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Bro rock from the Bush years

i feel like this is solidifying into its own category in ret...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
who were some of the leading lights of bro rock
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  02/28/13
i'd guess that different people have their own preferences. ...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
wonder how many closeted frat bros sucked their first dick w...
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  02/28/13
this is true. 90s alt rock radio morphed into something t...
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  02/28/13
I LOVE THE WAY YOU SMACK MY ASS
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  02/28/13
i find it hard to judge objectively when post-grunge dipped ...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
it's an interesting question. it happened fairly quickly on...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
yeah i think that's right. lol at late 90s WWF theme music. ...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
i think a lot of them were bands that existed already, but d...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
wtf what were fred durst's actual duties as "vice presi...
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  02/28/13
matchbox 20 was the first band imo to really create shitrock...
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  02/28/13
i feel like that was different though, it was like counting ...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
cr. the op is correct that it only really crystallizes in...
Godawful idiot mexican
  02/28/13
yes, the owl of minerva flies at midnight. i wonder what heg...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
tyft "One more word about giving instruction as to w...
Godawful idiot mexican
  02/28/13
ah dusk. lol i mixed it up with that spy movie cliche
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  02/28/13
titcBroRockScholarship
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  07/14/13
"godsmack, disturbed, staind, orgy," This shit...
Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate
  07/14/13
Wasn't staind more in the creed vain? I only know them from...
curious jet mood site
  07/14/13
look up their breakthrough single "mudshovel": ...
Exhilarant sanctuary
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_d4y46e7k
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  02/28/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjZK_6i37M
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
this is so horrible.
Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate
  07/14/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A
burgundy range
  02/28/13
this was definitely early bro rock
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  02/28/13
Also from the same year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR...
burgundy range
  02/28/13
definitely more mature bro rock, i think buckcherry was prot...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
i'm trying to think back to how they were marketed at the ti...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
yeah, they have their roots in punk, bro rock, ultimately by...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
here is some nascent bro-rock from 1998 http://www.youtube...
Godawful idiot mexican
  02/28/13
yeah; the visual aesthetic changed. bro rockers tended to l...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
they conveniently appropriated the tattoos and shirtlessness...
bateful garnet volcanic crater
  02/28/13
I hated most bro-rock, but loved that song. It still felt m...
curious jet mood site
  02/28/13
yeah...i don't consider that bro-rock. that's a good tune r...
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  09/16/13
this is definitely the credited bridge from grunge to bro. ...
Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate
  07/14/13
i like that one o.a.r. song. is that bro rock?
mind-boggling cyan fat ankles
  02/28/13
not especially
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  02/28/13
:_( I don't understand The peak of the Bush era was 20...
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  02/28/13
solid 153
Godawful idiot mexican
  02/28/13
we've discussed the origins of bro rock more than its apex s...
smoky adventurous round eye
  02/28/13
this shit was awful
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  02/28/13
i think we don't like it just because it was popular and on ...
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  02/28/13
i don't think all bro rock is universally disliked, but a lo...
Exhilarant sanctuary
  03/01/13
Nickelback, POD, Saliva, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Breaking Benj...
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  03/01/13
This thread inspired me to listen to Voodoo by Godsmack for ...
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  03/01/13
lead singer of godsmack is like 5'4"
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they were one of the better/more talented bro rock bands, bu...
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never heard of breaking benjamin
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not missing much honestly http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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i will not bow. lol ty. shit this is like the full on bro ro...
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bros with tapout shirts, shotgunning natty ice, backwards DC...
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omg so horrible.
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this is their only song i recall: http://www.youtube.com/...
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they are a corny bro band but i'd much rather listen to this...
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i've been thinking more about bro rock, and the cultural &qu...
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  07/13/13
180. Please continue this scholarship brother.
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i guess one of the big questions is what would bro rock have...
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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:06 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

i feel like this is solidifying into its own category in retrospect. there were clinton-era precursors, but it really hit its peak during the bush years, before declining.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726387)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:07 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

who were some of the leading lights of bro rock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726390)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:11 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

