Who the fark is buying these albums (MP3's..whatever)??
I thought they would have a Hootie-like shelf life, but they seem to still be popular with someone.
/and to think hardly anybody knows who Earthride and Witchcraft are...

And we're trading it for a new national nightmare at that point.

God, I'd rather listen to Vin Diesel holding two babies - one in each hand by the leg - and slapping them together over his head.

national nightmare?
1. international nightmare.
2. blame nation of canada.

Lay off Nickelback. People who like boring music need something to listen to.

Joystk: God, I'd rather listen to Vin Diesel holding two babies - one in each hand by the leg - and slapping them together over his head.
I'm intrigued by this new genre.
The conceerts must be amazing.

strangeguitar: Who the fark is buying these albums (MP3's..whatever)??
I thought they would have a Hootie-like shelf life, but they seem to still be popular with someone.
/and to think hardly anybody knows who Earthride and Witchcraft are...

yeah, this. One or two top albums and then back to obscurity for them, but goddamn! They won't go away! Pop fans seem to have fickle taste except when it comes to the absolute worst out there.

Nickelback: Music to listen to while contemplating suicide.

So are they just going to re-re-release the same record again?

where's the "Oh God NO" tag when you need one

Joystk: God, I'd rather listen to Vin Diesel holding two babies - one in each hand by the leg - and slapping them together over his head.

That is awful imagery. Those newborn skulls would crack on first impact.

Why am I hungry all of a sudden?

strangeguitar: Who the fark is buying these albums (MP3's..whatever)??

People who hate music. Or themselves.

Spiffy? Only if the release party includes Chad Kroeger getting hit by a bus.

submitter: Our long national nightmare is over

I know, poor Canada, how they've suffered.

Thank jeebus I have satellite radio and won't have to listen to that drivel every 5 minutes on 'free' radio.

It's free for a reason...free advertising for the record industry.

Glad to see that the Spiffy tag still works in Bizarro World.

/can't stand Nickelback

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Glad to see that the Spiffy tag still works in Bizarro World.

/can't stand Nickelback

That's a good point. Are you on drugs, crackmitter?

Oh wait...

*Golf clap* Nice troll.

isn't this the point where mediocre-types release a "Best of...?"

God, that band is horrible. Please die.

Right now I'll bet subby is checking the comments and coming to the stark conclusion that not every one is a Nickleback fan like him.

/The very thought makes me lol.

I understand all the Nickelback hate, but damn, that last record has sold over 7 million copies and has been on the charts for 155 freakin weeks. It has to be the largest selling album in the last 5 years (not going to look it up, don't care) Not too bad for some guys from Hannah Alberta

/Liked Nickelback during the Curb and Hesher days, thought they sounded like Nirvana. It was 95 for crypes sakes,.
//Can take the shellacking, go ahead.

I like Nickelback.

Nothing takes the righteous smug out of Canadians by reminding them of what they've inflicted on the world with Nickelback.


/by "like" I mean I've learned to love the bomb.

That means there'll be an album worse than Death Magnetic out this year.

SmokeyMcCrackPipe: I understand all the Nickelback hate, but damn, that last record has sold over 7 million copies and has been on the charts for 155 freakin weeks. It has to be the largest selling album in the last 5 years (not going to look it up, don't care) Not too bad for some guys from Hannah Alberta

their records sales are part of the hate. I think we can all understand their popularity, but that fact that they're more or less an average bar band and they sell 8+ million per record is just insult to injury.

FeedTheCollapse: SmokeyMcCrackPipe: I understand all the Nickelback hate, but damn, that last record has sold over 7 million copies and has been on the charts for 155 freakin weeks. It has to be the largest selling album in the last 5 years (not going to look it up, don't care) Not too bad for some guys from Hannah Alberta

their records sales are part of the hate. I think we can all understand their popularity, but that fact that they're more or less an average bar band and they sell 8+ million per record is just insult to injury.

That seems to be what people want, though, mediocre music that isn't different or challenging and, apart from Kroeger's awful vocals, makes for background music at most Middle-America bars.

carmody: So are they just going to re-re-release the same record again?

Would anyone notice? I had never heard them, so after a Nickelbashing thread here, I went to Youtube to see a few of their videos.

Every song had a different title. Aside from that, I really could not tell the difference at all. It was the same sub-mediocre mallternative song over and over again.

Silly me, I thought the national nightmare was the new nickelback album.

What are the odds that the first single will mesh perfectly well with "How You Remind Me of Someday"?

strangeguitar: Who the fark is buying these albums (MP3's..whatever)??
I thought they would have a Hootie-like shelf life, but they seem to still be popular with someone.
/and to think hardly anybody knows who Earthride and Witchcraft are...

Wow, Earthride! I haven't heard that name in a while. My old band used to play shows with them a while back. Really cool guys, too.

Witchcraft, The Sword, assorted doom metal

MY FELLOW FARKERS:

there is not nearly enough Nickelback hate in this thread. c'mon guys!







the list goes on and on!

\hotlinked for great justice!

strangeguitar: Who the fark is buying these albums (MP3's..whatever)??
I thought they would have a Hootie-like shelf life, but they seem to still be popular with someone.
/and to think hardly anybody knows who Earthride and Witchcraft are...

