My 11 year old daughter on Nickelback.

"Dad, I know all their music sounds the same, but some of those songs are pretty good."

/I console myself in the fact she can tell the difference between Bon Scott and Brian Johnson.

I listened to it last night. I liked their previous album, thought it was a good mix of tunes. This album though? This actually sounds like it was produced for the radio on purpose.

Once a coworker and myself were talking about music. She said she really liked Nickelback and was trying to describe their sound. She asked another coworker who was walking by he replied "sucky".

/haha

Mutt Lange produced it? Maybe it won't suck.

Wait a second, yeah, it will.

Nothing makes me smile quite like a video of Nickelback getting booed and hit with rocks. [pops]

Well, it was supposed to pop. Oh well.

/Nickelback still sucks

The Washington Post had some unkind words recently.

Nickelback's 'Dark Horse,' Running on Empty

By Chris Richards
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, November 18, 2008; C05

A few years from now, our children will ask us three vexing questions:

"What is sex?"

"Why do people die?"

And "What's a Nickelback?"

The last one may be the hardest to answer, with our landfills choked by abandoned copies of the Canadian rock troupe's irredeemable releases.

Since its 2001 breakout, Nickelback has become a perplexing, platinum-selling punching bag of a band, climbing higher and higher up the charts and into critics' collective craw with some of the most stultifying rock hits of the decade. The title of the group's sixth album, "Dark Horse," is particularly odd considering that the foursome has become one of the most reliable, highest-selling rock machines in today's wilted music industry.

But with "Dark Horse," leonine frontman Chad Kroeger spends no time grousing about his detractors, instead embracing the classic tropes of rock-star hedonism. He offers cartoonish tales of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, all in an ill-fitting growl that belies the good times he's supposedly celebrating. As a result, "Dark Horse" evokes a post-grunge Bizarro World, a place that tries to reconcile Seattle's austere yesteryears with the Sunset Strip's hair-metal heyday.

Nickelback outlines its party plan with "Burn It to the Ground," the song's brawny guitars soundtracking a bacchanal where Kroeger aims to "drink everything in sight." But when it comes to pleasures of the flesh, he uses the chorus of "S.E.X." to wrap a come-on in a koan: "Sex is always the answer/It's never a question, 'cause the answer's yes."

If that refrain doesn't make a Nickelback fan out of R. Kelly, perhaps this couplet from "Next Go Round" will do the trick: "I wanna cover you with Jell-O in the tub/We can roll around for hours without ever coming up."

To hear all of this sung in the same throaty growl that Kroeger applies to his melodramatic ballads? Yuck. And yes, "Dark Horse" has its share of melodramatic ballads, including the single "Gotta Be Somebody," its overblown chorus sprinkled with flavorless, chiming U2-isms. Famed AC/DC producer Mutt Lange often helps Nickelback flex its muscles on "Dark Horse," but here, he scrubs the proceedings clean of anything distinctive.

That leads our ears back to Kroeger's lyric sheet, which finds him proselytizing about the evils of prostitution and drug addiction (on "Shakin' Hands" and "Just to Get High," respectively). After all of Kroeger's crass blustering on "Dark Horse," the last place he deserves to be is on his high horse.

If you like Nickelback, you are stupid.

Obligatory:

How You Remind Me of Someday (new window)

/Coincidence?
//Chad Kroeger =/= John Fogerty

Nickelback makes me want to kill Nickelback

Not a fan. Having said that, I don't get the hate. They're still better than most of the shiat you hear these days. Then again, if I listen to the radio at all, it's sports/talk or talk.

Always liked Nickelback my self. But then again I don't try to use music to up my cool level, I just listen to it for fun.

Derivative safe-rock

I'm sure Nickleback is crushed by all of the hate. All they have to console themselves with is their big piles of money and hot annonymous groupie sex.

These guys take a lot of crap, but they've done wonders for talk radio ratings...

Old but good:

Two Nickelback songs being played simultaneously. (p)

Christ that band blows.

Huh. Fark tossed out the url...

Ah well - http://www.thewebshiate.net/nickelback.htm

John Buck 41: Not a fan. Having said that, I don't get the hate. They're still better than most of the shiat you hear these days. Then again, if I listen to the radio at all, it's sports/talk or talk.

If you're listening to talk radio, I suppose Nickelback would be a step up.

Listening to Nickelback is like listening to a commercial.

Oh, duh, thats why. Teh filter strikes again!

Just go through here http://digg.com/music/Scientific_Proof_That_Nickelback_Sucks.

/pardon the multiple posts for ancient crap

/obscure

John Buck 41: Not a fan. Having said that, I don't get the hate. They're still better than most of the shiat you hear these days.

Um, what? Nickelback are pretty much the epitome of popular rock music these days. Which sucks.

http://www.thewebshiate.net/nickelback.htm (new window)

"Curb" and "The State" were actually not too bad. Once they hit "Silver Side Up", that's when it became what they are now.

milkyshirt: John Buck 41: Not a fan. Having said that, I don't get the hate. They're still better than most of the shiat you hear these days.

Um, what? Nickelback are pretty much the epitome of popular rock music these days. Which sucks.

Don't forget Dave Matthews Band

/both bands suck terribly, and their fanbases are WORSE

When I think popular rock I think u2, radiohead, coldplay etc..
Not Nickelback.

TheRaven77: Don't forget Dave Matthews Band

I dislike Dave Matthews, but I would much prefer them over Nickelback. Nickelback come off as poseurs who, if Nirvana hadn't come out, would be a hair metal band.

I also dislike Nickelback fans as they seem to be the Ardent Defenders of Mediocrity who think that if you don't listen to Nickelback, you therefore don't rock out because we obviously listen to emo.

This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs

The fact that people come here and defend Nickelback "music" makes me weep for humanity.

quintas: This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

Link (new window)

One of the best shreds I've seen... totally re-defining kick-ass! All you Nickelback haters need to get educated.

quintas: This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs

FARKIN LOL

milkyshirt: John Buck 41: Not a fan. Having said that, I don't get the hate. They're still better than most of the shiat you hear these days.

Um, what? Nickelback are pretty much the epitome of popular rock music these days. Which sucks.

I was comparing them not so much to other rock bands but to urban/rap/top 40 sludge. In that regard, they are waaaay better.

quintas: This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs

I'm dying laughing

John Buck 41: I was comparing them not so much to other rock bands but to urban/rap/top 40 sludge. In that regard, they are waaaay better.

why should that crap set the bar? yeah, Nickelback is better, but they barely clear that bar...

quintas
This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs

They still suck, but at least they don't take themselves too seriously. Funny sh*t.

Q: What's the only thing worse than Nickelback?

A: Theory of a Deadman

/"Bad Girlfriend" is hands down the ABSOLUTE WORST rock song ever

DecemberNitro: Q: What's the only thing worse than Nickelback?

A: Theory of a Deadman hinder

/"Bad Girlfriend" is hands down the ABSOLUTE WORST rock song ever


well, there's my contribution to this thread. i'm done.

Nickelback should talk about breaking up. If ever a band needed a Yoko Ono, THEY ARE IT.

Without a doubt Hinder is one of the worst bands i ever had the displeasure of listening to.

DecemberNitro: Q: What's the only thing worse than Nickelback?

A: Theory of a Deadman

/"Bad Girlfriend" is hands down the ABSOLUTE WORST rock song ever

Have you actually heard Nickleback's latest 'You look better with something in your mouth'?

/Not defending ToaDM

DecemberNitro: Q: What's the only thing worse than Nickelback?

A: Theory of a Deadman

/"Bad Girlfriend" is hands down the ABSOLUTE WORST rock song ever

I don't know if I've heard that song, but if it is worse than Nickelback's "Animals" then I'm floored. Wait... is it that "Whoa-oh, that b*tch is leaving meeeeee" song?

I'd still give the nod to "Animals" in that case.

Fuzzy Lumps: Without a doubt Hinder is one of the worst bands i ever had the displeasure of listening to.

"Lips of an Angel" is the only song of theirs I've heard, and well...

assegai: When I think popular rock I think u2, radiohead, coldplay etc..
Not Nickelback.

Well when I think of punk rock I think of Nirvana and The Melvins

BobSherunkle: DecemberNitro: Q: What's the only thing worse than Nickelback?

A: Theory of a Deadman

/"Bad Girlfriend" is hands down the ABSOLUTE WORST rock song ever

Have you actually heard Nickleback's latest 'You look better with something in your mouth'?

/Not defending ToaDM

No, but I googled the lyrics. Yow...

FeedTheCollapse: John Buck 41: I was comparing them not so much to other rock bands but to urban/rap/top 40 sludge. In that regard, they are waaaay better.

why should that crap set the bar? yeah, Nickelback is better, but they barely clear that bar...

Point taken. That is one low-ass bar.

Marisyana: Mutt Lange produced it? Maybe it won't suck.


Mutt Lange? Then one thing it will do is have at least one song with that Pour Some Sugar On Me / Lovin' Every Minute Of It / Any Man Of Mine beat.

Kick kick SNARE! Kick kick SNARE!

factoryconnection: quintas: This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

Link (new window)

One of the best shreds I've seen... totally re-defining kick-ass! All you Nickelback haters need to get educated.

The first ten seconds of that video have me laughing so hard that tears are in my eyes. I keep rewinding it. That is the best "shred" intro I have seen to date. The rest is OK, and the ending gets really good again.

quintas: This song is pretty great. It may change everyones opinion of the band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs

I laughed pretty hard at that.

Filter at work doesn't allow teh YouTubes but I'm guessing quintas posted the video of Nickelback cutting their set short 'cause they got the hint from the crowd that they suck.


If it hasn't been posted... it's hilarious.