Nickelback

I need very little excuse to crank my stereo/radio, and I do it a lot .  I understand why most musicians abhor Nickelback,  but I can' t personally think of any band in history that actually picked up instruments and played them over which I felt anything like rage or  despair.  I don't own any Nickelback, I'm not a fan of Nickelback, but at the same time I don't feel any pressing need to deny I find myself responding at some level to the pounding rhythms and hooks in some of their songs.  Kid Rock is another artist I think of like this:  you're aware you're being fed something unsophisticated and derivative - even manipulative.  But for me at least that doesn't always preclude enjoyment of it in the moment for what it is.   Nickelback is a post grunge version of any number of wildly successful nonsense 80's bands that my generation survived just fine.  People get much more discriminating as they age about they things they seriously embrace whether it's friends or music or books or whatever. Nickelback has a gazillion young fans.  That's a gazillion young people developing a relationship with music, integrating it into their lives and their souls.  The refinement will come later.  It's all good.

That Mixerman book looked cool though...I've put it on my Amazon wish list.

They were a really, really big name in the Netherlands for a year or two, I think, and then just sank into oblivion. I'm not very sure about the precise time this was because I didn't take much notice of them, but I distinctly recall their name being household for a very short period.

"I don't feel any pressing need to deny I find myself responding at some level to the pounding rhythms and hooks in some of their songs.  Kid Rock is another artist I think of like this:  you're aware you're being fed something unsophisticated and derivative - even manipulative."

That philosophy works for some people and that's cool.  For me, life is just too damned short to listen to shite music.  If something is unmitigated crap, I turn it off** as soon as my hands can move to do so.   Nickelback have got some sort of widespread appeal going for them, but I find nothing memorable or vital in their musical output.  Every time someone tells me about something stupid that the lead guy has said or done, I feel a bit of vindication for my vague mistrust of them that was seeded when I heard the first lousy note of the first lousy song of theirs to hit my eardrums.  Manufactured music.  

** (I even turn my own damned songs off.  We were previewing the end-of-year compilation CD that our college puts out - songs from students, etc etc.  My contribution has been getting a lot of love throughout the campus, but when they played mine I begged them to shut it the hell off.  I appreciate that they picked up on the sincerity of the song and the manner in which it was made, but if one is to evaluate the end product ... I mean it's not very good).

I've seen 'em twice on the west coast, didn't mind them.  I can think of much worse acts to watch.

I dislike their music.

somewhere there was a site that showed 3 of their songs sounding very very similar.

proving theyre a boring unoriginal band.

sorry, i dislike them. if they were one hit wonders, they wouldve done just as well.

Lady Nyx wrote: "somewhere there was a site that showed 3 of their songs sounding very very similar.


proving theyre a boring unoriginal band."

Well, the site may have proven that they are unoriginal, but it can't prove that they're boring. It's entirely sujective.