went to a nickelback concert and started crying when chad sang the line “well we all just wanna be gay pornstars.” you might think i overreacted but you just don’t understand; there were 20,000 people in the audience all singing along, with lighters swaying perfectly in sync
It was kinda of a forced joke to begin with lmao, if im not mistaken people just started saying it because of a tv show. Nickelback is mediocre sure, but there were so much worse offenders, specially in post grunge like Theory Of A Deadman.
Whilst I do agree that a lot of the hate was more of an internet meme than anything, you also have to take into account the fact that they were extremely overplayed at the time. Every single radio station had to play them, they licensed their music for commercial and tv shows everywhere, the media just shoved them down people’s throats. So people just got tired of their repetitive and annoying vocals sound being everywhere in a time when streaming wasn’t readily available yet.
The main sin with Nickelback was not because their music was considered the worst, but that their success led the industry to play actual bad bands such as Theory of a Deadman and Saliva on radio heavily. This caused rock radio to be infested with a lot of mediocrity, and one of the reasons why you don't see a lot of rock songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 anymore.
Bands like Creed, Matchbox Twenty, Buckcherry, and Godsmack opened the floodgates for Nickelback, Puddle Of Mudd, Three Days Grace, Seether, Shinedown, and 3 Doors Down to explode in mainstream popularity, And then those bands influenced far worse acts such as Trapt, Hinder, Pop Evil, and especially Theory. Theory of a Deadman is by far the worst mainstream rock act, Every criticism people give Nickelback applies to them tenfold.
@@PuddleOfPizza the fact that I know some of the bands in the second level but not on the third one makes me shudder.. Like it can't be worse... can it?
@Brad Casalinuovo. That’s a lot of shit. The reason why you don’t see Hard Rock music in the charts no more is because of music critics hating the bands. Limp Bizkit, Saliva, Crazy Town, Trapt, Adema, Creed, Nickelback, Puddle Of Mudd, and Staind were all hated by music critics and wanted that scene to die. So that’s why Hard Rock is not popular anymore, because music critics killed it.
@@PuddleOfPizza putting Matchbox Twenty in that first group or really among any of those bands is really weird, Matchbox Twenty never tried to be post-grunge or nu metal like any of the other bands you mention, I always place Matchbox Twenty in the Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Goo Goo Dolls category and that era of rock music was pretty short-lived anyway and was overshadowed by a lot of the other bands mentioned
I think they're two sides of the same coin tbh, they both contaminated the radio waves in the 2000s when they didn't deserve the popularity, but I think both are pretty inoffensive and mildly nostalgic for me at least
Ya know, some bands tried to do Nickelback, and failed fucking miserably. The Kroeg and the band can do their brand of bad buttrock in ways others wish they could.
But the bad butt rock is just a shitty, uninspired version of Metallica, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains. Nickelback themselves are a worse copy of better bands, I don't think we need to praise them for that.
@@Finkster5 True, that's like praising them for the bare minimum as a band. It's not even good butt rock, Metal Gear Rising soundtrack is peak butt rock.
IMO, “Side of a Bullet” is probably the best song off of this album and the most emotionally driven as it’s about the on stage shooting of Dimebag Darrell. Also, who wants to see Brad react to Dirt or Superunknown?
Nah, Savin' Me is better. Side of a Bullet is pretty forgettable. Instrumental is generic, production is bland, hook is kind of lame, but the vocals are okay.
For me, Nickelback is a band that just kinda exists. I both ironically and genuinely love Photograph, but everything else is just, "eh". Also, Nickelback is releasing a new album on November 18th called Get Rollin'. You gonna react to it?
For me its the opposite. It's like a road trip where everything went wrong but you were there with your best friends and you made some good memories. Still bad, but you enjoyed the good times. I definitely have a huge amount of nostalgia for this album.
