― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago) link
― justin (Justin M), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
But Duel was genius!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
for a while I kept turning on MTV just as the "Someday" video was ending with that close up on the newspaper with the Man Dies In Tragic Bridge Accident headline, and I kept wondering what the hell the video was about. I finally saw the whole thing the other day, and I'm still a little confused about it.
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
Hey, It's the best I could come up with on such short notice!
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
In 1997, one of my friends was listening to the Backstreet Boys.
In 2004, she currently listens to Nickelback.
I think that speaks volumes.
Oh yeah, and Lord Custos? Norteño is pretty fucking indefensible. Sez me, Miss Latina. All those oomp-oompas? Might as well drag out the worst of the polka records.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
... ummm...damn!...
...I can't think of any!
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
note how completely similar these songs are?
http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475.php
m.
― msp, Friday, 23 April 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Z S, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
AH WAWNA BE A RAWK STAW-UH
― Telephone thing, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
noone's actually willing to do what the thread's asking for, so I'll go in:
as far as nu-grunge radio bands go, they're a solid singles act. I mean, seriously, compare them to someone completely irredeemable like Three Days Grace or Trapt, and they're pretty damn tolerable. my top 5 would be: 1. Photograph 2. Figured You Out 3. the Spiderman song w/ the Saliva dude 4. Leader Of Men 5. Animals
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
wait their first single's good. they used to play that and "ugly" on mtv2 like no other vidoes existed.
― Jordan Sargent, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I secretly like the Rock Star song
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I could do without the Billy-Gibbons-as-hypeman though
"Animal"
I, I'm driving black on black Just got my license back I got this feeling in my veins this train is coming off the track I'll ask polite if the devil needs a ride Because the angel on my right ain't hanging out with me tonight I'm driving past your house while you were sneaking out I got the car door opened up so you can jump in on the run Your mom don't know that you were missing She'd be pissed if she could see the parts of you that I've been kissing Screamin'
CHORUS No, ain't never gonna quit Ain't nothing wrong with it Just acting like we're animals No, no matter where we go 'Cause everybody knows We're just a couple animals
So come on baby, get in just get in, just get in Check out the trouble we're in
You're beside me on the seat Got your hand between my knees And you control how fast we go by just how hard you wanna squeeze It's hard to steer when you're breathing in my ear But I got both hands on the wheel while you got both hands on my gears By now, no doubt that we were heading south I guess nobody ever taught her not to speak with a full mouth 'Cause this was it, like flicking on a switch It felt so good I almost drove into the ditch [Animals lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]
I'm screamin'
CHORUS
We were parked out by the tracks We're sitting in the back And we just started getting busy When she whispered "what was that?" The wind, I think 'cause no one else knows where we are And that was when she started screamin' "That's my dad outside the car!" Oh please, the keys, they're not in the ignition Must have wound up on the floor while we were switching our positions I guess they knew that she was missing As I tried to tell her dad it was her mouth that I was kissing Screamin'
So come on baby, get in We're just a couple animals Get in, just get in Ain't nothing wrong with it Check out the trouble we're in we're just a couple animals0 Get in, just get in
― Dandy Don Weiner, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youporn.com/watch/9486
― dylannn, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
How did Roadrunner approve that video treatment?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
From country and metal rolling threads, earlier this summer:
