Savage.

As much as I like Sum 41, I can respect the burn.

@@KoopySandwiches Same here. Sum 41 is a way better, more interesting, and more likable band than Nickelback but Chad got Deryck good there.

Who tf gets their gf to dress up as their ex-wife for Halloween?

Isn’t his name Derek Whibley?

And brutally believable

it's pretty telling that my favorite flo rida single by far is the one where he barely raps at all (my house)

Well it explains his appearances on Eurovision in 2021.

San Marino, Eurovision 2021. You had to be there.

holy fuck, its the person who makes those Lancer memes! Hi Lancer Meme Wolf!

Chuck Klosterman wrote that about when he saw Creed and Nickelback in concert the same night. You ever read his books?

That sounds like a very strange way to live. I hope he’s well.

He does have awful hands ✋️ 😢

​@@thatkidwiththehoodiedude has an allegedly massive wang, he's good.

There's fans of drinking piss too, what's your point?

*Canadian politeness overload*

Even David Bowie admitted he wasn't sure of the (big air quotes) "correct" pronunciation of his surname.

@@Eric_Hunt194 I'm not sure if my actual first name, Dejosh, is pronounced Dih-josh or Dee-josh, or if it’s spelled Dejosh or De Josh.

stuff like this is making me feel a little guilty about not liking nickelback lol

@@princeapoopoo5787 as people or a band?

Why are you talking bad about Train? They had great hits such as Drops of Jupiter.

Or "looking for a two-ply Hefty bag To hold my love"

What about Daughtry, huh? We can always go lower

⁠@@thisisfyneThank you! Daughtry was THE definition of dull, watered down post-grunge. I can give Chris Daughtry credit for having a better singing voice than Chad Krueger, but as for the music as a whole, they made Nickelback seem interesting.

Truly the most maddening lyric in rock music you do not call yourself "gangsta" and "thug" in a song with a fucking ukelele backing track

I remember seeing a pic of the recording of that part of the video with the caption along the lines of "a legendary moment being made" and I was like "wait, no it's not, he's holding the photograph with his other arm!"

Look at this graaaaph

That's old school. Back in the 80's some videos would depict exactly what the lyrics were saying. The best example is Erasure's "A Little Respect". They performed a little scene for each lyric. When Andy Bell sings "Oh baby please give a little respect to me", Vince Clarke gives him a little sign that says "Respect" on it. And there is part where he sings the word "Soul" and they show a poster for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. It's great.

What do you do when you show someone a meme on your phone? Point the phone at them and look at their face for the reaction.

@@AnonymousFriend "LOOK AT THIS MEME I FOUND!"

Wow you sound absolutely hilarious

It’s not surprising to me. They are from an area where country is super popular. Nickelback could have actually made country and felt legit because they are farm boys lol

I have news for you, there is a Nickelback song called Cowboy Hat. It's on The State

Not COCA COLA ROLLERCOASTER

sounds like something that Patrick Monahan would've left on the cutting room floor

*Muse's the Will of the People steps into the room*

Nah that's exactly what Shinedown did last year, except it's an entire album

@@lucastaylor3399 wait no, I'll defend will of the people (both song and album) for all eternity, in that it's not actually a protest song, it's a self-referential song making "fun" of their typical cliché songs about revolution and all that, it isn't meant to be a protest song.

Five Finger Death Punch? Don't know much about them but it feels like something they would do...

​@@el_veravi feel like you're giving them a bit too much credit there

Hell plenty of respected artist are far more evil than Nickelback ever was

lol what? we are talking about how their music is bad. i dont remember this conversation about "evil" like we are addressing the theodicy of Nickelback.

Maroon 5...shudder

@@nothingisawesomenah I’m saying musically too, there’s so much worse music out there lol

Honestly, there's even worse butt-rock/divorced dad rock out there than Nickelback. I'll take Nickelback at their worst over Trapt at their best, any day of the year.

❤

Nearly exact for me, but the song was "Lullaby". Hate them all you want, but those two songs mean a lot to a lot of people.

Neither Savin’ me nor Lullaby may not have saved me, but it most certainly made dark days a little. I love half their songs and don’t much like the rest.

I'm a longtime Nickelback hater, but boy do I understand something cheesy being a lifeline when you're in a bad place. Glad you found something to get you through.