Nickleback to me is like listening to new drake albums. They’re not as terrible as they’re made out to be and generally sound just stuck in the time they’re from. This album doesn’t sound nearly as bad when it’s not 2005 and you Photograph every day of the week for sure
this is unrelated to the video,but my dog ran away a couple of days ago. I've been really going through it and this channel and your videos have been really helpful at cheering me up! keep up the good work Brad 👍
For the genuine 2000s Nickleback experience, you HAVE to have it only be : Rockstar Photograph Goodbye Playing three times an hour EACH on every pop or rock radio station for four years straight, with imitators and late nu metal bands following it up (Chevelle, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown) and that was all you had for Rock music. I think what you said is true, outside of the butt-rock stuffed atmosphere of the 2000s it’s not as bad. It’s just mediocre, which makes the popularity and “resurgence” of appreciation and defense feel weird to me, someone who just honestly didn’t like nickleback’s sound or attitude as a kid. What makes it worse is that this album was the soundtrack of my dad’s divorce from my mom, and it just makes me feel depressed and uncomfortable whenever I hear i, no matter the context.
i have loved nickelback for so long, in the early 2000s my family would go on road trips and nickleback was the cd we’d always have on. never understood why everyone hated them so much, they made pretty good 2000s rock music in my opinion
Nickleback was Originally from the same Province I am from (Alberta) A lot of their music reminds me of the boom time here from late 90s-2008 where Alberta was arguably one of the best places to live in the world So it holds a little more meaning for me I guess Also reminds me of all the partying and other stuff that comes with it lmao
The fact that I still hear Nickleback on the radio ( I live in Poland maybe that’s why ) makes me just weirdly enjoy some of the songs. Maybe because I’m used to hearing them.
The exquisiteness in Nickelback's first four albums is so immeasurable if they went back to thier old heavy metal style they might gain popularity again with a clean reputation like they always deserved
"This song tastes like budweiser" I've never heard of a truer sentence ever said, it makes sense for all of their songs on this album (or any album of theirs) also I feel like their earlier albums were actually a lot better in a lot of ways?????
God, last year I decided to sit myself down and listen to not just this but every other album from them... is it bad that this was one of the better ones?
I’m not sure what happened to Nickelback on All the Right Reasons but man their music got a glow up. The drums and guitar on that album sound fantastic on the album specifically
Hey Brad, have you ever reacted to Bloc Party? they're one of my favourite bands, would love to hear your thoughts on them, Silent Alarm in particular is a great album.
Nickleback is definitely overplayed and some of their albums definitely feel manufactured, but I definitely still think that it’s one of those things that I can tolerate every once in a while. The hate is as overplayed and mediocre as their music.
All the Nickelback hate is the people who keep referencing Photograph, in retrospect some of their songs are bangers and they still have a big following and go on tour all the time. If the band were truly dead they wouldn't be still relatively present.
The funny thing is, this album made Nickelback hated. Nickelback were almost just a 2 hit wonder band before this album. In 2002 their huge hits in How You Remind Me and Hero came out, but by 2006 people had almost forgotten about Nickelback. Until this album came out with Photograph and Rockstar. So this album stopped Nickelback from being a forgotten 2 hit wonder band. So basically Photograph and Rockstar stopped Nickelback having the same careers as Hoobastank.
Literally the only appeal to Nickelback for me is nostalgia for when my parents took me to this bar where my uncle's band used to play shows, and usually they'd be blasting Nickelback and other music like it while I was falling asleep at the table, and idk it's kind of a cool atmosphere despite the fact that i also hate that kind of "southern toxic masculinity" aesthetic
I have a mandela effect with Photograph. I swear first time I heard it, the lyric went "Kims the first girl I kissed, I was so nervous that I nearly pissed"
Hey mate, I'm wondering if you can review SAMURAIs album from cyberpunk, along with Kerry eurodynes version of chippin in (choose the right one cuz most are poorly mixed by fans). I'm very curious to hear your take on it
Nickelback are definitely not a great band, they were everywhere around the 2000s and it made it harder to not see them as boring mush at the time. Nowadays however, their music has become a lot more tolerable when looking at today's music. At least this band was man enough to ROCK OUT with guitars and drums, most rock nowadays is just electronic beep boops and fake lyrics so they can compete along the generic pop and rap that has taken over the radio. I'll give them that.
travis scott performed at my college in 2013 (before he was a superstar--it legitimately seemed to me at the time that our booking org could have done better) and the only memory i have of his set is him verbally abusing the sound people, who were probably 18 year old kids
The point about every song being 3 minutes too long is how I felt about How U Remind Me from the jump. It felt like a pretty good 2 and a half minute song, but then the entire song repeats, so after 4 minutes is an endurance test.
hey bradley its me again. i think you know what i want by this point (dirt by aic if you forgor). you’re slaying recently and i think dirt could put you over the top. its a great business decision if you ask me bradley
Honestly Nickelback is one of my guilty pleasures. It's probably the definition of a painfully average band but some songs from them are ones I really like. Main thing I don't like about them is the lyrics, like you mentioned they're pretty lame and even creepy at times.