And yeah, I mentioned Nickelback. Somehow a copy of All The Right Reasons mysteriously fell into my lap this week -- an album which I believe has sold something like 5.9 million copies so far and is at something like #12 on Billboard's album chart after something like 93 weeks, and which an Internet search suggests has spawned something like seven hit singles (or "airplay tracks", or whatever -- "Photograph," "Animal," "Far Away," "Savin' Me," "If Everyone Cared," "Rockstar," "Side Of a Bullet" -- only a couple if which I remotely recognized, but then again I almost never listen to the radio these days, and even if I did I seriously doubt I'd ever brave putting on a commercial "active rock" station.) Anyway, out of curiosity and/or professional responsibilty, I decided to play the darn thing, having never consciously listened to Nickelback before in my life. And my verdict is: I don't totally hate it. Just most of it. Favorite cut is undoubtedly "Photograph," the power ballad, which is no Def Leppard but which is still about yearning for the small town arcade and high school the singer (whose old self would hate him now) says he never graduated from and wonders if they'd let him back in; really, a country-rock guy like Jack Ingram (who redid Hinder's "Lips Of An Angel" and made me like it) should cover this in a less plodding way, and it might sound really good. I also don't hate "Animals," which is probably the least plodding song on the album (actually kind of speedy), and also turns out to be about, uh, getting a blowjob while driving a car fast ("Got your head between your knees/Got both hands on the wheel," jeesh). And "Next Contestant," which I'm kind of surprised isn't a "hit" since it's pretty catchy in a Stabbing Westward bubblegum-Nine Inch Nails way, has the singer daring guys to hit on his girlfriend again so he can beat them up, what an asshole. "Rockstar," a very vaguely Southern rock midetempo, actually tries to have a sense of humor about wanting to be a rock star (with, you know, drug dealers on speed dail, getting washed up singers to write all the songs, staying skinny because you never eat) but of course Chad Kroeger moans it with no sense of humor at all -- maybe I'd like it okay if Joe Walsh sang it. (He could even get the Shop Boys to back him up, maybe). And "Someone That You're With" is clearly about being jealous of the guy she's with, duh. Honestly, in total, the topics of the songs are pretty easy to figure out most of the time, which does count for something. But most of the rest is the expected constipated bleh -- "loud mush," as Chris Cook once called Pearl Jam, but in a fifth or sixth generation version. (I was surprised to note on AMG that Nickelback have a bunch of albums, too -- Shows how much I've paid attention to them over the years; for all I knew, this could've been their debut record. As is, though, it almost counts as a Greatest Hits.)
-- xhuxk, Sunday, 22 July 2007 13:25 (1 month ago)
― xhuxk, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, her head is between Chad's knees, not her own.
-- xhuxk, Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:43 PM (1 month ago)
― xhuxk, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Favorite cut is undoubtedly "Photograph," the power ballad
Isn't that a bit meaningless? I don't think I've heard a Nickelback song that isn't a power ballad.
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
they also have "metal" songs about blowjobs
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and I secretly like "Rockstar", too, but the Hey Dude! voiceovers are kind of essential, especially when he says "I'll have a quesadilla, HAHA!"
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess I haven't heard the metal blowjobs.
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
they are probably the last band on earth i'd defend
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this current cultural thread (Nickelback, Shop Boyz) of people joking about what people imagine rock stars live like because the rock stars on TV (Ozzy, Dave Navarro, Travis Barker) act like douchebags. Like neither one of those songs could exist without reality TV, I think...
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 August 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I'll have a quesadilla.
I'd defend Nickelback before I defended dozens of bands that operate on the hipster radar. Here's looking at you, Bright Eyes.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Friday, 31 August 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The weird thing about "Rockstar" is that it's pretty hard to tell where the layer of irony in the lyrics begins and where it ends. Like, is he mocking what average people think a rockstar lifestyle is life, or is he describing his own life fairly accurately? This is a guy who's kind of inordinately proud of his own songwriting, so the line about having washed up singers write all his songs is the big clue that there's an ironic distance, but I also think he wants to be seen as more badass and hedonistic than most people think of Nickelback as being.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Leonesque Kroeger doesn't actually expect anyone to believe that he has a bathroom big enough to host baseball games, so I don't think he's quite aiming for an accurate portrayal of the life of Nickelback, although there does seem to be a certain amount of wishful thinking mixed in with the ironic distance.
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Nickelback quite frequently bring the riffs on their album cuts. It's their singles that tend to suck the hardest.
I think it's funny that Trump has driven people into such pits of despair that they're now telling themselves "Hey, that Nickelback song...I kinda dug that."
