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The existence of post-grunge makes me sad.

I like the part in the article where it says part of post-grunge was a widening of the geographic footprint because the article on grunge lists STP and Smashing Pumpkins as part of the “big six”
 
I didn’t know why Post Grunge was often referred to as “Butt Rock” (though the names felt appropriate) until recently when someone explained to me it had to do with your Modern Hard Rock FM radio Station from the turn of the millennium, the ones where the the big-voiced radio promo guy should cut station IDs along the lines of:

“99.9X WXGT: THE PANTHER, PLAYING THE BIGGEST HITS OF OF THE 90s AND TODAY. NOTHING…BUTT…ROCK!”

I fucking hated late 90s early 00s Modern Rock Radio.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I didn’t know why Post Grunge was often referred to as “Butt Rock” (though the names felt appropriate) until recently when someone explained to me it had to do with your Modern Hard Rock FM radio Station from the turn of the millennium, the ones where the the big-voiced radio promo guy should cut station IDs along the lines of:

“99.9X WXGT: THE PANTHER, PLAYING THE BIGGEST HITS OF OF THE 90s AND TODAY. NOTHING…BUTT…ROCK!”

I fucking hated late 90s early 00s Modern Rock Radio.
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What's odd is that I enjoyed a lot of "alternative" radio around 96-97, when you'd get The Cardigans, Eels, Failure, etc... just a random assortment of music where it felt like no one knew what was coming so they'd try anything.
 
the first iteration of Grunge is a mixture punk and metal and classic rock where as each following the output varies wildly has a wide ranging sound. The second interaction is directly influenced by Grunge so there is more a sameness or consistency to the sound and each subsequent iteration is a copy of a copy and becomes less interesting to those of us that remember the previous iterations.

For me personally I was getting into music just as Second Wave of grunge bands were coming out and first wave Grunge act were all releasing follow ups to their breakthrough records. For me, and many my age this made it tough to differentiate between the Stone Temple Pilots and The Sound Gardens of the world. Whereas the Gen Xers who were 5 to 10 years older thought bands like Bush, STB, Candlebox, etc.. we’re jokes.

Then by the time Staind, Puddle of Mudd, Creed, Nickelback, etc. were becoming popular, many people my age were scoffing at those band.

The funny thing is my SO, who really only listened to Jazz and Country her whole life until she went to college; thinks Pearl Jam and Bush and Creed all sound like the same thing and doesn’t really find any of it appealing.
 
mrjoshuamccormack said:
What's odd is that I enjoyed a lot of "alternative" radio around 96-97, when you'd get The Cardigans, Eels, Failure, etc... just a random assortment of music where it felt like no one knew what was coming so they'd try anything.
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I loved Alternative Radio. We didn’t have a good station where I lived but everytime we drove up to Chicago we had to switch the dial to Q101 the second we were North of Dwight.
 
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