Official Nickelback Thread

[mrlee]

i dont like them anymore. there new album sucked.

[Gunner80]

I'm gonna check out the Billings gig. Should be good.

[zakas80]

people actually listen to this crap!!!

[Malcolm]

Nickelback returning for summer dates

Nickelback is heading back out on the road in North America, launching a summer tour on June 28th in St. Johns, Newfoundland, which will take the quartet through its native Canada, the U.S. Northeast and the Midwest. The trek comes to a close on July 30th in Alberta, Canada. Staind, Daughtry, Hinder, Finger Eleven and Puddle Of Mudd are opening selected shows, with opening acts on many of the dates yet to be announced. Frontman Chad Kroeger told us that even people who aren't Nickelback fans have a good time at the band's concerts: "One of our favorite things is when we read something like, you know, 'Wasn't a fan, went to the show, truly, truly entertained.' Converting people every single night is just a great feeling."

Nickelback has raised over $500,000 for Amnesty International and International Children's Awareness Canada through digital sales of the band's single and video, "If Everyone Cared." The Canadian quartet, along with its label, distributor and publishing company, donated 100 percent of the proceeds from the song to both organizations since its release.

"If Everyone Cared" is the sixth single from Nickelback's 2005 album, All The Right Reasons, which has sold more than five million copies in the U.S.

Nickelback will perform at the second annual VH1 Rock Honors, which will be taped on May 12th in Las Vegas. This year's show will honor Ozzy Osbourne, Heart, Genesis and ZZ Top, with performances and tributes from Queens Of The Stone Age, Alice In Chains, Keane and others. The show premieres on VH1 on May 24th.

Confirmed Nickelback tour dates:
June 28 - St John's, NF - Bay Roberts
June 30 - Charlottetown, PEI - Festival of Lights
July 1 - Halifax, NS - Citadel Hill
July 4 - Toronto, ONT - Molson Amphitheater
July 5 - Ottawa, ONT - Lynx Stadium
July 7 - Quebec City, QUE - Festival Dete
July 8 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 10 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Theater
July 11 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 13 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
July 14 - Hershey, PA - Hershey Park Amphitheater
July 16 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena
July 18 - Sarina, ONT - Bayfest
July 20 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 21 - East Troy, WI - Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 23 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
July 24 - Grand Forks, ND - Alerus Center
July 27 - Calgary, ALB - Pengrowth Saddledome
July 30 - Edmonton, ALB - Rexall Place

[JB9988]

dime front is the worsty band ever

[Malcolm]

dime front is the worsty band ever

Good one jackass...I'd ask you who you like but im sure it's N'sync or something...Nickelback is a great band and will be around for a long time...Just because you dont like there music dosent mean they are the worst band ever....There easily one of the most popular and successful

[JB9988]

no way man nsync is a ripoff of the back street boys. And i like music not these bands that make noise. NB has shit guitar work and so on. if rage old metallica gnr pearl jam petty rchp (old) suck then i guess the music i like sucks. And no nb is not popular.

[Malcolm]

Nickelback is not a bad band...Just because you dont like them...There one of the most succesful bands ou there today...I feel like D when hes defending Bon Jovi....Alot of people dont like them  because there so mainstream...But they continue to prove how good they are by platium cd's and sold-out tours

[Malcolm]

For anyone who hasnt seen it, there cover of Sharp Dressed Man at VH1 Rock Honors was phenominal

[mrlee]

Nickelback is not a bad band...Just because you dont like them...There one of the most succesful bands ou there today...I feel like D when hes defending Bon Jovi....Alot of people dont like them  because there so mainstream...But they continue to prove how good they are by platium cd's and sold-out tours

my problem with them is that they made a great album "the long road" the one with someday on is it?

and then they churn out the shittest album after to follow it up with.

[Malcolm]

Concert Review: Nickelback
Saddledome, Calgary - July 26, 2007

CALGARY - No matter how you feel about Nickelback, you gotta give the Hanna rockers credit for knowing exactly how to please their fans.

Whether it's putting out yet another slow-at-the-start-heavy-on-the-chorus radio chart-topper or dropping more f-bombs in concert than any other touring band, their formula is working.

They came close to selling out not just one, but two Saddledome shows this week, an astounding feat considering they are still touring on their 2005 CD All The Right Reasons, which brought them through town just last year.

In fact, the latest Nickelback tour is much like the last one and the one before that -- a loud, high-energy rock fest right out of Rock Concerts For Dummies.

There were three huge video screens, flash powder, smoke, fireworks, falling sparks, fireballs and, of course, a catwalk off the front of the stage. Basically, if they make it, Nickelback had it.

And, their local devotees loved it all.During the opening pyrotechnic-filled track Animal, frontman Chad Kroeger took time out from singing to ask the crowd, "Are we gonna have a good f-ing time?" According to the response of deafening screams and whistlers, we were.

From there, the concertgoers ate up everything the band baby-fed them from their catalogue of hits.

Among them was the metal offering Because of You, the cheese-topped Photograph, the easy-to-swallow Far Away and the sing-along desert Rock Star.

