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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 16, 2010 14:45:57 GMT -5
And because why the hell not?
01. Rockstar 02. How You Remind Me 03. Too Bad 04. Side of a Bullet 05. If Today Was Your Last Day 06. Photograph 07. Gotta Be Somebody 08. Savin' Me 09. If Everyone Cared 10. Someday 11. Never Again 12. Leader of Men 13. Far Away 14. Never Gonna Be Alone 15. Breathe 16. Animals 17. Feelin' Way Too Damn Good 18. Something in Your Mouth 19. Shakin' Hands 20. Burn It to the Ground 21. I'd Come for You 22. Figured You Out 23. This Afternoon
Don't remember: Old Enough Because of You
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 16, 2010 14:47:45 GMT -5
Heh, you probably know what I think. Leader of Men and Burn It To The Ground are the only Nickelback songs worth a crap.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Mar 16, 2010 14:47:55 GMT -5
Breathe easily!
EDIT : MODIFIED SINGLE
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Post by metalfan87 on Mar 16, 2010 15:12:17 GMT -5
in the Mediabase Adds section of All Access.com, This Afternoon has 3 adds, so it confirms it'll go to rock radio
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Post by The Party Captain on Mar 16, 2010 17:56:43 GMT -5
1. Someday 2. Far Away 3. How You Remind Me 4. Gotta Be Someday 5. Savin' Me 6. Photograph
I can kinda take Rockstar, but everything else goes in the shitpot.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 16, 2010 18:54:25 GMT -5
This is my chronological Nickelback single grader recovered from the "Something In Your Mouth" thread, revised with newer singles and slightly amended grades on singles I've come to dislike less or more than I did previously:
Fly: C Leader Of Men: B Breathe: B Old Enough: B- How You Remind Me: B Too Bad: B- Never Again: C- Someday: C- Figured You Out: C- Feelin' Way Too Damn Good: B- Because Of You: A- Photograph: C- Animals: C+ Savin' Me: B+ If Everyone Cared: D+ Far Away: D- Rockstar: C Side Of A Bullet: B Gotta Be Somebody: C- Something In Your Mouth: C- If Today Was Your Last Day: C- I'd Come For You: D+ It's (un?)intentionally funny. Burn It To The Ground: C+ Never Gonna Be Alone: F Shakin' Hands: C This Afternoon: D
As you can tell from my grades, Dark Horse is easily my least favorite era from these guys. Also worth noting, I've only given them one A-range grade among ALL their singles which was for one of their least successful singles, but easily one of their best songs. Hey Nick, given you're somewhat of a metal head, you might actually dig "Because Of You". I would assume it'd be in the top half of your rankings anyway. A few of their album tracks would also get A-range grades, but nothing off Dark Horse. I'm not sure I'd give anything off that trainwreck of an album a B. "Just To Get High" and "S.E.X." might top the album at around a B-.
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Post by halo19 on Mar 16, 2010 19:19:55 GMT -5
01. How You Remind Me 02. Breathe 03. Gotta Be Somebody 04. Leader of Men 05. Too Bad 06. Savin' Me 07. If Today Was Your Last Day 08. If Everyone Cared 09. Never Again (Great musically, cheesy lyrically) 10. Side of a Bullet 11. Far Away 12. Photograph 13. Animals 14. Burn It to the Ground 15. Something in Your Mouth 16. Someday 17. Rockstar 18. Feeling Way Too Damn Good 19. Figured You Out 20. Never Gonna Be Alone
Don't recall "I'd Come for You"/"Shakin' Hands," (or "Because of You") also never heard "Old Enough," despite being aware of it at the time.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 17, 2010 3:20:35 GMT -5
Hey Nick, given you're somewhat of a metal head, you might actually dig "Because Of You". I would assume it'd be in the top half of your rankings anyway. I just listened to it again, and there's kind of a reason I didn't remember it. To me, the song is kind of forgettable, despite the more "authentic" hard rock stylings. I think I'd actually put it somewhere between "Animals" (#16) and "Shakin' Hands" (#19). The metal fan in me does really enjoy the double bass drum in "Follow You Home." That's a fascinating little treat in a Nickelback song. (Their only album I've bothered to listen to straight through was All the Right Reasons. I liked the singles enough to check out the other 4 songs and I liked the album as a whole to burn it to disc.)
