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Sure. I feel it's almost always better to necro a thread.
*likes Figured You Out, Animals, This Afternoon and Into The Night*
*also likes Theory Of A Deadman, which sounds much like the thread subject*
Dunno why, it's paint-by-the-numbers, but I've never found it that offensive.
Meh.
I hate their slow songs, their more uptempo, slightly funnier stuff is more tolerable.
Also I don't get why people hate Coldplay beyond "they ripped off [some obscure band here]!" which I could care less about.
I never said I hated Coldplay. I was just saying that their lead singer couldn't sing grunge for his life.
Fair enough.
A lot of people do, though. Never figured out why.
I once saw someone seriously argue that "Viva la Vida" was the worst song of the past hundred years.
is that a pun
"they ripped off [some obscure band here]!"
But the band I always hear they ripped off is Radiohead, which is the exact opposite of obscure!
I heard "How You Remind Me" on the radio earlier today, for the first time in a while. I don't even know how I feel about it at this point.
I think Nickelback is slowly getting better. As of their last album, Chad's voice is getting a bit more tolerable and their music is getting a bit more varied.
For those of you who don't know me, I don't say any of this because I'm a fan. I listened to all of their albums...last fall, I think? Yeah. On Spotify. Just to see what all the fuss was about. They've always been a sort of mediocre band, then lost what little natural honesty and feeling they seemed to have IMO, but have since been getting better as a band and at doing relaxing/having fun-themed stuff without sounding completely stupid.
But they're still not a very good band.
I listened to Nickelback when I was around 14, and one day I wake up and everyone tells me I'm supposed to hate them. That's when I decided not to listen to popular opinion in general.
They're not the greatest, but I like their stuff.
yes
^^ Kill the blasphemer
Yes.
You are both blasphemers who need to be nuked from orbit
but you knew that right
I don't think I've ever understood the hate for them, either. But I can't exactly say I like their music. Mostly because of Chad Kroeger.
*Listens to Avenged Sevenfold, chuckles lightly*
My main issue with Nickleback besides Chad Kroeger is that their music tends to be too safe and generic for my tastes.
Yeah, that's the thing...I've heard worse music than Nickelback (don't ask me what, though), and their songs do not all literally sound the same, but compared to other bands in the same genre (such as it is) they are severely lacking in variety. Both over the course of their career and over the course of any given album. A lot of other bands sound a lot grander and more epic, or a lot more intimate and heartfelt...but they're kind of squashed in between.
I mean, when I listened to all the albums in a row and got to the end of Dark Horse, which I don't recall liking very much, "This Afternoon" floored me because though they'd ended every album since The Long Road two previous with a "lighter" song ("See You at the Show", "Rockstar"), this was the single most relaxed and low-key thing I'd ever heard from them. I didn't personally identify with a damn thing about it, but I was just amazed that they were able to chill out in a musical sense to that degree.
And when I concluded with Here and Now, the most recent album...having already heard the first two songs on the radio and decided that at least they varied somewhat from the musical structures of the previous albums, I was again floored by "When We Stand Together". When they'd tried to do lighter "message songs" in the past (mainly "If Everyone Cared"), they just sounded like more of the same but lighter. This actually sounded different. It...bounced! That's the only way I can describe it. Again, not a great song by overall standards, and not unique by overall standards either, but at least they seemed to have discovered the ability to change things up a little bit.
And once they gain that ability, it's a step in the right direction. Somehow, despite not actually liking them/their music, I feel like with all the time they've put into this and all the success they've gotten in a basic sales sense, I want to see Nickelback eventually command some more respect. I don't think they're there yet. But by now I'm tired of blindly hating on them. And I think this is the longest post yet in the thread. I once made an entire thread about them in one of the BTL incarnations, y'know, after I did my big listen of all the albums. So this is nothing, but I apologize if I'm overdoing it.
I don't think they ripped off Radiohead.
I mean, there's definitely a similar sound there. But it's not identical, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's got more than a cursory familiarity with either band to confuse the two.
I don't listen to Nickelback, nor do I see myself listening to them anytime in my life as it's far from any genre I listen to, but I'm not one to jump on "I love Nickelback!...said nobody ever"-type jokes.
Same with Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black.
Most of what I listen to is vidya music with some K-pop on the side so I pretty much just ignore a lot of music trends.
I hear there are some less safe tracks in their albums, but that's just what I heard. Quoting from another board:
Or maybe that's what you meant by "too safe"...?
I was aware of their songs about sex and drugs, but by too safe I was talking less about lyrical content and more about how the music comes across to me as formulaic, a tad simplistic and not very adventurous.