Defend the Indefensible: Nickelback... (Can it be done)

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They are just a bunch of nice Canadian kids who made it big. What could be wrong with that? Their music is like midget porn -- if you don't like it, simply change the channel.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It can't be done.

― Jole (Jole), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

when i see chad kroeger i turn into alex in nyc

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

pabulum

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

RAISE YOUR STANDARDS, WHITE PEOPLE!!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

when i see chad kroeger i turn into alex in nyc

THE INCREDIBLE HULKINGTON

― Jole (Jole), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Their hair is long and pretty.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Defending Nickleback is like genetically crossing a cactus with a weasel: you might be able to do it in principle, but would you want to?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Their name is pretty dadaist. Unless there something I'm missing?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i believe it might be a drug reference

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, in which case...

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/publications/img/yawn.gif

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

vomit?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Even Matthew Good (vancouver singer) says they suck. Which is kind of like Reuben Studdard telling Janis Joplin's corpse that she's fat. But on Muchmusic their videos are played constantly, and it's important to find the positive in things. So: their Elton John cover is kind of funny in a WTF? kind of way.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Elton John cover?

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"candle in the wind 97"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

that fucking hero song from spiderman. fuck.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

this country sucks.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, fyi, they are called Nickelback because Chad Kroeger worked in a coffee shop in Alberta and when he handed back change to his customers he would often say 'Nickel-back.' I should work for POP-UP video goddamit.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

worst band name origin ever!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

what a stupid thing to say.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

they do "saturday nights alright for fighting" ....poorly i might add.

― william (william), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That's right. Their Elton John cover is: "Saturday Night's Allright For Fighting.' Which, when performed by Nickelback, becomes yet another song about the horrors of domestic abuse. They have so many songs about beating up wives and girlfriends it's almost as if they think it's cool. Those
abusive bastards!

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they'll cover nebraska

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, fyi, they are called Nickelback because Chad Kroeger worked in a coffee shop in Alberta and when he handed back change to his customers he would often say 'Nickel-back.'

...actually mike kroeger worked at starbucks here in vancouver[right across from the store i worked at].hence where the name came from. he was/is a helluva nice guy too.

― william (william), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"So take your nickel back, nickelback. I'm gunning for a dime."

― maypang (maypang), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

They make Creed look really good.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. The ILM'ers are everywhere watching my every move. Thanks William! Actually they do seem like very nice guys. I guess they are just painfully unaware of how painful there music is for so so many people. If they were really, really nice, they would just retire and spends their millions of dollars (on free hockey tickets for everyone!)

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

their popularity here, western canada, is unsurpassed. they're the hugest band ever, i think. they fit in perfectly with what people here would like to listen to. (in this city, with four fm radio stations, three of the four, i think, would play them, the rock station, the classic rock station, and the pop-with-guitars station. only the lite pop station wouldn't, i think, unless they do.)

you might only get one or two singles on the radio but they sort of symbolize a certain sort of western canadianness to me, maybe a more rural western canadianness, the part that's bad. or, maybe something a little less important, like a localized version of the tragically hip but able to get their songs on mtv. i'm not sure.

i don't think their songs are that bad.

― William Wiggins, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I mean that last single was pretty good apart from the 'I'm sooo in pain' type vocals that he overuses.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Their drummer's also in the Corb Lund Band, who are great.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

that song from the spiderman movie reminds me of the "band" i sung in when i was like 7 or something.

― justin (Justin M), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

there was one night out a while back where my friend brought his sister, who in turn brought her own moronic boyfriend. he was like something out of wayne's world - he just sat there with his mouth hanging open for the entire night (possibly he was stoned). then "how you remind me" comes on, and he stands up and starts grunting along to it and playing air guitar, with me and my friends sniggering meanly and his girlfriend absolutely mortified. it was so funny that nickelback always have a special place in my heart.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The one and only redeeming element of the woeful Duel on NYLPM was when Tracer Hand posted re Nickelback.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate all their new stuff but the video for "Too Bad" was high drama and I think "How You Remind Me" was a deserved hit. It's got a bit more bounce than the average slice of angst-rawk while still being all angry. Plus it's fun to sing along with (all that "poor man stealin'" and "YEAH YEAH YEAH no no..." shit). I'm happy to say I never heard more than 10 seconds of "Hero" and hopefully I never will. Kroeger was pleasantly irreverent about the hokeyness of the "How You Remind Me" video on VH1 ("see, now she goes away and I'm sad again...aww...").

