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Bro rock from the Bush years

i feel like this is solidifying into its own category in ret...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
who were some of the leading lights of bro rock
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
i'd guess that different people have their own preferences. ...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
wonder how many closeted frat bros sucked their first dick w...
mint idiotic trump supporter plaza
  02/28/13
this is true. 90s alt rock radio morphed into something t...
bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke
  02/28/13
I LOVE THE WAY YOU SMACK MY ASS
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bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke
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i find it hard to judge objectively when post-grunge dipped ...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
it's an interesting question. it happened fairly quickly on...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
yeah i think that's right. lol at late 90s WWF theme music. ...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
i think a lot of them were bands that existed already, but d...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
wtf what were fred durst's actual duties as "vice presi...
Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth
  02/28/13
matchbox 20 was the first band imo to really create shitrock...
mauve aromatic boiling water
  02/28/13
i feel like that was different though, it was like counting ...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
cr. the op is correct that it only really crystallizes in...
bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke
  02/28/13
yes, the owl of minerva flies at midnight. i wonder what heg...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
tyft "One more word about giving instruction as to w...
bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke
  02/28/13
ah dusk. lol i mixed it up with that spy movie cliche
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
titcBroRockScholarship
stimulating school cafeteria
  07/14/13
"godsmack, disturbed, staind, orgy," This shit...
Nighttime spot
  07/14/13
Wasn't staind more in the creed vain? I only know them from...
lime splenetic giraffe rehab
  07/14/13
look up their breakthrough single "mudshovel": ...
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  07/28/17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_d4y46e7k
Puce stage azn
  02/28/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjZK_6i37M
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
this is so horrible.
Nighttime spot
  07/14/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABZfkRcQ6A
fighting corn cake
  02/28/13
this was definitely early bro rock
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
Also from the same year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR...
fighting corn cake
  02/28/13
definitely more mature bro rock, i think buckcherry was prot...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
i'm trying to think back to how they were marketed at the ti...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
yeah, they have their roots in punk, bro rock, ultimately by...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
here is some nascent bro-rock from 1998 http://www.youtube...
bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke
  02/28/13
yeah; the visual aesthetic changed. bro rockers tended to l...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
they conveniently appropriated the tattoos and shirtlessness...
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  02/28/13
I hated most bro-rock, but loved that song. It still felt m...
lime splenetic giraffe rehab
  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. ...
Nighttime spot
  07/14/13
i like that one o.a.r. song. is that bro rock?
Stirring Mustard Bawdyhouse
  02/28/13
not especially
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
:_( I don't understand The peak of the Bush era was 20...
Rusted coldplay fan
  02/28/13
solid 153
bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke
  02/28/13
we've discussed the origins of bro rock more than its apex s...
dull elastic band
  02/28/13
this shit was awful
mint idiotic trump supporter plaza
  02/28/13
i think we don't like it just because it was popular and on ...
balding canary pit crotch
  02/28/13
i don't think all bro rock is universally disliked, but a lo...
Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth
  03/01/13
Nickelback, POD, Saliva, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Breaking Benj...
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This thread inspired me to listen to Voodoo by Godsmack for ...
angry senate mexican
  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...
Dun Shaky Becky Theater
  03/01/13
never heard of breaking benjamin
Contagious mildly autistic boistinker
  03/01/13
not missing much honestly http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Dun Shaky Becky Theater
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i will not bow. lol ty. shit this is like the full on bro ro...
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  03/01/13
bros with tapout shirts, shotgunning natty ice, backwards DC...
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lime splenetic giraffe rehab
  12/19/13
omg so horrible.
Nighttime spot
  07/14/13
this is their only song i recall: http://www.youtube.com/...
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  03/01/13
they are a corny bro band but i'd much rather listen to this...
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  05/22/13
i've been thinking more about bro rock, and the cultural &qu...
dull elastic band
  07/13/13
180. Please continue this scholarship brother.
Nighttime spot
  07/14/13
i guess one of the big questions is what would bro rock have...
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Some might contend bro rock really began pre 911 though, wit...
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bro rock was well underway by that point, but it is interest...
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Date: February 28th, 2013 5:06 AM
Author: dull elastic band

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: dull elastic band

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: mint idiotic trump supporter plaza

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: bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke



(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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: dull elastic band

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: dull elastic band

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth

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: mauve aromatic boiling water

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: stimulating school cafeteria

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: Nighttime spot

"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: lime splenetic giraffe rehab

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth

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: Puce stage azn

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: Nighttime spot

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: fighting corn cake

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: fighting corn cake

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: dull elastic band

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke

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: dull elastic band

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: lime splenetic giraffe rehab

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: sepia garrison turdskin

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: Nighttime spot

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: Stirring Mustard Bawdyhouse

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: dull elastic band

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: Rusted coldplay fan

:_(

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: bespoke orchestra pit yarmulke

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: dull elastic band

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: mint idiotic trump supporter plaza

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: balding canary pit crotch

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: angry senate mexican

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: Domesticated theater stage famous landscape painting

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: Domesticated theater stage famous landscape painting



(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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

(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: grizzly fat ankles meetinghouse



(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: lime splenetic giraffe rehab



(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: Nighttime spot

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth



(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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth



(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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: dull elastic band

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: Nighttime spot

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: dull elastic band

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: Contagious mildly autistic boistinker



(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: Avocado Doobsian Faggot Firefighter Principal's Office

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: dull elastic band

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: lime splenetic giraffe rehab



(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: out-of-control international law enforcement agency

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: Dun Shaky Becky Theater

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: sapphire razzle-dazzle private investor



(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: dull elastic band



(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: dull elastic band

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: transparent menage

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: transparent menage

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: dull elastic band

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: Big demanding nursing home

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: dull elastic band



(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: dull elastic band

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: Avocado Doobsian Faggot Firefighter Principal's Office

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: dull elastic band



(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: dull elastic band



(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: Purple Wrinkle

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: Deep church

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: flushed provocative therapy forum

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: dull elastic band

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: dull elastic band



(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: Slippery field

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: dull elastic band

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth



(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: Offensive pea-brained native affirmative action

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: Carnelian half-breed lay

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: blathering boltzmann corner

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: Chest-beating Submissive Ticket Booth

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: tantric crackhouse



(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: dull elastic band

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)