This is a bitch for all you Nickleback fans out there:
Stop buying their crappy music for f*ck sakes!! They’re a bunch of no talent hacks that sound exactly the same in every single song! I’m sick and tired of turning on the radio and hearing “And here’s the latest from Nickleback” and it sounds just like the last one! They suck! They know maybe half a dozen chords and half of the songs are just the chorus repeated over and over and over and over again! Using the words “oh yeah”, “oh no”, “come on” etc are not lyrical content! They are filler used by songwriters with zero talent! So please, stop buying their repetitive crap and develop a taste from real music. That is all.
–Theory of A Nicklefault Hater
This article appears in Jun 18-24, 2009.
What rots me is “rappers” or “r and b” using hte constant filler of “Uhn” and “ya, Ya” “Unh” “yepp Yeppp” “unh”
Sounds like they are trying to have a BM after a particularly fiberless week. Unh Unh Unhhhhh. Shawty.
Agreed.
What really gets on my tits is yodelling. Fuckin’ yodellers.
Also the word “baby”.
And when female singers have some ubergay r&b guy whisper their name during the intro in a tone that suggest he wants to hit her rather than her brother, but fools none of us.
Uhn uhn yeah yeah. Ciara. Uhn uhn. Peg me. Baby. Uhn uhn.
Konvict (Akon’s label) is infamous for having someone say the name of the artist at the begining of the “song”. I looked it up bc it was getting on my nerves and it turns out its some kind of “signature” for rappers to do it… nowthey are all doing it… cause unless they say who they are there is no freaking way anyone would be able to recognize it…
Agree
down with Nickleback
Some of Nickleback’s music made me cry my eyes out when I was younger, same with the Fray. But to me its all just homogenized rock music.
I want to be a 35 year old rock star that makes 14 year old girls weep.
I agree. A LOT of bands these days are guilty of the same thing…and it is hard to find a cd today that contains more than one or two good tunes with the rest being big suckage or basically just filler!
(And whatever happened to songs with great signature intros and awesome guitar riffs and solos?)
True talent speaks for itself when it’s an artist who produces an album with loaded with killer tunes. Rock music sure isn’t what it used to be!
Nippleback needs to wiped off the Earth.
I agree with the OP.
I agree. All of the songs sound the same!
@Miles, I think that was their goal.
C’mon, they’re something for someone to sell, just like BigMacs and RomComs. If they weren’t the ones there’s be something equally lame. You want bad videos? Check out the music videos that the tweens are being fed on Family Channel or whatever it is. Also gives you an idea of how NB is such an easy sell when they grow up…
You want lame? Does anybody remember Kazzer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx28N21MTr4 or apparently these guys are “good” but I have no idea why. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGCT4AQIR0… Fuck, this video is so bad (and the song, too) want to punch something.
punch a pitbull
I have it in my head when I read Miles’ posts that he sounds like the singer from Hootie and The Blowfish.
PAS is on crack.
I like a few songs of theirs (like, one or two per album, tops), but yes, the majority all sound the same. It’s not just rock music that doesn’t sound the same- I find most music these days sucks. I listen to mostly older stuff.
There’s a serious lack of originality in all forms of media nowadays. Be it music, movies, television shows, whatever. They keep making the same movies over and over again under different names, or rehashing old ideas. Example: comic book movies, even though I love them 🙂
But to say that a band’s songs all sound the same – that’s true of almost every single band that’s ever put out an album. And I’m including the “mega-bands” in that statement like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, etc.
Not that I’m defending Nickelback in any way. They fucking suck!
I’d really like it if a certain radio station would stop playing “the climb” “100” times a day…..EVERY HOUR ON THE FUCKING HOUR.
And if I hear poker face one more fucking time….
Ugh.
i have reverted back to the 80’s music
I think we can all agree, 80s music rocks. PK, I agree, the station of a hundred repetitions has been doing that as long as I can remember, maybe even as far back as the 80s.
nevermind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2pXfAK8r1k
…sorry to break the news, but there is huge overlap in all music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_f6pfabQk…
…and OP,
Have you tried NOT LISTENING to music you don’t like?
For everyone complaining about radio stations or music TV stations… Do you seriously expect them to serve up your perfect song list?
Try YouTube. Try an mp3 player. Let one-way media die.
we like to call them theory of dead pickle breath
Ah. Here’s the link I was really looking for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
I think he cracked the story.
No Dogma, those examples are not quite the same situation as the nickelback one. Other musicians borrowing from other musicians is not the same as a band that borrows from themselves repeatedly. That’s just formulaic and not very artistic of them. Hence, Nickelback sucks.
