I'm just watching the Netflix doc that's just dropped.
Why is this band so supremely annoying even in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four?
How You Remind Me is absolutely superb - that bit in the second verse where it they cut it back and then go full throttle, the songwriting and production...wow...
Photograph and Rockstart ain't bad either. No questioning their work ethic that would have put Motorhead to shame...
The lead singer's got rid of that Kenny G perm he once had... selling out arenas, lasting long term success...and yet... how can a band be so bland in terms of appearance, sound, performance...is it the guy's voice that grates?
...she's got Dickie Davies eyes...
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I think the whole Nickelback-hate thing is mainly a bandwagon that people jumped on, though. Coldplay suffer from much the same thing. They both are pretty bland, but no worse than, say, Creed.... although that's probably a bad example as they get lots of hate too.
Presumably the Netflix documentary makes some effort to understand all the hate?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I quite like their early 00s stuff; later on the lyrics clearly become writing whatever will appeal to a generic "rock" audience rather than being genuine or interesting, which I struggle to get past. This album's all about getting drunk with your friends and picking up women, even though we're all happily married! Now this album's about The Man and rebellion against the system! We're even using 7-strings cause they're cool now!
There are some banging riffs in there though; it's always fun playing a good Nickelback riff to a metalhead and then telling them what it's from! Flat on the Floor, Because of You, etc.
In that context I think they are probably the UK equivalent of "Landfill Indie" or "Post Britpop" where those bands like The Kooks, Toploader, Starsailor, Embrace Shed Seven, Razolight get a bit of heat for being a bit fake and pointless.
That said, The drummer was wearing DRI and VoiVod shirts, Chad apparently had helped metal bands out in the past and I thought they cane across as decent people.
He was over in the UK visiting me around 2010 and Rockstar was playing on the radio. I distinctly recall him saying that in Calgary they're regarded as "a local bunch of assholes" and had been since their youth.
Here we are 15 years on and still they seem to be hated ... can't fathom it mesel ... poor bastards have probably never done owt wrong.
I don't like or dislike Nickelback, same is true for a limitless number of bands ... they are just there ... I don't need to listen to them.
I'm just jealous really.