If Nickelback sucks so bad...
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Yeah, the shreds vids are so amazing!
This is a jimi hendrix one, watch where he starts picking with his teeth at 1:30!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAOJy_CBocY 0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
and shockingly despite all this- very few people can sing an ACTUAL song of theirs. Sure they might remember the theme (the photograph one- something about sex- you and me) but singing an actual song? few people can acutally just break out in nickleback..
why?
because all their stuff sounds the same- and it's generic and vanilla as hell.
I do not hate them- some of their stuff I actually like- but like hell I could actually hum a few bars or sing the songs LOL- nothing memorable about them at all.0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
Just because McDonald's sells a billion hamburgers doesn't mean they taste better than In n Out or Five Guys. It means they are cheaper, mass-marketed, and unavoidable.0 -
just remember this..Nickelback is better than 99.9% (****, 100%) of what is on mainstream top 40. So maybe in the rock genre they arent the best, but at least theyre carrying the flag in a time when rock doesnt get its due.0
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It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
and shockingly despite all this- very few people can sing an ACTUAL song of theirs. Sure they might remember the theme (the photograph one- something about sex- you and me) but singing an actual song? few people can acutally just break out in nickleback..
why?
because all their stuff sounds the same- and it's generic and vanilla as hell.
I do not hate them- some of their stuff I actually like- but like hell I could actually hum a few bars or sing the songs LOL- nothing memorable about them at all.
People who claim "all their stuff sounds the same" clearly have NOT actually listened to ALL their stuff. :smokin:0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
Just because McDonald's sells a billion hamburgers doesn't mean they taste better than In n Out or Five Guys. It means they are cheaper, mass-marketed, and unavoidable.
if they're crap, and they sell a lot and still make a lot of money, doesn't this make them pretty smart. Is being more popular/visible by playing similar music not worth it to another artist?0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
and shockingly despite all this- very few people can sing an ACTUAL song of theirs. Sure they might remember the theme (the photograph one- something about sex- you and me) but singing an actual song? few people can acutally just break out in nickleback..
why?
because all their stuff sounds the same- and it's generic and vanilla as hell.
I do not hate them- some of their stuff I actually like- but like hell I could actually hum a few bars or sing the songs LOL- nothing memorable about them at all.
That's the way most songs are now days though, and they got you humming a few bars, so they "succeeded". They are OK, some good, some blah to me, all pretty much low class songs that can be fun. At least they aren't like Justin Beaver or that blonde haired girl who likes to show her butt and swinging around nekkid on construction equipment trying to look sexy.0 -
I don't get why people hate them so much. Some of they're music is pretty hot.0
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just remember this..Nickelback is better than 99.9% (****, 100%) of what is on mainstream top 40. So maybe in the rock genre they arent the best, but at least theyre carrying the flag in a time when rock doesnt get its due.
no...no they arent0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
Just because McDonald's sells a billion hamburgers doesn't mean they taste better than In n Out or Five Guys. It means they are cheaper, mass-marketed, and unavoidable.
if they're crap, and they sell a lot and still make a lot of money, doesn't this make them pretty smart. Is being more popular/visible by playing similar music not worth it to another artist?
If McDonald's and In n Out were right next door to each other and all other things similar (price, speed, etc) except the quality of the burger, where would people go?
Sure their record label is smart. They foisted this Canadian nonsense on millions of Americans and are laughing all the way to the bank. It worked with Bieber and Ted Cruz too. Doesn't mean it's worth a darn in all three cases.0 -
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NIckelback and rock should never be used in the same sentence.
^this!0 -
I don't know, they are formulaic, but can be fun, like the other night while exercising, if you took meaning from each song in a row as they played, they worked in great in a funny sort of "life lessons" storyboard of a guy in a set of songs: "Pornstar dancing" then "Next Contestant", followed by "Figured You Out" and then "Nookie".0
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nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
and shockingly despite all this- very few people can sing an ACTUAL song of theirs. Sure they might remember the theme (the photograph one- something about sex- you and me) but singing an actual song? few people can acutally just break out in nickleback..
why?
because all their stuff sounds the same- and it's generic and vanilla as hell.
I do not hate them- some of their stuff I actually like- but like hell I could actually hum a few bars or sing the songs LOL- nothing memorable about them at all.
People who claim "all their stuff sounds the same" clearly have NOT actually listened to ALL their stuff. :smokin:
I do believe I own 2-3 of their albums. I've listened
I've found typically 2-3 songs off any one album for ANY artist is good- It's been many moons since I purchased an album I loved most of all of. ANY artists.
Shrug- but I have found that to be true with all the music that is played regularly for them. Their "mainstream" hits all are very vanilla- they are good- they have a thing- and they are good at the thing- but i'ts a little vanilla for my tastes. I sing along when they come along on the radio- or where ever I am- but I don't go out of my way to listen to them anymore.
I think Pink's a great example of someone who continues to put out variety. She has a smattering of really great work that covers a variety of sounds. Not vanilla at all. Beyonce has also put out some incredibly varied music as well. They could do so much more.That's the way most songs are now days though, and they got you humming a few bars, so they "succeeded". They are OK, some good, some blah to me, all pretty much low class songs that can be fun. At least they aren't like Justin Beaver or that blonde haired girl who likes to show her butt and swinging around nekkid on construction equipment trying to look sexy.
Blonde haired girl who likes to show her butt? LMFAO- not like every other girl in the music industry?
Regardless of her personal tastes for the lime light- there is no question- her music has evolved and some of it is very good. Same with Britney Spears and Christina Aquilira. Are they great? no- but they put out music with variety and have bounced back I aint mad at any of them. Are they the best? nope- but I sure remember them.0 -
nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible
Why do you hate trucks?0 -
nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible
I drive a truck and own guns...0 -
I like Nickelback. They are great live in concert!0
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They remind me of zoolander.
"Who cares about Derek Zoolander anyway? The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"0 -
Because most popular radio music is garbage.0
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nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible
I drive a truck and own guns...
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It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
and shockingly despite all this- very few people can sing an ACTUAL song of theirs. Sure they might remember the theme (the photograph one- something about sex- you and me) but singing an actual song? few people can acutally just break out in nickleback..
why?
because all their stuff sounds the same- and it's generic and vanilla as hell.
I do not hate them- some of their stuff I actually like- but like hell I could actually hum a few bars or sing the songs LOL- nothing memorable about them at all.
People who claim "all their stuff sounds the same" clearly have NOT actually listened to ALL their stuff. :smokin:
I do believe I own 2-3 of their albums. I've listened
I've found typically 2-3 songs off any one album for ANY artist is good- It's been many moons since I purchased an album I loved most of all of. ANY artists.
Shrug- but I have found that to be true with all the music that is played regularly for them. Their "mainstream" hits all are very vanilla- they are good- they have a thing- and they are good at the thing- but i'ts a little vanilla for my tastes. I sing along when they come along on the radio- or where ever I am- but I don't go out of my way to listen to them anymore.
I think Pink's a great example of someone who continues to put out variety. She has a smattering of really great work that covers a variety of sounds. Not vanilla at all. Beyonce has also put out some incredibly varied music as well. They could do so much more.That's the way most songs are now days though, and they got you humming a few bars, so they "succeeded". They are OK, some good, some blah to me, all pretty much low class songs that can be fun. At least they aren't like Justin Beaver or that blonde haired girl who likes to show her butt and swinging around nekkid on construction equipment trying to look sexy.
Blonde haired girl who likes to show her butt? LMFAO- not like every other girl in the music industry?
Regardless of her personal tastes for the lime light- there is no question- her music has evolved and some of it is very good. Same with Britney Spears and Christina Aquilira. Are they great? no- but they put out music with variety and have bounced back I aint mad at any of them. Are they the best? nope- but I sure remember them.
"Breathe," "How You Remind Me," "Photograph," "Rock Star," are just the first few from my library that come to my mind. None of them sound anything alike, except Chad's voice.
Pink apparently got screwed by the record companies. She should have been the next Joan Jett. The other ladies are a mystery to me. I know the names, but that's it. I actually got turned on to Pink in 2000 by the same friend who introduced me to Nickelback. "Don't Let Me Get Me" was my old theme song, back in my drinking days.
Most of their songs have a similar theme, (which could be summarized in "Good Times, Bad Times" sung by the Gods of Rock themselves), but I am able to identify each and (generally, if not partying too hard) sing the correct lyrics. I've liked them for nearly 15 years.0 -
Bieber sucks and he's on the radio. What's that say?0
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nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible
I don't know where you live for that to be true... but around here that is a hallmark of a Brad Paisley fan.0 -
Bieber sucks and he's on the radio. What's that say?
Beiber is corporate pop and radio is corporate crap.0 -
nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible
I don't know where you live for that to be true... but around here that is a hallmark of a Brad Paisley fan.
oh he's dreamy0 -
It goes far beyond airtime.
They're one of the most commercially successful bands in Canadian history with 50 million albums sold worldwide. That's a real number, Google it. Fifty million albums sold ranking them the 11th best selling band and ranked second as the best selling "foreign" band in the US. Who was #1? The Beatles.
They had 4 albums listed on Billboards top albums of the decade which gave them the coveted title of "The best rock group of the decade" by Billboard.
They've had countless albums top the charts in the both the US and Canada and they've won like 10+ Juno awards.
I'm not even a fan of Nickelback either way, I'm impartial but the hate they get is just dumb. If you can't gauge the success of a band via the album sales which equates to people enjoying their music, then what metric would you use?
your stats are wrong (source i imagine) the stones have 68 million albums sold
This was for the 2k decade alone, not all time.0 -
nickelback is the perfect band for those people who have their trucks as profile pictures on facebook
in other words
nickelback is terrible
I don't know where you live for that to be true... but around here that is a hallmark of a Brad Paisley fan.
oh he's dreamy
He is... his wife ain't bad lookin' either... but he can definitely check me for ticks...0 -
I dont get the nickelback hate... I've always liked them
Same, I have seen them 3 times in concert. Love them.0 -
Just don't. They suck, OK? Leave it at that.0
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