I'm 100% Behind This

"Remember, back in the 90's, when grunge broke, and there was this whole slew of bands leading the charge-- Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, etc.? And you liked a lot of them...I mean, they were good bands. Sure, they were just borrowing from older influences, like Sabbath or the Stooges or whatever, but that's just how rock and roll works; the new sounds are always informed by those that preceded them.

But then, after that first or second wave of bands, you started to get that next wave; the "copies of copies," like Stone Temple Pilots, or Collective Soul, or Creed. And sure, technically, they met all the same criteria as those earlier bands, but still, they were just... a bit hollow. They just lacked... something. Like a xerox of a xerox, the important details got lost, and you were left with this sort of bland facsimile of something better.

Take note, Indie Rock is in that same phase right now." -Catbirdseat.com, June 15th.

And I don't really even like grunge that much - but the part about how a lot of the music is empty now-a-days, I'm definitely feeling that.