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Nick-Valentine
"Tag abuse" is the reason. Many, even long-time users on Last.fm, do not understand how the tag system works. It is essentially democratic: the tags used most often are the ones that appear. So, for example, if ten people tag Eminem as techno, but only five tag him as hip hop, then techno will show up first. That is why it is so important to tag things yourself. I use the Last.fm Mass Tagger for PC (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lastfmmasstag) to do it. The charts on a tag page are determined by which artists, albums and tracks are tagged most frequently with that term. They have nothing to do with popularity, listener counts or scrobbles. That is why the system is so vulnerable to abuse. For example, in November 2024, I was the first to use the tag "vintage pop" on Last.fm, intended for pop music from the 1920s, '30s and '40s. The top artist now is River Westin, some lad younger than me.
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Nick-Valentine
Alanis Morissette is not typically considered post-grunge. Her music, particularly her breakthrough album "Jagged Little Pill" (1995), is more closely aligned with alternative rock, pop rock, and confessional singer-songwriter styles. While she emerged in the mid-1990s during the same era as post-grunge bands like Bush or Silverchair, her sound lacks the heavy, distorted guitar riffs and grunge-inspired aesthetic that define post-grunge. Instead, her work emphasizes emotional lyricism, melodic hooks, and a polished production style, setting her apart from the post-grunge movement.
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Nick-Valentine
There hasn’t been a distinct "post-grunge revival" in the way other genres like grunge or pop-punk have seen revivals, but elements of post-grunge have persisted and evolved within rock music. Post-grunge, which emerged in the mid-1990s as a more polished, radio-friendly offshoot of grunge, peaked commercially in the late 1990s and early 2000s with bands like Creed, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, and Puddle of Mudd. Its influence never fully faded, as its accessible sound became embedded in mainstream rock. No major post-grunge revival is evident as of 2025, but its influence persists in mainstream rock and could resurface subtly if 1990s/2000s nostalgia cycles intensify or if a new band reinvents its sound for a modern audience, perhaps by 2028–2030. For now, bands like Shinedown and cultural nostalgia keep its spirit alive without a distinct revival movement.
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Nick-Valentine
Wrong! A magical device called a keyboard, paired with the refusal to let social media wreck my language, and the simple fact that I’m not lazy enough to abbreviate every word. Oh, and let’s not forget my considerable music knowledge from over 30 years of collecting. But noted on your resentment.
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Nick-Valentine
But the fact that you and more and more people almost reflexively think of AI when someone can articulate themselves properly makes it painfully clear how far linguistic decline has already progressed in a single generation. You could do something about it, of course, but that would require first recognising there's a need for action.
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Willgregg10
I really don’t like this kind of music in retrospect but seether was the first band I ever seen live so that’s that.
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ChaosDevin
Post-grunge is cool. I like Foo Fighters, Seether, Collective Soul and Finger Eleven. Breaking Benjamin too, gotta listen to at least one of their albums. I only like them thanks to a PS2 WWE video game soundtrack. I'm a bit selective when it comes to post-grunge. I'm going through the pages of the top artists and I don't recognize most if not all of the bands, except I recognize bands I see in the top albums and top tracks.
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bobo9390
There's definitely 2 distinct eras of this genre. Most of the mid-late 90s stuff (Collective Soul, Seven Mary Three, Days Of The New) just sounds like Grunge with most accessible songwriting. Some of it is pretty good. But by the mid 00s most Post-Grunge bands had more common with corny 80s rock like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard with goofy party songs about sex and drinking or fake anthemic serious songs. I'm not quite sure who invented that style. Nickelback? Buckcherry?
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sIowdeath
i was growing up in early-mid 2000s, post grunge was phased out by newer alternative/indie rock so I gravitated towards the newer stuff and disliked the older stuff but recently im revisiting music i listened to 20 years ago and forgot about since so hey maybe I'll give it a shot too
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Parabellum13x
Alter Bridge sounds like Iron Maiden and Lez Zeppelin had a child that sometimes dabbles in prog, the fuck are they doing here?
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nfopuhfxir
Worst genre of music. Allot of other “bad” genres are at least bad in an interesting way. This genre manages to be both unlistenable and put you to sleep.
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ScrobbleAddict
Am I the only one here who likes some of that genre?🤣 But I agree the name is stupid, it has nothing to do with grunge.
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meikaelaeinen
Nope, I like it too now. 20 years ago it annoyed the f*** out of me but now those same songs remind me of those golden years of youth... 😁
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crimsonmaestro
What are the subjective and contextual merits of this kind music? What needs did it fulfill for those who enjoyed it?
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crimsonmaestro
It's really easy to pass quick judgement and to come to a dismissive conclusion about this kind of music. It's already 2016, way past the point where this period of music should offend us, like how bad 80's new wave for example did in the past . We should be asking more questions, like, how and why was a flaccid music style like this able to manifest? What does it say about the cultural, political, economic, and etc climate of the times?
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crimsonmaestro
Despite what our opinions are on this weird period of music is, our disgust, or our curiosity of why people are disgusted, should lead us to fascination and anaysis.
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kirstensnow
34 love messages to post-grunge...... i think you like this genre? maybe? not sure
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