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Canada is sorry about Nickelback.

I recently had the misfortune of hanging out with a group of people who wanted to listen to nothing but Nickelback.  I just don't understand how anybody could like their music.  I tried listening to an entire album of theirs at work for the purpose of writing this post, but I stopped halfway through because I would have been liable to bandsaw my dick off.  Not to mention how much of a dumbass I felt like everytime someone walked by.  Chad Kroeger has the song-writing skills of a fucking ape, and the majority of their songs have the same rhythm and about four different guitar chords.  They couldn't get any more mainstream.  So why do people like them?  This question baffles the shit out of me, because I have no idea how to answer it.  Whenever I go home and hang out with a specific friend (who happens to love Nickelback, I'm not sure why he's my friend), he always asks me why I hate them so much.  I have grown so sick of explaining this to him every time I see him, so I have decided to stick with the simplest answer: "Because they suck dick."  The band got their name when the band's drummer became sick of saying to customers "here's your nickel back" while working at Starbucks.  How original.  Man, you know what I hate more than Nickelback?  Nothing.

On the other hand, I've been listening to Anthrax all day.  And not the material from the Joey Belladonna era, because I am not particularly fond of Belladonna's voice.  He sounds too much like David Lee Roth of Van Halen, which I despise almost as much as Nickelback.  Almost.  Specifically, I've been listening to the album "We've Come For You All," with John Bush on vocals.  I was quite upset when I learned that Bush left the band and was replaced by Dan Nelson in 2007.  It turns out that Nelson sounds exactly like Bush, and I can't even tell the difference, so I guess I shouldn't be too upset.

Anthrax - Safe Home

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