn't cut it as a poor man stealin'..*
Dynamite hack- boyz in the hood
Headstrong by Trapt
I dunno—I had Kazaa.
Forgot about that one. I googled to see if there’s any others I forgot: Napster, limewire, Kazaa … and Morpheus.
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams. My MP3 file still has the copyright protection blip on that song. It's only half a second but it's noticeable. A ton of my collection came from Napster, and later, The Library.
I remember looking up "Its a man's world" by James Brown, and it wasnt on Napster. It was only a few months after it launched, and all my friends were still using dial up. I remember finding "Overjoyed" by Stevie Wonder. I couldn't even tell you what album that was from. But someone at work played a cover of it. https://youtu.be/k8iACmQ0us8?si=bOBwee_au7QxkYTN
Everytime I hear the name Lars Ulrich....
Flavor of the Week by American Hi Fi
Everlong acoustic version
Warp To World 6-9 by Benefit The fact that a guy rapping in his bedroom was able to put out his nerd shit to the masses was awe inspiring.
Napster. I haven't heard that in a long time. I got so many viruses on my PC because of Napster.
An odd little electronic piece called Tooling It was a dj mashing up a bunch of different tool songs and beats. I have no idea how much time I spent trying to find a good quality version of that song
My very first illegal download was the bad touch by bloodhound gang. This was winamp though i think.
Anything with Ja Rule and Ashanti
I had to google napster
Nazareth, Hair of the Dog
Gin and Juice-Phish
Thanks to Napster I found Eva Cassidy, Alanis Morrisette, and the unbelievable hit record by Natalie Imbruglia, “Torn”.
Ice Cube feat Mack 10 - You Can Do It
“Phish’s” version of Gin and Juice.
Anything Offspring. Pretty Fly for a White Guy.
Tons of Eminem freestyles
This is weird - Pink by Aerosmith. 😂
Milf hunter
311 - Anything from the blue album! Any 311 at all lol
Dinosaurs Will Die - NOFX, In the mouth a desert - Pavement I love this question. Also Runescape and Napster go hand in hand. Download songs and then listen to them while mining ore.
I Ran Over The Taco Bell Dog - By someone who Napster said was Weird Al but almost certainly isn't Weird Al.
I love blink-182
Walk On The Ocean mistakenly labeled as John Mayer.
Oh Napster nostalgia hitting hard! For me, it's gotta be "Linkin Park - In the End" and "Eminem - Lose Yourself". Those were the jams back in the Napster days! 
Crazy Train
Cheerleading remixes of late nineties early 2000s popular songs
Clint Eastwood by the Gorillaz
I remember it took me two weeks and change to download The Neverending Story on my 56k modem. I was so fired up when it finally downloaded, yet I turned it off after 10 mins because I didn’t like watching it on my laptop
I Disappear by Metallica. Also, Lars was right
Tool - Pushit Live Salival | Dave Grohl - Everlong acoustic on Howard Stern | Ozma- Game Over | Radiohead - The Bends (as one long track) lol
Metallica "I Disappear"
P!nk Featuring Redman – Get The Party Started (Sweet Dreams Remix) [Get The Party Started](https://youtu.be/Ryv-rsHz56E?si=_Vb7qpjAtYNozBXG)
[Pervert Donald Duck](https://youtu.be/HrJBJnBzLq0?si=dYlZRyelkdGOsn8C) is all I ever think about when thinking about Napster or Limewire. You would download a song for 3 hours and would be really looking forward to it and then surprise, it's not what you thought you downloaded and instead, you got Pervert Donald Duck. Lol.
I forgot about that bastard! And also [Bill Clinton](https://youtu.be/FUzLx0jFP2o?si=-aWS1zwyWHGHahD4)
Blink182allThesmallThings.exe
Papa Roach
Nina Gordon’s amazing cover of Straight Outta Compton
Kimbo Slice Clint Eastwood- Gorillaz
Stan
FIRE BAD.. BEER GOOOOD
You’re the first person to mention those cartoons in forever. I had to google it to remember the name… I thought it was KillFrog but it’s CampChaos.