It's bad when the "gay version" remix of a sing is better than the original. My favorite so far (and no, it's nowhere near as good as the original) is "Who Want Smoke ". Brad would love it since he' finds them funny
The only song by them I like is far away, purely from nostalgia. Used to listen to that song when I was like 12 and daydream about whatever crush I had. It’s the ultimate melodramatic love song.
I liked it when you sped up the songs. They improved them in a way. Lyrics still suck, but the sped up-ness worked. They almost feel like Thrash Metal when sped up.
i always find it funny when the video speeds through a song and i find the song slightly more enjoyable that way. i end up thinking "oh they just made it too slow that was the problem" half the time
The State I bought the same day as From Chaos by 311. Nickelback was for me. 311 was for my sister. I really liked it. I went into one of those " Circuit City Express" on my way to the escallator. Silver Side Up CD in hand. Someone asked me if nickelback was any good. I wish I could have anticipated that interraction. Because. I probably never even asked myself. I just like Nickelback. "Worthy To Say"...ok? Now that I have admitted it. "Where do I hide?" And also. It's "Too Bad" I didn't keep the 311 CD.
In my experience and opinion, Nickleback never made music that I thought was particularly bad in terms of composition, sound quality etc, it was rather that they bored me with riffs and beats that sounded repetitive almost to the point of being reused. With that said, it wasn't even that they were boring that used to make me hate them, it was that they were absolutely everywhere in my home town, meaning I heard these same songs that I already didn't like over and over until I hated *hearing* them. With some distance physically from the town and temporally from the height of their popularity, they're still not my thing but I can see why other people like them. Same as any other buttrock band like Breaking Benjamin (who I used to love, ironically) or Shinedown or Skillet, they don't have to be "good", they're just fun for some people.
from what i heard (and htis might be bs) but the whole meme of hating nickelback was because a comedian gave them hell on a popular tv show in the 2000s and it just caught on.
I think the biggest reason why Nickleback is hated is largely due to sounding too rock and country at the same time. A lot of rock fans hate the sound of farm emo, and vice versa.
went to a nickelback concert and started crying when chad sang the line “well we all just wanna be gay pornstars.” you might think i overreacted but you just don’t understand; there were 20,000 people in the audience all singing along, with lighters swaying perfectly in sync
;(
My childhood dream was to become a gay pornstar. Now I’m just in college
@@nicke.424 There's still time
Did he actually sing that line, because I can't tell if this is a joke or not. If he did then goddamn, props for having a sense of humor
@Lowkey Damn that's rude
Nickelback is the ultimate “light shrug” band.
We say this NOW lol
Honestly whilst the instrumentals are indeed a shrug, I would give them a red headphones for the annoying af vocals alone.
@@marianatheschizoid5912 oh, yes. The songs itself are okay, but overused vocal harmonies make my blood boil
And if you’re Canadian theyre like “oh god this again”
😂
"Look at this Graph!" Is the one thing that sticks with me from Nickelback
😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yep. Fucking hilarious everytime someone tells me "the look at this graph" band 😂😂😂
True
You've done Limp Bizkit and Nickelback, So now it's time for Puddle Of Mudd
and Creed
Should I be ashamed for liking these bands?
@@rynobull yes
@@rynobull I'm an unapologetic Puddle Of Mudd fan, So...
@@rynobull I mean some of the songs are good
Nickleback hate felt forced as a joke
Looking back I don’t even know why they were hated as much as they were
It was kinda of a forced joke to begin with lmao, if im not mistaken people just started saying it because of a tv show.
Nickelback is mediocre sure, but there were so much worse offenders, specially in post grunge like Theory Of A Deadman.
Those creepy AF lyrics don't help their case tbh
Whilst I do agree that a lot of the hate was more of an internet meme than anything, you also have to take into account the fact that they were extremely overplayed at the time. Every single radio station had to play them, they licensed their music for commercial and tv shows everywhere, the media just shoved them down people’s throats. So people just got tired of their repetitive and annoying vocals sound being everywhere in a time when streaming wasn’t readily available yet.