Emotions aside, idk why people call these songs "corny" because Savin Me has one of my favourite guitar solos of all time

Paralyzer is an unironic great song. Also it was popular when I was in HS and actually had a GF (she was actually the one who told me that song was by Finger Eleven) so I just have fond memories of everything from that time I guess.

And lowkey, Finger Eleven is a freaking underrated band. They got more play in Canada and yeah, they were pretty damn good.

@@AndreNDP as a fellow canadian, I can concur

Plus Finger Eleven is actually a great band

Do people not like Paralyzer? I found it hot

Wait, really? What else did he do?

@@neckpeck2738by the looks of his Wikipedia article, a whole lot of bro-country.. 😬

Joey: rock is dead, my job is done here, now lets go kill another music genre

Ruining music was in Joey's head all along

@@soulbrother5435 Fuckin' monster.

Just like “Everybody Knows That”

I can see it. The song does give off major “how do you do fellow kids?!” vibes.

@@heethanthenIf anything I thought a collaboration between Avril and Chad would sound like those gag-inducing Gwen Stefani/Blake Shelton duets.

If he was in an anime, he'd be covered in American flags so you knew for sure he was American!

I've known that fact for probably half a decade. It's a hilarious footnote more than anything.

He, uh, mentioned that in the video. Text on screen, lower left corner.

@@LordHattie Fair. Still wrong (it's not an and/or situation; the song is anthropomorphizing cocaine in a way that a cis-hetero male can identify as an object of lust, but it is absolutely not about a woman at any point), but fair. I will cop to not actually watching Todd's content. I find it makes better background listening for tasks.

That would explain the line "Coca-Cola rollercoaster"

This was a reupload, it was commented a couple times about on the original, now private, video.

@@TimmyTickleI keep hearing it as “coke ‘er, coal ‘er, roll ‘er, coast ‘er” and thinking of a steam engine

I had the same reaction. That guy ruined country

Oh. _Oh._

Yeah, that was an eye-opening moment for me, too.

YUP! Now that this "new country " has gone mainstream infact country acts are now winning awards that were supposed to won by rock bands like the recent shut out of Foo Fighters and Metallica by Zack Bryan? It's ridiculous!

i was wondering where's the rock part of all those bro-country comes from and no wonder FGL sounds like a walmart hillbilly nickelback with a banjo.......

What I like the most about that is, they've embraced the humour of the meme and actually perform it live before properly playing Photograph.

​@@CWTygerThey do? Okay, that's adorable!

And then you have Joel's "cover" which is probably the funniest thing ever did related to Nickelback.

​@CWTyger see Todd? Nickleback can be funny!

Rush starts Tom Sawyer with the bit from South Park, and Cheap Trick opened their show with a gag about them from the Simpsons. It's nice to see a band be able to laugh at themselves a little.

I’m convinced that iHeartRadio is the raid shadow legends of streaming apps. Nobody likes them and I don’t know anybody who genuinely uses it, but they’ve got so much of an advertising push behind them that you’d think they’re the most important thing to happen to radio since War Of The Worlds.

@@SirLightsOut99 In a way I guess they are, just not in a positive way

Yep. Same playlist alllllllllll over America.. It’s disgusting.

This is 100% truth.

I find that 90% of the hate towards Nickelback is due to the comedian that didn’t like them. They have definitely hade some stinkers, but over all the band has had more consistency than most bands similar to their style or bands that are better than them

@@RichardFisting I grew up as a kid hearing their shit on the radio all the time from 2005-2007. I absolutely hated it, I dreaded every time Far Away, If Everyone Lived, How You Remind Me or Rockstar came on the radio, it was torture. They deserve the hate they get. When I found out as a teenager how hated they were, my experiences as a kid, felt validated. I knew I wasn't the only one tormented by their god awful music. It's possible they alone could have killed rock as a commercially viable genre by the 2010's.

Not entirely true. Post-grunge in general got a lot of backlash, but among those bands Nickelback is kinda the only one that survived. For instance, at the height of the Nickelback Sucks phenomenon, people had a list of similar bands that also sucked, with the most common one being Default (Wasting My Time), but, who remembers Default now?

...except those had good stuff. Nickelback are boring and mediocre.