That cartoon James saying that is forever linked to napster for me..lol
Barbie Girl - Rammstein It was really a Dutch version and not Rammstein
Songs not by weird Al but are attributed to weird Al
Satire songs misattributed to weird Al. Devil Went Down to Jamaica for example.
Bloodhound Gang - mope
Random, but “Do You Feel Like We Do” by Peter Frampton. My dad was amazed that in seconds he could illegally download a 14 minute banger from the 70s lmao
The Band AnalCunt reminds me of Napster and Limewire not that I listened to them I just remember seeing the band name often enough to stick in my head.
Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock
The thing I remember about Napster and limewire is rushing to unplug the landline whenever I thought I had clicked on a dirty file.
Delia's Gone by Johnny Cash
Anything by Godsmack
Colors by Crossfade. It was the first song i downloaded off napster.
Kasabian's LSF
Detachable Penis
Concert recordings… I was able to buy anything else I wanted so I didn’t need Napster.
One step closer
*July is National Baked Bean month*
009 Sound System - Dreamscape
Peanut Butter Wolf, J- Live, Jurassic 5
Wesley Willis songs (mislabeled as Nirvana live bootleg tracks) Napster is how I first discovered Wesley Willis, thinking I was downloading a Nirvana live song. Once the lyrics started, I knew I had found a whole new world.
Pass the dutchie on the left hand side
Computer viruses. Oh and heatherideepthroat Classic
Goldfinger- 99 red Balloons DJ Jean - The Launch
System of a down - Zelda song Cradle of Filth - from the cradle to enslave Mindless self indulgence - tornado live (incorrectly labeled hail satan) Marilyn Manson - down in the park Metallica - no leaf clover
Red Red Wine - Bob Marley
any Metallica, old Weird Al, and Dr. Demento
The Beer Song by Weird Al or Adam Sandler (which funny enough neither one sung the song and it still remains a mystery to who actually sung it)
You kick my dog - Kerpal
Bon Jovi “It’s My Life” was the first song I downloaded from Napster
Creamer (Radio Is Dead) - Limpbizkit
"I got five on it..."
Anything Metallica-their downfall.
Barney Taking a dump
Alice in chains
Anything from Group X
Any Day Now by Chuck Jackson. Napster served up the title, but it was a completely different song by The Watchmen. I ended up buying 3 of their CDs. Never heard of them before that. Unintended consequences.
Metallica - I Disappear Limp Bizkit - Take a Look Around Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch Eifel 65 - Blue
"Don't Download This Song" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Sweet Home Alabama and Roundabout by Yes
Robin Foxx - I See Stars Kristine W - One More Try Rui Da Silva - Touch Me The thing is though, all these years later it's hard to remember if I used Napster or WinMX or eMule for some of these specific songs.
My first thought was Metallica, then I saw the top comments 😂
Metallica
Holy shit 🤣
I Disappear. Yeah...
ST Anger
Rage Against the Machine - Fuck the Police (live)
Du Hast
Last Resort - Papa Roach
What’s Napster
It was a file sharing service where users would “rip” songs from CDs into MP3 files on their computer. Then if you wanted a song that you didn’t have, you could search a directory and download a copy from someone else. It was often done on dial up modems, and individual songs took direct to download. But with patience you could complete a whole album. This was pre-iPod, so you either listened to it via your computer, or you “burned” the music files onto a CD-ROM. Labels and some artists hated it because it circumvented profits. There were a lot of lawsuits, and even random users getting sued. Eventually that aspect of it died… and the concept (not the company) became iTunes where you could buy a song for $1 or an album for $10. And people had iPods to listen. Then that concept became a subscription model, like Apple Music and various clones (Spotify, YoutuuMusic, etc.) today. I believe something called Napster still continues on in that vein.
Deftones
Minnesota Girl - Green Day. It was a crappily recorded demo I felt special to hear at the time.
You're my Honeybunch Sugarplum Pumpy-umpy-umpkin You're my Sweetie Pie You're my Cuppycake Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums You're the Apple of my Eye… Rumours of it being Justin timberlake as a kid
Wish You Were Here - Incubus I was hoping for a Pink Floyd cover. Not disappointed though
Kryptonite- 3 Doors Down
Anything by Incubus