Shitty Music. (The Nickelback Thread)

[WorzelG]

Whatever is said about the Grammys at least it's not the Brit Awards which are an embarrassment.

Coldplay performed with the Chainsmokers and if there's one type of music I would love to see implode it's EDM. Is there any pop trend that Coldplay won't incorporate to sell more units?
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[thevoid99]

Chris Martin is a fucking chode. That guy will do anything to make himself and his band feel important and be all things to all people. What a wanker.

[bobbie solo]

Coldplay has plenty of great songs on their own, albeit those songs are getting older & older. What Chris Martin is doing in these situations is so transparent & cringeworthy. Just stop.

[GulDukat]

Second-rate U2 and Martin is a wannabe Bono.

[GulDukat]

Rascal Flats.

[Volband]

Coldplay is my "Nickelback" by far, though I fucking hate U2 as well. Vertigo and Ordinary Love were good songs though, and they have some decent background music I guess.

The only good Coldplay song however is Violet Hill, I absolutely detest (almost) anything else that came from them. Makes my blood boil whenever I think about how they managed to keep selling their nothing disguised as music. Over. And. Over. Again.

Justin Bieber, Nickelback and the likes of them at least not pretend to be anything else they are, it's just one big circlejerk that they are the cancer of the music industry. But fucking Coldplay man... Pseudo art is what they do.

[GulDukat]

Coldplay is my "Nickelback" by far, though I fucking hate U2 as well. Vertigo and Ordinary Love were good songs though, and they have some decent background music I guess.

The only good Coldplay song however is Violet Hill, I absolutely detest (almost) anything else that came from them. Makes my blood boil whenever I think about how they managed to keep selling their nothing disguised as music. Over. And. Over. Again.

Justin Bieber, Nickelback and the likes of them at least not pretend to be anything else they are, it's just one big circlejerk that they are the cancer of the music industry. But fucking Coldplay man... Pseudo art is what they do.

Do you hate all U2? Their albums from the 1980's to the early 1990's were great, imho.

[Volband]

Do you hate all U2? Their albums from the 1980's to the early 1990's were great, imho.

I only heard their popular songs, which never convinced me to dig deeper.

[Jinsai]

Oh man...

[WorzelG]

This article about Smash Mouth's twitter battles made me laugh. I was looking them up because All Star was played at a party one of my kids went to.

http://gawker.com/smash-mouths-despe...tle-1781910819

[kel]

regarding u2: achtung baby, zooropa, and pop are fun. but bono is a douche.

[kel]

Oh man...

is that pino?

the song is kinda catchy. i hate john mayer as much as anyone, but that ain't bad.

[Jinsai]

the song is kinda catchy. i hate john mayer as much as anyone, but that ain't bad.

I could not believe how horrible it was... I mean, it goes beyond lyrics, but "I still keep your shampoo in my shower, in case you wanna wash your hair..."

That is... so awful.

[kel]

i didn't hear that. yep, that's shit. but it *sounds* kind of like a hall and oates song.

[Krazy]

is that pino?
.

Yes. He's been with John Mayer for like over a decade now.

[Art Vandelay]

I could not believe how horrible it was... I mean, it goes beyond lyrics, but "I still keep your shampoo in my shower, in case you wanna wash your hair..."

That is... so awful.

I shit blood every time I hear John Mayer.

[Jinsai]

i didn't hear that. yep, that's shit. but it *sounds* kind of like a hall and oates song.

I said the same thing...

/shudder

[kel]

I said the same thing...

/shudder

i love hall and oates.

[Krazy]

It's Hot Take Tuesday: Maroon 5 is WAY shittier than Nickelback. Holy living shit, fuck that fucking band.

[Louie_Cypher]

regarding u2: achtung baby, zooropa, and pop are fun. but bono is a douche.

he's number 2
-louie

[frankie teardrop]

Do you hate all U2? Their albums from the 1980's to the early 1990's were great, imho.

i'm a rare defender of all u2 albums from boy through and including pop. the 90s records are a bit harder to justify outside of guilty pleasure zone, but the early 80s work is unfuckwithable, imo. just because bono is a douche doesn't mean they didn't kick ass at the top of their game.

once pop failed to connect with an audience, the band began writing safe, rehashed dad-rock that tried to aim for their classic sound but missed the mark entirely. since then it's been a tough time to be a fan, but i will fight for boy, war, or the unforgettable fire any day.

this is a delight:

[Jinsai]

U2 is a band that has made incredible pop/rock music, if that's your sort of thing. If that's your sort of thing and you super-hate U2, there's something really wrong with you, and you should consult a physician.

