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What kind of music group are they?

A Black Falcon Wrote:What kind of music group are they?

A bad one.

EdenMaster Wrote:A bad one.

which is why i was only speaking in jest

A Black Falcon Wrote:What kind of music group are they?

Much worse than gay.

Ugh, generic rock... listened to one song on Youtube, and yeah it is bad, or at least generic with stupid lyrics. I dislike rock music in general though, so I don't think I can judge the genre well... I mean, I dislike most all of it.

To a fan of rock music, the only thing worse than generic rock is Nickelback.

I love rock music and Nickelback fails. So do Creed and Bon Jovi.

Eric Johnson = greatest rock guitarist of all-time.

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I see your Eric Johnson and I raise you Hanna, ALBERTA's own, Chad Motherfucking Kroeger.

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Guess how many songs were played more on the radio in the 00's than this one? ZERO!

You know, "How You Remind Me" is one of the biggest songs of all time and gained massive popularity in the era immediately following 9/11. It was probably the biggest song of both 2001 and 2002, and we could definitely say that this song powered Americans and the world through the tragedy. That and the resurgance of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World."

It's been almost nine years since 9/11 and this is the first time I've ever heard anyone claim that Nickelback was to America what the blue blanket was to Linus.

I thought Alan Jackson was our country's post-9/11 patriotic bad musician.

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I thought this guy was! He looks like Adam Sandler in the wedding singer.

No way. This is the official America song for post-911:

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Weltall Wrote:It's been almost nine years since 9/11 and this is the first time I've ever heard anyone claim that Nickelback was to America what the blue blanket was to Linus.

The thought has never crossed my mind before either, but I think the correlation is interesting. Is there something nine-eleveny about that song? Or maybe it's because it's so not 9/11 - radio stations were very careful about what songs they were playing given the emotional atmosphere, so perhaps they just decided to play the blandest, boringest, most uncontroversial song they could find over and over again, which just happened to be Nickelback. But that still doesn't change the fact that people were demanding that song to be played over and over again, and that it was a big hit in many countries all over the world. Who knows?? People often look to music for comfort or escape in difficult times, and 9/11 was perhaps the most difficult time America has ever known, where people needed that comfort more than ever. And they were tuning in to "How You Remind Me" more than any other song (and like I said above, this song was played more than any other song in the 00's). There's gotta be something there! Fuck it, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and just say it: Nickelback saved America.

Great Rumbler Wrote:No way. This is the official America song for post-911:

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think again

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How can you hate all rock music ABF. Do you live under a rock? I mean, jeeze...

Because I don't like it. Do you like every single music genre?

I don't like electric guitars that much... sorry, it's just not a kind of sound I like that much. Also, Music which is just people screaming into a microphone isn't something I like at all.

I'm not that big of a music fan in general of course, and most of what I do like and listen to either has no or few vocals -- videogame soundtracks, classical, and techno/electronica pretty much are what I listen to.

Not all rock music is people screaming into the microphone. You're thinking of death metal.

Eh, a lot of it is, and it's not like it's much better when it's not screaming.

Because I don't like it. Do you like every single music genre?

At first it might seem that you have a point here, but it's tentative at best. Rock isn't just a genre--it's a super-genre. Rock encompasses a VAST BULK of music produced in the past fifty years. There are countless subgenres of rock which you may or may not like, but to say you don't like rock leaves very few contemporary options outside of rap/hip hop, techno or country.

I don't like electric guitars that much... sorry, it's just not a kind of sound I like that much. Also, Music which is just people screaming into a microphone isn't something I like at all.

Soooo much of rock isn't electric guitars. I'm trying to imagine that you have a negative impression of rock as... what, Ozzie Osbourne? Rock is everything from Buddy Holly to Led Zeppelin to Elvis to the Clash to Pink Floyd to the Beatles to Kings of Leon to Coldplay to Yes to Elton John... well shit it's almost everything produced since the 60's.

I'm not that big of a music fan in general of course, and most of what I do like and listen to either has no or few vocals -- videogame soundtracks, classical, and techno/electronica pretty much are what I listen to.

I like and have my share of videogame and movie soundtracks. To date my most-listened to CD of all time is The Empire Strikes Back... BUT HOW CAN YOU HEAR THIS AND NOT WANT TO BURST OUT DANCING?

Quote:At first it might seem that you have a point here, but it's tentative at best. Rock isn't just a genre--it's a super-genre. Rock encompasses a VAST BULK of music produced in the past fifty years. There are countless subgenres of rock which you may or may not like, but to say you don't like rock leaves very few contemporary options outside of rap/hip hop, techno or country.

So there's a lot of it... so? It's still one genre really, with a lot of subgenres under it. But the main genre is the main genre.

