http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Tg0ddJ65Sqc/hqdefault.jpg
― Hungry4Games (crüt), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www-movieline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/daxshepard300.jpg
― Austerity Bronies (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
bwaha!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Who knew MotoGP rider Nicky Hayden was moonlighting as Nickelback's lead singer??
http://i.imgur.com/qmzTA.jpg
― skip, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
so the local sports talk station's "Power Trip Morning Show" has a recurring guest, this dude from the band Motion City Sountrack, a sort a b-level pop punk/emo type major label band, seems like they do ok, the are from mpls....anyway, they do that thing where they run ads for their shows with funny highlights from a recent show, etc....
anyway, i only heard the soundbite in the ad, but i take it that one of the dudes in the band (or maybe some other guy they know) is a songwriter as well for bigger rock bands....
and scene:
He's supposed to meet Chad Kroger of Nickelback at a restaurant. The meeting is about how this guy might sell some songs to Nickelback for an upcoming album. So they are talking and he gives Kroger the demo CD, etc, and Kroger is like, "Well, are you going to sing them?".....the guy says, "Well, I'd prefer if you just listen to the stuff, we're in a crowded restaurant not really comfortable doing that".....Kroger interrupts and is like "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN YOUR SONGS IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BALLS TO SING THEM RIGHT NOW??"
then, Kroger stands up, kicks over his chair and belts out LOOOOOOK AT THIS PHOOOOTOGRAAAPH/EVERYTIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAAAAUGH like LOUD AS FUCK and the whole restaurant is obviously looking at him and Kroger just struts out of the restaurant and leaves the dude sitting at the table.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I have a new favorite band
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
dude walks it like he talks it
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 August 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
god i hope it was actually butch walker at the other end of that table
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 August 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
tbh if i was butch walker i'd be embarrassed to sing my shit too
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 August 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Bold way to dodge a check.
― nickn, Friday, 3 August 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
― da croupier, Thursday, August 2, 2012 6:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
whaaaaaat man you should check out his solo albums
― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
We should poll people named Chad in bands. Live had two of them!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 August 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
That's a pretty funny story, but there's never been an outside songwriter on a Nickelback album - hell, Kroeger writes and produces for other people at this point (most notably Daughtry, and now Avril Lavigne, who rumors around the office suggest he's also sleeping with).
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 3 August 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
does the canadian press call them "ChAvril"?
― tylerw, Friday, 3 August 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:46 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah i was gonna say, story doesn't pass the smell test for this among several reasons. still funny to picture, though.
― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
That's a pretty funny story, but there's never been an outside songwriter on a Nickelback album
Mutt doesn't get a credit?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I don't care if that's fake, that story is hilarious
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
"Dark Horse:"
All lyrics written by Chad Kroeger, all music composed by Nickelback with Robert John "Mutt" Lange on tracks 1, 4, 7, 8 and 11.
The last one had track written with the producer, too, Joey Moi. No?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
that is the greatest story ever told, replacing the former greatest story, the Bible
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I've reported here before on the one time I saw Nickelback, and they interrupted their show for 15 minutes wasted firing shirts out at the crowd with t-shirt canons. It was as NASCAR as Canadians get.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 August 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
They should have at least thrown in a drum solo during that time.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I've reported here before on the one time I saw Nickelback
you misspelled "first"
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Obv I have no idea if it's true, all I heard was a snippet of talk radio
Still....if we can't believe in this what can we believe in
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
just look at this post of m@tt's, every time i do it makes me laugh
― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
well it says "might" have sold some songs to nickelback, maybe chad just likes to fuck with hacks
― da croupier, Friday, 3 August 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
xpost to Dan, I totally would have seen the band again were they not so utterly dull and gormless. Totally unaware - or aware but not caring - of all the cliches they embody, so that it transcended self-parody.
"Chicago, you may be the best crowd we've ever heard! Let me hear you again! Yeah, that was awesome. Tonight, we want to party with you!" Then he told his roadie to order a few hundred pizzas and beer so that they can party with 10,000 of their new best friends. Or something like that. It was total school of Paul Stanley.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 August 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
Did they actually go through with the pizza
― mythical mickey rourke jacket (latebloomer), Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
every stadium band these days rips off U2
― some white dude (some dude), Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
More bands should do the t-shirt cannon thing.
― mythical mickey rourke jacket (latebloomer), Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
it would certainly be a nice gesture at those big shows where the merch stand charges $40 and up for every shirt
― some white dude (some dude), Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
It would have been hilarious had every fan that caught a shirt then been handed a bill for said shirt.
Saw Merle Haggard the other night, and his t-shirts were $35!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWxaohCvQFg
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
Would watch.
Should be a spin-off "Guy from Creed."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
D'YA WANNA HEAR SOME RRROCK'N'ROLL OR DO YA WANNA GO HOME!?
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
have we got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
See ya!
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
"How You Remind Me" is a great song. its got at least 4 hooks. classic
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
The question shouldn't really be "can it be done?", more "can it be done... in Portugal?"
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
are hooks a universally positive attribute tho
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Depends on whether or not you're a fish at the end of one, I guess.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Monday, February 10, 2014 5:49 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm actually quite curious about whether the Portuguese have come around to Nickelback's musical charms and nowadays buy shit-tons of their records.
― 뉴 메탈은 나머지 모든 보지 똥, 거기입니다 최고의 음악이다 (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, it would be incredibly funny if it got to the stage where they became the biggest band ever in Portugal while they got shit thrown at them whenever they played anywhere in the rest of the world.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtVU--O29oY&feature=youtu.be
― maura, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Doesn't play for me
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
I feel like they have turned into a muscular version of Live
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtVU--O29oY
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
getting a real 'war pigs' vibe from those lyrics
are we entering the era of #wokenickelback?
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
NEVAH MADE IT AS A WISE MAHNGCOULDN'T CUT AS A POOR MAN STEALIN
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
They've done this before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlSYabmJuzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1Do-HnT9o
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
ashamed of my ignorance of #wokenickelback cuts tbh
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link