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So hating Nickleback become a meme which actually managed to keep the band alive for way longer then other bands in the same category. They still managed to get concerts with great reception for a very long time after their prime with Photograph.
I saw one interview where they said that once the “hate” dies they’ll not know what to do.
I actually enjoy a number of Nickleback songs. The “hate” was meme’d to the heavens but the band isn’t really that bad and Chad Kroeger legit has a good singing voice.
The hate is because they were the most visible “post grunge” Pearl Jam wannabe band, not that they were particularly awful among their peers. It’s hard to exaggerate just how obnoxious alternative radio became in the late 90s when legitimately 75% of the plays were these manufactured poser bands. It’s like clear channel took sadistic pleasure in making us listen to them skull fuck the corpse of Kurt Kobain for 22.8 hours of the day. That’s basically what Nickelback was - not awful music, but rather the harbinger of the end times for independent radio and alternative rock.
His singing voice is pretty polarizing I’d say, a lot of people don’t like it.
I slot them right next to Imagine Dragons; commercial pop rock, all their shit sounds the same, it’s scenery, I don’t need to go watch em for two hours or buy an album but it doesn’t bother me.
I can’t stand his singing.
I file them under “constipated rock,” because that voice sounds like he’s laboring on the toilet as he “sings.”
“What is an Imagine Dragon, anyway?”
“Imagine Dragon deez nutz across your face.”
Tney were produced. Like a hamburger patty. And sold. People will eat what they are served every day.
I have a friend who is unapologetically a weirdo (really that describes most of my friends and myself I suppose, but this story is about one of them in particular)
We’re at a bar for his birthday. This place was formerly a real dump of a dive/biker bar but has cleaned itself up a bit. Still kind of a dive, but it’s a nice dive. It’s located practically right on the border of a really shitty town and one that’s generally pretty nice, so it gets an interesting selection of patrons there.
He’s a regular there, he actually lived in a small motel attached to the bar for a bit while his house needed some major repairs.
Again, he’s a bit of a weirdo, it’s his birthday, he’s been drinking, and he wants to listen to some Disney song (I’m pretty sure it was “part of your world” from the little mermaid) so he goes and queues it up on the jukebox
And the song never plays
So he does it again. And again it never plays.
Eventually he figures out that the bartender (what was new and didn’t really recognize him as a regular) was skipping it when it came up.
We ask her to just let it play for him for his birthday, she refused
So he queues it up about 10 times in a row, she can’t skip them all fast enough, it finally starts playing, she’s getting mad at us,some asshole dudebros in the bar are getting annoyed that this song is now playing twice, and we’re all politely yet firmly asked to leave.
So we fuck off to another bar owned by the same person, we’re welcomed in, they let us play the damn song, they mention to to the owner who apparently told the bartender who was giving us issues to chill and there hasn’t been any issue since.
I’m sorry for real, but this story wasn’t worth the time.
E: I still upvoted for the effort
You’re a monster.
I found a ten hour loop of in the air tonight that never gets to the drum break. Takes surprisingly long before anyone notices.
I think I found it
I couldn’t find a version that never gets to the drum fill. Yours is good.
Also this one is pretty great (drummer’s version with a 99 tom drum fill): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tnaZw-uTE
Nah that just does the drum loop for ten hours.
That face when your sister just gave you a sloppy kiss and then went upstairs to her room
#relatable
Only 12?
The more I learn about Nickelback, the more I realise they are not as bad as everyone says.
They’re not bad, they’re actually pretty talented. The worst you can say is that they’re “safe” or “boring”. The actual problem with Nickelback is that they were just super overplayed on the radio for a solid decade. They played on rock stations, pop stations, alternative, even the country stations in my area played their stuff from time to time. You couldn’t get away from them. Soon they’ll be in the classic rock stations (if they aren’t already, I don’t listen to a lot of radio anymore).
Touchtunes figured out people were doing this kind of thing and gave bars the ability to skip songs.
They’ve always had the ability to skip… I’m guessing the bartenders just didn’t know because the button on the remote isn’t explicitly labelled “skip”. What they did catch on to is playing longer songs; those cost extra now.
I thought at the beginning they didn’t. That was the biggest complaint I heard at the time from my bartender friends. But it’s been that way for years at the least. But there’s a good possibility it wasn’t intuitive at the time and they didn’t know they could skip.
There’s a bar close enough to my place that I can sit on the patio and listen to the music. I regularly use touch tunes to change the music because some people over there just have bad taste.
I hate these threads. Do people not get that bar tenders can skip whatever, or shut it down, or play whatever they want?