I don’t mind that 36 songs play the same 4 chords or whatever. There are obviously some chord progressions that are natural or are pleasant to the human ear. The ability to do new things with old ideas is on of the hallmarks of musical talent and artistry. But I’m also not a music expert and I’m a sucker for interesting covers and remixes.
match made in Nickelback hatred!!!!
xo
If I were interested in defending Nickelback, I would say that they, too, “do new things with old ideas”…just maybe not new enough for SOME people.
…but I’m not, so I won’t. 🙂
I realize I was on a bit of a tangent. Mostly I was reacting to “They know maybe half a dozen chords”. Talent does not equal popularity (unfortunately?).
On Nickelback, I’ll defer to nevermind’s point that any “band’s songs all sound the same”, to some extent. In fact, I think the less you like a band, the less likely you are to see nuance.
…and again, OP, if you are “sick and tired of turning on the radio and hearing” __(insert anything)__, you should just not turn it on.
Being a lover of rock music and some pop as well , I personally find nothing wrong with Nickelback. Music I can’t stand is rap . There is just something about Rap that makes me cringe and turn it off
“Talent does not equal popularity “
Black Eyed Peas, anyone? Why does that band(and I use the term loosely) exist? And why do people keep buying their music like it’s innovative, and creative?
And a good example of how Nickleback is not the originator of formulaic rock- check out Aerosmith. Have they done a “new” song in twenty five years? They just keep cranking out the same thing over and over. Thing is, they started out being a little bit diverse. Kings and Queens was worlds away from Walk This Way, but somewhere, they caught “the formula” and haven’t deviated from it.
Music is a funny thing. I personally think that some people are not into music as much as others and those people tend to like more generic crap like Nickelcrap. To the point of bands sounding the same, I don’t think anyone can argue that a band like AC/DC has not sound the same in their 30+ year career, however, no one can deny the energy and genuine way they do it. Music doesn’t have to be complex to be good, it just has to be from the soul of an artist doing it for the love of it rather than just the love of fame and fortune. That’s why a band like Aerosmith were so great in the beginning but turned completely blah once they found the winning formula. Red Hot Chili Peppers another perfect example.
I feel bad for people that have to maintain a ‘look’ or whatever. Look at that guy in U2 that wears the toque. I mean, 20+ years of wearing a toque? Even Elton John toned down the funny hats and glasses when the 70s were done.
Same goes for music. Some people (David Bowie) do the reinvention real well, others, well, they find their comfort zone that also makes them the money and go with it. Nothing wrong with it, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to buy any more albums after the greatest hits one is released.
I think the U2 toque guy (Edge?) does it because he’s been balding since his 20’s. Nickelback is terrible… every song on their album is about partying and then they stick, like, 2 in the middle that are about babies with cancer that were saved by 9/11 fire-fighters, so it’s all sympathetic…
Ok, so I’m the OP on this one. To those of my fellow Nickleback haters, thank you for your support. The rest of you missed the point. I am well aware that there are plenty of other bands that are repetitive and crappy, I just particularly hate Nickleback and felt like ragging on them. When you take the fact that Nickleback is a crappy 6 chord repetetive band and then add on top of that the fact that there are several other bands that sound exactly the same as them (Theory of a Deadman, Default, Creed and that new group from Fredericton) it makes it doubly annoying. And thanks to our wonderful CanCon laws, I can’t listen to Halifax’s oldest rock station for an hour without hearing at least one of their songs.
Nickleback sucks and should be barred from playing ever again! That is all.
it’s all about the 90’s for me 🙂
I honestly could not name a sonic youth, pearl jam, or green day song if I tried. I think I’d recognise a song if I heard it and someone said hey thats so and so. I think I stopped listening to all new music between 1994 and 2002. Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson excluded.
I’d say the only exception to that is british indie that popped up around the mid ninety’s – Carl Barat and Doherty. They’re producing heavenly rock music, let me tell you.
You know what is worse than listening to Nickleback live?
Going to a club and having a DJ playing a medley of tunes by Nickleback.. oh god, the horror !
Good call Dino, I have a total man-crush on Pete – definitely the “World’s Coolest Trainwreck”.
Not to mention some of their songs are downright NASTY. I mean, I am pretty hard to offend but that “Something in Your Mouth” song (not sure if that’s the actual title) needs to be sent back to hell where it came from! I actually feel uncomfortable when I hear it because even though their singer is probably only in his 30s, in my mind he’s some dirty old man. *Shudder*
Interesting. I’ve never heard that song, Katie, but it makes me think of Chad Kroeger eating out his drummer.
About that, PDG: THEY REPLAY THEIR SETS. I couldn’t sleep the other night and the SAME songs were played 3-6am that they played 3-6pm. And not just recent songs — shit from like 2001.
Seriously, I might smash my alarm clock if I hear that little bitch, Hannah Montana ONE. MORE. FUCKING. TIME.
Nickleback is NOT HOT!!!