Why the hate?

will top the charts hard that's for sure

So did Roadrunner put down the bottle?

the flag of HAAAAATE!

Nickelback has returned. The world is now a better place.

I'm actually curious as to what direction they'll go

Hopefully a new one, in terms of their previous material, I'd like to see them do something new

It's OK . They didn't put out anything interesting since "All The Right Reason" . I hope the new album will be better than the last 2 studio albums .

nice track

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

Heavy as bro

They've done much worse, I'll admit.

It appears so, from all the friendly comments.

they're consistent. gotta give them that

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their terrible music will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us from Nickelback!"

and I'll whisper "no."

Huh. I was expecting a ritualistic beating of a dead horse in the comments
Instead I got sarcasm.
This is good?

nope

does nickelback even have a fanbase?

Why do people still listen to this band? I mean I like to listen to a lot of stuff that many here on Sputnik consider shite and even I hate this band.

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!

lol so they're actually trying to be all conscious now?

next song on the album will be a drinking song

I like the song if nothing else for the subject matter. This may cause the dumb masses to open their eyes and look at what is happening in America (and the world for that matter). Props to Nickelback.

"new" song

because sexy.

For Nickelback standards, this is decent. Too bad next song on the album will be a drinking song [2] and next song is about cocaine and strippers [2].

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

We got it, Jeff.

I like the song if nothing else for the subject matter. This may cause the dumb masses to open their eyes and look at what is happening in America (and the world for that matter). Props to Nickelback.[2]
but
and next song is about cocaine and strippers [2]

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

sputnik goes craaaazzyyyy

Decent song, cool solo. A new Nickelback is always a jam for at least a month or two

Nickelback officially a Sputnik band? Times have changed.

sputnik falling for crandy




what the fuck has happened to us

I didn't know Nickelback had left us.

where gettin old and mild

"cool solo"

Oh I've always defended Nickelback to an extent. I even reviewed one of their earlier albums and handed it a 4 :O

Surprised this isn't the normal shit slinging comments section that inevitably invades every thread about the band. Yes, it's butt rock. But it's still pretty good butt rock.

in other words, this song is really fucking repetitive.

Oh Verm, there's the shit slinging I was expecting! Congrats

As long as he doesn't sing about sex, I guess I can bear them.

"This is really bad butt rock, noise for people with an IQ below 70. This year we jammed stuff like shadows of the dying sun, once more aroudn the sun, the hunting party, the quantum enigma, form parts unknown, la gargola,the flesh prevails and more, stuff for people with an IQ ABOVE 150. Nickelcrap is just a waste of space"

If you feel so compelled to discuss IQ and correlations between _____ and _____, and how it makes you so much better than others, then you're probably a dumbass.

And here I was thinking that the only punishment for liking Nickelback should be having to listen to Nickelback

Not too bad, they've done much better and much worse though.

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

"And here I was thinking that the only punishment for liking Nickelback should be having to listen to Nickelback"

dude, that's just going too far

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

surprised you haven't mentioned chav hunting and something about bitches verm

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!

My fist is in the air, and I don't even know why... :-o

This is surprisingly enjoyable

This wasn't bad.

This wasn't bad at all. Props mostly for the lyrics alone.

Yeah that wasn't bad

It's not bad but it doesn't grab me

I'm sorta surprised by this song, for some reason I was thinking they'd go the pop route like daughtry did. The song itself isn't horrible just incredibly mediocre and unexcitng.

123

Dare I say it, the chorus is a little bit catchy.

Album of the year

Holy shit so stoked best heavy rock band ever lel

These comments are so harmless it doesn't even seem that we are talking about Nickelback.

well then don't talk about hating, start hating.

shite

Solo is decent.

Oh, a lack of hating?
Nickelback has and always will be terrible and sell lots of albums.
They will never change their sound because they are incapable as musicians.
I'm not listening to this shit becaise I don't need to hear it to know it is the same recycled buttflood they've been churning out since I was in junior high.

Are people just wanking over this because it isn't a steaming pile of shite? Because I concede it isn't. Rest of the album could be said steaming pile though, but I guess I'll do the mature thing and hold judgement until I get a chance to hear the whole thing (shocking confession: I used to love these guys back in ye olden times which is why I still listen to anything new they put out, which has been torturous since 2003)

"Are people just wanking over this because it isn't a steaming pile of shite?"

Yes.

Thought so. Fair enough, but that's like wanking over a girl who's like a 4/10 simply because she isn't anything lower than that jus' sayin'

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

People hate them just to hate them. I have always liked Nickelback and I bought all of their albums. They were fucking awesome live too. This is coming from somebody who listens to bands like Amon Amarth, Scar Symmetry, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Tool, Pink Floyd, Riverside, Godsmack, Sevendust, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, etc. My point is that I like different kinds of shit and I'm not afraid to admit it.

the world needs more people like you, Darkwatch025!

m/

so barve

of all mainstream bands to come out and shout 'revolution', it ends up being Nickelback.

sounds like to be kind

sounds like to be kind [3]

Did they always sound like Black Album-era Metallica?

Not a bad song at all. Certainly better than the heavy side of Here & Now.

I have a couple problems with the track (personally), though:

1) The production. Maybe it comes from a lot of Alter Bridge lately (although, I wouldn't call them raw), but the production seemed to really soften the tone of the guitars to a terrible extent. There's no real edge to them.