The hate for Nickelback was moreso directed towards post-grunge as a whole. Which, frankly, looking back on it is probably the hair metal of its day - the remnants of what used to be an interesting and original genre that became easy selling, middle-of-the-road "rock" music that was played everywhere and was boring and monotonous and (at the time) really only liked by moms and dudebros, and ALWAYS hated by snobs. There wasn't a "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for post-grunge, but its death can be pretty easily marked by the time that 10's-style indie rock became the standard. Maybe one could argue that Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" was the killer of post-grunge? Or just in general the string of fluke indie rock hits throughout the late 00's that culminated in 2012 with fun. and Gotye becoming the bannerholders of rock and killing 90's style alternative outright. The backlash for disco isn't really as comparible since it was a completely unique genre taking hold basically overnight and was killed overnight a few years later.

I don’t care for music, but I am a historian. If Todd was a mere critic I wouldn’t be here

It exactly why I am here

I guess the critics corner is "did they deserve better?" On 1HWL videos You can only really unpack these critically without being in the timeframe it.was released. His Pop Song Reviews are maybe what you are honing in on.

You can say he's at the edge of a revolution

You're telling me this is how he reminds us of what we really are?

Yeah, I could imagine The Monkees or Beach Boys or Oasis even being the butt of the joke if internet came out earlier, just because they were everywhere in that decade.

Like what?

We hate them just as much. But we were exhausted from Nickelback and their knockoffs like hinder.

Didn't Imagine Dragons pretty much replaced Nickleback in the "most hated band in the world" category? The time Imagine Dragons started to get popular was pretty much the same as when Nickleback started to disappear from the public eye, so you can see it as a passing of the torch of sorts.

I coulda sworn years ago everyone loved them for "It's Time". I started to dislike them as I got older sure, but were they really always hated?

@@okagron And now it looks like Imagine Dragons is passing the "most hated band in the world" title to AJR.

Honestly, as much as bad as Nickelback was, they at least sounded like Rock music. Imagine Dragons sounds like Rock music for Gen Z'ers who think Rock music sucks. I just wish Gen Z would have tried to reclaim Rock music for the marginalized instead of letting it waste away. But that's just my opinion.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. I’ve heard a lot of singers whose speaking voices are very different than their singing voices, but Kroeger’s is on a different level.

See also: Stapp, Scott

HOW THE HELL’D WE WIND UP LIKE THIS??

Liam Gallagher is like that too. His normal speaking voice is pretty deep, but when he sings he becomes extremely nasally

Blackie Lawless from W.A.S.P. is the same way. He sings like a banshee with a slimy growl, but when you hear interviews with him he has a deep voice and is pretty soft spoken (See: "The Story of Jonathan")

Which album? Kinda wanna give it a listen

​@@lance307its her self titled album from 2013, which had that hello kitty song as the single

Oh god my mind had buried it deep. Now I know why it was soooo bad

@@iwakeupandboomimaratthe song she specifically wrote as an appreciation letter to her massively devoted fanbase in Japan?

Nah. Other than Hello Kitty is pretty bland boring pop.

X2

i will go one step further and admit there were also videos

If you asked me 20 years ago I would've said "You Remind Me is kinda cool for a song that came out of nowhere and their track for the Spider-Man movie was good," but that would be it. My big gripe with Nickelback was that they were so one-dimensional as a band that anytime they released a single you already knew what it would sound like and what the song would be about. The fact that Chad had a singing voice that only got more grating the more you heard it was just extra.

yes, he should shelve more of his songs

It's definitely a song of all-time.

It's not a joke

​@@deadforever its a joke in the sense that todd plays on words, not that it's not true

Second greatest. Nickleback's video for This Afternoon has the best Nickleback joke. I will never budge on this.

Todd casually forgetting about Chicago.

@@deadforeverjokes are funny when they are true (this coming from a partial defender of the band)

canadian rules ab media will always astound me bc we have like. 3 watchable shows and then smth like 40% of all tv has to be canadian produced???

I like the attempts at cultural cohesion and nationalism, but I don't know if the heavy-handedness in the media formats is that effective in generating one.

@@TheZenomeProjectIt works. Ever wonder why there seem to be so many big bands that end up being from Canada despite us having a population about 1/10th that of the US? It's because they get air play up here because of this law, get famous locally and the big labels down south gobble them up.

@@iwakeupandboomimaratThe 40% thing for TV only applies for channels based out of Canada like CTV, Citytv and APTN. Since most of are TV channels originate elsewhere, it doesn't apply to them. Hard to argue with the results of radio laws though. Ever notice how many big bands come from here? Giving Canadian artists radio play they would never get otherwise gets people noticed.

​@@devilmikey00philosopher kings, nickelback, Crystal castles, prozzak, sum 41, shark tank...fuck I think you're right.

