Topic: As if you needed any more proof... (Read 21866 times)

TheFuriousWombat · « **on:** 14 Dec 2007, 12:07 »

I was recently shown this delightful little mashup: http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/02/Nickelback%20-%20How%20You%20Remind%20Me%20Of%20Someday.mp3

As if you needed more evidence to support your hatred of Nickelback, this here mashup plays "This is how you Remind me" and "Someday" directly over one another. It turns out that they're the same song. Really. I just really wanted to spread holiday cheer so enjoy you guys. To give this thread some longevity, post more stuff like this. I still know people who like bands like this and we need all the fodder we can get to dissuade them.

amok · « **Reply #1 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 12:10 »

this still cracks me up

audacity · « **Reply #2 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 13:30 »

.. I kind of like the mashup. It's a vast improvement.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #3 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 13:33 »

The point is that these are two of their more popular songs but they have almost the exact same structure/cadence ect. It just points out the lack of craftsmanship and attention that goes into their work.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #4 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 13:38 »

as if it needed to be pointed out.

they really are terrible aren't they?

audacity · « **Reply #5 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 14:37 »

"Any nickelback fans?"
-dead silence-

audacity · « **Reply #6 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 14:49 »

Their silence was clearly code for "do you want to feel some rock or do you want to go home?"
bah dum chhh.

Tom · « **Reply #7 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 18:32 »

My god, this one is serious.

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This just proves that the portugese are complete twats. I'd like to see them go up on stage and perform like Nickelback do, its a lot harder than it looks and it takes a lot of guts. I am a fan of Nickelback and i can't believe people treat them like that. They're good musicians and some people just dont appreciate it.
I don't want to start any arguments with anyone so don't reply unless it's positive. Nickelback are very good, in my opinion, and if yours is different, i don't need to know.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #8 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 19:43 »

I don't know about you but I've always found that making massive generalizations and being close minded and ignorant is the best way to get my point across.

NickRaciti · « **Reply #9 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 19:47 »

Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 14 Dec 2007, 18:32

My god, this one is serious.

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This just proves that the portugese are complete twats. I'd like to see them go up on stage and perform like Nickelback do, its a lot harder than it looks and it takes a lot of guts. I am a fan of Nickelback and i can't believe people treat them like that. They're good musicians and some people just dont appreciate it.
I don't want to start any arguments with anyone so don't reply unless it's positive. Nickelback are very good, in my opinion, and if yours is different, i don't need to know.

I know I'm not the only one who pictured all of Portugal getting up on stage after reading that.

Statik · « **Reply #10 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 22:53 »

I personally hate Nickelbacks music, I think its boring and trite, however, they have a record contract, and have sold thousands? millions? of albums. (I dont know and dont particularly care.) They obviously do have fans, otherwise they wouldnt be touring internationally. And who, as a musician would play for a crowd who doesnt care that you are there? If they were opening for someone, well, sucks to be them, still doesnt justify having rocks thrown at his head. If they were the headliner, wtf were all those people doing there to begin with? I know I wouldnt pay the price to go see a Nickelback show to throw a rock at the motherfucker.

A side note, a friend of mine who works as a stage hand here has worked with/for Nickelback, I think she said they were decent guys (I might be wrong though, I will confirm later)

Edit for name correction, despite the fact that I still dont like the band.

Ballard · « **Reply #11 on:** 14 Dec 2007, 23:11 »

I hate to be pedantic but misspelling the name of the artist you are bashing shows ignorance and does little to make your argument convincing.

Nickelback, guys. Like the element and the coin.

Darkbluerabbit · « **Reply #12 on:** 15 Dec 2007, 00:47 »

I'm sorta impressed that he just said "see ya" and walked. At first I thought he flipped the audience off, but I don't think he even did that. Hold onto that good attitude, Chad Kroeger, it's clearly your best feature.

On the other hand, taking shit from people isn't very HARD RAWK. This is further proof that Nickelback does not rock. Hell, Conor "So emo it hurts" Oberst told the entire state of Texas that he hated them (paraphrased) unprovoked, and they can't even muster a "fuck you for chucking rocks at me?" SISSIES.

Johnny C · « **Reply #13 on:** 15 Dec 2007, 00:48 »

Oh man, what a tool.

doombilly · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 08:26 »

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/03/my_fiveyear_feud_with_nickelba.html

Gemmwah · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 09:45 »

Oh my god, guys.

That twat from Nickelback got hit in the head with a rock.

This is hilarious.

Johnny C · « **Reply #16 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 09:48 »

Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 15 Dec 2007, 00:47

Hell, Conor "So emo it hurts" Oberst told the entire state of Texas that he hated them (paraphrased) unprovoked

I have to correct this, because I think what he said was more along the lines of, "You are a shit state for spawning George W. Bush."

Johnny C · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 10:11 »

I will be willing to grant that to whatever city birthed Bedhead but I am not willing to extend this to the entirety of the state.

EDIT: Actually, Okkervil River are from Austin, so I guess both Dallas and Austin are safe.

