...same as the old song.
If you spend any time listening to FM rock radio or watching MTV, you're familiar with cock-rockers Nickelback, famous mostly for lead singer Chad Kroeger's dreamy blonde locks and the song "How You Remind Me." But not for much since then. Maybe some creative wing-stretching would be in order but, you know, why f*ck with a winning formula?
Jim Henley links to an amazing mash-up of their first single and latest single, but the mash-up itself isn't so technically amazing. After all, it's just the one song on the left channel and the other on the right channel, playing simultaneously. What's amazing is that the two tracks are so functionally identical that not one dissonant note or rhythm emerges from the mix. Not one. Anywhere. In fact, the melange sounds better than either track separately (yes, yes, faint praise and all that, but still...).
Check it out. Works best with headphones.
TrackBackThe intro is particularly stunning.
Wait, what's really stunning is how much this band sucks my ass.
Posted by: FL at June 18, 2004 08:28 PMHeh heh. That reminds me of the time I heard the Animal's "House of the Rising Sun" (slightly before my time) and bought the "Best of the Animals."
It was like their entire career was working towards that song, and that was it. They couldn't come close again. At least they didn't simply repackage and resell it as new.
Posted by: Tripp at June 21, 2004 02:58 PMI don't know anything else by the animals (why do I feel guilty admitting that?) but they didnt write House of the Rising Sun. Leadbelly sang it, and I don't believe even he wrote it. Of course, how much the Animals put their own spin on it, I'm not exactly sure. I tried once to find out the evolutionary course of that song, but without much luck - So many people have recorded it.
Posted by: LSU Student at June 22, 2004 12:23 AMThis is much like the Village People. Years ago there was a reasonably popular dance mix that would play at EVERY GAY BAR EVER (or at least the one or two that I went to); it was lyrics from a bunch of their songs played over the beats from one of their songs. They all worked just fine - literally, every song was the same song over and over, with the words a little different and a couple of different notes.
Nickelback no better than the Village People? No surprise here...
Posted by: Michael at June 22, 2004 02:26 PMHey! The Animals also had 'It's My Life,' 'We Gotta Get Out of this Place,' and 'Don't Let me be Misunderstood.' Respect.
Posted by: GeoX at June 25, 2004 01:48 AMYou are such and asshole. They are not the same. Someday ends earlier than How you remind me. Ya too thick to pick that up?
Posted by: Nickelback fan at June 30, 2004 08:57 AMIt doesn't matter what song ends first. It's that both of the very crappy songs sound almost exactly the same, which they do. So stop trying to stick up for those losers!!!
Posted by: Shoe at August 4, 2004 01:37 AMhaha, this is pretty funny... nice try Nickelback.. maybe you should rewrite your music scores.. Dumbshits
Posted by: Michael at August 16, 2004 02:26 AMWow, you guys are all morons. Seriously, I hope you never go into a music career. Nickelback is good enough to make a hell of a lot more money than any of you by playing the same song twice. It would be like making fun of bill gates for comming out with windows xp after 2000. Yeah they both suck, and are exactly alike but he made a lot of damn money on it. Oh and I dont know if you knowticed this but the progression is exactly the same. The chords, the strumming pattern, the lyrics. There all differnt. So please, get lifes. -K
Posted by: K at December 16, 2004 08:47 PMwell not really but that is ok. It is just funny to see that nickleback seems to follow some sorta "formula for a pop hit" and that is what is is just another pop hit. pop being the bad music it is to begin with ends up being the gib money maker. and good for them for that . look at all the early 80s punk that went form "underground" to "alternative" shit nirvana even took hooks from another band i think the original tune was called the 80s. and don't get me started on one note solo of guys like Neil Young (he rocks). Nickleback and britney spears seem to know that in order to make a buck stick with what works. I may not make as much as they do.Income has nothing to do with this so don't bitch that they make more money!! i make more money than the guy that drums on buckets on the streets but i could never be as good as that guy. The chords are the same and the strumming pattern in a majority of the songs are the same. there are volume differences but tha tis done at post production. Verdict Nickle back sucks as much as some other bands they were just easier to point out.
Posted by: tobias at December 25, 2004 12:30 PMahha wow, Nickelback fucking no wonder they do shitty free concerts you get to hear the same songs over and over.
Posted by: Chris at January 6, 2005 02:48 PMThat long post was put incredibly well, good job, i agree wholeheartedly with that. I must say, however, mainstream music doesn't always have to suck. I mean, after all, there is a reason it became mainstream, enough people like it! However, my trust in America's judgement has deteriorated seriously, and with that, pop music has deteriorated, although it has never been top of the line. For the record, Nickelback got rocks thrown at them in Portugal, and the best thing anyone could say is that Europeans have an unpleasant odor. That's what I call American stupidity combined with bad music. This merely proves that Nickelback is only in it for the money, after all, they're guitar lines put much less than serious love for music in.
Posted by: at January 6, 2005 04:55 PMThe songs are actually in different keys, at different tempos, with different chord progressions.
Posted by: Jax at August 22, 2005 11:09 PM