BassJamb
BassJamb — a Winamp-style player loaded with a 2001 Morpheus peer-to-peer download playlist.
BassJamb — Winamp Parody
A parody of Winamp, the iconic MP3 player of the late 1990s. Famous for skins, visualizers, and the phrase "It really whips the llama's ass." "Bass" references an amplifier, "Jamb" is a door hinge pun.
BassJamb — Winamp Parody and a Real 2001 Morpheus Playlist
BassJamb is a parody of Winamp, the iconic MP3 player of the late 1990s and early 2000s — famous for its skinnable interface, visualizer bars, and the tagline "It really whips the llama's ass." The playlist loaded into BassJamb is a real playlist recovered from a 2001 Morpheus peer-to-peer client. Morpheus was one of the successors to Napster after Lars Ulrich and Metallica's lawsuit effectively shut it down. This is a genuine snapshot of what someone was actually downloading and listening to at the turn of the millennium.
The playlist spans the full range of what early P2P file sharing looked like: Linkin Park's In the End and Crawling from Hybrid Theory, Jimmy Eat World's The Middle, Harvey Danger's Flagpole Sitta, Basement Jaxx Where's Your Head At, Three Doors Down Kryptonite, Eminem Stan, The Offspring Original Prankster and Want You Bad, Metallica Whiskey In The Jar and Turn The Page, Sugar Ray When It's Over, Everlast What It's Like, NOFX Liza and Louise, MXPX TeenagePolitics, and System of a Down's Legend of Zelda lyrical cover.
Alongside the radio hits sat a deep cut of video game music — a hallmark of the era's fan communities. Yasunori Mitsuda appears three times: Light from the Netherworld, Steel Giant, and The Treasure Which Cannot Be Stolen, all from the Xenogears OST. Chrono Cross is represented by Scars Left By Time and a techno remix of the original Chrono Trigger theme. Nobuo Uematsu contributes the Final Fantasy VI orchestral War of the Magi, the FF7 Interrupted by Fireworks, and Aria Di Mezzo Carattere. Secret of Mana's Sunken Continent Dance Mix, a Pokemon Johto theme, a Pokemon techno remix, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV theme, and the Batman Beyond theme round out a playlist that could only exist in 2001.
A real P2P download playlist recovered from a 2001 Morpheus client — 43 tracks spanning radio hits, video game OST music, fan remixes, and TV themes. A genuine snapshot of what someone was downloading at the turn of the millennium. Includes two preview tracks ('TPW Overworld') composed by Freddie (Fredrik Häthén) for the Final Fantasy VI fan game 'The Power Within' by Dream Horizon Software, directly linking the playlist to the early 2000s fan game community. The Lee Greenwood track is labeled '(WTC)', placing at least part of the download activity in the post-September 11, 2001 period.
Track labels and durations as displayed in BassJamb. Historical filenames and attributions are preserved as written.
- Linkin Park - In the End (4:52)
- Jimmy Eat World - The Middle (2:34)
- Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta (3:38)
- Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At (12:01)
- The Urge - Four Letters and Two Words (3:40)
- Linkin Park - Crawling (3:29)
- Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar (5:04)
- Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Complicated (3:50)
- Christina Milian - am to pm (3:53)
- Three Doors Down - Kryptonite (3:55)
- Lonestar - I'm Already There (4:14)
- Final Fantasy 3 Orchestra - War of the Magi (4:15)
- SquareSoft - Interrupted by Fireworks (2:51)
- Xenogears - June Mermaid (2:28)
- System of a Down - Legend of Zelda (lyrical) (1:01)
- Yasunori Mitsuda - Light from the Netherworld (4:53)
- NOFX - Liza & Louise (2:23)
- Megaman - Best Rave Song Ever (6:43)
- Nobuo Uematsu - Opening - Bombing Mission (3:58)
- Chrono Cross - Original Chrono Trigger (Techno Remix) (2:17)
- The Offspring - Original Prankster (3:41)
- Pokemon - Pokemon Johto (2:54)
- Pokemon - Pokemon Techno (4:06)
- Lee Greenwood - Proud to be an American (WTC) (3:37)
- Yasunori Mitsuda - Scars Left By Time (2:30)
- Eminem - Stan (ft. Dido) (6:44)
- Yasunori Mitsuda - Steel Giant (2:29)
- Secret of Mana - Sunken Continent Dance Mix (3:09)
- TV Themes - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1:01)
- MXPX - TeenagePolitics (2:51)
- Xenogears - The Battle with 'God' (4:23)
- 5-3 Federation - The Legend (2:57)
- Yasunori Mitsuda - The Treasure, Can't Be Stolen (2:05)
- Batman Beyond - Theme Song (1:02)
- The Urge - Too Much Stereo (3:32)
- Freddie - TPW Overworld [Preview] (0:40)
- Fredrik Häthén - TPW Overworld Preview (0:39)
- Metallica - Turn The Page (6:06)
- The Offspring - Want You Bad (3:25)
- Everlast - What It's Like (5:04)
- Pokemon - What Kind of Pokemon Are You (3:28)
- Sugar Ray - When It's Over (4:17)
- Nobuo Uematsu - Aria Di Mezzo Carattere (5:53)