Maxwell Jennison

I don't think they should be stopped. Some people like their music, and they should have easy access to it. Besides, if the band is happy playing their current style, more power to them. And if they're prospering as much as they are, it means they have a good fan base, many people who enjoy their music. Just because you don't like a band doesn't mean that everyone (or even a majority) shares your opinion.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Nickleback as much as a root canal. The only reason I'm playing the savior of Nickleback right now is because I hear people bad mouth my songs/bands/albums in the same way all the time. And my stuff isn't even mainstream. You won't see a Red Elvises video on MTV. Won't find The (International) Noise Conspiracy in Wal Mart. I have to visit every music store in a fifty mile radius just to find one of those two bands (and even then I usually can't find Red Elvises), and yet I still hear people complain about my music, saying it should be stopped.

So I say: live large, Nickleback. May you prosper and remain mainstream for years to come. May your songs and videos be played every half hour. You won't bother me at all. I'll be listening to my discman, so Guttermouth is all I'll hear.

But I'm ranting. I'm terribly sorry for wasting your time, dear reader, but thank you for sticking with me this far. Here's your prize: Have a smilie.

Princess Ivy

didn't they do the spiderman theme?
I'll join an I hate it when they muck up good books on film club! Yeah Hah

erickad71

I don't care one way or the other for Nickel Back...but, omg, how can you possibly compare them to Bon Jovi?!?!?!

When they have lasted as long, and sound as good live, as long as Bon Jovi has, then I might believe such a comparison. I know they are the epitomy of the '80s hair band era, but they kick @$$ in their live shows.

You know not of what you speak, young Poly. I hope I didn't come off to strongly, but I am a little passionate about them.

You may continue with the Nickel Back bashing...

polymorphikos

I concur. I am quite happy to let other people enjoy their music, provided they do it somewhere I can't hear it and don't consistently bad-mouth what I listen to, either. However, I do believe that some concept of what goes into making a genuinely-original song, or even a not-overly-original-but-still-effort-consuming song, should be imparted to the target audiences of certain popular musicians (and I name no names). I suggest that, since variety is the spice of life, the target audience (which few people here fall into) of these popular musicians should be educated that there is a rabbit-hole, and it wouldn't hurt them to go tumbling down it once in a while. And the popular musicians themselves should be shown that effort and originality and not mindless slaving to the demands of that wallet-seeking vaccuum-cleaner which is the visible portion of the music industry should consider what their doing, and that said visible portion is the tip of the iceberg holding-down thousands and thousands of artists of if not superior then equal worth and refusing to allow anything new or intriguing in except for what they say, exercising a form of corporate brainwashing upon the young (and not so young) people of the world as a method of bleeding them dry of cash, keeping them suckling at the teat and living on pap so that when a little bit of sugar is mixed-in everyone goes ape-crap for something that was being done in a far-superior way by many more artists for a long time before, and is not even remotely new, or was cooked-up by a market-nalyst and his test-screening cronies over a keyboard one night when they'd swilled too-much expensive wine. In many instances the artists themseves are consumed and used by this, as they continue on mindlessly selling their talent, ignoring what could be a spark in a sea of darkness.

Sorry, I'm like one of those converts who is far more zealous than those born to the faith. I am not having a go at pop. Pop is fine. Pop is the collective subconscious of whatever generation it happens to be. I support pop. Yay for Cindy Lauper and an early Madonna and countless fine bands and groups and the like. Pop is fine. It is not bad, just popular.

As you can see, I hate the peverse manipulation of pop to evil ends.

Tsujigiri

I quite like Nickelback, in fact..here..I shall post the lyrics to one of their more sucessful songs.

Then I shall run like a bastard



How the hell'd we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able
To see the signs that we missed
Try and turn the tables?
I wish you'd unclench your fists
And unpack your suitcase
Lately there's been too much of this
But don't think it's too late

Nothing's wrong just as long as you know that someday I will

Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when

Well, I'd hope that since we're here anyway
We could end up saying
Things we always needed to say
So we could end up staying
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror

Nothing's wrong just as long as you know that someday I will

Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)

How the hell'd we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able
To see the signs that we missed
Try and turn the tables?
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror

Nothing's wrong just as long as you know that someday I will

Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)

I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
I know you're wondering when


*poof*

a|one

nickelback is to music what kraft dinner is to food
point and game.