A civil discussion about Nickelback

Triceratopsoil wrote:   I live in Canada and have never met somebody who likes Nickelback... or at least not enough to admit it.

I was really into them when I was first getting into music, which was when Silver Side Up was released. Not having much experience with music at that point (and frankly Nickelback is the least embarrassing artist I was in to then) I bought everything they'd done up to that point that I could lay my hands on, which was three albums, a DVD and some singles as well. I was still really into them by the time they dropped The Long Road, which even to the fanboy I was then was a disappointing album. I was less into them but still bought All the Right Reasons in 2005 and found it to be a better album. At the time metal was beginning to take over my tastes more and more and not long after the release of All the Right Reasons I lost all interest in Nickelback. A friend, who still sings their praises to this day, lent me the next album, Dark Horse, so I could check it out and I found it to be awfully bad. I never brought it myself, although it somehow found it's way into my collection via my mother, who seems to still think they're one of my favourites. Still I'd take the Nickelback album over the Creed one that I got at the same time (which I've never listened to after about a year of owning it).

While I love to chuckle at Nickleback jokes and stuff, I don't hate them and certainly would rather hear them than stuff like Kanye West, Justin Bieber, etc. I just think their music is pretty bland.

Kingcrimsonprog wrote: I don't like Nickleback, in as much as they aren't one of 'my bands' but I have no dislike for them whatsoever. There's certain bands who always get the 'totally shitty band' tag at any given point in time, they never really deserve it and its just adolescent behavior that reasonable people should grow out of. Every piece of art has its lovers, haters and people who just don't care. I don't care about Nickleback. I'll bob my head to Leader Of Men and maybe Rockstar but I'll never buy an album or go see them live. But at the same time, I don' think that they're rubbish, or they can't play or any of that negative business. There's too much negativity in this world. Kings Of Leon and Coldplay and Nickleback and The White Stripes and Pete Doherty and Brian Adams and Poisen and Linkin Park and whoever else its cool to hate are all artistically relevant, talented people who do something for someone and I don't see the point in hating them. Not liking them certainly, but I don't get hating them. Music, and indeed all art is just 'here is a bunch of stuff... find which bits you like.'

exactly if they sucked then they would have hardly any fans and wouldn't be selling albums hardly as well.

I'm too old for Nickelback to ever have made an impact on my life. I am also too old to hate Nickelback. They're just part of the general rock landscape to me.

Kingcrimsonprog wrote: There's too much negativity in this world. Kings Of Leon and Coldplay and Nickleback and The White Stripes and Pete Doherty and Brian Adams and Poisen and Linkin Park and whoever else its cool to hate are all artistically relevant, talented people who do something for someone and I don't see the point in hating them.

Edited by E�rendil - 08 Jul 2013 at 9:52am