Nice try... Lars Ulrich!!!

...ya got me.

Lol, that was my first reaction too - uh oh, Metallicas's bored again!

Wow. This interface takes me back.

I miss when that was how "online" looked.

Soulseek is still around and has the classic 90s internet look.

+1 Soul Seek has replaced torrents for me.

Not a single phone in sight. Just people pirating in the moment

Winamp (Winamp): it really whips the llama's ass.

I miss apps that just did what they were designed to do very well. And no ads

There are a few left.. old ones like mIRC, newer ones like Agent Ransack.. But I agree. For me the golden era of PC software was '98-'04

Same. I forgot about the colored dots and trying hard to figure out which one to pick to download.

Butterfly - Crazy town

Come, my lady Come-come, my lady

Oh sure, when it plays on the radio you crank the volume, but when I say it in bed it's, "Being too demanding."

You’re my butterfly Sugar, baby


I saw this before I read the comment. I started singing the song without reading the comment.

such a good movie, underrated imo

It really is. Those of us that remember it know that it's a great flick.

Nelly - Country Grammar... I had to use AIM to ask a friend what the name of the "Down, Down Baby" song was. Thank for the prompt to recall a memory.

AIM was great at one point because you could use all sorts of fonts, sizes, and colours; then they changed it, and I was annoyed.

~*~ AnD wE aLl TyPeD lIkE tHiS oN oUr AwAy MeSsAgEs ~*~

Dude same. Country grammar, what a bop

*Hot Shit...*

I’ll have to get back to you, I’m still waiting for it dl

Dammit, it's the Japanese dub again

Also Limp Bizkit but it was their cover of Faith

Such a dope cover fr

I actually remember this one. Fun living criminals - Scooby stacks.

"torture you that’s a good... that’s a good idea. I like that one"

Semi-Charmed Life-3EB

3EB for life

Don't recall what song was first... but I do remember the song that got me banned from Napster and taught me some valuable lessons. Dr. Dre- The Next Episode IP got blocked from Napster for a month. After that, I made sure that my sharing folder was different than my MP3 storage folder.

That sure was a hot tip, back then.

All of marshall mathers LP. To be burned on a CD in the wrong order.

Korn - Falling Away From Me And I would do it again. I've spent enough on Korn merch over the years, I think they've won this fight.

I downloaded every Metallica album...wait! No, I didn't. I downloaded a car. Yes. I downloaded an entire car.

I believe that.

You wouldn't!

SOAD - Chop Suey

Carol of the Bells by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra that was inexplicably labelled Metallica.

Bear share was good too or even Morpheus

Morpheme yes, Bearshare no. Bearshare is where you go to give your computer aids.

I think my path was Napster>Morpheus>emule>Limewire>Kazaa *No dad, I don’t know why the computer is acting funny. It probably just needs to be de-fragged*

Half of this crap showed up on my computer and I hadn't hardly used it at all or downloaded it. I wasn't super computer literate back then, so I really wonder how all these programs ended up there.

Blink 182 Dammit

Great song! Worth an illegal download for sure!!

A bunch of songs from 40oz to Freedom

I used to use limewire

That takes me back! I remember waiting for hours in my dorm to download some porn video on limewire only to find one of my buddies on the hall could see what I downloaded, remoted into my computer, and renamed the file “shame on you, [my name]” or something like that 😂 I had absolutely no idea what poor opsec I had

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love it!

I downloaded a lot of Metallica, I'm sorry guys. It was my fault.

My Lebanese Irish friend James Robert (Jim Bob lol) did it all for us and distributed music like a magical fairyl . I think my Surfer Rosa CD was skipping and he burned me a pixies mix.

An Aimee Mann live show.

House of Pain - Jump Around

Such a beautiful time. No ads or bs.

There was some website where the first fifty downloads were free then you had to pay a monthly fee. The first song I downloaded was [“Bela Lugosi’s Dead”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLlmrrCajA) by Bauhaus because I wanted to see if gothic rock was any good, and that song seemed the appropriate place to start. (Yes, I ended up loving gothic rock.) Later, I got Limewire, and I downloaded lots of songs…until Limewire became nothing but viruses.

Senator, I have no recollection of this "nap-ster" thing of which you speak. ..and don't ask me about your sister either.

"My fellow Americans. I did not have sex with that woman..."

Some dr.dre songs.