i'd guess that different people have their own preferences. nickleback was surely the leading group overall. i think the zeitgeist itself was captured by the single "caught in the rain" by revis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn_zhdYFABE

that came out in 2003, and i feel like it captures kind of a post-90's, post-tech boom wounded prosperity. things are still sort of okay, but it's a little different; the sound is a bit more longing maybe. i think a lot of bro rock was either pumped-up party rock (here comes the boom; party hard) or more of this kind of revis stuff (chevelle, 3 doors down, hoobastank).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726399)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 4:17 PM
Author: Balding Sinister Indian Lodge Liquid Oxygen

wonder how many closeted frat bros sucked their first dick while this played

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22729062)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:14 AM
Author: Godawful idiot mexican

this is true.

90s alt rock radio morphed into something truly putrid and unlistenable in the early 2000s. in the late 90s/2000, you still had effeminate alternative bands like Marcy Playground appearing on rock radio. then it turned completely into that deep Pro-Tools wall-of-noise sludge-rock, nickelback shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726408)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:15 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

I LOVE THE WAY YOU SMACK MY ASS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726409)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:16 AM
Author: Godawful idiot mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726412)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:19 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

i find it hard to judge objectively when post-grunge dipped into bilge and became bro rock because i came of age right when good mainstream rock was going extinct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726421)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:34 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

it's an interesting question. it happened fairly quickly once the rupture between bro rock and indie/alternative rock got underway, though.

i think it started around 95/96. cobain was dead, and there was an emerging category of white zombie/korn/RATM music that wasn't metal and wasn't exactly alternative rock, either. especially whenever rap elements showed up.

then within a few years, a bunch of MTV-friendly bro bands started popping up, falling roughly into the rap-rock/DJ category (limp bizkit, incubus, POD, etc.) and the "straight" rock category, sometimes with fear factory-influenced "industrial" elements (basically, late-90's WWF theme music - godsmack, disturbed, staind, orgy, lit, and so on).

90's creed was probably the biggest precursor of the "earnest" or "yearning" school of bro rock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726446)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:40 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

yeah i think that's right. lol at late 90s WWF theme music. i'd like to know which of these bands actually came up through the ranks and which were just shoved on to MTV by labels. like there's no way that brief christian bro rock sub-genre arose organically

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726450)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:59 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

i think a lot of them were bands that existed already, but didn't quite have the right media-friendly sound. but a label saw potential, and gave them a makeover. like how blink-182 and yellowcard both did actual skater punk in the early/mid-90's before being given their new sonic sheen and MTV introductions.

frontline had a documentary from 2001 called the merchants of cool which specifically discussed the origins of limp bizkit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxGjRclN3mw#t=46m

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726478)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 6:48 PM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary

wtf what were fred durst's actual duties as "vice president of interscope records"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22729915)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:43 AM
Author: cream gas station

matchbox 20 was the first band imo to really create shitrock out of alternative/post-grunge and sell a bazillion records

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726453)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:44 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

i feel like that was different though, it was like counting crows, pussy rock for older gen xers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726454)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:46 AM
Author: Godawful idiot mexican

cr.

the op is correct that it only really crystallizes in hindsight.

at the time, living through it, it wasn't clear what was happening. rock radio just began to sound undefinably different: even though bands were superficially still doing the rip-off grunge sound, with the eddie vedder warbling and power-chord guitars, the style/production was changing. the songs were becoming oppressively LOUD, regimented and tuneless.

but you can't really pin it on one band.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726458)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:49 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

yes, the owl of minerva flies at midnight. i wonder what hegel would think of bro rock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726462)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:51 AM
Author: Godawful idiot mexican

tyft

"One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it... When philosophy paints its gloomy picture then a form of life has grown old. It cannot be rejuvenated by the gloomy picture, but only understood. Only when the dusk starts to fall does the owl of Minerva spread its wings and fly."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726466)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:55 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

ah dusk. lol i mixed it up with that spy movie cliche

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726471)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 1:23 AM
Author: Big-titted concupiscible partner meetinghouse

titcBroRockScholarship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23624470)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 3:58 PM
Author: Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate

"godsmack, disturbed, staind, orgy,"

This shit was the worst. Even more vile than nickleback/creed stuff imho.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641781)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 4:16 PM
Author: curious jet mood site

Wasn't staind more in the creed vain? I only know them from those one or two bro ballads, so I didn't think they were as hard/angry as something like Godsmack.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641910)



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Date: July 28th, 2017 10:17 PM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary

look up their breakthrough single "mudshovel":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuAC9YIC2Bs

they took elements of the grunge aesthetic and basically made it louder, blunter, and more polished at the production stage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#33877745)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:18 AM
Author: iridescent swashbuckling weed whacker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_d4y46e7k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726417)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:21 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjZK_6i37M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726426)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 4:06 PM
Author: Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate

this is so horrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641820)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:23 AM
Author: burgundy range

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726431)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:26 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

this was definitely early bro rock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726435)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:34 AM
Author: burgundy range

Also from the same year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGrNDV2mKc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726447)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:42 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

definitely more mature bro rock, i think buckcherry was proto bro rock, it missed the emotive core of bro rock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726451)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:51 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

i'm trying to think back to how they were marketed at the time. i think they tried to present them as a harder-edged party band than pop-punkers like blink-182, new found glory, and the mush that offspring became by the late 90's.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726464)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:54 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

yeah, they have their roots in punk, bro rock, ultimately by way of grunge had its in metal but there's a lot of mixing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726468)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:58 AM
Author: Godawful idiot mexican

here is some nascent bro-rock from 1998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONBYpWeqDi0

when i saw this video i knew something was changing. it was no longer rocker-looking guys w/ long hair, but some douchebags in Mossimo shirts singing a song about date rape (i think), and there is even a rap interlude.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726475)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 6:02 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

yeah; the visual aesthetic changed. bro rockers tended to look a lot frattier. many wore short-cropped hair or even went bald.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726480)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 6:04 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

they conveniently appropriated the tattoos and shirtlessness though to show off their high school jock musculature

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726484)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 4:12 PM
Author: curious jet mood site

I hated most bro-rock, but loved that song. It still felt more melodic, like the mid 90s stuff, compared to shit like Nickelback, Creed, Puddle of Mudd, Hoobastank, 3DD.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22729025)



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Date: September 16th, 2013 3:58 PM
Author: Excitant avocado home bbw

yeah...i don't consider that bro-rock. that's a good tune right there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24061121)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 4:10 PM
Author: Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate

this is definitely the credited bridge from grunge to bro. sponge seems pretty bro in hindsight too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKcUS2Npic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641864)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 6:56 AM
Author: mind-boggling cyan fat ankles

i like that one o.a.r. song. is that bro rock?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22726535)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 3:50 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

not especially

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22728874)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 3:55 PM
Author: aphrodisiac lime stage voyeur

:_(

I don't understand

The peak of the Bush era was 2003-2007. Most of the music you guys are talking about was before that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22728905)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 4:01 PM
Author: Godawful idiot mexican

solid 153

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22728941)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 4:34 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

we've discussed the origins of bro rock more than its apex so far, that's true. but the bush years saw the height of bro rock. there were radio stations that MOSTLY played that kind of bro rock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22729165)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 4:09 PM
Author: Balding Sinister Indian Lodge Liquid Oxygen

this shit was awful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22729001)



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Date: February 28th, 2013 4:22 PM
Author: hairraiser naked property coffee pot

i think we don't like it just because it was popular and on the radio.

do i really wanna listen to some lite-"rock" like vampire weekend instead of something more akin to zeppelin?

no, not really.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22729102)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:32 AM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary

i don't think all bro rock is universally disliked, but a lot of it was awful. does anyone still listen to shit like click click boom?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732700)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:38 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

Nickelback, POD, Saliva, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Breaking Benjamin, Avenged Sevenfold.

