POO: One of the 23 bands Wikipedia classifies as "Post-Grunge"

In the history annals, IT SHALL BE WRITTEN that Popular Music began it's undeniable decline in 1998.

Distant 2nd - Everclear, Bush or Silverchair

Bush and The Flys distant seconds.

Anyway, I choose Lit.

And yeah, Foos all the way. "Best of You" is dynamic!

I like how neutral 'disbanded' sounds in the case of the Foos.

"Yeah, Kris and I showed up for a band meeting, Kurt wasn't there, so we voted him out and figured us two should go our separate ways."

i guess i pick staind.

Anyhow I'd pick the foo's, I was into their first album and they've got some good videos I suppose.

What makes it go round the way we’re up and down
We’re minutiae staring at the whole sky
Battle sense to keep you apprehensive
I guess no one is the same
We’re all through different lenses
The bladder will filter all the pain
And the gut has sides you can’t restrain

You are everything to me
You are cobalt elemental

A new lagoon five years down the line
And all I want is a lot of your time
These days when the clouds come in
Heat broke no smoke without a fire
Heat broke no smoke

[chorus]
Infractions of the landscape
In a world we learn to escape
Bad weather comes
But we have wood to burn
That which only gives
Will always bring you through
My engine is with you

Kilburn and california
Make you wonder what it’s all for
Feed the lesson to the plate
Twenty-one centuries
And I’m just starting to move
Wreckless times like poison to the mood
Daylight comes all too soon
Accusations bruises to the head
Planet waves to test your lead

You are everything to me
You are cobalt elemental

[chorus]

Tie me in with electric line
Bathe me in bacchanalian wine
If I with you to gold worlds of true moans
And eyes that see the same pool
If not the same water
If not the same water
If not the same water

You are everything to me
You are cobalt elemental

Me too! Easy to karaoke! But I hate singing those songs!

um, everclear had some moments

I've said it before, but... "Father Of Mine"?

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But Santa Monica is the best song by any of these band.

Nope. Great melody, boring-as-fuck "grungy" hook, oh-woe-is-Art-Alexakis "watch the world die" self-dramarizing-slash-pitying bullshit "disaffected" pose.

Question contains own answer, Grasshopper.

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Eisbar, for your own sake, please avoid rock radio for the forseeable future.

hee hee, i actually tend to blame pavement and korn the most for how bad 90s rock is ... but nirvana will do in a pinch!

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Of the rest, the once that I know are pretty dire, aren't they? Is this Courtney Love's fault?

My, how it's grown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-grunge_bands

I always thought Days of the New were underrated, and I only heard their debut back in the day.

they were p good

Conversely, I always thought Foo Fighters got more attention than they deserved. 'Everlong' is all-time tho.

Answer is still probably Foo Fighters

Retrospective appraisals of this era would probably be more positive if the average length of a post-grunge song was 2-2:30 mins. I don’t need to hear the chorus for the seventh time in a single setting.

When I get stuck in a grunge-only loop for a few weeks every year, I listen to the Singles soundtrack and Candlebox. I just recently added some Mother Love Bone LPs into that rotation, but I really enjoy Candlebox sometimes. I'm guessing they were never mentioned on this thread because they brought almost nothing new to the table.

*sitting

re: foo fighters, one of my earliest musical memories is seeing the "learn to fly" video on MTV, they were dressed in drag as flight attendants i think

listening to that song now, it's like a true power pop jam. same with a couple of songs on the s/t debut, just amazingly catchy and big chorus hooks

Retrospective appraisals of this era would probably be more positive if the average length of a post-grunge song was 2-2:30 mins. I don’t need to hear the chorus for the seventh time in a single setting.

supremely otm

like "learn to fly" does not need to be 3:55, would be better at 2m30s

Every so often my wife asks me who Gavin Rossdale is again and what song I would know of his and I always struggle to even recall a single song or melody or lyric of Bush. Reading those bad lyrics wall of text lyrics posted upthread is just oof. Is anyone a fan of that band? Are they defensible at all?

thought days of the new were v bad at the time. and it was exactly the time I was most primed to listen to alt rock pabulum. very stp unplugged kind of vibe

Bush were my favourite band for a few of months when I was eleven. When Gavin Rossdale sang 'Do you feel the way you hate / Do you hate the way you feel' it was the most profound couplet I'd ever heard up to that point. 'To all pollutants / Shave your face' in the middle of 'Bonedriven' likewise blew my mind, and so my love of abstract art was born.

As for Days of the New, I'd never heard of Alice in Chains so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

And lest we forget: Razorblade Suitcase was 'engineered' by Steve Albini.

Our Lady Peace is the band I like 'most' overall from the original list, although "Everlong" is my favourite song by any of them.

I've always wanted to hear more I Mother Earth

I think my favorite nonsense Rossdale couplet is "Minnie Mouse grew up a cow/Dave's all sad again"

I always rep for old Goo Goo Dolls but it's hard to think of them as "post-grunge."

xp also pom you really do need to get on FB

Wow, that...is a list of truly dire bands! So 'post-grunge' basically just means 'music execs who missed the grunge boat flock to college towns across the country to sign every fourth-rate hard rock band with a name like Menutwist or Mopblock or Ten Tango Felchjob so they can squirt a couple shitty and soon to be forgotten singles into modern rock radio rotation'?

I do, admittedly, have a playlist featuring a lot of the mid-'90s variety of those shitty singles but I can't say I legit enjoy very many of them.

Yeah, this pretty much has to be Foo Fighters by default because their first album and a couple subsequent singles are killer.

I like the Greta songs I've heard. 'Fathom' popped up in rotation recently, and that sounded pretty good.

xp also pom you really do need to get on FB

Do not underestimate my degree of FB defiance (but thank you!).

the only foo fighters song I like is “big me”

lol at the age of daze/days story:

Age of Days 2012–present Fredericton, New Brunswick Radioactivity (2013)
Age of Daze (pre-Age of Day) 2005–2011 Fredericton, New Brunswick Hollywood Ending (2008)

you know part of that story is that a founding memory always understood it as "age of days" and just thought that it was spelled "daze".

Foo Fighters probably have the best body of work. But Santa Monica is the best song by any of these bands.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, September 18, 2005 7:25 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Came in just to say exactly this.

still amuses me that Razorblade Suitcase was considered this colossal failure that pissed off diehard Bush fans, this massive sophomore dump, and now any time any American thinks of Bush in 2020 it's usually to mock Rossdale's accent.

That's just foin
That's just one of my neye-ms

in high school typing class there was this funny girl that just liked to literally blurt out lyrics of songs at random times and every so often during class she'd yell out

SWALLLOWWWWWWWWWED

Everclear started strong but then they greased up their toboggan and went down that hill lickety split.

Bush had probably the stupidest lyrics of any band from their era. And the competition was STEEP.

xpost they loved the G5 chord

best Everclear song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQIjyp9gV8

Everclear started strong but then they greased up their toboggan and went down that hill lickety split.

― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, August 5, 2020 9:17 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i agree that a reggae concept record based on the film "cool runnings" was a v poor career choice

Everclear got so weirdly regressive with their constant navel gazing about their lost youth. I whipped up some logical progression lyrics for them back in the day, something like

I'm sittin' 'round my childhood bedroom
Wishin' I could crawl back into mommy's womb
I don't wanna plead and I don't wanna beg
Just let me split back into a sperm and egg
I heard it on the AM radio, whoa-oh