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Another reason to hate Nickelback
Kiamde
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Well some genius decided that Nickelback's "Someday" and "This is How you Remind Me" sounded the same, so he decided to compare them by mixing them. By mixing them I mean he plays one song in one speaker and the other in the other speaker. The results are well, hilarious. In fact, I almost cried I was laughing so hard when I heard this. Creed is dead and I think Nickelback needs to be next.
Kiamde
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind..-'Jim Morrison"
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~Abbie Hoffman
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Dude so they have 2 songs that sound alike, that means they suck? Creed is a very good band artistically, Scott Stapp is a cheese ball and I cant stand his attitude, but they can write some good tunes.
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lol I cant even count how many times I heard songs that sounded the same but just had a different speed and words. This includes every mix of music, including rap, r&b, rock, alternative, etc.. Especially those boy bands, they are the worst when it comes to cloning songs.
I liked Creed. They were unique in there time. I have been listening to them for at least...6-7 years or so.
Hey! It took the music industry nearly a two decades to make this formula for music! And now they push it harder than ever and blame MP3 downloads for poor music sales.
Don't think it's only nickle back, this may be a sign of just how low/cheap the music industry is getting, but they Nickback isn't alone is making cookie cutter music for sale to the masses.
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heh, i was watching an interview with creeds lead dude after they broke up. he got really fat! he says hes gonna go into a solo career and acting... cant he just die?!?!?! the remaining creed people are making another band. 'sigh'
thats pretty sad though. heh, nice vid with the fans throwing rocks.
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really cleaver, there is only so many ways you can play the instuments.
Nickelback for examples like the Drop D, so all there songs tend to have a similarity becuase of that fact, they all use similar chords.
as for tempo, there is standard tempos, 120 and 80 generally.
everyone tends to stick to these, led zepplin, Metallica, even most jazz stick to this (more exeptions bieng in jazz and classical)
The BASIS of rock, is music that is simple to play, and sounds good.
If you want complicated music listen to Jazz, funk, or Classical.
You bound ot have repeat riffs, in any type of music,
even is jazz (Swing Machine and Zuit suit Riot to name two more popular ones)
And there failure is not because of the quality of music, its because they wont adapt to the times.
Nobody wants to go out and buy a CD because they like 2 of the songs on it anymore, but the music industry refuses to work with this.
Once they realize that things change, they should be back on track.
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...
Were they opening for a another band or what?! Of course I don't really like Nickelback OR Portugal. I bought an X-Files DVD set pirated from Portugal. Found out afterward it was pirated.
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Another reason why I love the Indie music genre. My favorate band Clutch has dropped several labels to stay original. If bands wanted to stay original [Like Creed, 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, all the other bands that I despise] they could have dropped thier music but nooooo its all about the money, isnt it? Noone cares about the actual music anymore. By the way, that MPG of Nickelback getting stoned was funny as hell. Thanks.
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind..-'Jim Morrison"
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~Abbie Hoffman
Yeah God forbid someone could make money from something they love to do. Blame it on the mindless follow the crowd mentality of the masses, not the music industry. They make what people pay for. If it was me, I would be like Corey from Slipknot, make metal thats semi fan based crap, make money, then fund a side project w/ original music like Stone Sour.
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"The greatest trick the devil played on humanity in the 20th century was convincing them that he didn't exist." (Paraphrasing) C.S. Lewis
"If a mother can kill her own child, what is left before I kill you and you kill me?" -Mother Teresa when talking about abortion after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
If you are interested in the fight to end record labels you need to go to http://www.downhillbattle.org/index.php . I am a big supporter of them and what they do.
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind..-'Jim Morrison"
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~Abbie Hoffman
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"Whoever controls the media controls the mind..-'Jim Morrison"
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~Abbie Hoffman
I am so sick of "Someday" they have played it out
Today at work it came on 7 times in 8 hours, the last time it came on one of the people I work with threw the radio in the trash. Yeah he could of just changed it but it was funny.
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I'm going to disagree, sure some thing will repeat but the music industry in general is using the same forumals to make music. They know forumal will make X amount of money. So they head out, pick out 4-6 guys with the correct look, if they can't play intraments that's fine, it's easy enough to learn. Get them to together, have someone write them a set of songs, while I agree only 1 or 2 will be any good.
And tada, then make a couple mill, they cheat the band out of the already small percentage of each CD sales they get, toss them and look for the next "look" with the same sound to puch. If another lable comes up with a "look/sound" another label will copy it.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/04/media.royalties.reut/
The music labels instead of trying to use the new techongy. (maybe very recently they are) Decided it was best to sue there customers into submission. An interesting business module, but a not one that will lead to long term growth.
http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm
My hope is music labels will die a miserable slow death (or at least the major ones, and they will become smaller and more localized), and the next round, artist will sell directly to you. They made the product, why do we pay so many middle men? If you like the sound of a big fat ugly guy, you can buy his music just as easy as a boy band. Currently big fat ugly guy can only play for his family and friends and maybe a couple weddings.
Although Radio is the last hold that keeps labels in power, it will take awhile for that to change.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/2020_payola_020524.html
(Although 20/20 makes station owners look evil, they have contracts, they couldn't play a local band becuase the music lables would sue them. It's a two way road.)
If you ask what any of the this has to do with NickelBack? They are repetitive because they puppets to the label witch makes most of the major decisions for the band. Including re-using one song to make another. Nickelback is expect to release X songs in Y amount of time, if they have them or not. Under such circumstances, you'll never get quality music, assuming the band has talent to begain with aren't simply the correct look to sell.
For kicks: http://maddox.xmission.com/musicindustry.html
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"We're a game that's focused on grouping and on solo play, you know, more group oriented, more solo play..."
John Blakely Senior lead for EQ2. Link
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
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Achievers realise that killers as a concept are necessary in order to make achievement meaningful and worthwhile (there being no way to "lose" the game if any fool can "win" just by plodding slowly unchallenged). -bartle
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
Wow, what a load of crap. "They" go out and find people with the correct "look" and then teach them how to play instruments? BAHAHAHAHA! Aide moi! My sides! Yeah ok... maybe for the boy band genre, but most if not all the major and semi major bands have been around for quite a while before having any "hits". And sticking 4 strangers together in a studio with instruments they dont know how to play and expecting anyone to come out with a hit is ludicrous. The talent has to be there somewhere, people with "looks" and an unknown instrument dont make hits.
Laying in bed, looking up at the stars, a single thought passed through my head. Where the fuck is my roof?
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Ask yourself whent he last time you've seen a group of middle aged, over weight men break into the music charts? One that didn't already get a break when they were younger...
Is it because because middle aged me don't know how to make music, is because once over a 24 you can't sing or "rock out loud"?
Interesting isn't. I'm sure it has nothing to do with how bands look.
Granted everyone once in awhile someone will be so talented they sneak in, like BNL. But it's rare.
I think it's questionable if McJagger, AeroSmith or [insert classic rock band] would be able to break in if todays standards existed then.
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Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
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