Music: Nickelback

[93gilmour93]

Not a fan but I’d rather listen to them over some auto-tune crap

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

The Nirvana connection sure has to do with it. But also I think Dave Grohl has a personality that's much appreciated by the people he meets in the media so they pump his tires more than he (his music) deserves.

That and they've changed their sound over the years.

The 1st 2 FF albums were great. Unique songs, different sounds. You had Big Me, I'll Be Around, Everlong, Monkey Wrench, My Hero, This Is a Call, etc.

After 'The Color and The Shape', they quickly switched to pumping out generic pop rock all following the same formula.

 

[EpochLink]

Nickelback before Silver Side up > Nickelback after Silver Side up

 

[Eye of Ra]

My theory is that people dislike Nickelback because Chad Kroeger looks like Nicolas Cage .

 

[SniperHF]

I can understand listening to a random Foo Fighters record in 2022 and thinking it's kinda generic.
But what exactly was vanilla about them in 1994 or 1996?

They basically created the "post grunge" sound along with a handful of other bands some mentioned in this thread. They didn't sound like Nirvana and certainly not like the more metal influenced Soundgarden or Alice in Chains. They didn't sound like 80's mainstream rock, metal, glam metal or whatever else was big before the grunge wave. Brighter tones, fuller sound than say late 80's alternative with more and heavier riffs. It might not have been particularly groundbreaking but it's not like they sounded like everyone else on the radio. Until that sound became so popular it was everything else on the radio. About the worst thing you can say about them is they weren't trying to be particularly groundbreaking, more a refinement of grunge sensibilities without the dark tones and some other inspirations. I think the critique that they got increasingly stale after the 90's is fair and that's about it.

Nickelback before Silver Side up > Nickelback after Silver Side up

The State is a good album.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Chad Kroeger made a song with Timbaland. Chads voice just fits perfect with the song. He starts at 0:50

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

That first Foo Fighters album was fine. I'll always love Big Me. It feels like a throwaway song for them but it's exactly my flavor.

 

[tarheelhockey]

If Nickelback had blown up a few years earlier or a few years later, maybe they aren't hated quite as much. That 2001-2005 range was just abysmal for rock in general, with a bunch of douchey butt-rock bands dominating the landscape. It was pretty obvious at the time that the hard-rock genre had played itself out creatively, and was being chased off the cultural landscape by hip-hop/country/pop-punk. Nickelback became the face of that era, sort of a North American answer to the grip that Coldplay had on Europe during the same timeframe.

I find that younger people tend not to hate (or love) them nearly as much, because they didn't experience that cultural context.

 

[Eye of Ra]

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

This is actually….really good. Sounds like something from their Dark Horse album



The album cover…not so good

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

New song

I know they have their haters but this band is good at conjuring up nostalgia from when I was younger

 

[Gil Gunderson]

They're a lot better than most bands from that "post-grunge" movement.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Trying to be open minded here, but all the songs posted above are terrible...

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

They're a lot better than most bands from that "post-grunge" movement.

Im a sucker for subpar music so I love a lot of those post grunge bands like Staind and Puddle of Mudd

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Pretty bland group with a few good songs. The hate that they've gotten just made them bigger and bigger and made their fan bases more loyal. When a fan base feels like the thing they're a fan of is being criticized or treated unfairly it's natural to be more drawn toward that thing.

One of my favorite youtubers did a great video on why Nickelback is so hated for seemingly no reason.

 

[Baby Punisher]

I'm not a fan of Nickel Back in the sense that I don't have all of their albums. Years ago I had one of their CDs that had a song that wasn't a hit that I really liked and for the life of me I can't remember the name of that song and I lost that CD many moons ago. About 10 years ago I saw them at MSG. Bush was opening for them, and that's who I wanted to see. Bush was great. In any event, Nickel Back went on they played 15 songs and I knew 12 of them. They were awesome live. Between them and Bush, it was one of the best pure rock shows I have ever seen live.

 

[Supermassive]

Someone at a car stereo install shop gave a buddy and I a pre-release cd-r of Silver Side Up. We listened to it and thought, this is going to be a giant hit. And it was. Just a mammoth record. Everything since has kind of slid away from the grit from the first three albums, but they're still decent.

Maybe they're the last rock band to be loathed because their reign was just before streaming services started picking up, so radio overplay was a real thing. Still a good band.

 

[Metroid]

As a joke I made a music classifieds ad wanting to make a nickelback cover band but ska, horns and all.

Got no bites. Little disappointed.