He said something similar about Chicago in either the 1987 or 1976 reviews of his.

Classic because it's 100% true. There's been bands with way worse albums and way worse songs no other band that's constantly released so much 4/10 music.

Reminds me of another critic talking about Drake: "Drake might not have the smelliest shit, but he was the one who taught the world how to poop." And. Sure. That can apply.

@@palaguin I remember that one, I think it was the 87 video. "There were bands with smellier shit, but no one had more of it"

It should be followed with "any other questions should be addressed to my attorney"

Mistakes Were Made

Makes me suspicious that the whole thing is just a joke.

There's one more issue here. Pop punk was HAAATEEED by punk fans. Post grunge was HATEEEED by grunge fans. Nu metal was HAATED by everyone but especially metal fans. Not because rock fans just hate change; punks loved when hard-core punk began even tho it was radically different from original punk. Rock didn't die as much as it was suddenly wiped out by fragmentation mostly caused by commercialization (better believe corpos prefer to push Blink182 and their teenage drama music than The Exploited, or Nickleback over Alice in Chains; Linkin Park singing about being a bullied teenager over Slayer yelling about Satan (back when these things got you cancelled in real life with republican moms burning your CDs and blaming you for school shootings). Shit, even Limp Bizkit was waaaaay more marketable to kids and teens despite being obscene. Nickleback didn't kill rock, industry did. Also this is why rap took over and refuses to get toppled. Everytime it gets too commercial, some dudes bring it right back to its street core. Vanilla Ice got on top for 2 minutes and then gangsta rap happen. Nowadays we had sellouts like LMFAO and general pop rap, and then UK drill picked up in US and rap went from white girl party music to stabbing people with kitchen knifes, making rap rap again.

@@aw2584 Growing up metal, I pretty much hated ALL those styles. But yeah, I remember the controversy of Green Day and the Offspring being creating a so-called Punk Revival (while Rancid and NOFX sold a tiny fraction of what they did) and the unbridled hate that extreme metal fans felt for nu metal (after all, that’s when Internet message boards really became a thing). And I still marvel at how acts like Nickelback, Creed and Bush can be called Post Grunge when actual Grunge is supposed to be Mudhoney and The Melvins (I blame that on Mother Love Bone and Pearl Jam getting called Grunge when they really just went down well with fans of Grunge, but that is just fodder for another one of my long-ass posts). There’s a video from a Frank Zappa interview when he says that rock went downhill once the A&R men started signing bands (I don’t have a link, but it’s not hard to find). So instead of older, cigar-chomping guys in Italian suits signing what they thought the kids might be into, you now had younger people with their “finger on the pulse” in control of who gets signed. And that actually messed things up, because the out-of-touch old guys were never boring and weren’t afraid to take a chance, while the younger guys keep everything safe, consistent and … more and more boring. And I don’t wanna bash Nickelback fans, but Nickelback’s stardom is the direct result of that. Post Grunge was everything about Grunge that the labels though would work. So by the mid 90s, “Alternative Rock” went from being this raw, innovative and even dangerous sound to being “Morose music with a guy who croons like Eddie Vedder played in a half-ballad-half-almost-rocker-without-a-recognizable-riff” format. And then that went on for 30 years, briefly interrupted by a bunch of other trends that came and went while leaving some of us just as bored. Who is this “us?” People getting bored with mainstream rock, and we’re just growing in numbers. And Nickelback are the face of what is boring. That’s not even to say that they suck or that people are wrong for listening to them. But they’re the last (?) echo of a sound that was already getting played out before their debut album was recorded. For the sake of making my list even longer -If you’re not into Post Grunge, than Nickelback are to Post Grunge what Junkyard was to 80’s metal/blues rock. So this is almost like some alternate reality where Junkyard got huge and stayed huge, thrilling the people who like that sound and torturing the rest of the planet. Not that I expect anyone to remember Junkyard…

​​@@kmexperience Junkyard the pseudo-Hair Metal band that the guitar player from Minor Threat was in? Deep cut.

I don't think she wrote that line though. It had to be whoever was the writer for that show. Maybe they were thinking of another band for a second, but forgot who it was, so they just said the name of a band who had a reputation for being disliked.

@heymistercarter. I have no idea, but either way I'd think you'd at least look into it first yk

“Podcast Crazy Town” would have been way funnier and actually made sense

@@philly_sports1558 or Alien Ant Farm. And that would’ve been an even more fitting joke, since their only hit was a cover!

