Originally this was to be a mere adendum to the existing Nickelback pit, but I decided it deserves a pit of its own.
A friend of mine… who just managed to remain one after this incident… recently responded to hearing Wilco in my car by saying they sounded like Nickelback. I should have fucking pulled over and left him in rural Illinois, s’what I should have done. Not just because Wilco is good and Nickelback isn’t, but because they sound NOTHING THE FUCK ALIKE. This same friend dismissed M Ward as having “some kind of Paul Simon thing going on” and didn’t bother to compare Gillian Welch to anyone, but decided immediately it was “the wrong mood” or something. Good thing, because if he’d decided she was “trying to be” Sheryl Crow I’d have force fed him the entire folkways collection, in a grisly scene reminiscent of the library scene in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
Look, bud, you’re over 30, stop watching MTV and comparing music for grown ups to whatever videos are popular right now. Refrain from “making connections” that are completely arbitrary. And the next time I put on Wilco, just be quiet and listen to it and you might realize that it’s way better than whatever shit you think it sounds like after the first few chords.
I let him off with a warning because he DID like Alisson Krauss + Union Station, and didn’t decide she was “like” Norah Jones or somebody.
Sounds like a bit of a tough gig being your friend…the way you talk I’m surprised you have any left. Blow up over insignificant things much? :rolleyes:
Come on, people! skutir is right. Anyone who could compare the sublime Wilco with the ridiculous Nickleback should be taken at once to the hospital for hearing and mental health examinations.
There was some comedian (I don’t know his name, he’s a balding large red-head who was on Mr. Show a lot) who said in a discussion of music inspired violence “Bad music inspires killing, like when I hear Nickleback I’m inspired to kill Nickleback.”
