redundancy repeated, again
A few years ago, a mashup of two Nickelback songs was circulated profusely over the internet – one song was played out of the right speaker and another out of the left, and they sounded amazingly similar – same tempo, same breaks, essentially the same song. It was brilliant. It goes to prove how utterly awful a band this is, by exposing that they really only have one tune, just slight variations on it.
There’s a big difference between bands that have a “sound”, and those that lack originality. U2 is very recognizable, yet their tracks are different, even the much lesser Coldplay has intonation that is just theirs. My favorite band sound of all time is probably early-to-mid Social Distortion. Seeing them live was amazing, and it sadly doesn’t come through in most of the recording (with the exception of the Roxy album, which was live…). And Mike Ness is surely as short as he looks, but I’ll save my exploration about why punk bands have short front men for another time. SD was one of the best punk bands I’ve listened to, perhaps because they had a particular variant to their music; any time you heard a track, you knew it was them. That was a good thing – they had a technique, a formula, without sounding formulaic, if that makes sense. But nothing like Nickelback, that is all just derivative crap.
I sort of miss being all about the music I listened to and shows I saw…oh yeah, and not being old, I miss that too.