@@heymistercarter. Nah, AAF's first album was fine. Too fine to legitimately hate.

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Kickstarter this. Now.

@@garyhanniffy982 one day friend, once it’s truly finished. I genuinely wrote over a 100 pages 😂, but never finished it. The plot outline is set in stone though, so don’t fear, I’ll finish it.

Why is nobody funding this?

@@08mlascellesCan you notify me when this is finished so I can audition? I’m genuinely compelled.

Other examples over the years: - Josh featuring on a version of an early CRJ song called Sour Candy - Josh producing the song Guitar String/Wedding Ring for CRJ's Kiss - Chad featuring on Josh's solo record track Lady Mine

Mariana’s Trench was absolute FIRE in the 2000s. Masterpiece Theatre not being as well known as CRJ boggles my mind.

To be fair, whether you love them or hate them, "look at this graph" is unquestionably the most important part of their legacy.

​@@Talisguyalso they themselves think it's fucking hilarious

@@TalisguyWhen Todd showed the Photograph clip I thought of “look at this graAph” and choked laughing. It’s been like ten years…

@@Talisguy oh, you’re 100% correct it’s also incredibly hilarious to this day. Peak comedy.

SKOOLOOLEEME- _wheezes_

I have definitely heard the funky monkey song, on the radio, as recently as last year. Maybe because I live in Alberta?

That funky monkey song was all over the parts of tiktok I was on.

Same here.

Being from Finland, where rock radio is still very much a thing, I know half of the songs and "What are you waiting for" was a big radio hit here back then.

@@erindoyle1452 honestly I could see that being the case; I live in Ontario so I haven't heard it play over here. That being said, please keep it over there lmfao

Nickelblack Lives Matter

That was awesome 😂

I:E Johnny Silverhand.

this is a big factor behind why rock music is on the comeback over the last 5 years yet bands are still dying, a lot of artists that make rock music these days are solo acts and they might adopt more nebulous genre labels. It's some kid with a mullet in his basement that occasionally makes soundcloud rap instead of a band of like five guys or girls

Listening to Nickelback songs you can so clearly hear the bro-country in it. Just without the twang or lyrics that are specifically about rural tropes.

Its like southern mid-west country

They’re from Alberta which is the one hotbed of the abomination known as Canadian country music.

Country rock without the country, if you will

I'm astonished Pitbull hasn't collaborated with them yet, come to think of it.

@@MACMAMIpaging mr. will.i.am

I didn't recognise him at first. I thought the punchline was just that Nickelback had a guest rapper. That was funny enough. Then Todd pointed out that it was Flo Rida and I laughed myself into a coughing fit. It's just... perfect.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!" - random kids

Snoop Doggy Dogg would fit as well (as he fits for everything in the world)

I keep thinking he's gonna say sister fister lol

This line has been popping up in my head on random occasions for like a decade. I didn't know that this song was obscure.

Thanks for reminding me that Train exists 👎

@@Eric_Hunt194 Stop the Train!

I know I've heard it before somewhere, but I genuinely have no idea when or where

Ah, what a time it was..

Kazaa lite for the win

@@robwebster1098 It was DC++ for me :D Up until we all became pirates ;)

Would love to hear that if you magically still have that cd rip

Funny thing is I like both songs and I'm a big defender of those subgenres

@@gnomefrompinkerton There's probably an element of survivor bias there. I'm open to the possibility of there being good Nickelback album-only tracks (I like some butt rock now and then), but hits are hits, and get overplayed like hits. I'll defend How You Remind Me and Hero from the Spider Man soundtrack though. Even Rockstar, with the caveat of it being dumb bullshit (sometimes dumb bullshit is fun)

@@gnomefrompinkertonlmao pfp checks out

​@@gnomefrompinkertonYou say that like How you remind me *isn't* a fucking banger, which it is.

@@gnomefrompinkerton imagining the alternate timeline where Nickelback swaps careers with Weezer

​@@bareakonUm..... Hero is a Foo Fighters song........

Seemed like more of an anecdote than an antidote

@@vanmaiorano2075 Basically yeah. The moment everyone said "Fuck this shit I'm out!"

It was fans like you who made me realize I was being an ass just relentlessly making fun of these fans for no reason. Thanks for just being yourself. I know people can be jerks. There's teasing, and then there's relentless teasing.

