Best Nickleback video on the planet!!!

[Raptor]

[Ack-Ack]

There is a station down here that was one of the best that I have listened to in Birmingham if not the entire US and they were pushing a "No Nickleback or Black Eye Peas" song ever in their lineup. They are being reformated to a flapping new talk format so its a moot point now. Now we get stuck with crappy "Classic Rock", Country, news talk, Top 40 reruns and sports talk once again.

No more good indie rock, punk or other just good new music.

The two saddest days of my life within the last year was Indie 103.1 going off the air here in L.A. and Sirius ditching the all punk channel. 

ack-ack

[Reschke]

The Clash?

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I think London Calling has to be one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever.

AMEN BRO!

For the record I never said "good punk rock"; I said "No more good indie rock, punk or other just good new music"; there is a BIG DIFFERENCE.

[Soulyss]

I think there is still a lot of good music out there today, just have to know where to look, a lot of the bands I listen to these days most people haven't heard of but they're putting out IMHO some great, great music.


Alejandro Escovedo - punk rock kid from Huntington Beach, CA who grew up and moved to Austin.  He's lived quite the life, his last album "Real Animal" is a story of his musical career, from his first band The Nuns in San Francisco, he also lived in the Chelsea Hotel in 1978.  He was standing on the sidewalk outside the hotel when the police hauled Sid Vicious away. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiziSrOQfZA

Chuck Prophet - Based in San Francisco, he actually co-wrote the Alejandro's last record which is how I found out about him.  He recorded his most recent album in Mexico City in the middle of the swine flu outbreak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIKGpudOvI


Jon Dee Graham - Another Austin musician, one of those great rock 'n roll voices.  It sounds like he smokes twenty packs of cigarettes a day.

[TinmanX]

...get a good live sound called an aural exciter, it seems that no vocalist will record without one now days, you know that real synthetic vocal sound...

I believe they're calling it Auto-Tune. and yeah, my teenager's record collection is full of it. I ask her "where the talent is?" which annoys her greatly.

[Estes]

I dont think "best" and "nickleback" should be in the same sentence.

Auto tune eh? Thats pretty much the key to t-pains success. I think it sounds pretty cool, but they get carried away with it. *cough t-pain *cough.

Whats that thing Frampton uses to make that cool guitar sound, and that thing with his voice? When he does it with his voice he uses this tube looking thing. Is that anything at all like what auto tune does?

[sluggish]

I dont think "best" and "nickleback" should be in the same sentence.

Auto tune eh? Thats pretty much the key to t-pains success. I think it sounds pretty cool, but they get carried away with it. *cough t-pain *cough.

Whats that thing Frampton uses to make that cool guitar sound, and that thing with his voice? When he does it with his voice he uses this tube looking thing. Is that anything at all like what auto tune does?

Frampton uses what's called a talk box.  The tube you see transfers the sound from a speaker inside of a box into his mouth.  He then manipulates the sound by "mouthing" words.  The auto tune is a midi device that actually takes the singer's voice and manipulates it with a keyboard.  Auto tune requires zero talent from the singer.

[Estes]

Aah thanks sluggish. I was thinking it was something box but wasnt sure. From my understanding, auto tune is some sort of pitch correction/changing software. And that "jump" in pitch is what makes the sound.

I know some folks like Cher used auto tune, but I dont think anyone had any success with it (at least as much as t pain.) I agree it takes no talent from the artist, but it sounds kinda cool nonetheless.

[Scherf]

The Clash?

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I think London Calling has to be one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever.

word

[grizz441]

h8.

[Ack-Ack]

no such thing as good punk rock

ack-ack

[bravoa8]

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[Enker]

Aah thanks sluggish. I was thinking it was something box but wasnt sure. From my understanding, auto tune is some sort of pitch correction/changing software. And that "jump" in pitch is what makes the sound.

I know some folks like Cher used auto tune, but I dont think anyone had any success with it (at least as much as t pain.) I agree it takes no talent from the artist, but it sounds kinda cool nonetheless.

Probably some of the best examples of Auto-Tune used for comedic effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbqNaIRW9vY  Auto-Tune the News, shawty.

[Reschke]

Sick and flapping tired of hearing Frampton on the "classic rock" radio station here in town...so much so because the only song they play is one from a concert he did live here in the mid 90's and he used that DANG box. Hearing it occasionally...once every 6 months to a year is fine but not every day.

[akusher]

Now to be honest, Nickelback's music dont really bother me. But Ive noticed that a lot of people hate them. Why is that so? Rock songs about partying, drinking, and getting laid seem to be the highlight of most their new songs, but why do people hate that? 

It has nothing to do with what their singing about, and has everything to do with the awful singing and song-writing.

People have been writing about hedonism forever, but the key is to avoid making it sound like crap.

In this, Nickleback has failed, and failed miserably. They are on par with the worst bands in history, and have provided some of the most compelling argument yet for irreversible hearing loss.