Here are our five favorite Nickelback songs - and if you see the group chilling in your hometown, just let a band of Canucks live, won’t you? ANDREW UNTERBERGER But like just about any band that’s managed to stay extremely successful for over a decade, they’ve had their moments, too. We wouldn’t nominate then for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (or even one of our year-end lists, probably), and they’ve released a fair share of instant-channel-flippers in their time. When BuzzFeed writes an article called “How U2 became the new Nickelback,” the headline needs no further explanation - there is perhaps no greater shaming for a once-relevant rock band than to whip out the comparisons to Hanna, Alberta’s finest.Īre Nickelback really that terrible? Of course not. Braving one of their concerts has qualified as stunt journalism. They’ve been called the reason why rock is dying - by one of their rock star peers, even. Their presence has been protested in London, Detroit and Vancouver. It will almost certainly be bought and appreciated by several hundred thousands of people, casually enjoyed through radio airplay by a couple of million more, and utterly dismissed (if not roundly disparaged) by everyone else.Īfter being one of the most popular bands in the country for most of the millennium’s first decade, the Chad Kroeger-fronted MOR rock outfit is arguably best known today as a musical punchline. There are constants that accompany any Nickelback release.

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