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Isbjørn · 05-09-2014, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

We should totally do Nickelback Week together dude. With my writing skill, research, sense of humour and graphic skills and your ... um, help .... we could really rock this!

Seriously: what do you think? Joint venture? NO, there are NO drugs involved! Though we may need them by the time this is finished...

Nickelback truly is a special kind of band. You know a band is sh*tty when their highest-rated album at rateyourmusic.com (which is never wrong) has a 2.20/5 rating. In my RYM rating system, 2.0 is “bad” and 2.5 is “mediocre”. If I am to judge from the average ratings, Nickelback can't even pass as mediocre when at their best. Anyway...

Artist: Picklerack
Album: Curb
Year: 1996
Genre: Grunge (according to Wikipedia)

Silver Side Up was chosen since it was released in 2002, the same year as Slipknot's Iowa. Dark Horse was chosen because, according to RYM (which is always right), it's THE crappiest Nickelback album. I decided to listen to Curb since it's the band's debut, hopefully displaying them at a stage in which their music was less polished and Disney-like. And you know what? It actually... kind of did. Instead of the shiny, polished, teen-poppy etc. stuff on Silver Side Up and Dark Horse, this was some sort of attempt at grunge. Post-grunge, I think people like to call it. This removes one of the things to hate about the band, but there's still the lack of originality and musicianship, the repetition, and Chad's goddamned vocals*. If Bruce Springsteen** and that guy from Pearl Jam had a child, and that child smoked lots and lots and LOTS of cigarettes, I think he'd sound a bit like Chad.

I have a feeling that I could have listened to this two years ago, before I got all pretentious and stuff. Or maybe not. Either way, this isn't nearly as bad as those other two albums.

2/5

*I'm not saying Chad isn't awesome. The year this was released, was also the 30th anniversary of The Beatles' Revolver which would've never existed hadn't Chad written every single note on the album. He just releases sh*tty music now so that nobody will realize he did it. That's modesty.
**I like Bruce Springsteen. This simile is not meant to degrade him in any way.