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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    DSkip wrote: »
    Nickelback's first two albums were more hard rock than anything else. The State was their second album and included several songs off the first one. As they continued to grow in popularity, their songs became generic, repetitive, formulaic pop masterpieces that changed the band from rock to sellouts in most eyes.
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    I for one don’t understand it, I have seen them twice (wife loves them) they put on a rocking good show, they did a killer tribute to Dime Bag (Pantera) after he was killed on stage..

    With that said I always told my wife they are the Def Leppard of this generation as Radio just over played them just like Def Leppard back in the day I absolutely hated it....

    For the record I love Def Leppard’s first two albums, On Through The Night, and High and Dry..

    Thank you! When you compare them to Def Leopard, I understand the hate. I could never understand why people referred to DL as a 'metal band'? Does NOT compute.
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    edited November 2017
    To me Def Leopard was a novelty, just because they were so young. Otherwise the bargain bin would have been their future.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    About the only "Hard Rock" band I like and can tolerate. Never understood the hate.
    Maybe I'm just too old.
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,430
    Because there will never be a more appropriate thread to share this story in, I will share it now:

    A high school teacher, one of my "side jobs" for the last 16 years has been doing announcing at our varsity baseball games. Part of *that* job is playing music before the games (and between innings if I'm motivated enough to do so). I don't do any special attempt to make my music current with today's teenagers, so my musical selections tend to fill the "rock-and-roll and other energetic, swear-free music from the 60's-90's" genre, covering the time when I did most of my music-finding-and-buying.

    Naturally, the modern teenager only has a need for so much of *my* music (seriously, who would object to 1990's smash hit "(I Wanna Drive the) Zamboni" by the Gear Daddies between innings of a baseball game??) so I'd be offered CDs of "acceptable" music as preferred alternatives.

    One afternoon I was presented with an unlabelled CD-R by a ballplayer with the request to use it during their pregame fielding warmup.

    "Did your coach OK this? Are you *sure* this is appropriate for playing?" I asked him.

    "Oh yeah--no problem." he replies.

    A bit later, I queue up the CD in the booth and hit play. Here it comes--a Nickelback song I still can't tell you the name of--All I know is that the first note of the song is a lyric, and that the first lyric of the song is "I like your pants around your feet/I like the dirt that's on your knees". I couldn't twist the volume knob of the PA down fast enough!! Still cringe at the memory; fortunately there was no blow-back from the arriving crowd or our athletic director! Needless to say, that was the last time I played an untested music selection!
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  • gp4jesus
    gp4jesus Posts: 1,990
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Rush sucks...
    ...I hafta take issue w/your opinion expressed as fact. You don't like, or worse, hate Rush... well... ...ok.

    I've never been to Canada but I like Rush. Saw them in concert during the Permanent Waves & Moving Pictures tours.

    Careful dude

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,329
    Rush Rules!! Rush Rocks!!! Rush Rules and Rocks your Socks Off!!!
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    I don't mind a couple of their earspank songs, like to crank it up and rock
    More like earspunk.
    Or so I hear.

    Upon further review...I guess it was "Animals" was the only song I really liked

    Animals was their best!. I did like that and a few early ones.
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  • gp4jesus
    gp4jesus Posts: 1,990
    You say "Rush* sucks." It is OH SO not their* fault ...
    nbrowser wrote: »
    ...Canadian content laws for TV and radio stations [must] to adhere to, 40% Canadian content played DAILY,
    further...
    nbrowser wrote: »
    ...so on your run of the mill Classic Rock station...you hear a Rush song MINIMUM 3 times per hour...
    Then write your government rep, get the law changed. You can hate them if you must but you can't blame them.
    nbrowser wrote: »
    I hate Rush.
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