Apologies to the rest of the Lone Star State but you just gotta bring up your game.

doombilly · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 10:26 »

Well I was all too ignorant of NBack until my girl MADE me listen to Rockstar to see how bad they were. I can't believe anyone would be scared of that Michael Bolton looking mother fucker. But maybe he's big n scary and Winwood is not? Who knows? Cares? Guy's a fucking twat. It sure does make life easy when a guy's a douche and his 'music' sucks. Convenient!

imagist42 · « **Reply #19 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 11:19 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 05 Mar 2008, 10:11

I will be willing to grant that to whatever city birthed Bedhead but I am not willing to extend this to the entirety of the state.

EDIT: Actually, Okkervil River are from Austin, so I guess both Dallas and Austin are safe.

Apologies to the rest of the Lone Star State but you just gotta bring up your game.

Being from Austin, I take no offense to this. Although you have to give Austin a greater bubble of safety, because in addition to Okkervil River we spawned Spoon, Explosions in the Sky, Voxtrot, The American Analog Set, etc. Enough of a safety bubble to compensate for the ridiculous amount of crappy country that spews out when we're not looking, at least.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #20 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 12:14 »

In addition to the very awesome Texas bands already mentioned, the state also gave us Stars of the Lid, who produce quite possibly the best ambient work I've ever heard.

muffy · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 Mar 2008, 12:48 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 05 Mar 2008, 09:48

Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 15 Dec 2007, 00:47
Hell, Conor "So emo it hurts" Oberst told the entire state of Texas that he hated them (paraphrased) unprovoked

I have to correct this, because I think what he said was more along the lines of, "You are a shit state for spawning George W. Bush."

...or, to be even more pedantic, the actual quote was closer to 'I'd rather shoot myself than live in this state".

There are some glaringly obvious comebacks to this, but apparently no-one at the show had the heart to offer him permanent Texan residency.

atimholt · « **Reply #22 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 12:24 »

And Houston has that NASA headquarters/mission control place |)

Beastmouth · « **Reply #23 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 19:13 »

Quote from: De_El on 17 Mar 2008, 18:30

necro! This is you, sir:

I mean, you can do it. But it's just so undignified.

Cut him some slack.

I'd missed Nickelback getting pelted with rocks! That rocks!

Patrick · « **Reply #24 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 19:42 »

Nickelback are the new Monkees

EDIT: Correction: nevermind, at least the Monkees had the wit to rip off the Beatles.

greenMonkey · « **Reply #25 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 20:14 »

Talking about bands being interrupted in concert..

I saw a video somewhere online of the Jesus Lizard in concert. Some guy in the audience did something to provoke them, something major, and both David Yow and Duane Denison dropped whatever they were doing and went at him, proceeding to kick the shit out of him till he had the good sense to disappear into the crowd. During this time the rhythm section just continued to chug along without dropping a beat.

Beastmouth · « **Reply #26 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 20:40 »

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Mar 2008, 19:42

Nickelback are the new Monkees

EDIT: Correction: nevermind, at least the Monkees had the wit to rip off the Beatles.

And have Carole King write their songs!

And have a sense of humor, &c

PassiveTheory · « **Reply #27 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 20:51 »

I think somebody did the same mashup thing but with two White Stripes songs... It was a long time ago, I wish I still had that shit.

Beastmouth · « **Reply #28 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 20:54 »

Quote from: PassiveTheory on 17 Mar 2008, 20:51

I think somebody did the same mashup thing but with two White Stripes songs... It was a long time ago, I wish I still had that shit.

Well, yeah, they all have no mids!

But srsly, before this thread, I had no idea that Nickelback had more than one song. Thanks, y'all.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #29 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 21:40 »

Quote from: greenMonkey on 17 Mar 2008, 20:14

Talking about bands being interrupted in concert..

I saw a video somewhere online of the Jesus Lizard in concert. Some guy in the audience did something to provoke them, something major, and both David Yow and Duane Denison dropped whatever they were doing and went at him, proceeding to kick the shit out of him till he had the good sense to disappear into the crowd. During this time the rhythm section just continued to chug along without dropping a beat.

Am I the only one that thinks it would have been more awesome had they started playing the mortal kombat theme?

Spluff · « **Reply #30 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 21:49 »

I think motorhead(?) did the same thing once, and beat the shit out of some guys that crashed their gig and started picking fights with members of the audience.

RedLion · « **Reply #31 on:** 17 Mar 2008, 23:30 »

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Mar 2008, 19:42

Nickelback are the new Monkees

EDIT: Correction: nevermind, at least the Monkees had the wit to rip off the Beatles.

The Monkee's calling card song ("Hey Hey, We're the Monkees! And people say we 'monkey' around! [GOSH, WE'RE CLEVER!]") was, at least, catchy in a "I-want-to--bash-my-head-into-the-wall" sort of way. That's more than can be said for any of Nickelback's songs.

