pulp rock anyone?

it's with growing dismay i note the exponential growth of a musical genre that for lack of a better term i call pulp rock*.. dismay because every three- or four-man unit thinks they can add distortion and zooms to syrupy-angsty lyrics and get away with being called a rock band! kurt cobain would shoot himself again, and again, were he around to witness this decay! the worst part is that these are not small-time garage bands, the record companies have marketed them well enough so that even though the music is not polished, the image is straight-off-the-glossy-pages..

*pulp fiction - sensationalized, poor-quality writing, from its being printed on rough pulpy paper
  - Courtesy of Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English.

i listen to WEDG 103.3 FM - The Edge, which calls itself 'Buffalo's Rock Station'.. and they do a pretty good job covering genres and eras.. it is not uncommon to hear Iron Maiden, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana then Black Sabbath in succession.. however, their listeners' choice of current Top 10 really bewilders me.. that too from a city known for its passion for what purists would call the real heavy metal.. Metallica and Tool concerts sold out six months before the concert day!! make no mistake, i like some of the bands in this today's Top 10, but surely people this is NOT rock?!

• Audioslave - Be Yourself
• Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
• Billy Idol - Scream
• Mudvayne - Happy
• Greenday - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
• Theory Of A Dead Man - No Surprise
• Chevelle - The Clincher
• Three Days Grace - Home
• Shinedown - Burning Bright
• Breaking Benjamin - Sooner Or Later