All awful awful bands.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732722)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:48 AM
Author: gold legend reading party

This thread inspired me to listen to Voodoo by Godsmack for the first time in like 13 years. I strangely don't find it too bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSUQxGjZZ4

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732761)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:50 AM
Author: high-end boyish blood rage

lead singer of godsmack is like 5'4"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732776)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:51 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

they were one of the better/more talented bro rock bands, but still bro rock.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732786)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:48 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

never heard of breaking benjamin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732762)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:50 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

not missing much honestly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qrRzNidzIc

oh, forgot trapt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTvu1Yr3Ohk

jesus what an awful era.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732781)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:51 AM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater

i will not bow. lol ty. shit this is like the full on bro rock Bush

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732784)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:53 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

bros with tapout shirts, shotgunning natty ice, backwards DC hats,screaming

"not gonna fuckin' bow breh!! not gonna bow!!"

at the FSU sigma chi fraternity hazing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732802)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:56 AM
Author: high-end boyish blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732819)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:57 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

(edited for FSU)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732831)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 11:20 PM
Author: Bipolar Roast Beef Coldplay Fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677728)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 11:29 PM
Author: curious jet mood site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677800)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 4:15 PM
Author: Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate

omg so horrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641905)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:51 AM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary

this is their only song i recall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTiGlNDnOtE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732785)



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Date: March 1st, 2013 12:56 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

they are a corny bro band but i'd much rather listen to this than anything by nickelback

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#22732817)



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Date: May 14th, 2013 12:42 AM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23194364)



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Date: May 22nd, 2013 5:26 PM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23249930)



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Date: May 22nd, 2013 6:07 PM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

If I go crazy will you still call me superman breh?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23250169)



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Date: July 13th, 2013 2:22 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

i've been thinking more about bro rock, and the cultural "mood" it accompanied. and i've been thinking about early 2000's infomercials, especially the ones focused on real estate. i think the common thread is faux emotionalism.

bro rock was emotive ersatz for a really disingenuous age. especially after 9/11, there was a brief hysterical kill-them-all impulse, but that faded into confusion rather shortly. so we had one strain of very aggressive, metallic bro rock, but it was also polished and produced to the point where it sounded like a disney song on "hard" mode or something.

this was an obvious act of fakery, but it was consonant with its era, because the prevailing emotional temper itself was faked. this was directly related to our ersatz economy in the form of the real estate bubble of the early 2000's.

we were going through the motions, as it were, of things we believed we were supposed to be doing. iraq was a "going through the motions" kind of war - the country didn't REALLY want it, but when you've been hit, you're SUPPOSED to hit back, right?

the economy felt weird and unstable, but the rising markets informed us that we were SUPPOSED to feel prosperous.

bro rock was a simulation of rock in a very similar way. it's like a paint-by-numbers kind of genre in which the songs held the hand of the listener and directed him very bluntly how to feel during those confusing times.

and it was accepted at the time, since no one seemed to know any better.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23605553)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 4:18 PM
Author: Razzle fantasy-prone degenerate

180. Please continue this scholarship brother.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641928)



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Date: August 4th, 2013 7:35 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

i guess one of the big questions is what would bro rock have looked like if the 90's boom years had never ended, 9/11 never took place, and so forth. late 90's bro rock was qualitatively different from the kind of bro rock which came rather quickly afterwards.

my theory is that bro rock as we saw it in the 90's was at least in part an attempt to revive the pre-grunge rock movement typified by GNR and so forth, but using modern accoutrements which fit the spirit of the age. limp bizkit, so far as i am concerned, was its generation's stab at a motley crue or something similar (though significantly shittier).

but after terrorism/economic decline became a more dominant mode in our culture, bro rock wasn't sure how to proceed. so we had a whiplash effect going on between ball-swinging bravado and emo whinery, sometimes within the same song.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23780157)



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Date: November 1st, 2013 6:08 PM
Author: bateful garnet volcanic crater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24350362)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 10:08 PM
Author: Wild lodge

tyft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677161)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 10:08 PM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677167)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 10:13 PM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

Some might contend bro rock really began pre 911 though, with strong precedents like Creed, early Papa Roach, early 3 Doors Down and even Limp Bizkit/early Linkin Park influencing the movement to an extent.

