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.