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Bro rock from the Bush years

i feel like this is solidifying into its own category in ret...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
who were some of the leading lights of bro rock
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
i'd guess that different people have their own preferences. ...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
wonder how many closeted frat bros sucked their first dick w...
Contagious reading party den
  02/28/13
this is true. 90s alt rock radio morphed into something t...
submissive trip becky
  02/28/13
I LOVE THE WAY YOU SMACK MY ASS
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  02/28/13
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submissive trip becky
  02/28/13
i find it hard to judge objectively when post-grunge dipped ...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
it's an interesting question. it happened fairly quickly on...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
yeah i think that's right. lol at late 90s WWF theme music. ...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
i think a lot of them were bands that existed already, but d...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
wtf what were fred durst's actual duties as "vice presi...
domesticated national
  02/28/13
matchbox 20 was the first band imo to really create shitrock...
stimulating sweet tailpipe
  02/28/13
i feel like that was different though, it was like counting ...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
cr. the op is correct that it only really crystallizes in...
submissive trip becky
  02/28/13
yes, the owl of minerva flies at midnight. i wonder what heg...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
tyft "One more word about giving instruction as to w...
submissive trip becky
  02/28/13
ah dusk. lol i mixed it up with that spy movie cliche
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
titcBroRockScholarship
floppy sienna depressive international law enforcement agency
  07/14/13
"godsmack, disturbed, staind, orgy," This shit...
Jet trust fund sneaky criminal
  07/14/13
Wasn't staind more in the creed vain? I only know them from...
dashing green theater
  07/14/13
look up their breakthrough single "mudshovel": ...
domesticated national
  07/28/17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_d4y46e7k
tan french chef
  02/28/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjZK_6i37M
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
this is so horrible.
Jet trust fund sneaky criminal
  07/14/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A
Buck-toothed clear range lettuce
  02/28/13
this was definitely early bro rock
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
Also from the same year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR...
Buck-toothed clear range lettuce
  02/28/13
definitely more mature bro rock, i think buckcherry was prot...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
i'm trying to think back to how they were marketed at the ti...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
yeah, they have their roots in punk, bro rock, ultimately by...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
here is some nascent bro-rock from 1998 http://www.youtube...
submissive trip becky
  02/28/13
yeah; the visual aesthetic changed. bro rockers tended to l...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
they conveniently appropriated the tattoos and shirtlessness...
nubile piazza
  02/28/13
I hated most bro-rock, but loved that song. It still felt m...
dashing green theater
  02/28/13
yeah...i don't consider that bro-rock. that's a good tune r...
angry legal warrant house
  09/16/13
this is definitely the credited bridge from grunge to bro. ...
Jet trust fund sneaky criminal
  07/14/13
i like that one o.a.r. song. is that bro rock?
Snowy Adulterous Digit Ratio
  02/28/13
not especially
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
:_( I don't understand The peak of the Bush era was 20...
lascivious rebellious preventive strike orchestra pit
  02/28/13
solid 153
submissive trip becky
  02/28/13
we've discussed the origins of bro rock more than its apex s...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  02/28/13
this shit was awful
Contagious reading party den
  02/28/13
i think we don't like it just because it was popular and on ...
big henna area
  02/28/13
i don't think all bro rock is universally disliked, but a lo...
domesticated national
  03/01/13
Nickelback, POD, Saliva, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Breaking Benj...
adventurous turquoise black woman legend
  03/01/13
This thread inspired me to listen to Voodoo by Godsmack for ...
Passionate azure senate newt
  03/01/13
lead singer of godsmack is like 5'4"
ultramarine bawdyhouse gunner
  03/01/13
they were one of the better/more talented bro rock bands, bu...
adventurous turquoise black woman legend
  03/01/13
never heard of breaking benjamin
nubile piazza
  03/01/13
not missing much honestly http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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  03/01/13
i will not bow. lol ty. shit this is like the full on bro ro...
nubile piazza
  03/01/13
bros with tapout shirts, shotgunning natty ice, backwards DC...
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dashing green theater
  12/19/13
omg so horrible.
Jet trust fund sneaky criminal
  07/14/13
this is their only song i recall: http://www.youtube.com/...
domesticated national
  03/01/13
they are a corny bro band but i'd much rather listen to this...
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  05/22/13
If I go crazy will you still call me superman breh?
adventurous turquoise black woman legend
  05/22/13
i've been thinking more about bro rock, and the cultural &qu...
excitant overrated space fanboi
  07/13/13
180. Please continue this scholarship brother.
Jet trust fund sneaky criminal
  07/14/13
i guess one of the big questions is what would bro rock have...
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  11/01/13
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galvanic main people
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adventurous turquoise black woman legend
  12/19/13
Some might contend bro rock really began pre 911 though, wit...
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  12/19/13
bro rock was well underway by that point, but it is interest...
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  07/13/13
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  07/14/13
pummos actually dropping some real musical knowledge in this...
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  02/16/14
Kind of a dearth of actual identified Bush Era Bro Rock band...
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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:06 AM
Author: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: nubile piazza

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: Contagious reading party den

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: submissive trip becky

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: nubile piazza

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: submissive trip becky



(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: nubile piazza

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: nubile piazza

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: domesticated national

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: stimulating sweet tailpipe

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: nubile piazza

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: submissive trip becky

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: nubile piazza

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: submissive trip becky

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: nubile piazza

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: floppy sienna depressive international law enforcement agency

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: Jet trust fund sneaky criminal

"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: dashing green theater

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: domesticated national

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: tan french chef

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: nubile piazza

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: Jet trust fund sneaky criminal

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: Buck-toothed clear range lettuce

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: nubile piazza

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: Buck-toothed clear range lettuce

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: nubile piazza

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: nubile piazza

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: submissive trip becky

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: nubile piazza

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: dashing green theater

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: angry legal warrant house

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: Jet trust fund sneaky criminal

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: Snowy Adulterous Digit Ratio

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: lascivious rebellious preventive strike orchestra pit

:_(

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: submissive trip becky

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: Contagious reading party den

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: big henna area

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: domesticated national

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: Passionate azure senate newt

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: ultramarine bawdyhouse gunner

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: nubile piazza

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: nubile piazza

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: ultramarine bawdyhouse gunner



(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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

(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: Heady Bright Garrison



(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: dashing green theater



(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: Jet trust fund sneaky criminal

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: domesticated national

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: domesticated national



(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: domesticated national



(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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: Jet trust fund sneaky criminal

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: nubile piazza



(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: galvanic main people

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: dashing green theater



(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: Claret Bateful Hissy Fit Athletic Conference

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: adventurous turquoise black woman legend

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: aphrodisiac white roast beef



(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: excitant overrated space fanboi



(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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: Laughsome station really tough guy

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: Laughsome station really tough guy

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: dull multi-colored quadroon fat ankles

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: excitant overrated space fanboi



(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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: galvanic main people

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: excitant overrated space fanboi



(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: excitant overrated space fanboi



(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: Beady-eyed violent trump supporter alpha

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: Crusty Sick Gas Station

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: chestnut charismatic son of senegal hominid

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: excitant overrated space fanboi



(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: olive jew locale

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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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: domesticated national



(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: stirring lodge

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: poppy exhilarant pisswyrm

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: Chartreuse Vibrant Nursing Home

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: domesticated national

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: indigo cuck nibblets



(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: excitant overrated space fanboi

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)