These bands over here...

I don't expect anyone to agree on this subject but I was curious.

Other than "CRAP" what type of music do you call bands like...

LINKIN PARK
GODSMACK
STAIND
STONE SOUR
PUDDLE OF MUDD, etc.


I call this music "Contractor rock". The reason being is when you see a contractor working on a house, 9 times out of 10 this kind of music is cranked in the background. Check on it, I'm right.

Some people call this stuff metal, but I don't. It's too contrived and somehow not authentic sounding to my ears. There's a cat that I went to school with that listens to this stuff and refers to himself as a metalhead. I'm not sure why someone would want to label themselves as such but to each their own. This stuff isn't metal, IMO.

By the way, if you like these bands. That's fine. Don't get your balls in a sling over this topic, I'm honestly curious.

Like it or not, it's what is considered Rock or Hard Rock music today...calling it Modern Rock is tempting, but all in all, it's Rock or Hard Rock IMO...nothing Alt or Post-Alt or anything else about it...

Some would even put GODSMACK and STONESOUR into the Metal category these days...

"modern hard rock" I guess.

I would say Modern Rock as well since I cant use the "Crap" term.Haha.
Seriously though I like some of Stone Sours stuff.

I would use the dreaded nu-metal tag, expect for Puddle of Mud which is really more of modern day version of pop metal. I would also call it Clear Channel rock since this is all they play on rock stations.

Modern hard rock.

I would probably label Linkin' Park kiddie metal.

I'd call them "A Plague Spawned from the Bowels of Satan Himself" but that's probably just me.

I think modern hard rock/metal is about right.

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I call this music "Contractor rock".
The reason being is when you see a contractor working on a house, 9
times out of 10 this kind of music is cranked in the background. Check
on it, I'm right.

Except in West Texas....10/10 either Country or Tejano!!

spectrefate wrote:

I call this music "Contractor rock". The reason being is when you see a contractor working on a house, 9 times out of 10 this kind of music is cranked in the background. Check on it, I'm right.

True. I would also put Nickelback in that catagory.

Fat Freddy wrote:

I'd call them "A Plague Spawned from the Bowels of Satan Himself" but that's probably just me.

Naaaaaaaa yer not alone......count me in!

nu-metal is an interchangeble word for crap.

I think the only nu-metal album I ever liked was Kitties first album spit.

modern rock

ultmetal wrote:

Modern hard rock.

yep

I usually call it garbage.

sam wrote:

I usually call it garbage.

Sorry Sam that name is already taken up by Shirley Manson and her lads.

manny wrote:

sam wrote:

I usually call it garbage.

Sorry Sam that name is already taken up by Shirley Manson and her lads.

how about refuse?

I stand alone on this thread but I don't mind Godsmack, Puddle of Mud or Stone Sour, I am not a major fan but I do like some of their music.

I would label them nu-metal if I had to attach a genre to their name, but I view them as this generation's pop metal movement. It is made to be radio friendly corporate rock, with hints (small) of rebellion.

Not preferred genre but I do own CDS by all three of these bands. Now excuse me I have put my balls in a sling.

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Now excuse me I have put my balls in a sling

I've found that this sensation isn't as negative as one would think.

manny wrote:

I stand alone on this thread but I don't mind Godsmack, Puddle of Mud or Stone Sour, I am not a major fan but I do like some of their music.

I would label them nu-metal if I had to attach a genre to their name, but I view them as this generation's pop metal movement. It is made to be radio friendly corporate rock, with hints (small) of rebellion.

Not preferred genre but I do own CDS by all three of these bands. Now excuse me I have put my balls in a sling.

You don't stand alone. I like many of these bands as well.

spectrefate wrote:

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Now excuse me I have put my balls in a sling

I've found that this sensation isn't as negative as one would think.

manny wrote:

I stand alone on this thread but I don't mind Godsmack, Puddle of Mud or Stone Sour, I am not a major fan but I do like some of their music.

I would label them nu-metal if I had to attach a genre to their name, but I view them as this generation's pop metal movement. It is made to be radio friendly corporate rock, with hints (small) of rebellion.

Not preferred genre but I do own CDS by all three of these bands. Now excuse me I have put my balls in a sling.

i enjoy songs from these bands as well. POM is more a modern grunge band but all those bands are def Modern Rock with hints of metal except for POM they have no metal in them.

Contractor music! That's funny because I wrote here this summer how I was trapped in my house for three days hearing this stuff while the roofing contractors were playing thier boombox on my roof. I got a headache from it.
To be fair there is probably a lot of modern rock that is better than what gets played on the radio. Radio seems to go to the lowest common denominator of any genre. With this in mind bought a bunch of them at Wal Mart and dumped them in my "rainy day" box, where they have been sitting for six months now. Some day when I'm bored I'll listen to them and form a more informed opinion. As of now there are several lesser known alt-nu-modern hard rock bands that I like quite a bit.

For the most part, I call this type of music a cure for insomnia. Each band mentioned has a song here or there that I like but for a whole CD...

Yeah, modern hard rock sounds about right. Godsmack might fall into the metal category, but that's open for debate.