@@vanmaiorano2075 Lulu was the St Anger for St Anger fanboys

@@rahulmenon4357 Lulu is a title for a Primus album, not a Metallica/Lou Reed collaboration. I would have told them "Everyone's going to think Bugs Bunny, dudes!"

ter and to becoming "tah", which feels very Canadian.

Apparently Josh Ramsay co-wrote it and that line feels very much like a Marianas Trench lyric to me.

​​@@codyssmith73yeah i have a canadian accent and when my non-canadian friends sung it (this was when it had a tiktok moment) the line does NOT sound right

i assumed it was a licensing issue but its been off for a month???

@@iwakeupandboomimarat 😭 I really want to Nickelback against the machine again... 😭

I honestly couldn't tell you why it was removed, but if you go to some of the remaining copies of Edge of a Revolution on KZfaq, apparently, people are starting conspiracy theories, that Edge of a Revolution is getting "censored" and "the feds" don't like it because it got a minor bump in popularity on TikTok. I wouldn't know because I don't use that app, but I can confidently say that I have no idea what the people speculating believe because Edge of a Revolution has a very non-specific message.

@@danieltaylor4185 That's hilarious! Pretty sure it was just a licensing dispute. It's back on though for what its worth...

@@cdvideodump What's even funnier is that my original comment is hidden. So I guess what I wrote is a secret between you, me, the OP, and the algorithm now.

Nickelback had multiple hits off of their major label debut, Silver Side Up in 2001, for fuck's sake. How You Remind Me, Too Bad, and Never Again all hit #1 on the Billboard rock charts. Shit, even two songs off of The State (Leader of Men and Breathe) made the Billboard rock Top 10, back in 2000. Even if we're especially cruel and require a song to hit #1 on one of Billboard's overall charts (Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40, Hot 100, etc), they had two of those by 2003's The Long Road with How You Remind Me and Someday.

@@doylerudolph7965this is confusing. This is trainwreckords, not one hit wonderland. Or are you like responding to a comment someone deleted?

@@w1lDstYLe He's responding to a lazy shitty joke from Only Murders in the Building that Todd called attention to where Tina Fey calls Nickelback a one-hit wonder

😊p0​@@w1lDstYLe

I'm not sure if they were thinking. I've also seen someone say that the line is meant to show how out of touch her character is but it doesn't make sense out of context, since Nickelback is most definitely not a one hit wonder.

Oh god I hope not. Even as a kid in the 2010s I disliked most of the new music coming out at the time. Just near total slump decade until like maybe 2018-19.

@@Electrolux219y’all don’t like fun

Yeah that "twisted sister" chorus snippet is ALL OVER TikTok, I didn't even know it was Nickleback until this video

@@CreatrixTiara Ahh, so that's why this girl was playing the song at work. I was really confused when I heard it.

the only connection missing is Chad attacking heath slater backstage (that's something that happened in a segment in wwe with Flo-Rida

TOTALLY disagree with it being the best Raw theme (Across the Nation and Thorn In Your Eye imo hits different) but that connection does make sense in the realm of 2010s WWE

Everything WWE does feels like a Nickelback/Flo Rida concert tbh

@@ameenaceesay1376 you are entitled to your opinion. For my part, I intend to hold onto mine until the world stops turning and we burn it to the ground tonight.

@@thepolarphantasm2319 that's not fair. Sometimes it's Pitbull. Or Limp Bizkit.

Granted, the entire anti-disco sentiment was a symptom of the sudden, sharp anti-queer turn in media brought on by Reagan. Disco stuck around in the background as the roots that grew into EDM and, to an extent, hip hop in the 90s and early 00s.

Dude, Five Finger Death Punch was awesome in the 2000s.

@@TheoRae8289 But also a lot of lame white people did Disco, see Ringo the 4th Trainwreckord for that

Most wrestling fans actually like and respect Cena now though. I don't think most rock fans have turned around on Nickelback.

@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 Agreed. I loathe what they've become, but I'll still put on Way Of The Fist and War Is the Answer if I wanna feel real dumb and confident. "Hard to See" is such a banger even so many years on!

Agreed, double so because while Chad Kroeger looks like a douschebag, Adam Levine actually is a douschebag

Personally, i think Maroon 5 is THE textbook example of selling out. It was the black eyed peas, but man, Maroon 5 surpassed that for actually still bring relevant

I actually think the first album was okay... Everything since then has been horribly awful.