@@charliebrouun6510 yes. This i feel is the main issue
@@mr.selfdestruct5845 Theory Of A Deadman is hate crime against humanity
The main sin with Nickelback was not because their music was considered the worst, but that their success led the industry to play actual bad bands such as Theory of a Deadman and Saliva on radio heavily. This caused rock radio to be infested with a lot of mediocrity, and one of the reasons why you don't see a lot of rock songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 anymore.
Bands like Creed, Matchbox Twenty, Buckcherry, and Godsmack opened the floodgates for Nickelback, Puddle Of Mudd, Three Days Grace, Seether, Shinedown, and 3 Doors Down to explode in mainstream popularity, And then those bands influenced far worse acts such as Trapt, Hinder, Pop Evil, and especially Theory.
Theory of a Deadman is by far the worst mainstream rock act, Every criticism people give Nickelback applies to them tenfold.
@@PuddleOfPizza the fact that I know some of the bands in the second level but not on the third one makes me shudder.. Like it can't be worse... can it?
@@manualex16 hinder had one hit “lips of an angel” in the mid 00’s
@Brad Casalinuovo. That’s a lot of shit.
The reason why you don’t see Hard Rock music in the charts no more is because of music critics hating the bands.
Limp Bizkit, Saliva, Crazy Town, Trapt, Adema, Creed, Nickelback, Puddle Of Mudd, and Staind were all hated by music critics and wanted that scene to die.
So that’s why Hard Rock is not popular anymore, because music critics killed it.
@@PuddleOfPizza putting Matchbox Twenty in that first group or really among any of those bands is really weird, Matchbox Twenty never tried to be post-grunge or nu metal like any of the other bands you mention, I always place Matchbox Twenty in the Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Goo Goo Dolls category and that era of rock music was pretty short-lived anyway and was overshadowed by a lot of the other bands mentioned
Nickelback got the reputation that should've went to Train imo
I think they're two sides of the same coin tbh, they both contaminated the radio waves in the 2000s when they didn't deserve the popularity, but I think both are pretty inoffensive and mildly nostalgic for me at least
Fr I can't stand any of Train's songs but I find Nickelback somewhat tolerable
@@Kalitayy I like drops of jupiter well enough, but that's it lol
@@Wuffskers that's because drops of Jupiter is a cover man train stinnnnkkkss
@Bloatus rarely have i agreed with a youtube comment this much
Ya know, some bands tried to do Nickelback, and failed fucking miserably. The Kroeg and the band can do their brand of bad buttrock in ways others wish they could.
But the bad butt rock is just a shitty, uninspired version of Metallica, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains. Nickelback themselves are a worse copy of better bands, I don't think we need to praise them for that.
@@Finkster5 True, that's like praising them for the bare minimum as a band. It's not even good butt rock, Metal Gear Rising soundtrack is peak butt rock.
Love how Brad somehow always has funny parodies ready for these song reactions
IMO, “Side of a Bullet” is probably the best song off of this album and the most emotionally driven as it’s about the on stage shooting of Dimebag Darrell. Also, who wants to see Brad react to Dirt or Superunknown?
DIRT PLEASE
Nah, Savin' Me is better. Side of a Bullet is pretty forgettable. Instrumental is generic, production is bland, hook is kind of lame, but the vocals are okay.
I would like he reacting to Nickelback curb, it is a good album
Super unknown yes, dirt, indifferent
Superunknown! So many long road trips ruining my voice trying to keep up with Chris. Still can't do it.
if you remember when how you remind me and photograph were huge, you know why this band makes people so angry
the bands they inspired are even worse (saving abel, buckcherry)
For me, Nickelback is a band that just kinda exists. I both ironically and genuinely love Photograph, but everything else is just, "eh".
Also, Nickelback is releasing a new album on November 18th called Get Rollin'. You gonna react to it?
God no
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial W
I always felt the same. Like hating them is some strong energy that ought to be reserved for Imagine Dragons lol
@@darnfrick3354 For X Ambassadors 😡😡😡😡😡
@@deftfkaubgup4669 X Ambassadors is aight imo.
I love that you played Dickleback Instead of Rockstar at the end. The ghey version of Rockstar is pure gold.