The people who buy these albums are people who don't actually listen to music; they just want some innocuous, safe background noise devoid of meaning or statement while getting drunk.

I don't hate Nickelback, and they do put on a pretty decent live show when Kroeger isn't steaming drunk.

Crap

Every generation has really bad music that emulates really good music from five years prior...but this band's success is a mystery to me. How can people listen to this crap? It is worse than most of the other crap on rock radio stations these days. This is the reason I don't listen to radio. Inane dialog from DJs and constant advertising is one thing, but this nickelback shiate is something entirely more insidious.

In the 90s it was Candlebox, 00s it's Nickleback.

I wouldn't say it's just people looking for something safe who buy Nickelback albums - I mean, no one goes into a record store and thinks, what here is safe? When I worked in a CD store, it was people who'd bring up two or three CDs - something like Rihanna, something a bit rocky like Foo Fighters, and a Nickelback CD, and say 'which of these is the best?' They've heard them all on the radio, and figure if they're on the radio, they must be the best, and genuinely do not know of anything outside of that bubble. Occasionally it's possible to turn them onto something decent, using generic American rock as a springboard, but occasionally you've just got to choose the lesser of three evils and sell them the Foo Fighters.

/once a customer brought up two Nickelback albums and asked me which was best... I just told her which one sold more copies than the other, and that was enough for her

I would rather go into another depression than have this aural holocaust come out.

danduran: I wouldn't say it's just people looking for something safe who buy Nickelback albums - I mean, no one goes into a record store and thinks, what here is safe? When I worked in a CD store, it was people who'd bring up two or three CDs - something like Rihanna, something a bit rocky like Foo Fighters, and a Nickelback CD, and say 'which of these is the best?' They've heard them all on the radio, and figure if they're on the radio, they must be the best, and genuinely do not know of anything outside of that bubble. Occasionally it's possible to turn them onto something decent, using generic American rock as a springboard, but occasionally you've just got to choose the lesser of three evils and sell them the Foo Fighters.

/once a customer brought up two Nickelback albums and asked me which was best... I just told her which one sold more copies than the other, and that was enough for her

Yes, there is also the prevailing opinion that populism = good that result in these shiatty bands becoming successful.

/though it should be noted that populism =/= bad either

JerseyTim: Lay off Nickelback. People who like boring music need something to listen to.

Then those people can just listen to one of several other bands that sound exactly like them.
Daughtry, perhaps?

Nickelback: Now slightly less annoying than someone hitting a baby with a cat.

/Now with more cat!

Jedi_Templar: populism

I think you meant "popularity", unless Nickelback has gotten more political than any of us realized.

I have a theory- 1 of every 2 people ripping on Nickelback own at least 1 album.

You see, Bono wouldn't shut up... hence Nickleback.

I'd rather hear the death rattle of my only child, than listen to Nickelback.

Why do I always see in these anti-Nickelback threads, someone always brings Candlebox into the discussion? Now, I only have the first Candlebox CD, but I think it's a pretty damn good CD. The song "Rain" is a great song; and the other tracks are better than the shiat that's on the radio these days; and FAR better than anything Nickelback has ever released. On the other hand, I cannot think of a single (did they ever write anything besides that one) Nickelback song that doesn't make me want to jam a screwdriver through my eardrums, whenever I have the misfortune of hearing it. Find someone else to compare Nickelback to. Candlebox doesn't deserve to be lumped in with them.

As I'm typing this, I had to get my iPod to skim through some Candlebox, and I still think it's good stuff. Next in line after Candlebox, is Caroline's Spine...now they are badass!!!

Actually, why do I even care? Who cares what you farks think. I'll listen to what I want, you listen to what you want. Everyone will be happy. Well...everyone except for the poor schlub whos upstairs neighbor has a hardon for Chode Kroger, and blasts the aforementioned Nickelback CD into the late hours of the night.

Andric: Jedi_Templar: populism

I think you meant "popularity", unless Nickelback has gotten more political than any of us realized.

Yes, I meant "populism" in that respect. Probably should've used "popularity" instead.

/also applies to politics

I will stray off the nicklebash that is taking off in this thread and be the first one to actually stand up for the band. Yeah, musically they are infants, but as far as a statement of what every red blooded american boy has to go through in life, they have it down pat in their lyrics. I have a simple philosophy about what I listen to: Lyrics come first, Instruments come second. If I don't agree with what the song says, I don't like to listen to it.

Nickeklback has a tendency to focus deeply in the stories behind their music. Most of their videos actually are like mini movies based on the lyrics of the song. Something that a lot of artists in this day and age are straying away from for lack of substance.

People wonder why they are on the top of the charts, It is simple, They sing of the truth. and for a lot of us, the truth is screaming down a back country road in an old rusty Nova with a hot little number beside us desperately trying to find a place to turn off so we can get that long sought after piece of nookie that we have been trying for throughout the whole school year. Precisely the sort of thing that Nickelback sings about.

I can relate to every song on any of their albums. I or someone I know has lived through most of the things they sing about.

/Flame On!

Help-Im-Sober describes everything that is wrong with music: lyrics.

Zebulon Pike FTW!

Man I'm sick of hearing all these crappy singers channel Kurt Cobain (badly) and sing about their creepy sex fetishes.