@@Baseballnfj I'm still a fan of Maroon 5. Call it a guilty pleasure. I really love their earlier work

The worst Nickelback song ever is still better than anything Maroon 5 has released after Hands All Over* you mean 🤣

Can confirm, just looped it and it IS the fun kinda of bad. Its so close to "Can't feel my Face" but then hts the chorus "on this coca-cola rollercoaster" and it goes back to silly with it. I can't tell if he needed to lean in harder the lover side to make it subtitle or just go full parody. I know its late but makes me wish they wrote the whole ablum as deliberate parody of Rockstardom. I say it because that sounds like the soundtrack to the "good" verison of The Idol debuckle. The one that properly makes fun of the cult of fame, revolutionairy ethos that sold out for Hollywood fame, riches and self destruction at the top of the mountain with the press going wild. IDK Y but it sounds like the writing prompt for the great old Rock opera that closes the whole genre in a god way. Or maybe it's just caught my attention ona dull weekend when I'm procrastating cleaning my room....

that sections was briefly trending on tiktok a few months ago ironically haha.

I know, right? That clip started playing and I was like "oh yeah, I remember that this song is fun!!"

I really like the funky vibes and the chorus is super catchy, Chad Kroger just isn't the right person to sing a song like this though.

I actually have that song in my liked Playlist. Yes, it's a bop. But Todd's reaction is priceless.

Sounds like a Nickelback YTP waiting to happen.

You should actually write that song.

Lowkey, I would not mind a Metallica covers EP from this band. I bet they could even tackle some of the really early stuff, pre-Justice For All and have it turn out at least PRETTY good and not awful.

Ack shually, you're thinking of "Never Again". That's their domestic abuse song. "Too Bad" is about Chad's disappeared dad.

@ yes!, my bad, I changed it.

Time to ignore my reply

That made me do a Scooby Doo impression 💀

@@wad316”ruh roh!”

I got downed by that and then the shot of Chad with his short cut and shades lookin like Sgt. Crack Stuntman fully took me out

I lost my VIRGINITY to one of their songs, it was extremely painful and traumatic. And here y'all are making fun of them? they were a big part of my life. STOP IT NOW.

@@againstthepods4316 Was the sex as bad as their music?

@@againstthepods4316 cry some more

@@thenightstar8312 are you making fun of my painful sexual experiences? Do you really hate women that much?

@@LeoMidori you should be supporting me sharing my experience not mocking me

Oh how the finger pointing never ends.

Lmao that's amazing that he knows the Chad memes

So trivial, so alone.

Classic Revertigo Your you usually, but when your around your old friend it’s like you never grew up at all

This sounds like the beginning of an extremely weird fanfic

"I never liked Mike Love"

It is about blow, so...

What makes this song stink.

I lost my VIRGINITY to one of their songs, it was extremely painful and traumatic. And here y'all are making fun of them? they were a big part of my life. STOP IT NOW.

​@@againstthepods4316dude this is on like every comment, countless people probably have, why are you even here if it reminds you of something like that?

@@sixxjr because it’s a moment I will never forget and has affected my life in every way

@@againstthepods4316 That kind of trauma is truly terrible and it messes someone up for life. I genuinely feel empathy for you, I do. I'd suggest that you take time away from this kind of trigger though, or at least talk about it with a mental health professional

That's an insult to drum machines, listen to some "Big Black" and Iggy Pop's "The Idiot" before you bash em. Nickelback just sucks in general

No they don't

Same with the guitar playing and probably the bass playing as well.

It’s like all of the worst songs in the white album concentrated

​@@daishoryujin95woooah what are the worst songs on the white album? Dont say hey bungalow bill, youve definitely had it stuck in your head before

@@Ukraineaissance2014 I meant Wild Honey Pie and Don’t Pass Me By

@@daishoryujin95 Pixies cover of honey pie is incredible

When is Nickelback doing an avant garde sound collage like Revolution 9?

Dude, that playlist sounds awesome! I found it on your channel, thanks for sharing it!

Jesus Christ I can hear Bruno singing every lyric in my head and the song gets so much better as a Proto-Blow (which I like, fuck y'all, Chris Stapleton did no wrong)

@@ashen_rosesIs there a Bruno Mars AI tool? We could use it to have him sing that song

​@@ashen_rosesTo me, it sounded more like something Maroon 5 would sing during their rock era.

Imagine showing that playlist to someone who has no concept of what Trainwreckords is

i guess republicans don't like anything sex related. they felt it in their WAP.

wap is definitely the type of song that pisses off republicans so i think that makes a lot of sense

Ben Shapiro, would be my guess.

