POLL: Monsters of '00s post-grunge

i voted creed; they've brought me the most pure joy over the years.

haha cool

snrub, you diabolical...

i really like one daughtry song, so he wins by fedault

best Nickelback song: "Photograph"
best Shinedown song: "Second Chance"
best Godsmack song: "I Stand Alone"
best Creed song: "My Sacrifice"
best Daughtry song: "What I Want"
best Seether song: "Fake It"
best Three Days Grace song: "Lost In You"
best Staind song: "Mudshovel"
best Breaking Benjamin song: Before Breaking Benjamin, Ben Burnley was a solo performer. He later came up with the band's name, "Breaking Benjamin," after doing a performance of a Nirvana cover. At the end of the performance, Ben knocked over and cracked a microphone he had borrowed. The owner of the microphone walked onto the stage and said, "I'd like to thank Benjamin for breaking my fucking microphone."[1]

which Daughtry song, jordan

Only one of them brought us this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZ3A06Wkdc

weirdly i gotta vote creed too because at least stapp brought some lols whereas all these other bands are an indistinguishable blur of vedder-isms and unfortunate facial hair

Creed really own this category, whatever it is. Nickelback is probably the runner-up, but whereas I can occasionally enjoy the pure silliness of Creed, Nickelback is like a soulless computer program.

im crippled by an implacable sadness

how is there no hoobastank on here?

you are all v sick people, seek help

holy shit @ video ENBB posted

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

Hoobastank weren't really grunge, they were basically Incubus lite

man there was a time that "so cold" was maybe the best new song playing on this alternative/nu-metal station in vegas

i think i can point to "well that's all right, let's give this another try" as like the textbook example of how to make a bad song worse

seether is probably the most unforgivable of this bunch for me.

oh wait where's SALIVA, you guys

which Daughtry song, jordan

― yelling "free dom passy" til you know i'm aspie (some dude), Monday, July 25, 2011 10:45 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

"it's not over", for having a chorus w/ more tricks than you could reasonably expect

all the bands in this poll have at least eight top 10 mainstream rock hits, usually more (except Daughtry, who has mostly adult contempo hits). Saliva and Hoobastank just don't rate with five and three, respectively.

yeah "it's not over" is decent. i like "what i want" best even though the slash guest spot is kind of squandered.

btw where's my homie markers

Creed owns this for comedy value alone

the rest of these bands could be shot into the sun for all i care

lb knows what's up

Nickleback are so ridiculous

btw where's my homie markers

― yelling "free dom passy" til you know i'm aspie (some dude)

just saw this! voted for staind. creed would be second out of these for me

i like at least one song from each of these bands -- more than one for a bunch of them

this entire crew has one good song between them and it's "I Stand Alone" by Godsmack

no Puddle of Mudd, no credd

apparently they have TEN top 10 mainstream rock hits :L

"i stand alone" probably isn't even the best godsmack song!

Staind.

the lols I got from Creed died the instant I walked into a "cool" megachurch where people were waving their hands to a live cover of "My Sacrifice"

no Puddle of Mudd, no credd

― een, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:05 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

apparently they have TEN top 10 mainstream rock hits :L

― een, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aw dude i fucked up, forgot about mudd

Nickelback. It's sad he was ugly.

These all put me in David Cross/Evanescence territory. Un-voteable poll.

I would have had to vote Puddle of Mudd because my short-lived cover band used to do "She Hates Me" (NB: not my idea) and I now enjoy that song due to forced exposure/Stockholm Syndrome

Nickelback is a frustrating band in that they are better than they should be, but that doesn't really save them from being horribly, horribly irritating.

voting the dude who was ready to fight 311

(on pure singing chops I'd have gone Daughtry; that dude is the definition of "wasted talent" re: his vocal ability vs his songs)

No Hinder?

Also, Leader of Men is the best Nickleback song.

Hinder never happened

at least, that is what we're telling ourselves

Video is LOL, but I love this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQpfoqsY8Q

And were Theory of a Deadman popular outside of Canada? I'm too lazy to look it up.

xp: Got into "Outside" through rap mixtapes using this backing track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHmxAx5snSY

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lol @ ppl who voted 4 nickelback

creed & staind r both good choices

Voted for Nickelback because they're by far the most lol-worthy tbh

:)

This is kinda like deciding whether I wanna hitch a ride w/ Pestilence or Famine

God, "post-grunge" is fucking dire. Leave it to the most godawful 10 years of rock radio imaginable to make Creed look almost good (or at least tolerable) in retrospect. Where do these bands come from? How is it that they don't bore themselves to death?

And were Theory of a Deadman popular outside of Canada? I'm too lazy to look it up.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:38 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

they're moderately popular, kind of on the 2nd tier of post-grunge bands along w/ Saliva so not big enough for this poll (Hinder even further down the pecking order and also more nu-cock rock than post-grunge)

I will admit to liking Creed's first one, even though it's horribly generic. But Scott Stapp is such an arrogant tool, it's almost like I want to not like him. Some of his 'introspective' lyrics are just facepalm-y. "Only in America, we kill the unborn to make ends meet" (um wrong, hundreds of countries, including even small Guinea-Bisseau allow it for socio-economic purposes).

the one time I saw them live, he made some pseudo-new age hippie speech before "Higher" about how he wanted us to leave our bodies with him and ascend to a higher plane. Was hard not to laugh.

and then there was the time he proclaimed he kicked Eddie Vedder's ass during a live streaming Yahoo Interview with fans.

shame, Mark Tremonti wrote some kinda catchy (albeit derivative) riffs on My Own Prison.

God, "post-grunge" is fucking dire. Leave it to the most godawful 10 years of rock radio imaginable to make Creed look almost good (or at least tolerable) in retrospect. Where do these bands come from? How is it that they don't bore themselves to death?

― Ben D Housing Things (thewufs)

http://i.imgur.com/riHjR.jpg

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-avenue-ceiling-collapses-during-theory-deadman-show-minneapolis-n408956

This Tuesday I’ll be heading to Blossom to see Breaking Benjamin with Three Days Grace opening. Is there anything I can possibly do to make this evening bearable?

I've heard that drugs and alcohol will work.