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I could never defend "My Favorite Disease."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

They're my cousin's favorite band EVAR, and even he gets all apologetic about being a fan. He says they're pretty much crap. WTF?!
But yeah, there's this break on the last single, that was pretty damn good by their standards.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The one and only redeeming element of the woeful Duel on NYLPM was when Tracer Hand posted re Nickelback.

But Duel was genius!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Only after the fifth pint.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

being better after the fifth pint is wot freaky trigger is all about!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

How would you know? ;)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i, erm, like the way chad tucks his hair behind his ears and wears his sunglasses on top of his head...

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

if Francis is talking about "Figured You Out", then yeah, the guitar break on that is kinda cool.

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-two years ago)

Um, Um, They're not as preachy as Creed...?

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-two years ago)

Chad Kroeger looks like a lion, which is quite a cool thing to look like.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

he got his teeth done and now he looks like buddy jesus.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

to hulkington: i dont really see why white people's musical standards should be any higher than that of any other group's.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

< OVERLY BROAD OVERGENERALIZATION>
White Folks Inventions: Polka, Waltzes, Riverdance, Country.
Latinos Inventions: Samba, Soca, Tango, Norteno and.... Sepultura!
Black Folks Inventions: Blues, Jazz, Funk, Disco, Rock and Roll, Hip-Hop.
So, which one needs work in the musical invention department?
< /OVERLY BROAD OVERGENERALIZATION>

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Just to put things into perspective here:

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-two years ago)

You could only defend Nickelback by naming even worse bands:

... ummm...damn!...

...I can't think of any!

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

old nickelback in left speaker and new nickelback in right speaker...

note how completely similar these songs are?

http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475.php

― msp, Friday, 23 April 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWxaohCvQFg

― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:10 (thirteen years ago)

Would watch.

Should be a spin-off "Guy from Creed."

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 August 2012 17:18 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

D'YA WANNA HEAR SOME RRROCK'N'ROLL OR DO YA WANNA GO HOME!?

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:47 (twelve years ago)

have we got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?

― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:49 (twelve years ago)

See ya!

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:53 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

"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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

are hooks a universally positive attribute tho

― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:02 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

have we got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?

― 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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtVU--O29oY&feature=youtu.be

― maura, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:08 (nine years ago)

Doesn't play for me

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:10 (nine years ago)

I feel like they have turned into a muscular version of Live

― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:33 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

NEVAH MADE IT AS A WISE MAHNG
COULDN'T CUT AS A POOR MAN STEALIN

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:17 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

ashamed of my ignorance of #wokenickelback cuts tbh

― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:21 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlNIVXpIns

every time I see it, it makes me laugh

― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:00 (nine years ago)

harder riffage than i'm used to from nickelback in this new one. it's pretty enjoyable until the chorus!

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:05 (nine years ago)

I interviewed them once and they were very nice.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:24 (nine years ago)

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:26 (nine years ago)

for the record this song sounds better than any Nickelback song I've ever heard

― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:27 (nine years ago)

'this genocide took fewer lives than that genocide'

― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:32 (nine years ago)

(although i agree the riff is actually... not bad?)

― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:32 (nine years ago)

if I didn't know it was Nickelback I would probably say, "this song is ok"

― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:01 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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.

http://www.demko.com/cs020904b.jpg

― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 21:47 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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.

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

forever classic for leaving the stage while getting pelted with stuff tho

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:12 (nine years ago)

thanks for reminding me of that

― frogbs, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:59 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

It can't be done but that was fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzP4bC1Ypg

― Nabozo, Thursday, 19 May 2022 05:39 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

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 (three years ago)

well, yeah

― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:36 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Haven’t the fans suffered enough

― frogbs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:49 (three years ago)

Jun 9, 2022
vs
Boston
9:38 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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Should've used a more positive vibes song, like "All-Star"

― Vinnie, Friday, 10 June 2022 08:38 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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