OK I really don't like genres cuz I'm bad at placing artists where they belong. That said, I'm going off wikipedia's list of post-grunge bands to figure out just what that genre really means ... by their definition, I'd say these albums help:
Those are all "redeeming" albums for me. Still maybe my least favorite genre, but I really do believe every genre has some redeeming albums (I still have to find those for country, tbh ...)
I'll do one of these for "emo" later because that one'll get rantier into the definition of the genre and stuff.
EDIT: To clarify, I don't think of Foo Fighters as post-grunge, but if they are throw on at least
I don't mind post-grunge for the most part, I even like some songs by Creed or 3 Doors Down. My dad used to listen to this stuff a lot, and while I never liked it as much as he did (and there were a few bands I really disliked like Nickleback or Staind), it's I guess a sort of a nostalgia thing.
BTW is post-grunge the only genre label, where "post" means a watered down version of the genre? I mean, post-punk, post-rock, post-hardcore (etc) all indicate more complex arrangements, more experimentation etc.
King Crimson certainly strike me as the coolest of all the classic progressive rock bands. I guess the reason is that they actually "rock", by which I mean that the hard edge of the genre isn't diluted by the incorporation of other influences. There seems to be a lack of really meaty, dirty-sounding progressive rock bands. The vast majority of prog-rockers sound squeaky clean, and I'm not entirely sure why that is. Anyone know of any good garage-prog bands?
I took in a ton of post-grunge when I was a teenager, so I have to admit to having a few favorites. I didn't include them in my first post because it's just so uncool these days. These albums are actually decent, though:
Do you guys really consider Third Eye Blind to be post-grunge? I mean, I love that album, but I don't see it have much in common with those other mentioned bands...
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Do you guys really consider Third Eye Blind to be post-grunge? I mean, I love that album, but I don't see it have much in common with those other mentioned bands...
Same. I see it as more power pop or something like that. _________________ Progressive Rock
Same. I see [third eye blind] as more power pop or something like that.
I'll buy that. It seems like a lot of the bands labelled as post-grunge are just popular alternative rock bands from the mid-to-late '90s. I even saw some sites listing Marcy Playground as post-grunge (absurd).
I enjoy a fair amount of stuff that gets called post-grunge but a lot of the best stuff, at least in terms of albums, seems to have influences from other genres in there as well, and that then maybe raises a question of whether the album should even have the post-grunge label. The genre holds up fairly well track-wise imo but there's maybe not so many great albums - the Verve Pipe's 'Villains' is a personal favourite and 'Eleventh Avenue' by Ammonia is worth checking out too (though like 'Villains' it's not strictly post-grunge).
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