This album feels like a bad Sunday road trip you have little to none good memories from.
For me its the opposite. It's like a road trip where everything went wrong but you were there with your best friends and you made some good memories. Still bad, but you enjoyed the good times. I definitely have a huge amount of nostalgia for this album.
My dad and mom both loved nickelback so to me it’s nostalgic
@@animal1439 I feel like that is the better way to describe it. Not gonna lie I do feel a little nostalgia for songs like How You Remind Me.
dad-core 5 hour roadtrip
i'm working on a video that i have to wait until their new album is out to finish...
New 10/10?
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial possibly...
Remember when you LPed this album in a Discord call
@@propername4830 yeah, i did that lmao
GOATed move to not include the back half of the album. We don’t need an entire Nickleback album.
Side of a bullet is good, it was a dimebag Darrel tribute
@@Hermit__ I love dimebag
Don’t click a nickelback video then. Daft cunt
@@Hermit__ yeah IMI that song is one of the only good ones on the album and of course he didn't include it lol
@@Hermit__ The lyrics are laughably bad. The Dimebag solo is so much better than everything else on the album that it sticks out like a sore thumb
Nickleback to me is like listening to new drake albums. They’re not as terrible as they’re made out to be and generally sound just stuck in the time they’re from.
This album doesn’t sound nearly as bad when it’s not 2005 and you Photograph every day of the week for sure
Don't mind me here in the comments I'm just manifesting Brad doing a video about the 1993 hit album Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
Me too!
LOOK AT THIS NICKELGRAPH
this is unrelated to the video,but my dog ran away a couple of days ago. I've been really going through it and this channel and your videos have been really helpful at cheering me up! keep up the good work Brad 👍
Sending well wishes your way! I hope your dog finds its way home to you as soon as possible.
@@kareepan3382 thank you❤
Dog's just off on an adventure! Hope they return back to you
For the genuine 2000s Nickleback experience, you HAVE to have it only be :
Rockstar
Photograph
Goodbye
Playing three times an hour EACH on every pop or rock radio station for four years straight, with imitators and late nu metal bands following it up (Chevelle, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown) and that was all you had for Rock music.
I think what you said is true, outside of the butt-rock stuffed atmosphere of the 2000s it’s not as bad. It’s just mediocre, which makes the popularity and “resurgence” of appreciation and defense feel weird to me, someone who just honestly didn’t like nickleback’s sound or attitude as a kid. What makes it worse is that this album was the soundtrack of my dad’s divorce from my mom, and it just makes me feel depressed and uncomfortable whenever I hear i, no matter the context.
...I love CheVelle 😭😭
i have loved nickelback for so long, in the early 2000s my family would go on road trips and nickleback was the cd we’d always have on. never understood why everyone hated them so much, they made pretty good 2000s rock music in my opinion
Nickleback was Originally from the same Province I am from (Alberta)
A lot of their music reminds me of the boom time here from late 90s-2008 where Alberta was arguably one of the best places to live in the world
So it holds a little more meaning for me I guess
Also reminds me of all the partying and other stuff that comes with it lmao
The fact that I still hear Nickleback on the radio ( I live in Poland maybe that’s why ) makes me just weirdly enjoy some of the songs. Maybe because I’m used to hearing them.
Ja właśnie przez to nie mogę ich przetrawic xD
definitely one of the bands of all time
The exquisiteness in Nickelback's first four albums is so immeasurable if they went back to thier old heavy metal style they might gain popularity again with a clean reputation like they always deserved
I was so happy you started playing the YTP it really brought me back. I also can ever hear that one ytp whenever Rockstar comes on lmao
My aunt took me shopping when i was like 12 and she let me pick out one cd, this was it
10:12 That cs188 compilation was my childhood. Whenever you bring it up like when you mentioned it in Imma Be I lost my shit
The only song my parents banned from listening to as a kid was animals of this album
That song is TRASH
They have some really great tunes, follow you home is an absolute BANGER, what a fckn great riff
I will unironically stan some of their music, it’s not all amazing, but they really have some fucking bops. Butt rock is fun.
"This song tastes like budweiser"
I've never heard of a truer sentence ever said, it makes sense for all of their songs on this album (or any album of theirs)
also I feel like their earlier albums were actually a lot better in a lot of ways?????