This is my Nickelback song of choice, for the record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YIS0AJivBE
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
favourite nickelback story of mine:
ex of my wife worked at a record store, him and a pal from work got free tickets for a big nickelback show and went just for kicks, having no interest in the band in general
one of chad kroegers piece of banter between songs was to proclaim, as a sort of non-sequitur but maybe partly related to some song they were going to play:
"Let me tell you guys, ain't nothing finer than watching the sun come up on zoomers"
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
I interviewed them once and they were very nice.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative)
canadians in "very nice" shocker
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
There's a totally new a kind of Boomer. One who breaks retirement tradition. Increased life-expectancy has transformed "Yesterday's Yuppie" into today's ZOOMER ... boomers with zip! These new boomers are coloring outside the lines, zig-zaging and zoooooming toward a bright new horizon chock-full of possibilities for reinventing retirement and redefining what it means to be a mature adult in the new millennium.
These new boomers are coloring outside the lines, zig-zaging and zoooooming toward a bright new horizon chock-full of possibilities for reinventing retirement and redefining what it means to be a mature adult in the new millennium.
http://www.demko.com/cs020904b.jpg
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
One of my few regrets from my time at Roadrunner Records was not accepting a ticket to see Nickelback at Madison Square Garden. I don't like many of their songs, but they're supposed to be great live, in a big/loud/stupid AC/DC sort of way.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
Nickelback quite frequently bring the riffs on their album cuts. It's their singles that tend to suck the hardest.I think it's funny that Trump has driven people into such pits of despair that they're now telling themselves "Hey, that Nickelback song...I kinda dug that."This is my Nickelback song of choice, for the record.
this track has zero riffs
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
A buddy of mine I work with was dragged along by his wife and confirmed this. He said the backdrop alternated between American flags and footage of Aaron Rodgers throwing touchdowns.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
the meme of Nickleback being terrible has almost ruined Nickleback hate for me. like it almost delegitimizes how shitty they really are.
and yet when they cover "Sad But True", Chad sounds better than James H does now
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:11 (seven years ago) link
forever classic for leaving the stage while getting pelted with stuff tho
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:12 (seven years ago) link
thanks for reminding me of that
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
It can't be done but that was funhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzP4bC1Ypg
― Nabozo, Thursday, 19 May 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link
Angels Try to End Losing Streak With Nickelback Songs, Get Shut Out
The Angels are in the middle of a franchise-record losing streak, so they are doing anything they can to change their fortune. First, they fired their manager, Joe Maddon, replacing him with Phil Nevin. But Los Angeles lost its first game after that change.
Next, the team tried a music change. On Wednesday night against Boston, every Angels hitter walked up to a different Nickelback song to try and alter the vibe.
It didn’t work.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 9 June 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
well, yeah
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
I mean if you put laxatives inside everybody's Gatorade, their play would also suffer. not sure why they thought doing the aural equivalent would yield a different result.
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
yeah when i heard about this i was like, "dang why they gotta mock the players MID-GAME?"
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
Haven’t the fans suffered enough
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
Jun 9, 2022 vsBoston9:38 pmAngel Stadium of Anaheim S. Ohtani(3-4, 3.99 ERA)N. Pivetta(5-4, 3.50 ERA)Tickets Starting at $1.00
Boston9:38 pm
Angel Stadium of Anaheim S. Ohtani(3-4, 3.99 ERA)N. Pivetta(5-4, 3.50 ERA)Tickets Starting at $1.00
and just like that, i'm an angels fan. who knew. even on stats alone, you got this one in the bag pivetta. sheesh. i'm an angels fan until they stop torturing the players with nickelback. no one deserves that sort of punishment. demoralizing and, dare i say, dehumanizing.
DON'T "`BACK" THE ANGELS.
has a nice ring to it.
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Thursday, 9 June 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
At least their social media manager is still hitting home runs
FINAL: Angels 0, Red Sox 1 pic.twitter.com/GAFIAknPRM— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) June 9, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
Talked about the streak on the baseball board, Phil Nevin was trying something but picked a horrible song.
― Bee OK, Friday, 10 June 2022 04:46 (two years ago) link
Should've used a more positive vibes song, like "All-Star"
― Vinnie, Friday, 10 June 2022 08:38 (two years ago) link
so they ended up winning on thursday night!
and then promptly lost last night's game. big sigh. at least the losing streak was broken.
DON'T `BACK THE ANGELS!
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link