Patrick · « **Reply #32 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 00:51 »

Man the only Monkees song I don't want to light on fire is "Last Train to Clarksville" but even then it is a blatant ripoff of "Paperback Writer", which came a mere 3 months earlier.

muteKi · « **Reply #33 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 13:11 »

Quote from: audacity on 14 Dec 2007, 13:30

.. I kind of like the mashup. It's a vast improvement.

Agreed. If they had done this rather than make the same song on two different occasions it would be cooler.

Then again, rock bands that I do like have done kinda' similar stuff (building two songs from the same recording).
I'm just not a fan of this slow rock type of thing in general though, as it tends to be rather boring.

tommydski · « **Reply #34 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 13:19 »

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Mar 2008, 19:42

Nickelback are the new Monkees

The Monkees had a few great songs actually.

Nickelback are just the pits.

Beastmouth · « **Reply #35 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 14:01 »

Quote from: tommydski on 18 Mar 2008, 13:19

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Mar 2008, 19:42
Nickelback are the new Monkees

The Monkees had a few great songs actually.

They had really good songwriters working for them. Brill Building ftw!

tommydski · « **Reply #36 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 14:12 »

And those songs were much, much better than anything Nickelback will ever produce.

Patrick · « **Reply #37 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 16:48 »

I still want to punch the guy who wrote "I'm A Believer". And the guy who told Smashmouth it'd be a good idea to cover it.

Seriously Smashmouth, you should've just stopped with AstroLounge (and remove the retarded singles) instead of fucking everything up for yourselves.

RedLion · « **Reply #38 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 17:00 »

Wasn't their singer supposed to be some kind of hardcore cuss-like-a-sailor badass? Or am I just making that up?

Patrick · « **Reply #39 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 17:12 »

He was for Fush Yu Mang. That was before they did AstroLounge. They're both excellent albums (like I said, though, remove the over-pushed singles from the latter) and well worth listening to. The self-titled was the first point of failure, and the singles that came after that album was wrung out were complete and utter shit-reggae aimed at 8-year-old kids.

SmashMouth were the first band I ever really got into and the first band to set off unbelievable disappointment. Third Eye Blind finished second with Blue. I stopped counting after that.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #40 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 19:49 »

Quote from: Patrick on 18 Mar 2008, 17:12

utter shit-reggae

Man, the hyphen makes that.

Johnny, add El Paso to your list of safe Texas cities. At The Drive-In, dude.

Beastmouth · « **Reply #41 on:** 18 Mar 2008, 22:46 »

Quote from: Patrick on 18 Mar 2008, 16:48

I still want to punch the guy who wrote "I'm A Believer".

Yeah, Neil Diamond could use a good K O

De_El · « **Reply #42 on:** 19 Mar 2008, 08:36 »

Did ATDI even like El Paso? What with that EP called Hell Paso it is not necessarily a given. But hey, it also might not really mean anything.

Thrillho · « **Reply #43 on:** 19 Mar 2008, 10:19 »

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Mar 2008, 19:42

Nickelback are the new Monkees

That's a fucking insult to the Monkees, man!

Clintaga · « **Reply #44 on:** 19 Mar 2008, 13:05 »

I grew up in a red neck backwoods boony town where the coolest thing to do is be a volunteer fire fighter. Everyone drove TRUCKS with BIGWHEELS and MUDFLAPS cause MUDRUNNING is COOL etc. And those motherfuckers love Nickelback and Linkin Park like Elvis. Its Absurd. I mean, my music probably isn't that much better to listen to, but OH MY GOODNESS do I hate the genre (Puddle of Mudd can DIAF and Creed needs to experience every kind of dental trauma simultaneously, for an unspecified number of millenia).

That being said, this mash up is pimpin.

Patrick · « **Reply #45 on:** 19 Mar 2008, 16:39 »

Mudrunning IS cool, dude. Seriously, it's like being 5 years old again, but with something like 300 more horsepower.

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 19 Mar 2008, 10:19

That's a fucking insult to the Monkees, man!

Okay fine they're the new Strawberry Alarm Clock, who ripped off bands who were ripping off the Beatles (badly) and were such pseudo-psychedelics that it makes me want to vomit and I wasn't even there for the real thing.

Happy now?

Thrillho · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 Mar 2008, 10:48 »

Since I've never heard of Strawberry Alarm Clock (who have a really shitty name, by the way), yes, yes I am.

Patrick · « **Reply #47 on:** 20 Mar 2008, 15:29 »

Take the shittiness of the name 'Strawberry Alarm Clock'. Multiply it by 50. Then add AIDS, genocide, domestic abuse, and poverty. Stir well, adding Jenkem as required (for flavor) and bake at 350F for 5 hours until it burns down your house.

That's Strawberry Alarm Clock's music.

Tom · « **Reply #48 on:** 20 Mar 2008, 19:41 »

Cut them some slack, what about Incense and Peppermints?

Caspian · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 Mar 2008, 20:00 »

If you reversed that Nickelback mashup and added a huge amount of distortion and reverb, it may sound quite promising.

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