[henryeatscereal]

Funny, yesterday i heard "War" and today i heard "The Unforgettable Fire", both quality albums if you ask me...

[GulDukat]

The last U2 album I liked was All That You Leave Behind. Everything after that was sort of "meh" for me. I listened to them all and can't recall a single song, except for:

[frankie teardrop]

U2 is a band that has made incredible pop/rock music, if that's your sort of thing. If that's your sort of thing and you super-hate U2, there's something really wrong with you, and you should consult a physician.

i would say that's accurate once the band kicks into that territory, which happened around joshua tree. before that, they were a more successful version of bands like echo & the bunnymen, the chameleons, comsat angels, early simple minds etc.- that post-joy division thing that took that kind of post-punk energy and made it a bit more digestible. i never understand why people in my circle love all the above bands yet rag on u2- it's all the same to me, just one got immensely popular and somehow annoys everyone.

i guess maybe i'm just good at separating bands 'classic work' from their latter day sins. if i dinged every band for what they would become or what they release now, i'd like very little music.

[r_z]

My parents used to watch live concerts on weekends when we had breakfast in their bed (video tapes and all...). That's when I first heard the Joshua Tree stuff. I must have been 5 or 6 years old. I vividly remember watching the black and white footage of Bono singing In God's Country and Bullet The Blue Sky in Rattle & Hum. A few years later, when I was about 12 or 13 years old, they were the first band I've listened to and bought records of (aside from listening to radio). I'm not into them anymore, but I still think they have some very solid albums in the vein of what Jinsai said. Today, they're more of a guilty pleasure tho. Overall, I'd name Zooropa as my favorite album of theirs.

And I get that U2 have a bad rep cause they're taking themselves so very very seriously and are kind of annoying when it comes to "staying the biggest band of the world" and stuff, but seriously... compare their catalog from the 80s up until '97 to the other music that's mentioned in this thread... it's not fair.

[Jinsai]

yeah, with U2 it's all about the earlier stuff for me... I also consider them to be kind of a "singles" thing. They're one of those bands that if you took all of their best songs and put them on a 45 minute long album, it would be crushingly great and undeniable. I can't remember the last time I actually sat down and listened to a U2 album from start to finish, but there's ten or so incredible songs that are just about close to perfect.

[Space Suicide]

yeah, with U2 it's all about the earlier stuff for me... I also consider them to be kind of a "singles" thing. They're one of those bands that if you took all of their best songs and put them on a 45 minute long album, it would be crushingly great and undeniable. I can't remember the last time I actually sat down and listened to a U2 album from start to finish, but there's ten or so incredible songs that are just about close to perfect.

All I ever gave a shit about was Achtung Baby and Zooropa. Joshua Tree has some decent songs too. The rest is a hodge podge of overindulgent shit. That latest cd that worked it's way to everyone's iTunes account was the biggest pile of shit I've heard for an extremely well established band in ages.

[Jinsai]

All I ever gave a shit about was Achtung Baby and Zooropa. Joshua Tree has some decent songs too. The rest is a hodge podge of overindulgent shit. That latest cd that worked it's way to everyone's iTunes account was the biggest pile of shit I've heard for an extremely well established band in ages.

Yeah, that was terrible, and the roll-out of it was like something out of Spinal Tap or Silicon Valley. "OK, we're going to pay fifty million dollars to force this glorious new U2 album onto every Apple owner's device... What? No, we haven't actually listened to it yet, but c'mon, it's frickin U2!!! Who doesn't love U2?! Huh, there's no album cover art yet? That's fine, we'll just use a blank placeholder until the actual art comes out. Who cares, it's just album art... whatever."

I was genuinely alarmed when I saw that album cover pop up out of nowhere.

[thevoid99]

The last great U2 song I can think of is "Magnificent" which is from their worst album. All That You Can Leave Behind is definitely their last great album. Everything else after that is eh....