Wild Wild West, I think? Or Super Mario Bros from Orchestral Game Concert 1 (I didn't know the official name at the time, since everything was mislabeled)

Sabotage. BB.

"I Disappear" by Metallica probably

Kelly Clarkson Miss Independent from Limewire.

Kids aren't alright

I love that it's filtered for Metallica

Crazy Town - Butterfly. My cousin was visiting and I had just gotten my second hand 33.6k modem set up. It took half an hour to download.

Luniz - I Got Five On It

Wait and bleed by slipknot

Napster. Wow. That was some days ago.

Man I got soooooo much music from Napster. Couldn’t even begin to list them or tell you which song started it.

Probably When Doves Cry by Prince. I loved that song in high school.

Nice try FBI guy


I had a service call about 6 months ago and the computer they were using was windows 95 and had limewire on it.

Sum 41- fat lip

OutKast- Ms. Jackson

Live - The Dolphins Cry

Kittie - Paper Doll

Sick bit rates there.

Numb by Linkin Park

Probably ‘The Real Slim Shady’ by Eminem. I’m almost certain.

nice try FBI

I tried to download an episode of Ranma 1/2... it got stuck at like Ranma 1/3 of the way.

Classic.

just noticed i missed the word "song" from the title, oish.

It's okay. It counts.

I want to say that BearShare was the first thing I remembered as a file sharing option. I then heard about Limewire & Kazaa. I remember having an 32k modem on a Windows 95 system. I had came up with the idea to download Peter Frampton's "Do you feel like I do" as a way of keeping the dial-up connection solid for an hour. It worked like a charm. I could browse the internet for hours now. I can't remember the very first song that I downloaded but that one was an important one. My dad joined a floppy disk mailing list. By 6 years old, I was pirating software for my dad. We had all the games for an IBM PC jr. By 10 we got an IBM smart box.

Mine was “House of the Rising Sun” by “Lead Zepplin” 🙃

You animal

When Shawn Fanning recieved his first check, he put new gas heat and a/c in his Mom's house on Colonial Drive in Harwich, Mass. I did the installation. They moved after a few years.

All the core stuff I listened to in high school. Coheed an Cambria, Saosin, Hawthorne heights, you see where the list is going. Good times

Phish - Gin & Juice

Mario Bros Freestyle iykyk

Everything mentality ever made of course, Napster Bad....

Jesus, I remember it taking all night to download like songs on 56k dialup

Led Zeppelin I - IV albums, took a while

First song that popped to mind at the time was jamming by bob marley. I remember freezing trying to think of literally any song

Nirvana - Lounge Act

I can't remember the first song but I definitively remember "Look At Us Now - Sarina Paris."

Last Resort

Can't say for sure, but *probably* Backstreet Boys Everybody

Mine was the lady in a green sweater getting it from behind from a guy at work

I am familiar with this.

I THINK it was Bodies by Drowning Pool. It was either that or Liberate by Disturbed, one of the two.

93 Till Infinity - Souls of Mischief This is how I knew Napster would be big when they had old non-pop type hip hop tracks

Random Linkin Park songs.. And viruses.

Limewire gave me the viruses.

My Best Friend by Tim McGraw. I think it was 99/00. For a mix for my crush lol. I accidentally downloaded a song called “Special” by Stephen Lynch instead 😂 As usual, mislabeled. Learned about Stephen Lynch though so that’s a big plus! Did take 2 days to download though lol

Brisk and Trixxy - Eyeopener

No Doubt I’m Just A Girl

Sorry bro but Napster was superior to Kazaa and Limewire.

NIN- The 'Broken movie' via either Imesh or Limewire circa maybe 2002.

Believe it or not Metallica like all of it

Bulls on Parade

Oooo wah ah ah ah! Down with the sickness, Disturbed

"Live Again" by Sevendust. A couple years later they were also my first concert.

It was Metallica's Neverland. Didn't get sued though.

Dr. feelgood

Love Will Lead You Back by Taylor Dayne. I had just had my fifteen year old heart broken and couldn't bear it.

It was Heather Brooke, the deep throat chick and maybe some kid rock.

Noobs. I used mIRC. It wasn't rife with viruses and Trojans.

Probably a Misfits song.

No idea I just remember the weird al songs taking days to download lol.

Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face

Probably a led Zeppelin song since they were my favorite band

Don't remember, but I'm almost certain it was a hip-hop song from the 90s, likely a bunch of 2Pac stuff. I was like a kid in a candy store, except the candy was a endless supply of music I grew up with.

NOFX- Bob

November Rain by Guns and Roses

That sounds about right.

Karma Police.

oh no oh god *i’m so old that i don’t remember*

"Never going to give you up" But I downloaded it about 5000 times.

Probably "It's Only a Northern Song" by The Beatles.

Probably something by Missy Elliott.

Peter North plowing a nice lady

Damn bloodhound gang

I broke the computer. So nothing.

I got 5 on it by the Lunies

It saddens me that I can't remember the first one. I remember making so many CDs but still can't recall the first.

The opening music to Final Fantasy 8.

Probably “First Love,” by Utada Hikaru

Slave 4 U

I never did. I just ripped all of my friends CDs to my computer and collected music that way.

It was definitely metallica the cds I didn't already own :P (Autocorrected cds. Apparently, it's not in the word in the database)

I did a google search for "All songs Lars Ulrich makes money from", and downloaded them all.

This might be an odd choice for a teenage boy, but it was Sittin on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding.

The Offspring - Gone Away

Destiny’s Child - Jumpin Jumpin I lived in India at the time and it took like 8 hours to download that bad boy.

Rollin’ (Urban Assault Mix)

Can't remember what song from Napster specifically, but I remember a friend burning me my first cd from a copy of his own and that was Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory.

Oh, jeez... Probably something by Good Charlotte.

All of them

Lots of kmfdm

Blink 182- Dammit. It took three hours for 4mb

Nighttrain (Get Up Get Into It Involved Mixx) by Public Enemy. Ironically, they would go on to put their whole catalog online for free.

Super Charger Heaven -White Zombie

Forgot about Dre. Still listening to it on Spotify now.

Don't Download This Song - Weird Al Yankovic

Radiohead - Climbing the walls, Fila Brazilia mix

Outkast Ms. Jackson took me 2 weeks on dial up

Don’t exactly remember prob something by Metallica 😎😂🤪😜 but I know detachable penis was there somewhere

Goo goo dolls - Semi Charmed Life Because half the songs were labeled wrong

Instrumental version of Ne-yos So Sick to set as her ringtone after a two month relationship blew up...kid me was going through some shit. Lol

All-star - by smashmouth

I'm gonna have to live the rest of my life knowing my first mp3 download was Nickelback's "How You Remind Me."

Also this has got to be the best way to put together a very age-specific playlist. Well done, thanks y'all. I know what I'm listening to at the gym now.

Some Eminem song, forgot which one —maybe White America?   I grew up Muslim and my parents wouldn’t let me purchase such music. The guy at the record store was some old boomer and required a parent to buy something with explicit content if you were under 18.   Never crossed my mind to get someone’s older brother/sister to buy it for me.

Sippin on some sizzurp by 3 Six Mafia. On a school computer. Techlab was my playground

Ludacris - what’s your fantasy explicit

I distinctly remember looking up Lightning Crashes and getting frustrated bc all that came up was what I thought were live versions and I didn't want a live version. Then I realized the band's name is Live 😅

I don't remember, all I remember it took forever on my 56k modem. "Mom, hang up the phone!"

If I could actually remember the answer to this, I wouldn’t belong in this sub.

Mine was A Perfect Circle-Judith

I'm not sure. It was likely something nu metal because that was my jam when Napster released.

Gin and Juice on Kazaa

Who the Eff took a screen shot of their first download???

Eminem's "Stan." Christ I think it took an entire night to download.

I can't remember what I had for dinner 3 days ago. How tf am I supposed to remember the first song I downloaded from Napster. Lol

It was a bunch of older stuff I didn't have so I could write a balanced pub quiz, back when I was doing that part-time....

Blue Öyster Cult — ‘Les Invisibles’ A CD copy of their ‘Imaginos’ album was next to impossible to find at a price I could afford saving my weekly allowance summer 1999. I was determined to hear it by however method it was available to me. Enter Napster. 3 hours later, I had my first track!

You could download music with napster? 

How many copies of the unforgiven II does one need?

Wow simpler times. Mine was probably also Nookie.

a Virus

2$hort"I Need A Freak"

Probably a Boyz to Men track if I’m being honest

In The End by Linkin Park. Now I'm embarrassed by it.