Patiently waiting for the day for either the vod, or if a fan uploads a video of that full "Deleting Soon" remix.
Fun fact: you don't have to be a rock star to have a drug dealer on speed dial.
True, but the fact that rockstars always have that... it's rather curious
God, last year I decided to sit myself down and listen to not just this but every other album from them...
is it bad that this was one of the better ones?
I loved this album when I was a little kid. Why did my parents let me listen to this
I like how when it's speeded up, those riffs sound a lot better.
Brad making YTP/cs188 references just DOES IT for me. I love when he plays those gems
I’m not sure what happened to Nickelback on All the Right Reasons but man their music got a glow up. The drums and guitar on that album sound fantastic on the album specifically
look at this graph
📈
I know Luke over at Rocked referred to a potential common lyrical theme of a "creepy stalker who hangs out at Denny's" on this album.
Never forget that the singer of Nickelback was married to Avril Lavigne.
I feel like Nickleback made decent music but because it didn't get any attention they had to make some pop songs to get popular.
finding out brad loves hellion hero parodies is my favorite thing about the channels
Hey Brad, have you ever reacted to Bloc Party? they're one of my favourite bands, would love to hear your thoughts on them, Silent Alarm in particular is a great album.
That's actually Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top doing the deep voice on this album.
Nickleback is definitely overplayed and some of their albums definitely feel manufactured, but I definitely still think that it’s one of those things that I can tolerate every once in a while.
The hate is as overplayed and mediocre as their music.
Illmatic>Nickleback in my humble opinion
NickleW > Midmatic
Bold take
have u ever reviewed Saliva?
All the Nickelback hate is the people who keep referencing Photograph, in retrospect some of their songs are bangers and they still have a big following and go on tour all the time. If the band were truly dead they wouldn't be still relatively present.
The funny thing is, this album made Nickelback hated.
Nickelback were almost just a 2 hit wonder band before this album.
In 2002 their huge hits in How You Remind Me and Hero came out, but by 2006 people had almost forgotten about Nickelback. Until this album came out with Photograph and Rockstar.
So this album stopped Nickelback from being a forgotten 2 hit wonder band.
So basically Photograph and Rockstar stopped Nickelback having the same careers as Hoobastank.
nickleback is like stubbing your toe it's not bad, just a minor inconvenience
AND THEY SAID THAT A HERO CAN SAVE US, I'M NOT GONNA STAND HERE AND WAIT
i got so hyped when I saw the illmatic album, then he switch to all the right reasons
Literally the only appeal to Nickelback for me is nostalgia for when my parents took me to this bar where my uncle's band used to play shows, and usually they'd be blasting Nickelback and other music like it while I was falling asleep at the table, and idk it's kind of a cool atmosphere despite the fact that i also hate that kind of "southern toxic masculinity" aesthetic
I'm glad someone actually acknowledges the RUclips Poop when talking about Nickelback because that's also all I can think about
It's cool to see someone else revisit this. This was the first CD I bought when I was like 8 along AAR's Move Along
No joke 'Far Away' was getting little teen me emotional when it first came out. Haven't listened to it in since then.
I can’t hate on Nickelback. Whenever I need a laugh, I just put on the photograph music video. It makes me laugh too Chad
i absolutely LOVE NICKELBACK
I still want "I'll have the quesadilla, haha" as a soundbite
Legit the first track sped up like Bradley did is sounds a lot better than it in real time
I have a mandela effect with Photograph. I swear first time I heard it, the lyric went "Kims the first girl I kissed, I was so nervous that I nearly pissed"
Hey mate, I'm wondering if you can review SAMURAIs album from cyberpunk, along with Kerry eurodynes version of chippin in (choose the right one cuz most are poorly mixed by fans). I'm very curious to hear your take on it
The radio and overall rock industry just kinda spit these guys out at the time. It basically birthed pop-country Ford Tough background music.
