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Doomster ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 02 Dec 2011 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 521 |
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nickelback sux
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Stooge ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator/Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Whitby, ON, CAN Status: Offline Points: 5637 |
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That's exactly my frustration with them. Why all this airplay if they have so few who confess to be fans. My mom owns a Nickelback album, and she's the member in my family who is the least interested in discovering new music (sticks mainly to what she grew up with).
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Triceratopsoil ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4203 |
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I owned a Nickelback album when I was like 11, and it's probably the only cd I've ever resold
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adg211288 ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Black Metal, Prog/AG Teams Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 22338 |
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I was really into them when I was first getting into music, which was when Silver Side Up was released. Not having much experience with music at that point (and frankly Nickelback is the least embarrassing artist I was in to then) I bought everything they'd done up to that point that I could lay my hands on, which was three albums, a DVD and some singles as well. I was still really into them by the time they dropped The Long Road, which even to the fanboy I was then was a disappointing album. I was less into them but still bought All the Right Reasons in 2005 and found it to be a better album. At the time metal was beginning to take over my tastes more and more and not long after the release of All the Right Reasons I lost all interest in Nickelback. A friend, who still sings their praises to this day, lent me the next album, Dark Horse, so I could check it out and I found it to be awfully bad. I never brought it myself, although it somehow found it's way into my collection via my mother, who seems to still think they're one of my favourites. Still I'd take the Nickelback album over the Creed one that I got at the same time (which I've never listened to after about a year of owning it).
Honestly I don't think their music is that bad. Bland maybe, but not bad. I've heard plenty of music I would deem to be bad that I'd take Nickelback over any day. They only have two albums which pass mid-range ratings really for me and those ratings probably have a bit of nostalgia influencing them. Nostalgia is also the only reason I ever feel inclined to listen to them these days, in very rare moments of madness, and it's definitely the only thing that keeps me from selling their albums, as I have done with the majority of the other stuff I owned when I was first getting into music. But yeah they are overrated as can be.
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Wilytank ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Location: Pencil-vainea Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
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Growing up in an area where the population is almost entirely white conservative rednecks, Nickelback is one of those bands who I've come to associate with white trash. Especially with the singer's voice.
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Jbird ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 12 Nov 2012 Status: Offline Points: 309 |
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While I love to chuckle at Nickleback jokes and stuff, I don't hate them and certainly would rather hear them than stuff like Kanye West, Justin Bieber, etc. I just think their music is pretty bland.
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Kingcrimsonprog ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 582 |
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I don't like Nickleback, in as much as they aren't one of 'my bands' but I have no dislike for them whatsoever. There's certain bands who always get the 'totally shitty band' tag at any given point in time, they never really deserve it and its just adolescent behavior that reasonable people should grow out of.
Every piece of art has its lovers, haters and people who just don't care. I don't care about Nickleback. I'll bob my head to Leader Of Men and maybe Rockstar but I'll never buy an album or go see them live. But at the same time, I don' think that they're rubbish, or they can't play or any of that negative business. There's too much negativity in this world. Kings Of Leon and Coldplay and Nickleback and The White Stripes and Pete Doherty and Brian Adams and Poisen and Linkin Park and whoever else its cool to hate are all artistically relevant, talented people who do something for someone and I don't see the point in hating them. Not liking them certainly, but I don't get hating them. Music, and indeed all art is just 'here is a bunch of stuff... find which bits you like.' |
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Psydye ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 Jan 2013 Location: PA, USA Status: Offline Points: 12577 |
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Soccer mom music....is all I'm saying. I don't really like them at all, that is, their music...don't hate them personally though, as human beings..
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I'm too old for Nickelback to ever have made an impact on my life. I am also too old to hate Nickelback. They're just part of the general rock landscape to me.
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ProgMetaller2112 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jan 2013 Location: Pacoima,CA,USA Status: Offline Points: 2490 |
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Nickleback deserve all the criticism they get. All their songs sound the same stylistically and nothing they have done is new or anything. They are just another lame post-grunge band
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Earendil ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 98 |
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I've heard some of those bands criticized because as you say they're cool to hate, but Nickelback is by far worse than most of those. Their music is everything that's already been posted here, but also it's trash. The lyrics are stupid and hedonistic and the band seems to actively promote douchebaggery. Their fans (and yes I have been to a Nickelback concert ![]() ![]() Edited by E�rendil - 08 Jul 2013 at 9:52am |
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rushfan4 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors and Omissions Team Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 7489 |
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I like the Nickelback hits well enough. I own all of their albums, although admittedly I haven't really listened to them all that often in recent years. I rarely listen to the radio and I've never been to one of their concerts, so I can't necessarily say that I have been oversaturated with them over the years or have any opinion about who a Nickelback fan is. Tiger pitcher Phil Coke uses their song Burn It To The Ground as his song when he gets called into the game, and I kind of like that song so take that for what is worth. That is probably the majority of my exposure to them these days outside of when I listen to them on purpose, which again, isn't very often.
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