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it's time we, as a people, face up to Nickelback

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Platy wrote: »
    Nickelback only ever figured out to write one song

    Hey Ya! came out around the same time and still sounds exactly as fresh as it did 17 years ago

    So their a less commercially successful Imagine Dragons then

  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    I haven't listened to their music ever, what's the issue with Theory of a Deadman

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    They have to consistently stress they have lots of female fans because they mostly write extremely misogynistic songs

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I don't listen to it very often, but I've come to terms with the fact that I like the song "Rock Star." Not really as a guilty pleasure either, I think it's just a good song.

  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    I haven't listened to their music ever, what's the issue with Theory of a Deadman

    They make shitty, dude-bro, "I'm a badass!" type rock where they bitch about how much they hate their girlfriends most of the time

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Cool, cool, coolcoolcool.

  • Desert LeviathanDesert Leviathan Registered User regular
    One of my all-time least favorite people is my brother's wife's sister. Neither my brother or his wife particularly like her sister, but we used to live in the same apartment complex, so when my brother and his wife were in town they couldn't get away with just visiting me, they had to also include her in all those visits, for which they repeatedly apologized.

    I observed no good parts of her personality, but one of her least endearing traits was her belief that she could seem interesting and knowledgeable by just being aggressively contrarian about everything. Every media opinion she had could be summarized as "Actualy, [thing that you like] is bad, and [thing that you hate] is good, and holy crap do I want to argue about it!" She was reliable enough in adopting this position that sometimes we'd make a game of bad-mouthing films we knew for a fact she'd never seen, just to bait her into an impassioned defense of plot points that we were inventing as we fed them to her.

    Anyway, one time I was helping the landlord repair some fences behind the apartment complex. We had the radio on, some shitty music was playing, and it got us talking about other shitty music that had gained widespread public exposure despite no one admitting to liking it, and how weird it must be to be one of the secret fans who unironically loved Aqua's "Barbie Girl" or whatever enough to keep requesting it and sustaining it on the airwaves for months. She overheard us and came outside to deliver an impassioned defense of Nickelback, and how it was at a Nickelback concert that her husband proposed to her, while they performed the exact same song that was on the radio right now, that we were so callously mocking.

    And my landlord was like "This is 'With Arms Wide Open' by Creed."

    Later my sister-in-law confirmed that actually her sister got engaged at a pizzeria that was infamous locally for having given the Chaos Shits to a bunch of European reporters during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics.

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    She sounds very unpleasant to deal with but also what an absolute gold mine of stories.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    She sounds like a pathological liar!

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Does she post on here

  • Desert LeviathanDesert Leviathan Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    She sounds very unpleasant to deal with but also what an absolute gold mine of stories.

    One time I saw her get in a half hour argument with her other siblings about memories of seeing a sequel to Mary Poppins, which at the time definitely did not exist yet, and I was like "Oh shit, somebody else has been playing the Fake Movie game with Autumn!"

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    She sounds very unpleasant to deal with but also what an absolute gold mine of stories.

    One time I saw her get in a half hour argument with her other siblings about memories of seeing a sequel to Mary Poppins, which at the time definitely did not exist yet, and I was like "Oh shit, somebody else has been playing the Fake Movie game with Autumn!"

    Random anecdote: For the longest time I thought Bedknobs and Broomsticks was related to Mary Poppins.

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  • Desert LeviathanDesert Leviathan Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    3clipse wrote: »
    She sounds very unpleasant to deal with but also what an absolute gold mine of stories.

    One time I saw her get in a half hour argument with her other siblings about memories of seeing a sequel to Mary Poppins, which at the time definitely did not exist yet, and I was like "Oh shit, somebody else has been playing the Fake Movie game with Autumn!"

    Random anecdote: For the longest time I thought Bedknobs and Broomsticks was related to Mary Poppins.

    That's fair, they both star David Tomlinson, and have Milt Kahl's fingerprints all over the animated parts.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    I can't say I dislike Nickelback. There are bands I just can't stand, and Nickelback just does not rate up there. I would never intentionally listen to them, though

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    Nickelback is basically the platonic ideal of a mediocre to sucky band.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    bedknobs and broomsticks is better than mary poppins and I'm confident in that opinion because one of these movies features Angela Lansbury fighting nazis and one of them doesn't

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    I enjoy Nickelback from time to time.

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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    It's me

    I'm the one who unironically has 3-4 Nickelback songs in my general playlist and will ironically make a Paladin of Nickelback for a game just to see how fast they get gibbed

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited April 2020
    Shorty wrote: »
    bedknobs and broomsticks is better than mary poppins and I'm confident in that opinion because one of these movies features Angela Lansbury fighting nazis and one of them doesn't

    bedknobs and broomsticks rules

    I don't think it has the emotional impact that Mary Poppins can hit me with on the right day though.

    Edit: in the same vein, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has one of the most disturbing sequences I watched as a child with the child snatcher.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited April 2020
    nickelback is a knockoff of pearl jam, a band I already do not like on their own merits

    they're not for me but I do think the notion that they represent some uniquely egregious musical crime to be a little overstated

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    My second concert ever was a Nickelback/Three Doors Down doubleheader, I think I was like 13? My dad wanted to go, and I was like ok sure. Nickleback had a beer shotgunning contest on stage, that's basically the only thing I remember about it.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    more like










    dickleback

  • Desert LeviathanDesert Leviathan Registered User regular
    Three Doors Down is the poster band for "Why your vocalist probably shouldn't also be your drummer." If that dude ever shook hands with Phil Collins, the antimatter explosion would destroy the universe.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    jgeis wrote: »
    My second concert ever was a Nickelback/Three Doors Down doubleheader, I think I was like 13? My dad wanted to go, and I was like ok sure. Nickleback had a beer shotgunning contest on stage, that's basically the only thing I remember about it.

    Awesome

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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    jgeis wrote: »
    My second concert ever was a Nickelback/Three Doors Down doubleheader, I think I was like 13? My dad wanted to go, and I was like ok sure. Nickleback had a beer shotgunning contest on stage, that's basically the only thing I remember about it.

    That is like the most 2000s music thing I've read today.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    There are worse and darker depths than nickelback

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Now I'm listening to Nickelback.

    Good job, thread.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    wait

    wait.

    is nickelback a play on quarterback

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    wait

    wait.

    is nickelback a play on quarterback

    no it is literally about the lead singer giving people change back

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    im choosing to believe its because chad kroeger is bad at football

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    but in any case it wouldn't be a play on quarterback, because there is already a position in football called the nickleback. (when a defense is playing in a nickle formation)

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    theory of a deadman might be the worst band in human history is my main takeaway here

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Well i just now googled every kind of coin relating to a football position so i dont commit any future faux pas

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited April 2020
    please subscribe to my weekly zine Cents to Yards, detailing all of the various coin names for football positions

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    We had the radio on, some shitty music was playing, and it got us talking about other shitty music that had gained widespread public exposure despite no one admitting to liking it, and how weird it must be to be one of the secret fans who unironically loved Aqua's "Barbie Girl" or whatever enough to keep requesting it and sustaining it on the airwaves for months.

    Hey! Hey!

    Barbie Girl kicks ass!

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Three Doors Down is the poster band for "Why your vocalist probably shouldn't also be your drummer." If that dude ever shook hands with Phil Collins, the antimatter explosion would destroy the universe.

    Nah, need Don Henly there to trigger critical mass.

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