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Post by jvandyck87 on Mar 17, 2010 3:41:09 GMT -5
^Yeah that was one of the album tracks I was referring to that I'd actually give an A range grade to. Their drummer Dan Adair is a fantastic drummer, and I believe 'All The Right Reasons' was the first album he was on, so having that be the opening track is a good intro for him to the Nickelback world. Unfortunately it was also a false intro, because they never let him do anything remotely that cool again.
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Post by mcbrearty on Mar 17, 2010 9:02:06 GMT -5
What I find annoying is that Nickelback get a bad rap for always sounding the same, but when they put out something that is different from the norm, they get labelled fake and untrue to themselves.
They can't win.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Mar 17, 2010 14:59:07 GMT -5
What do you mean they can't win? Take a look at their album and ticket sales. Easily taking over U2 as the biggest foreign band out there for American. And I'm not really sure they care about the minority of critics who don't like them. As for sounding the same, other than Someday's parallels to How You Remind Me, there aren't too many Nickelback songs that sound alike to me.
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Mar 17, 2010 15:34:45 GMT -5
What do you mean they can't win? Take a look at their album and ticket sales. Easily taking over U2 as the biggest foreign band out there for American. And I'm not really sure they care about the minority of critics who don't like them. As for sounding the same, other than Someday's parallels to How You Remind Me, there aren't too many Nickelback songs that sound alike to me. can't agree more
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Post by mcbrearty on Mar 17, 2010 19:13:03 GMT -5
I was'nt suggesting that they are in a bad state, as you say they're doing really well and I myself dont think they sound samey. What I did mean is that they can't please those people (nor do they want to or care) who say they never change, because even when they do go in a unique direction they get called fake or whastever else. People just have it out for them and I can never undertsand why.
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Post by aTunes on Mar 17, 2010 19:28:46 GMT -5
I really don't hate any of their singles actually. Here's my rankings.
1. Photograph - A+ 2. How You Remind Me - A+ 3. Far Away - A+ 4. Savin' Me - A+ 5. Never Again - A+ 6. Too Bad - A 7. If Today Was Your Last Day - A 8. Someday - A- 9. Gotta Be Somebody - A- 10. Rockstar - A- 11. Feelin' Way Too Damn Good - A- 12. Burn It to the Ground - A- 13. If Everyone Cared - A- 14. Leader of Men - B+ 15. Animals - B+ 16. Something In Your Mouth - B 17. This Afternoon - B 18. Old Enough - B 19. Figured You Out - B- 20. Side of a Bullet - B- 21. I'd Come For You - B- 22. Shakin' Hands - C+ 23. Breathe - C+ 24. Because of You - C- 25. Never Gonna Be Alone - C-
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 17, 2010 21:28:30 GMT -5
People just have it out for them and I can never undertsand why. Because they suck and represent everything that is wrong with rock radio today :)
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Mar 18, 2010 7:17:51 GMT -5
I was'nt suggesting that they are in a bad state, as you say they're doing really well and I myself dont think they sound samey. What I did mean is that they can't please those people (nor do they want to or care) who say they never change, because even when they do go in a unique direction they get called fake or whastever else. People just have it out for them and I can never undertsand why. i think the reason is that they are tendencious or simply they can't accept what Nickelback achieved
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Mar 18, 2010 15:15:45 GMT -5
And I don't think there are a whole lot of people out there who "have it out for them."
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Post by mcbrearty on Mar 18, 2010 16:01:23 GMT -5
And I don't think there are a whole lot of people out there who "have it out for them." I'm a massive Nickelback fan, but the fact that they are one of the most hated bands in the world is no secret.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Mar 18, 2010 16:46:51 GMT -5
And I don't think there are a whole lot of people out there who "have it out for them." I'm a massive Nickelback fan, but the fact that they are one of the most hated bands in the world is no secret. Honestly, the only reason they are one of the most hated bands in the world is BECAUSE they are one of the most loved. Its simple that the more exposure a band gets there will be as many that love them as hate them. As Nick stated earlier, I'm in the same boat, I give them free passes on what they do because what they do (corporate rock) they do VERY well. I like a lot of their songs but only because I take them at face value ie) cheesy love songs or party type anthems. I believe they did better work technically and were more ambitious musically when they first started , however I'm not going to blame them for finding MASSIVE success and riding that to getting Oprah rich.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Mar 20, 2010 17:17:12 GMT -5
And many of those that state they hate Nickelback (I'm guessing) are closet fans.