*_Look at this- graaaph..._*
nickelback sounds like faint gentrified echoes of alice in chains and stuff like that
AND WE ALL JUST WANNA BE BIG ROCKSTARS LIVIN IN TOP BARS AND DRIVING 15 CARS
hear them on the radio all the time due to being Canadian
Nickelback are definitely not a great band, they were everywhere around the 2000s and it made it harder to not see them as boring mush at the time. Nowadays however, their music has become a lot more tolerable when looking at today's music. At least this band was man enough to ROCK OUT with guitars and drums, most rock nowadays is just electronic beep boops and fake lyrics so they can compete along the generic pop and rap that has taken over the radio. I'll give them that.
spitting facts
Brad bringing YTPs back.
travis scott performed at my college in 2013 (before he was a superstar--it legitimately seemed to me at the time that our booking org could have done better) and the only memory i have of his set is him verbally abusing the sound people, who were probably 18 year old kids
The point about every song being 3 minutes too long is how I felt about How U Remind Me from the jump. It felt like a pretty good 2 and a half minute song, but then the entire song repeats, so after 4 minutes is an endurance test.
hey bradley its me again. i think you know what i want by this point (dirt by aic if you forgor). you’re slaying recently and i think dirt could put you over the top. its a great business decision if you ask me bradley
Honestly Nickelback is one of my guilty pleasures. It's probably the definition of a painfully average band but some songs from them are ones I really like. Main thing I don't like about them is the lyrics, like you mentioned they're pretty lame and even creepy at times.
*clicks on nickelback video*
*sees illmatic*
It's hard to muster the same hatred for Nickelback when Imagine Dragons exists.
I have a suggestion, listen to faith no mores “the real thing” it’s very different and it’s a fun listen to some alt rock. Love the content!
It's bad when the "gay version" remix of a sing is better than the original.
My favorite so far (and no, it's nowhere near as good as the original) is "Who Want Smoke ". Brad would love it since he' finds them funny
Mah Brad Far Away is legit amazing
I went down to my basement one time and heard the guitar riff in follow you home coming from my generator and i thought i was about to die
Should really do a reaction to beasties boys 1994 album Ill communication, very good shit
The only song by them I like is far away, purely from nostalgia. Used to listen to that song when I was like 12 and daydream about whatever crush I had. It’s the ultimate melodramatic love song.
As one of maybe 5 unironic Creed fans, I implore you to listen Weathered
I liked it when you sped up the songs. They improved them in a way. Lyrics still suck, but the sped up-ness worked. They almost feel like Thrash Metal when sped up.
i always find it funny when the video speeds through a song and i find the song slightly more enjoyable that way. i end up thinking "oh they just made it too slow that was the problem" half the time
The State I bought the same day as From Chaos by 311. Nickelback was for me. 311 was for my sister. I really liked it.
I went into one of those " Circuit City Express" on my way to the escallator. Silver Side Up CD in hand. Someone asked me if nickelback was any good.
I wish I could have anticipated that interraction. Because. I probably never even asked myself.
I just like Nickelback. "Worthy To Say"...ok? Now that I have admitted it. "Where do I hide?" And also. It's "Too Bad" I didn't keep the 311 CD.
As soon as “Animals” came up I also immediately thought of CS188’s YTP of it. Classic.
In my experience and opinion, Nickleback never made music that I thought was particularly bad in terms of composition, sound quality etc, it was rather that they bored me with riffs and beats that sounded repetitive almost to the point of being reused. With that said, it wasn't even that they were boring that used to make me hate them, it was that they were absolutely everywhere in my home town, meaning I heard these same songs that I already didn't like over and over until I hated *hearing* them.
With some distance physically from the town and temporally from the height of their popularity, they're still not my thing but I can see why other people like them. Same as any other buttrock band like Breaking Benjamin (who I used to love, ironically) or Shinedown or Skillet, they don't have to be "good", they're just fun for some people.
10 years from now, I bet we will view Imagine Dragons the same way we view Nickleback now.
They're called Nickelback because after listening to them you'd want a refund
Dude! Would love you to react to any Dillinger Escape Plan album.
It's mind meltingly complicated and aggressive music.
Am I able to watch the full version of this anywhere?
from what i heard (and htis might be bs) but the whole meme of hating nickelback was because a comedian gave them hell on a popular tv show in the 2000s and it just caught on.
Honestly I have some good memories listening to this album with my mom when I was a little kid.
I think the biggest reason why Nickleback is hated is largely due to sounding too rock and country at the same time. A lot of rock fans hate the sound of farm emo, and vice versa.
Farm emo 💀
10:41 gotta be the funniest lyric ive ever heard in any song that is so golden
Look at this graph
LOOK AT THIS NICKLEBACK
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME