Yes Nickleback is definitely on my list of top 5 most hated musical artists. Nickleback takes the #2 spot only to Avril Levigne, who I loathe and detest more than anyone. Taking #3 is John Mayer, who is just an arrogant asshole. #4 is Linkin Park, they just annoy the shit out of me. And finally #5 Default, because the only thing worse than being Nickleback is wanting to be Nickleback.
Hey, I never said I didn’t like NIN, I just hope that on his next album he has a song about how much he loves his rubber ducky or something :).
What are rubber duckies used for? Heehee
Yes I know what you mean, but it just wouldn’t be the same you know? 
I disagree. I believe it’s a natural consequence of capitalism. Think about how record companies hear about bands: they send out scouts, or an employee hears someone good at a party, or demo tapes are mailed to corporate offices. Now let’s say that of all the music bands out there, only about 10% are good enough to sell enough albums for the record company to make money. So somehow, a band has to keep playing long enough for someone with clout to hear them and LIKE their sound. That isn’t going to happen overnight.
What’s the alternative? For record companies to develop their own bands, who they know will sell right away? That’s how we end up with stuff like N’Sync and O-Town. The “paying your dues” process burns off the chaff, and insures that only bands that are actually good get enough attention to survive. It’s not perfect, and some good bands get lost in the shuffle. And some mediocre or bad ones that just look good, or have the “sound of the moment” (like Nickelback) also receive wide play. But what would be better?
Until you have lived in Canada with it’s Canadian content laws for radio stations and have had a steady diet of Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, and Bryan Adams, you have nothing to complain about.
The horror. The horror.
The horror INDEED! :eek: I thought ClearChannel was evil trademarked!
Not to mention the increased horror of having approx. 15 million other excellent Canadian songs that COULD be played instead of “The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me…Is You” and “Man, I Feel Like A Woman.” The horror, indeed.
Nope - love them. Speaks to me!
You can always change the station. (said in the most respectful way) Oh, the options we have available to us in the modern world! LOL
Wait, you mean Canadian stations are required BY LAW to play Canadian artists?! Geez. Talk about governmental interference! I can’t believe this is legal.
I recall with amusement a story about how a certain Bryan Adams album failed to meet enough of the Canadian content criteria and thus didn’t get the increased airplay. He got a point (on a scale of 1 to 5, I think) for being Canadian himself, but the album wasn’t produced by a Canadian, recorded in Canada, etc., etc.
That’s not completely fair. Several of my good friends in high school poured their souls and time into bettering their music. They wouldn’t be half as good as they are today if not for their hard work during that time. I’m sure they can’t be the only kids in the whole world to work so hard during their teenage years. Just because they were in school doesn’t make their efforts any less valid.
Same here in Australia. It’s perfectly fair. You forget that our industries just can’t compete with the huge amount of marketing dollars of US companies. If our government didn’t enfore local content, than the local industry would dry up overnight.
Yeah it’s commie and an affront to the wonder that is capitalism, but it’s a good thing.
The album in question was the first one Adams co-wrote with Mutt Lange. Since the co-writing credits were 50% British, the CRTC ruled the album was not Canadian content. There was, needless to say, major public outcry about Bryan Adams being labelled un-Canadian. Long story short, the rules were amended so that these days all you need is a significant Canadian connection to qualify. IIRC under the revised rules CSNY is considered Canadian content, even though only Neil Young is Canadian (and then just barely).
I was thinking more fascist than communist, but hey, whatever fits. I’m pretty sure the government dictating content to private media would be unconstitutional here. Here, the government has to bribe media companies to do what it wants. (It was recently revealed, to FAR less outcry than it deserved, that the U.S. government gives financial incentives to TV networks to insert subtle anti-drug messages into their programs.)
While I don’t approve at all of what the U.S. gov’t does in this regard, using the force of law to dictate content just seems. . . .gauche. I mean, how can a country claim it supports intellectual freedom when it actively dictates what people see and hear? If an Australian or Canadian band is really good, then they’ll earn an audience. Hell, that’s what U.S. bands have to do. If I was an artist from one of these countries, I’d be feeling pretty damn good knowing that even if I’m only average, someone, somewhere will HAVE to play my dreck.
Hmm. Maybe I’ve just discovered why U.S. entertainment dominates the world. No government subsidizing to hide behind!
It took me months before I could figure out that Staind and Nickleback were two different bands singing two different songs. How You Remind Me is so similar to Staind’s song that I can’t even remember what it’s called.
Oh no! The Government is making private media play Avril Lavinge only 15 times a day instead of 17, and play some local content instead! What fascists! Next they will be planting microchips into our skin and trackings our every move!
Anyway, the government isn’t forcing the radio stations to play every song that comes out locally, no matter how bad. All it amounts to (in New Zealand anyway) is placing one good local song in the playlist, instead of Pop Love Song #1321 from Boy Group #242 or Rap About “Bitches” #523 from Gangsta Rapper #2429. The local songs are definitely not the dreck.
Whine-rock is very trendy at the moment it seems - personally I just find it tiresome tho…
A friend listened to “This is how you remind me…” about a million times when his partner left him - and that’s their target-market in a nutshell methinks…
Still - could be worse - could be ‘Warbler’ Whitney 
TTFN
JP
Then WHY do they need help to get on the radio in your own country?
And it’s not as if boy bands are some uniquely American phenomenon. Witness Menudo, the Bay City Rollers, Take That, etc. Hell, even the Beatles were marketed as a “boy band” in their very early years.
Because with 10 times the population we do and a significant influence on what Canadians are able to see and listen to, the government felt that it was necessary to entrench a certain amount of Canadian content, so as to stem the flow of American crap into our nation. We apparently prefer our own crap to yours, thank you very much. Not that there’s much difference between Creed and Nickelback.