The amount of times I saw posts on reddit saying “upvote this so the top Google result is this political meme” despite that being disproved years ago tells me that the average tech literacy of users is abysmal.
Generally speaking most things that people interact with are black boxes to them. They only know that X output occurs with Y input, they no idea or care about what happens in-between.
Even before this touch tunes shit, the bar tenders would have some basic control over the machine. Or just simply unplug it if you pulled this kind of shit. And if you kept doing it, they would kick you out of the bar. And/or security or a group of regulars would make sure you had a very unpleasant time, and would not want to come back. What fantasy world do people live in, where they are so out of touch with real world consequences.
The internet has made people entirely too comfortable with being absolute twats with no repercussions
shiit, people OFF the internet are way too comfortable with being twats with no repercussions!
My friends and I used to do this with a song by drum and bass dj Goldie. For some reason touch tunes had a set of his that lasted 45 minutes, we would throw that in 3+ times in a row and bounce. Worst part, the beginning and end would bleed together really well so you really couldn’t tell it restarted. So for $4 the bar would have 2+ hours of drum and bass.
Eventually the bartenders caught on and would shut off the touch tune when we would show up.
We can’t accept drum and bass. We need jungle, I’m afraid.
Amol Rajan giving the losing team patronising advice that they might have won if they’d buzzed faster and given the correct answers.
Outstanding. It’s like picking stuff like November Rain and Free Bird to make the most of your money.
In a similar vein, one of my old haunts had a jukey, but the button under the bar to skip tracks was fucked. So, we’d get towards the end of our drinks, put two quid in the jukey, pick two decent songs to give us six or seven minutes to finish our drinks, then queue up a load of Christmas songs… in June.
We’d drink up, fuck off, and sit smugly in the next pub knowing there was half hour of Mariah Carey & co. blaring out at the previous pub which couldn’t be skipped. Good times.
Hey I LOVE Christmas carols! Especially the choiry Catholic ones, they are beautiful. I can listen to that year round, and sing out loud to them year round, and just in general year round!
Hooo-hoOoOoOooo-HoooOoOooo-ho ohoooosiannna in excelcis!
Ding dong! Merrily on hiiiigh…
My college bar at university had The End by the Doors. I’d put it on and then chuck some money in the Soul Edge arcade machine.
Mint.
On an unrelated note, my old girl used to take me to a local cafe for a slice of toast most mornings - there were two cabinets there.
My first memory of gaming as a three, maybe four year old was Pac Land, 10p a pop, absolute banger of a game - even if the controls were seriously dodgy.
Next to it was Street Fighter II - a premium cab at a whole 20p a credit.
A group of teenagers were playing it one morning, and I popped my 20p in, and I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing. This older lad absolutely demolished me, like never even gave a poor kid a chance. Fair play, I learned a lot about going up against skilled opponents that day!
3 seconds later the bartender clears the queue and OP wasted $20 to annoy nobody.
I could have drank that money!
The opportunity costs are real
As a former bartander / bar manager, we skipped bad plays ALL the time.
I bet. I’ve seen karaoke night, it’s brutal how many shitty renditions of “fuck her gently” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” you have to sit through.
Definitely learned that lesson, but I just wanted to listen to Dillinger Escape Plan in a college bar.
Fuck me I forgot that’s a feature on almost every jukebox! And I just left a comment about doing something similar.
The trick is to play one thing inexplicably awful that the bartender won’t realize is so just by looking at the name.
Like Ram Ranch. Like, sure they’ll probably cancel it after about 20 seconds when they realize what the fuck is going on. But you still got everyone in the bar to hear about gay cowboys for 20 seconds.
My goto is Good Lookin’ - such a generic title and sound that almost nobody recognizes it even if they’ve heard it before. Takes at least a solid minute before someone notices over the bar background noise and complains about it.
Back when the song was super popular, I had a friend catch a ride with another friend on a 4ish hour drive to another city. How You Remind Me the entire ride
Me, with a flipper zero: SkipSkipSkipSkip…
/foundsatan
I used to study in a cozy little cafe that was a row of houses turned into business. Next door was a bar that could get a bit rowdy sometimes. They had one of those jukeboxes with an app. I would load up Hotel California every chance I got. I could barely hear the music but I could hear the patrons groan every 30 minutes or so. One day the song option wasn’t there, so I switched to American Pie by Don McLean.
I’m sure they hated me.
American Pie by Don McLean
Radio version or album version?
The one that was like 10m long 😆 I’m assuming that’s the album one.
I’m now imagining american pie sung by nickelback. Thank you…