I dislike country and rap/hip-hop even more than I do rock. Didn't I say that I don't like most popular music very much, and aren't a music fan? :)

I mean, as I know I've said before, the idea of just listening to music while not doing anything else is just utterly foreign to me. It makes absolutely no sense, it'd be far too boring. I never just listen to music... I listen to it in a game I'm playing, or in a movie, or sometimes I play something while I'm surfing the web... but never just on its own. Music doesn't interest me enough to stand on its own.

Quote:Soooo much of rock isn't electric guitars. I'm trying to imagine that you have a negative impression of rock as... what, Ozzie Osbourne? Rock is everything from Buddy Holly to Led Zeppelin to Elvis to the Clash to Pink Floyd to the Beatles to Kings of Leon to Coldplay to Yes to Elton John... well shit it's almost everything produced since the 60's.

Some of those I've heard, some I haven't. The best of them (the Beatles for instance) I would describe as "tolerable for a while". Almost nothing beyond that, certainly. I would not say "like" very often for rock music, no matter what kind of rock music you're talking about...

Oh, and the electric guitar is rock's signature instrument... you really can't say otherwise! Sure some other ones are used, but that's the central one. That and vocals. And I don't really like either a lot of the time. :)

Quote:I like and have my share of videogame and movie soundtracks. To date my most-listened to CD of all time is The Empire Strikes Back... BUT HOW CAN YOU HEAR THIS AND NOT WANT TO BURST OUT DANCING?

Favorite piece of music? Beethoven's 9th symphony would be my choice.

As for that song (Elton John), it's alright I guess. It's not my favorite kind of music and isn't what I'd think of as being that "rocklike", but it's okay... it doesn't make me want to listen to more stuff like it though.

Anyone that doesn't like this song is a bad person:

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Usually not a big Bon Jovi fan but I did have this song bouncing around in my head for a few days a while back.

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Elton John beats all of the above music.

What, do you people think exposure therapy is going to work, or something? "Listen to more music you dislike or don't like much, eventually you'll come to like it!"

... Sorry, things don't work that way. I just don't really like rock music.

ABF doesn't appreciate music.

I AM SO SURPRISED.

I AM SO FUCKING GOD DAMNED SURPRISED.

ASK ME WHY I'M MENTIONING "PEOPLE WITH AUTISM" GO AHEAD, ASK ME WHY I'M SAYING "PEOPLE WITH AUTISM" TO YOU, DIRECTLY QUOTE ME AND ASK ME WHY I SAID IT.

A Black Falcon Wrote:What, do you people think exposure therapy is going to work, or something? "Listen to more music you dislike or don't like much, eventually you'll come to like it!"

... Sorry, things don't work that way. I just don't really like rock music.

Obviously because you could have been listening to the wrong rock music. If your opinion of rock music is based solely on black death metal, then we're showing you otherwise.

EdenMaster Wrote:Obviously because you could have been listening to the wrong rock music. If your opinion of rock music is based solely on black death metal, then we're showing you otherwise.

... Why do you think I think much differently of the stuff you've posted from other kinds of rock?

If "more tolerable" is praise then sure, some kinds of rock are more tolerable than others... but I don't actually think any of it is great. I've certainly listened to more than just death metal before.

It's not my least favorite kind of music though, that would go to rap... though a lot of that is because of the horrible, horrible lyrics of most rap...

lazyfatbum Wrote:ABF doesn't appreciate music.

I AM SO SURPRISED.

I AM SO FUCKING GOD DAMNED SURPRISED.

ASK ME WHY I'M MENTIONING "PEOPLE WITH AUTISM" GO AHEAD, ASK ME WHY I'M SAYING "PEOPLE WITH AUTISM" TO YOU, DIRECTLY QUOTE ME AND ASK ME WHY I SAID IT.

Do you want me to answer this seriously? Because I can if you wish.

If you like Nickelback, you might as well like garbage like

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:barf:

Sacred Jellybean Wrote:If you like Nickelback, you might as well like garbage like

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:barf:

How is ABF supposed to appreciate rock music if he's continually exposed to the most boring uninspired shit out there? This'll change his mind:

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Rock on ABF!

>How is ABF supposed to appreciate rock music if he's continually exposed to the most boring uninspired shit out there?

"knowing your target demographic"

:D

ASM is a fan of Nickelback, and so is this guy:



That's Stephen Harper, Canada's Prime Minister! And he had Krueger over for a little visit at the PM's residence. Good God, that has to be the most despicable photo ever taken. I have never been more embarassed for my country. Obama doesn't approve of Harper's choice in music and friends:

Music is sometimes good to listen to with my x-ray hearing.

I like some music from video games, and also some other music. I understand sometimes the people that play music will do it in some sort of concert hall format. I'd go but I don't have anything fancy to wear to such an affair.