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Post by lockebox on Mar 21, 2010 11:26:54 GMT -5
And what do you base that theory on? Part of the hate is due to their lack of originality and songs based around partying and slutty women.
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Post by mcbrearty on Mar 21, 2010 20:32:42 GMT -5
And what do you base that theory on? Part of the hate is due to their lack of originality and songs based around partying and slutty women. You are obviously someone who doesnt know much about the band, if you think thats all they sing about. Whats wrong with partying anyway ??
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Post by pen on Mar 21, 2010 20:56:13 GMT -5
And what do you base that theory on? Part of the hate is due to their lack of originality and songs based around partying and slutty women. You are obviously someone who doesnt know much about the band, if you think thats all they sing about. Whats wrong with partying anyway ?? There's nothing wrong with party songs in moderation but I miss when Nickelback sang about more serious issues. I don't know about lockebox, but I'm in music for certain reasons that a cock rock band just will not provide.
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Mar 21, 2010 21:01:29 GMT -5
COME ON, i think the whole thing with Nickelback has been out of control, they are not the first band with haters, but what is happening with this band is unreal. I think that nobody from the no-nickelback listeners can accept that this band is now the biggest rock band in the world. What they need is a WAKE UP CALL. So much hate for nothing, they didn't bother to listen to some of their new music after the controversy with the similarity of Someday and How Your Remind Me, for those guys, I suggest to listen to All the Right Reasons and Dark Horse.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 21, 2010 21:07:11 GMT -5
Or there's the slight possibility that someone can hate a band without giving a shit about their popularity
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Post by Ron57 on Mar 21, 2010 21:12:23 GMT -5
You are obviously someone who doesnt know much about the band, if you think thats all they sing about. Whats wrong with partying anyway ?? There's nothing wrong with party songs in moderation but I miss when Nickelback sang about more serious issues. I don't know about lockebox, but I'm in music for certain reasons that a cock rock band just will not provide. They have a song called "If Today Was Your Last Day". Isn't that a serious issue? What in the past have they had that trumps that issue. And Gotta Be Somebody faces the fear that one might be alone forever. They may not be in depth issues, but to face the fact plainly, they never HAVE been. Their popular songs in the past have been in the same realm. Just because the new album had more peppy upbeat party songs just might mean that they're probably doing well for themselves.
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Post by mcbrearty on Mar 21, 2010 21:15:26 GMT -5
Or there's the slight possibility that someone can hate a band without giving a s**t about their popularity Theres not liking a band (which is normal and okay) and then theres a hate bandwagon that is full of spite and bitterness. I mean you've got movies, radio shows and websites taking pot shots at the band. Funny thing is, if you watch an interview with Nickelback, they never say a bad word about other artists.
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Mar 21, 2010 21:18:00 GMT -5
Or there's the slight possibility that someone can hate a band without giving a s**t about their popularity Theres not liking a band (which is normal and okay) and then theres a hate bandwagon that is full of spite and bitterness. I mean you've got movies, radio shows and websites taking pot shots at the band. Funny thing is, if you watch an interview with Nickelback, they never say a bad word about other artists. I really like the last thing u said man! that's why there are still so many fans of this band
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Post by pen on Mar 21, 2010 22:41:32 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong with party songs in moderation but I miss when Nickelback sang about more serious issues. I don't know about lockebox, but I'm in music for certain reasons that a cock rock band just will not provide. They have a song called "If Today Was Your Last Day". Isn't that a serious issue? What in the past have they had that trumps that issue. And Gotta Be Somebody faces the fear that one might be alone forever. They may not be in depth issues, but to face the fact plainly, they never HAVE been. Their popular songs in the past have been in the same realm. Just because the new album had more peppy upbeat party songs just might mean that they're probably doing well for themselves. I prefer their earlier albums where they could be insightful about more personal issues. "Gotta Be Somebody" and "If Today Was Your Last Day" do tackle what are technically serious issues, but let's be realistic here. The only reason those songs exist is because songs that tackle general topics in broad strokes tend to do well. It's a calculated move for success, not a heartfelt plea from the soul. Give me a couple hours and I could construct a song just like those.
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Post by pen on Mar 21, 2010 22:49:11 GMT -5
And their earlier songs really haven't been in the same realm. I still hold that despite all the criticism, "How You Remind Me" is pretty interesting lyrically, especially in comparison to their later, more hollowed out singles. "Too Bad", "Breathe", "Hangnail", "Fly", and "Old Enough" are also songs that I find very intriguing.
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