TRAINWRECKORDS: Nickelback's 'No Fixed Address'

How can the most hated rock band in the world turn it around when the world has turned against rock?
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[sagecolvard]

"I admit that there was music" is the theoretical perfect title for a lost media holy grail song.

[davidnissim]

Fun fact: the welcome sign at the entrance to Hanna, Alberta (the town that the band formed in) has a sign that says “Proud to be the home of Nickelback”.

[TheMistOfThePast]

"why didn't you fucking say something man?" The idea that chat kroeger has been too shy to bring up that everyone in the world has been pronouncing his name wrong for 20 years is so fucking hillarious

[ryanchase]

A quote from an article about Nickelback. "Chad Kroeger wakes up every day to hear on the radio how his band is the worst one in the world. Then he plays a sold out show meeting fans who are ecstatic to meet him, parties that night with fans, and goes back to the hotel, sleeps, and wakes up to hear on the radio how his hand is the worst one in the world."

[mimicx]

The fact that Joey Moi escaped Nickelback and then immediately infected another genre with his pestilence is kind of hilarious

[aldraone-muyg]

Only Nickelback could make a protest song that sounds like the soundtrack to a Ford ad.

[roippi]

I still can’t believe that they were like “what should we do when Chad sings Look At This Photograph” and they all agreed that Chad should hold up a photograph. While looking dead into the camera. It’s just. It’s so funny. I can’t

[elizabethashley]

Ridiculously enough, a Nickelback song saved my life. I was in college, deeply depressed, suicidal, and in a bad relationship, and that semester "Savin' Me" became not just my anthem but, dumb as it may sound, my prayer. Some nights listening to it on loop was the only thing keeping me going. By the end of the semester, the relationship ended, I moved to another state, and my mental health began to improve, and because of all of that I will always love Nickelback at least a little bit.

[DoktorEmilSchuffhausen]

I'll always be thankful for Nickleback. Not because of their music, but because the "Look at this graph" video is still the funniest thing on the internet.

[NJGuy]

I can't hate Chad Kroeger for one reason.

Derek Whibley of Sum 41, shortly after divorcing Avril Lavigne, went to a Halloween party with his new girlfriend. They went as Chad and Avril and tweeted a pic.

Chad tweeted back, "Avril and I would have dressed as you two, but the party had a celebrity theme."

[Deadite]

The guy that produced Nickelback is now responsible for modern country, that... makes so much sense. like, never has anything been clearer in my life.

[Jamo]

The reason “Paralyzer” works where “She Keeps Me Up” fails is because dance music (not EDM) requires rhythmic finesse and slight looseness and all Nickelback knows how to do is pound mercilessly. You can’t be funky with a heavy foot.

[sovietcanuckistanian]

The fact that the lost Nickleback CRJ collab is called “I admit there was music” makes it sound like they were trying to hide it even while it was being recorded.

[VexWerewolf]

"Flo Rida is the guy you get when you want a rapper, but not necessarily any rapper in particular."

Unbelievably brutal.

[JadeCryptOfWonders]

Todd In The Shadows isn’t just a critic, he’s a music historian who reminds everyone when the current narrative tries to fudge the facts, clearing up misconceptions about even hated acts nobody respects.

[jdiddy]

“Everybody wants to be the sisters mister” is such a corny lyric it’s weighed on me heavy like a car accident or the death of a relative

[KnaveMurdok]

My introduction to Nickelback was having downloaded System of a Down's Chop Suey off of Kazaa back in summer of 2001, and the version I got was a radio rip that literally had the ending chords of "How You Remind Me" at the beginning, followed by some DJ banter going "Okay, THIS song also dropped today, the new System of a Down song, let's go!" and then the song plays, and when it's over the DJs were like "WOW! Okay! That blew Nickelback out of the water, jeez!"

[thehopeofeden]

Shouts to Todd for having an actual conversation about Nickelback, whether you love or hate them, bc I feel like every mention of them now just circles back to “Look at this — graph!”

[kaitlin]

Listen, I'm Canadian. Specifically, I'm a Canadian millenial. This means that my formative years were *surrounded* by Nickelback songs. They were constantly played on the radio, on MuchMusic (even if most of those plays were someone taking jabs at them), and in general they were just virtually inescapable.

I have never heard a single goddamn song from this album in my entire life.

[NatLangston]

Wow. So I’ve been jokingly referring to modern bro country as “Nickelback with Cowboy Hats” for a while now. I had no idea that Nickelback’s producer was actually producing it and giving it that sound.