Standout moments, offering a break from the predictable tunes, included a touching performance of If Everyone Cared, which played as images of Nelson Mandela flashed on the screen, and a Kid Rock-less cover of Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright.

Then, if everyone wasn't having enough junior high fun already, Nickelback broke out the air cannons and shot merchandise into the bleachers.

Much like the rest of the show, the rock star cliche was encouraged by the room, which roared, howled, shrieked and yelped for every confection in Nickelback's bag of sugary treats.

Vancouver-based State of Shock and Missouri's Puddle Of Mudd started the whole thing off with well-received short sets before former American Idol-turned-rock-star Chris Daughtry took the stage.

The bald, buff singer was greeted by high-pitched screams, normally reserved for well-marketed boy bands and George Clooney.

He seemed to revel in the attention, playing the part of a modern-day heartthrob to a tee with his over-sexed slow stage moves and gradual striptease down to a tank top.

Much like Nickelback, Daughtry knows how to play to the masses.

The band's debut is the best-selling CD of 2007 and it was clear from the hundreds of voices singing along to set highlights It's Not Over and Home, many at the 'Dome have it in their collection.

The challenge is getting people to buy the next one and that is where Daughtry may fail. His stage show needs work as it comes across looking like his just going through the motions.

[Bill 213]

Anyone who can defend a band with shitty lyrics such as these must either be partially deaf or have absolutely bad taste in music.


Quote the shitty Nickelback lyrics, nevermore:


From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive

[Chorus:]
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died

And I'm singing

Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
(I'm alive)

[Chorus x2]

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
When nobody died...

[Chorus]

We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died

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I mean honestly shit........what does being in love have to do with dying in the first place?? If everyone cares then no one will die?? What the fuck kind of stupid lyrics are these?? What about the people that die from pancreatic cancer?? I bet they'd find this song truly offensive.

[Malcolm]

Look it man...Nickelback are one of the biggest bands around right now...Easily the biggest Canadian band....Im gonna kinda follow D's thoughts here..I dont care if you dont like them but you can say they suck or arent succesful

[CSS]

Malcolm:

Any news on a European tour?

[Malcolm]

Dont see it happening until the new album comes out...There doing another leg (15 shows or so) of America dates in october

[Malcolm]

Heres a thread for the band anyways

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-10-16-nickelback-sales_N.htm

[Malcolm]

Nickelback Announce "Dark Horse" As Name of New Album, Free Single Download

Unstoppable multi-platinum rockers Nickelback announced today Dark Horse as the title for their new album, set for release on November 18th on Roadrunner Records. Starting at 6AM on Monday, September 29th, the first single "Gotta Be Somebody" will be available for free download for a 24-hour period via participating radio station websites spanning all pop and rock formats, and via Nickelback.com or at www.nicelback.roadrunnerrecords.com. Additionally, the single will be digitally delivered to radio on September 29th. Following the free download, the single will be available for purchase via all online retailers. Dark Horse is co-produced by Nickelback and famed rock producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard).

Nickelback plans to embark on a worldwide tour in 2009

There new song 'Gotta Be Somebody' is absolutely amazing...It's very mainstream so I know alot of fans wont like it, but you gotta hand it to them, they keep coming out with huge hits...This is easily one of my new favourite songs

Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody Lyrics

This time, I wonder what it feels like
To find the one in this life, the one we all dream of
But dreams just aren?t enough
So I?ll be waiting for the real thing, I?ll know it by the feeling
The moment when we?re meeting, will play out like a scene
Straight off the silver screen
So I?ll be holding my own breath, right up ?til the end
Until that moment when, I find the one that I?ll spend forever with


Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There?s gotta be somebody for me like that
Cause nobody wants to do it all on their own
And everyone wants to know the night alone
There?s somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There?s gotta be somebody for me out there

Tonight, out on the street, out in the moonlight
And dammit this means too right, it?s just like deja vu
Me standing here with you
So I?ll be holding my own breath, could this be the end
Is it that moment when, I find the one that I?ll spend forever with

Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There?s gotta be somebody for me like that
Cause nobody wants to do it all on their own
And everyone wants to know the night alone
There?s somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There?s gotta be somebody for me out there

You can?t give up, looking for a (diamond did erupts??)
The wind shows up, make sure you?re holding on
Cause it could be the one, the one you?re waiting on
Cause nobody wants to be the last one there
And everyone wants to feel like someone cares
Someone to love with my life in their hands
There?s gotta be somebody for me, oh

Nobody wants to do it all on their own
And everyone wants to know the night alone
There?s somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There?s gotta be somebody for me out there
Nobody wants to be the last one there
Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares
There?s somebody else that feels the same somewhere
There?s gotta be somebody for me out there

[mrlee]

produced by old mutt?

damn this record..COULD, be an epic arena rock album then!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP7VsPb9ZpY

the new song.

VERY MUTT LANGE influenced for sure.

check out the high pitched vocal intros, and the style drums.

Guitar wise, its a little weak as they usually have some pretty cool riffs, but then again. if its a nickelback single, its always gonna be weak, there singles are always tame for radio stuff.

Its very different to there old stuff. Reminds me of Def Leppards Hysteria, obviously due to mutts involvement,

[Jizzo]

great sounding song

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Their usual fluff.