2) That pronounciation of "revolution." I sometimes do odd pronounciations just to preserve the flow and keep a note easier, but that was cringe-inducing. (For me, anyway. I dunno if it's accent or what.)

sounds like to be kind

Mosh hard

The lyrics suck on this.

lol they sound like cock rock

Trelose, I really agree about the production. It's a decent song but it could have been so much better if the production wasn't so underwhelming

Leprecon accuses people of wanking over this when that was the furthest thing from happening. What a dumb ass

Leprecon accuses people of wanking over this when that was the furthest thing from happening. What a dumb ass

???

I didn't fail in anything.

dammit I just noticed the lyrics.


People where I live are going to eat this up

I didn't fail in anything

It's not your opinion I disagree with it's that what you posted is misleading.

No he was not misleading. There's an outpouring of approval clearly visible at the top of this page in the comments.

Try harder in future please. Now shoo, cretin.

^ That, pretty much.

I read all of those comments and was one of them. We never said it was a good song we were all just saying it wasn't bad. There was literally no one kissing the song or bands ass or even saying it was great. You are simply wrong. Trying to say otherwise makes you look not just arrogant, but also retarded.

^ Hahahahahahahaha you're making such a big deal out of this, getting so butthurt over a comment.
Calling someone else retarded? How
ironic. Do yourself a favor and find a hobby kid, leave the grown up discussions to the rest of us.

There isn't any kind of deal going on I'm just saying you're wrong.

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

Leprecon accuses people of wanking over this when that was the furthest thing from happening. What a dumb ass

More like extreme amusement but hey obviously we already established that you see things differently from what they really are.

this is exactly what i'd expect from a nickelback thread

This is a Converge thread

Converge and Nickelback are about as good as the other one is so it might as well be a Converge thread.

Shots lobbed carelessly

hahahah

The other day I mistook This is How You Remind Me for The Saddest Day

This is awful guys wtf

Yeah but it's top 20 for Nickelback songs. They have about four songs I would rate above a 3.5. The bottom of the top 20 the songs would already have well started to be rated around a 2.5. That's just my opinion though. This song is a 2.5 and that's just because they had lyrics they never tried to sing to before and it was released as single.

Nickelback return with the same song

nickelback sounds really weird if you say it a bunch of times in a row

edit:ignore lol

Maybe if Nickleback wasn't three years late with the political/wall-street bullshit this track wouldn't be so bad.

I like anything political in music, it doesn't matter what year it was made. Music and politics are both a part of culture and that isn't going to change. The lyrics are about real life shit and nothing was made for the better three years ago was it?

Aw ya this is a fuckin rockin tune boys

Not really man this is generic mainstream garbage more so than it is fuckin rockin.

Oh wow, I'm so stoked for this! Gotta love the innovation and experimentation here

"I like anything political in music, it doesn't matter what year it was made. Music and politics are both a part of culture and that isn't going to change. The lyrics are about real life shit and nothing was made for the better three years ago was it?"

Mainstream politics are always shitty. This song is as lyrically dull as your random Rise Against or Green Day protest song

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Anberlin, boysetsfire, hopesfall,and Emery have the best political songs.

Bob Dylan has the best. Those bands don't even compare

Rage Against the Machine is the closest thing to good protest music, but they ran out of ideas after only a couple albums because there's only really so much you can say about it

I like Bob Dylan I just don't think he's amazing. Rage Against the Machine is okay too. To me RATM is more introductory to that kind of music. I'd say all four bands I mentioned plus Bob Dylan have better lyrics in that field than RATM has because like you said, they ran out of ideas.

We're not supposed to talk about actual music in a nickelback thread

this actually wasn't too bad.

Sigur Ros has better protest lyrics

agreed. they bring the symbolism hard

believe it or not Efrim Menuck (of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion fame) supports this song, he said on his twitter ''not a bad song''

I actually commend nickelback for talking about something aside from sex, or relationships.. And this does sound moderately different from their usual shit.. Still pretty boring to me though, not something i would ever go back to really..

O yea, another thing i noticed, the song actually reminds of a less catchy version of cold hard bitch by Jet, anyone noticed this? The melody is slightly similar in my opinion...

Most their albums are trash but Here And Now and Dark Horse have been solid. I expect this trend to continue

great riffs, catchy chorus, meaningful lyrics, I can't see why so many people hate them

great see, catchy people, meaningful them, I can't riffs why so many chorus hate lyrics

"Most their albums are trash but Here And Now and Dark Horse have been solid. I expect this trend to continue"

Those are their two worst albums lol

Agreed

great them, catchy riffs, many lyrics, I can't see why so meaningful people hate chorus

Much wow such awesome

Super... I used to think that too but then I
realized in terms of what nickelback aims for,
which is consistent catchy music. When you look
at it like that they were easily the worst of
the bunch.

besdies, compared to all the other post-grunge
bands releasing right now nickelback is
releasing the best material. don't expect pink
Floyd, ac/dc or Fleetwood but for what they are
they do it pretty good. they may not be as good
as the current kings of post right now (alter
and the foo) but still solid. their lyrics are
cringy tho

hilariously bad

nickelback has this uncanny ability to make the same song over and over again over a hundred times and still sell their albums like hotcakes. it confounds reason

I evaluate the quality of their albums based on what I want to listen to. I'd rather listen to any of their first 5 albums than Dark Horse or Here and Now.