YMMV / Drowning Pool

• Awesome Music:
  • Let's face it, "Bodies." Which seems to be the only song mentioned on this page. At all.
  • Their songs "Reminded", "Mute", and "Told You So" which were all deemed good enough to be used in the English dub of Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge.
• Fanvid: Of the song "Bodies," their signature song mentioned several times on this page. So many fans have used it in their videos that the song may be just as dead as Dave Williams.
  • To put it into perspective, the band shows up on AMV.org's list of the most overused artists of all AMVs while Bodies can be found nearly a dozen times on the first page under the YouTube search: "AMV Drowning Pool." Admittedly, this might also have to do with Warner Music Group forcing so many AMV makers to audio swap to an independent band like Drowning Pool (the irony there being that Evanescence won't allow their songs to be used on AMVs while they themselves are also a Bicycle Music Company signed band).
• First Installment Wins: While they've had many hit songs, their debut single is by an astronomical margin their most well known song.
• Replacement Scrappy: Jason "Gong" Jones, a previously unknown singer who was there for the second album. To illustrate, the video for the song "Step Up" featured typical rock and roll excess (hot tubs, women in bikinis, etc.), which did not match well with the original lineup's style at all, much less the aforementioned song or the rest of the second album. As nice as it was to see the band return from a singer's death, the video sort of opened and closed the door on Gong's tenure at the same time.
• Signature Song: As you might guess from the rest of the page, "Bodies" is by far their best-known song thanks to Memetic Mutation.
• Spiritual Successor: AM Conspiracy's (Jason Gong's post-DP band) Out of the Shallow End and the self-titled album to Desensitized.

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