It's Chad Kroger and his big stupid head and ramen noodle hair and the fact that they've made the same E36 M3ty song for 20 years. I do not like them Sam I am.
It's Chad Kroger and his big stupid head and ramen noodle hair and the fact that they've made the same E36 M3ty song for 20 years. I do not like them Sam I am.
Crap, post gone...
Nickelback, creed, late stp, any " rock " that plays on the top 40 station...
All derivative crap that huddles on the giants shoulders of those that created rock.
Gotta have at least one other fan here 
C'mon GRM
Nickleback is an interesting study. They are basically a business experiment to build a band that churns out top forty hits that appeal to a mass market to make dollars.
Yeah, for all the hate they sell an enormous number of albums. I'm not sure I could pick a Nickelback song out of a lineup of one, but the hate seems a little manufactured. It's like the people that disclaim McDonalds; how do so many people hate it if they sell a trillion burgers a year??
I kind of like some of their albums.
Another bunch of idiots from Alberta.
SWMBO likes them, I tolerate them, we've seen them live twice, both times they were accompanied by bands that I like, Bush and Seether so I still enjoyed the show.
Bush opened for them, and put on a hell of a show, upstaged the headliner in my opinion, but I'm a Bush fanboy and Gavin is just dreamy.
The other time Seether opened, and about half way through Nickleback's set, Chad left the stage and Shaun Morgan (Seether's vocalist) took his place and did a kick ass rendition of Filter's, Hey Man, Nice Shot. So, I guess I like Nickleback when their front man is replaced with Seether's front man. 
To be honest, whenever I listen to any mainstream music between 1999-2006 I can't help but feel it was so generic and trying WAY too hard.
I felt like indie, post-hardcore, geek-rock of that era was so much more genuine than mainstream "rock".
Nickleback epitomized that.
I don't get the hate, even enjoy some of their songs. No it isn't complex, but sometimes I don't care.
But yeah, over commercialized formulaic noise is what it is.
Music doesn't make kids want to kill other kids, but Nickleback makes me want to kill Nickleback.
Weaksause. There are bands with 70% more talent, that get a hundredth of the fame.
When they were nobodies, they were from Alberta. As soon as they became famous, they were from Vancouver.
I lost all respect for Nickelback when Kroeger said he was going to "beat the living piss" out of Matthew Good (a much more talented and skilled local musician) during an interview.
Here's what started it: http://rockdirt.com/matthew-good-confused-by-nickelback-hostility/945/
Here's the rest: http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Artists/N/Nickelback/2002/01/11/748169.html
The guy is just another knuckle dragging troglodyte from Alberta.
I didn't mind their earlier albums, but then they got real generic. There are other bands from that era I hate more though, like Pearl Jam and Godsmack.
I liked them when they first became bigtime, I think I was in highschool at the time. Ive found that the songs I liked didn't stand the test of time for me, as in I don't really care if I hear them anymore. Now i'm just kind of indifferent to the band. I'm with Dculberson, I think a lot of people hate them because its cool to hate them. But really as I type this and think about it, they are basically following the modern country music formula, which is if something sells pump out the same crap over and over and until it stops selling. So i guess the mcdonalds analogy above is pretty spot on. Maybe I should start hating them because I openly hate any country music made in the last ten years.
gearheadmb wrote: Maybe I should start hating them because I openly hate any country music made in the last ten years.
Alabam retired in '03, so you gotta go back at least 13 years. 
I've come up with a theory on why everyone hates them. It's because they made a handful of songs that are sooooo heinous, it wipes out any good songs they may have written. I'll be the first to say they have some good songs, but their bad songs...are terrible. They are hard to overlook.
I don't get the hate. If a song comes on and I enjoy it, I try not to let the kneejerk "I don't like this because of the artist" reaction kick in.
"We all just want to be big rock stars" is a fun song, don't bandwagon.
ninja edit: Never watched the video before, it's fun and the cameos don't stop
I read an interesting thing about their guitar player a few ears ago. He's actually a really talented player, but has realized he can make a metric E36 M3-ton of cubic dollars by churning out catchy tunes that appeal to the Walmart crowd.
I don't like them because every song they have gets severely over played by the local radio stations. The same thing ruined me for Nirvana, Metallica, and countless other bands.
All the Nickelback hate? Because they sound like all the other generic pop-rock bands of the era. Theory of a Deadman, 3 Doors Down, etc. All that crap sucks. I need something interesting.
Rush, Mastodon, Gojira, Meshuggah, etc.
dculberson wrote: Yeah, for all the hate they sell an enormous number of albums. I'm not sure I could pick a Nickelback song out of a lineup of one, but the hate seems a little manufactured. It's like the people that disclaim McDonalds; how do so many people hate it if they sell a trillion burgers a year??
Because the people that go McDonalds tend to go frequently.
I've been to McDs 1 time in the last 6 years, and that was earlier this year when we were coming back from a track weekend. There was a McDs next to the gas station, so we ate there.
I don't mind them, also never understood the hate. Maybe it's because I'm open to all genre of music
Appleseed wrote: Music doesn't make kids want to kill other kids, but Nickleback makes me want to kill Nickleback. Weaksause. There are bands with 70% more talent, that get a hundredth of the fame.
Heck, there are bands with 900% more talent that get a thousandth of the fame!
No love for weaksauce mall metal from me.
Grtechguy wrote: I don't mind them, also never understood the hate. Maybe it's because I'm open to all genre of music
This. Except country. It's not that their songs are terrible (country) its the twang of the music that physically bothers me.
I saw them for free years ago at Downtown Rocks in Atlanta. I felt the admission fee was fair. I have a few of their CDs that I didn't pay for thanks to friends in radio. They found a way to make money, good for them.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: Nickleback is an interesting study. They are basically a business experiment to build a band that churns out top forty hits that appeal to a mass market to make dollars.
What I find most amazing is they did that without actually making music.
wearymicrobe wrote:Fueled by Caffeine wrote: Nickleback is an interesting study. They are basically a business experiment to build a band that churns out top forty hits that appeal to a mass market to make dollars.What I find most amazing is they did that without actually making music.
So they followed the same formula as KISS.
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