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overall. I'm not sure why in the 89-94 time frame much of the music people liked was so awful

It had to do with the music industry but it was so long ago I don't really remember the details. I think basically it happened because almost all music is controlled by a few major players. They decide what you listen to-- less so now but decades back they had even more of a stranglehold on the market.

So bands like Nickelback are elevated because some scout saw a show of theirs, reported it to his boss who probably had a meeting about it, and the criteria they used to predict hits was formulaic and probably involved people in cubicles and spread sheets. It just didn't lend itself to good music in general.