@@berkeleyisonline160 Why does it piss off Republicans?

I lost my VIRGINITY to one of their songs, it was extremely painful and traumatic. And here y'all are making fun of them? they were a big part of my life. STOP IT NOW.

In fairness, screw that crowd. Death Grips had stuff like this happen recently and also quit the show. It's not on the act for ruining it for the paying customers, it's on the idiot/s assaulting them with garbage.

@@Joe90h I don't have a problem with crowds booing performers on stage if they don't like what they hear or the person but throwing things at people like rocks and water bottles is barberic behavior that shouldn't be done or encouraged.

I agree, I've had that same conversation with my friend that I jam with a lot (we play in the same band and he's also our drummer) and he always brings up a good point in that if you go to a show specifically to just heckle an artist and not for the music then why are you just wasting time (not just yours but everyone else's who probably _want_ to be there) and money. It's still undoubtedly a hilarious moment and I still love that clip but there's always that one idiot that'll ruin the experience for others just because they don't like that specific artist

Axl Rose ragequitting might be THE greatest moment in Rock history.

They literally threw a rock at his head. I would have probably done the same thing just for safety.

they have metal songs. flat on the floor, side of a bullet, follow you home, not leavin yet. people just ignore the rockers for some reason.

what song of theirs has a blast beat ?

@@mgeeinc.4270 probably because they sound like the soundtrack for the worst dive bar imaginable.

@@mgeeinc.4270 A lot of that is metal in the same way a band like 5FDP or post-2010 Godsmack is metal. Mediocre boom-crack "big is heavy" post-post-grunge. All of it feels so empty. Figured You Out absolutely slams, as do Woke Up This Morning, Fight for All the Wrong Reasons, and Next Contestant (and I will give you Side of a Bullet and Follow You Home though they do fit the mold I described above, which is a shame considering how good the drum intro for Follow You Home is, and Side of a Bullet has that one interesting kick drum measure in each verse that shows the song's potential), but most of their good heavy stuff straddles the line between metal and hard riff rock - Leader of Men, Never Again, Too Bad, Where Do I Hide, Just For, Throw Yourself Away, Animals (another song with a pretty sick drum intro that just falls into mediocrity), etc.

Feed the Machine and The Betrayal Act 3 is the best example of this

They probably didn't care, they still got their money. They were probably just confused by it. "Cool, you do you, you ain't buying my album anyway, why would I care about your feelings?"

I’m from Canada and there still pretty popular here , they supposedly put on a really good live show which I wouldn’t doubt in an era with backing tracks and dj’s

Not letting shit that would bother others affect you is actually a pretty damn commendable trait lol Although, it's likely maybe some of it got to 'em at times if, at all, even just slightly.

I absolutely respect when artist have enough self confidence to ignore the haters, even when I am one of the haters. You do you, and don't let anyone stop you.

Good for them. Why should they care. They're rich. Plus their from Canada

I heard "What Are You Waiting For?" on stations in Halifax.

I'm still shocked Pat Monahan didn't co-write it too. You can tell they clearly thought of "Hey Soul Sister" with the rhyme scheme in the chorus, hahahahaha!

It’s only a matter of time before he covers another one… “CHOCOLATE STARFIIIIISSSHHH!!!! 🍫⭐️🐟”

@@philly_sports1558 Those guys are nothing, what about the person whose life is like a simulation of some kind, like a video game? You could even say he's trying very much to beat the stage.

​@@SaulGoodman3D2049all while he was still collecting coins, perhaps

​@@SaulGoodman3D2049 Seems like he lost his way again, through the storm and through the wind.

I'm pretty sure the only other time Todd's talked about Nickelback was in his 2004 worst list

Chad helped out Ian Thornley after Big Wreck broke up too.

WHAT I had no idea he collabed with Devin Townsend?!?! Mind blown!

He's also a funny guy as well. His interview with Nardwuar was wonderful.

You know, I was pretty sure I had heard something to the effect of Chad, wanting to work with Devin, or the other way around, or they were collaborating on some thing that fell through. Thank you for the confirmation that they have indeed worked with each other, at least on a production level.

@@Mugroar Yeah, he was part of making the “Empath” album (maybe on some other stuff too?) - Chad can be faintly heard on the song “Hear Me”. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b82DhLmZ37GUm30.htmlsi=gUX4EjGZZvwcvchC