Seether are a "post-grunge" band from South Africa. "Post-grunge" just seems to mean the type of radio-friendly grunge that was everywhere in the '90s. Seether supposedly named themselves after the Veruca Salt song "Seether," which is both baffling and illuminating.
Grade: B
Best YouTube Comment: "This song makes me want to drive…Don't ask why…Speeding btw…" — HemiRam98
Rock music is really taking a beating right now! The latest assailant: Patrick Carney, drummer for upcoming Rolling Stone cover boys The Black Keys. Take it away, Pat:
Genres must be judged on their terms. Just as we have with recent country and latin-pop charts, this week we grade Billboard's top 10 rock songs. The '90s are owning! The top three songs are the Last Man Standing of rock: nostalgic, familiar, and unsurprisingly resilient.
1. Foo Fighters, "Walk"
This is a VERY generic Foo Fighters song. Those are Foo Fighting words but I can't get too excited about the ultra-compressed go-get-'em alt-rock crunch of this song because I've heard it so many times already before. It gets a lot better toward the end when Grohl starts screaming about how he never wants to die. Grade: B