How much of a catalyst do you think 911 was in sparking bro-rock?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677220)



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Date: February 16th, 2014 5:14 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

bro rock was well underway by that point, but it is interesting how the post-9/11 era sparked a bunch of bro rock songs that were basically revenge fantasies. "click click boom" is probably the most famous example, but there are others.

what it did, perhaps, was finally kill the "alternative rock" format as it had existed since around 1991. generic bro rock took the bulk of that cultural "space," while interpol/strokes/white stripes/etc. were broken off into the misnomer category of "indie" rock - more or less post-alternative non-bro rock.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#25029904)



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Date: July 28th, 2017 11:39 PM
Author: curious jet mood site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#33878137)



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Date: August 23rd, 2014 4:08 AM
Author: Supple Dead Travel Guidebook Theatre

whoa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#26188778)



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Date: August 23rd, 2014 4:14 AM
Author: blue hyperactive church building

told you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#26188826)



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Date: November 4th, 2017 10:40 PM
Author: translucent offensive jew plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#34606408)



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Date: July 13th, 2013 5:29 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23609370)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 1:17 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

here's some classic bro rock in recognition of zimmerman's victory tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdmG0k8S8k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23624415)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 2:11 PM
Author: clear arrogant whorehouse gaming laptop

WGWAG WGWAG ZIMMERHERO WINS LETS POST MORE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23629393)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 2:11 PM
Author: clear arrogant whorehouse gaming laptop

WGWAG WGWAG ZIMMERHERO WINS LETS POST MORE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23629394)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 3:51 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

wait a minute which thread title keyword got bumped here? "bush"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641735)



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Date: July 14th, 2013 4:01 PM
Author: Fishy box office

pummos actually dropping some real musical knowledge in this thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#23641790)



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Date: September 16th, 2013 3:50 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24061066)



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Date: November 1st, 2013 5:55 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

HEADSTRONG...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24350306)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 9:53 PM
Author: Wild lodge

I'LL TAKE ON ANYONE BREH!! ANYONE!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677039)



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Date: November 25th, 2013 4:22 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24509454)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 9:46 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24676986)



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Date: December 19th, 2013 11:14 PM
Author: Soggy genital piercing point

OP is a scholar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#24677671)



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Date: February 16th, 2014 5:15 PM
Author: Nudist infuriating newt principal's office

everyone ITT is a fucking faggot who needs to have their niggerheads blown off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#25029915)



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Date: February 16th, 2014 5:23 PM
Author: glittery theater stage faggotry

Kind of a dearth of actual identified Bush Era Bro Rock bands and songs here. Nobody has really offered up a superlative specimen or representative list. Too much pussfooting around with discussion of where it came from, proto-influences, and aesthetics. Somebody propose a Bro Rock canon or this thread is all wasted potential.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#25029980)



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Date: July 2nd, 2014 5:14 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYIxUM-CnSw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#25859352)



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Date: September 20th, 2014 11:10 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#26365214)



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Date: September 20th, 2014 11:20 PM
Author: Frum Piazza

this is the bro rock scholarship the world has been waiting for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#26365263)



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Date: October 18th, 2014 12:01 AM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#26539774)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 1:26 AM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#28235732)



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Date: November 17th, 2015 11:40 PM
Author: useless market feces

basically RSF entrance music when he logs on for a night of megaposting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#29204808)



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Date: July 28th, 2017 9:41 PM
Author: Talented slate wrinkle

Scholarly thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#33877563)



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Date: July 28th, 2017 9:44 PM
Author: provocative affirmative action

Finger Eleven - Paralyzer

https://youtu.be/BJk6gZuPKRE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#33877593)



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Date: November 27th, 2020 9:05 PM
Author: Exhilarant sanctuary

lol @ this, in retrospect, being the last gasp of a golden era.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#41447841)



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Date: August 21st, 2022 10:12 PM
Author: Hot church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#45049775)



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Date: June 6th, 2023 11:13 PM
Author: smoky adventurous round eye

zoomers are actually nostalgizing nu-metal in the way that millennials nostalgized 80's music. it's kind of grim and hilarious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2194688&forum_id=2#46397748)