Backdoor Sluts 9 makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughty Nurses 2

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Imagine dragon these nuts across your face lmao gottem

After I typed it I thought the same thing and was hoping someone as corny as myself would write this. You made my day

Yeah I've seen a few bands live at festivals that I never cared for to begin with, but thought they were a lot better after seeing them. Billy Talent was one. Some things get lost in sanitized studio recordings, but get put on display when you play it like you mean it.

It wasn't horrible just wasnt my cup of tea

Elton John isn't my cup of tea and I would never buy tickets, but we scored two free box tickets once and had a blast because live music.

Their first album was not that bad tbh. I feel like in 10 to 15 years people will look back at them with the same level of nostalgia as people now look at Nickelback.

I must say I enjoyed most of "Night Visions", and some from Smoke+Mirrors (such as "Warriors"). But recently, I can't say I've heard one that stands out much.

Nickelback signed with RR in '99, same year Slipknot's 1st album came out

Times a bitch! All blends together - slipknot were absolutely getting massive, no doubt, but they were not making Nickelback money at that time.

SSU came out ON September 11th. That album is a wild ride. That album is a greatest hits

Definitely not for everyone! But folks don’t realize they have a song with a Dimebag Darrell solo after his tragic death.

My issue with Nickelback is with their post SSU albums where it felt like everything they did sounded the same. They had some decent stuff pre-SSU, but they found the formula that sold records and milked it for millions. Good for Chad and the rest of the band, if you don't like the music turn the station, it's super easy.

No, they both signed go RR same year and Slipknot self titled 1st album went platinum the very next year. Slipknots success is their own

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Counterpoint: look at this graph

Do you mean Matthew Good lol? Hello Time Bomb was such a killer track

Our Lady Peace, Finger 11, Barenaked ladies, the Watchman.

There's some I dug though. Big Wreck was a good band that benefited from CanCon and got played to hell . There was a chunk of time where some good stuff like Rheostatics benefited.

Edit: and for me personally I think teenage head could never be played enough.

Nickleback (and other butt rock stars of the time) were the Bud Light of music. Just kind of there, and it weirdly outsold all the superior products. Tasteless, though inoffensive.

Generally speaking, they weren't necessarily worse than other shitty radio rock music. Creed was another example. All of it was corporate schlock that was designed specifically to be catchy but without substance just to drive single sales.

My personal theory is that it happened because of the music industry crash of the 00s. Producers clamped down on creativity and pushed generic, templated sameness because their margins were so low. We're clawing back because of streaming services but in general the 00s and early 10s were a shit time to listen to the radio.

"I am so high I can hear Heaven but Heaven don't hear me."

Never was much of a Nickelback fan but that is a pretty cool piece of poetry.

Never Again was pretty good too.

Silver Side Up front to back slaps

I’m fond of ‘Burn it to the Ground’. Really like the opening guitar.

yep and throwing "Feeling Way Too Damn Good" out there too. Ive always thought that song was a banger.

Hero, with Josey Scott. And no cap, I still listen to I Wanna Be A Rockstar.

Just to add on to this. I'm Canadian and so is Nickelback. In Canada we have laws that 30% of radio content must be Canadian content. So if you listen to a rock station you hear a LOT of the same Canadian bands when they're popular.

Sometimes that isn't a bad thing, for example the Tragically Hip rule and their stuff would get played all the time. But then you have Nickelback. Fucking Nickelback. And their songs would get played all. The. Time. Even if they had a song that wasn't awful (and I do think their music, from what I've heard, ranges from mediocre to awful), being forced to hear it on the radio will make you hate it.

To reiterate what you're saying, Imagine Dragons is basically the new Nickelback. They get shit not because they're bad, but because they're song are a little generic and clearly formulated to be highly commercial.

They don't get nearly the same degree of hatred though because the music landscape is entirely different. You don't feel like you are surrounded by imagine dragons 24/7. You notice them soundtracking a commercial and then you go "oh did I forget to turn adblocker off?" and go about your day

Exactly this. I worked as a convenience/drug store inventory counter in the early 2000s and I’d spend my whole day having to listen to their bland repetitive songs at work in the stores. We’d spend a lot of time on the road between stores and guess what was on the radio all day long? Fucking Nickelback. They were relentless lol

A lot of their songs also sound the same so it felt like hearing the same song over and over and over well past the expiration date of butt rock. They absolutely wore me down over time.

It's this. They were being played every 30 minutes on every rock radio station for years. It didn't start off completely awful, but it certainly ended that way.

And for the record, I completely gave up on the radio because of Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends. Not a terrible song, but constantly being played.

I'll take it a step further; Nickelback wouldn't even have blown up today because they'd be completely lost in all the other mediocre bar bands with a Bandcamp page.

"How You Remind Me" was the most played song on radio in the 00s, and it didn't even come out until mid 2001. It was on every station for hard rock to easy listening you couldn't escape it.

Look at this graaaappphhh

He is overplayed but I appreciate someone like Ed Sheeran for this. He straight up says that certain songs he makes have one goal and one goal only: getting loads of cash being played at weddings. And then he can do singles that he likes more without the record label rioting.

Playing 10 billboard bait songs and one song personal to you in front of a sold out crowd is still one good song, and that's a lot more than 99.999999% of people get to do.

Lol, I was so committed to hating them. Then a buddy put in a CD and wouldn’t answer who it was, said “just listen”. It was What If, and I was absolutely loving the first 20 seconds. Dude tricked me into recognizing Creed could write a good song or half a dozen.

Look at his hair too, dude absolutely saw himself as the second coming of Christ

Like you can have long hair that’s fine. But to be a religious nut with long hair and constantly pose like your Jesus while you have millions of followers? Yea he thought he was a messiah

Well… there’s also the Scott is Jesus imagery that was a tiny bit heavy handed.

Creed’s music was also emotional and a tad melodramatic which makes them easy targets. But musically, they are pretty good and wrote catchy tunes.

Isn’t that Staind?

I watched the shit out of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. And it's cool he has his style, but I'll be damned if it isn't objectively goofy AF lol.