Matchbox 20 or the GooGoo Dolls.

People've always said weird things about Weezer.

Coldplay. I also hear a lot of complaints about Nickel Back.

seconded on coldplay... maybe dashboard confessional?

whataobut oldskoolers? The Stones.

Oooh! This is a fun one! I'll give you the variety pack.

There's always been a lot of hate for Nickelback. And I'll second Limp Bizkit, people seem to get a kick out of insulting them. I think that's because all the media hype around the band and the fact that there really wasn't that much to the music. Them & Nickelback get a lot of flack for basically being cotton candy for your ears. And I read a while back that the most regretted band tattoo is Korn. Hate for them seems to be just cuz they didn't move on.

The obvious picks: Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, N Sync, Britney, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, Hanson, Chumbawumba...

And hating on oldskoolers is always easy: The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, etc. [The exception to this rule is AC/DC, by the way. You just don't hate on AC/DC]

Lastly, if you just wanna make someone sound unhip, reference just about any one-hit wonder from the 80's. Mr Mister, Men At Work, Loverboy, The Bangles, New Kids on the Block, Europe... all wonderfully easy to just say the name and create embarrassment.

Thanks - used Nickelback, my editor's suggestion, too.

You guys are dolls!

My favorite Nickelback song[s].

Sorry I missed this. I was going to go with Air Supply or REO Speedwagon although as uncool as they are, they are on my IPOD, lol!

I kind of dig that song mash-up, Crid. Is that wrong?

> Is that wrong?

Yes! It's wrong! It's wrong of you to dig that mashup!

....Except for how it's irresistible. Truth is, that mashup is the only Nickelback song I've ever heard.

It kinda sounds like those old Beatle records where Paul was on one channel and backing vocals and rhythm guitar were on the other...

This being the best example. And probably the best thing rock and roll ever did for pop music.

(You can smirk at the ooooo-la-la falsettos if you want to... I know what happens to your immortal soul when you hear John chime in at the end of the chorus... )

Kind of off-topic, but speaking of mash-ups, I recently heard this song on the radio and loved it. I thought it was just a recording mash-up, but it turns out that it's Rock Sugar, a pop/metal mash-up cover band. "Don't Stop the Sandman" (at the link) is pretty frickin' awesome ("just a small-town girl" with those thumping Metallica chords behind it is sweet), but I also like "Dreaming of a Whole Lotta Breakfast" (Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and Supertramp), "Shook me Like a Prayer" (Madonna and AC/DC), and "Voices in the Jungle" ('Til Tueseday and Guns N' Roses).

Fun side note: the lead singer is voice actor Jess Harnell, best known for Wakko Warner.

You ask me, there aren't enough oooo-la-la-las in pop music these days. Nor nearly enough songs about killing your girlfriend if she strays.

As for the mashup, there is something so very satisfying when both songs simultaneously build up to the chorus. Now that I think about it, I kind of like that it's wrong for me to be into Nickelback songs. So there, Mr. Crid.

> Nor nearly enough songs about killing your girlfriend

Point taken. (I can actually play a couple of those figures! Right-handed & clumsy, but still! Only took four decades of practice!)

> "Don't Stop the Sandman" (at the link) is
> pretty frickin' awesome

It really is, mainly because that guy sounds so much like Steve Perry. (They say Perry's still out there [though he's cut his hair], and people run into him in the Valley sometimes. He's just so closely associated with that certain time, like the Miami Vice guy... It's hard to believe he wasn't just dropped into a cornerstone time capsule of a shopping mall on December 31, 1989.)

I was born 1959, and would like to apologize for the way the favorite (or at least successful) tunes of my teenage demographic have been awkwardly squatting over our culture all these years. We knew all these things were trash at the time, OK? We had no idea people were going to be so precious about them. Shatner was right in that skit: There's NO reason for children to be watching that cheap-ass TV show in the twenty-first century. I'm not kidding. You think YOU'RE tired of that shit? Imagine how we feel! It's like a mediocre blind date that turned into a marriage.

But I kind of liked this, with melody from the one and lyrics from the other (chick vocal only). If we absolutely MUST be serenaded to the grave by these same old reels of audio tape, they at least ought to scramble them up a bit.

> lead singer is voice actor Jess Harnell

Nevah hoid of 'im, but listen to that aerosmith line in at about 1:03 in "Dreaming": Boyfriend got pipes, with lungs underneath. He's gotta have some pro training.

I looked him up on IMDB, and he has tons of credits, like all the good voice actors, I guess. I only knew a tiny fraction of what he'd been in before I looked him up. I do have a soft spot for Wakko, though. Learn the 50 states with Wakko.

Wow, that chick's voice can cut glass.

But, I'm in love with Jess Harnell! I never heard of him either, thanks for the link, NumberSix.

Crid, I love how you speak for everyone of your generation. :)

From Metallica to Animaniacs.

I have truly fallen down the rabbit hole this morning.

Sez Kristen: "Sorry I missed this. I was going to go with Air Supply or REO Speedwagon although as uncool as they are, they are on my IPOD, lol!"

Not the Air Supply, but I do have some Speedwagon on the iPod ("Back on the Road Again" is good music for the elliptical). As for the original question, I was going to say Nickelback, too.

Oh, on a slight tangent, any song written by Jim Steinman, except for the ones recorded by Meatloaf.

Slightly off topic again, but this 4 Chord song compilation is pretty funny.

The Captain and Tennille. Just kidding I know there not a band, and Muskrat Love ROCKS!!!

@Crid: "I was born 1959, and would like to apologize ..."

Yeah, I can dig it. I feel the same way about 80s retro. I'm definitely not waiting for a reunion of A Flock of Seagulls.

Sorry I'm late to the party but this list cannot possibly be complete without including Creed.

Not just Nickelback but all their ilk:

Live
Silverchair
Throwing Copper
311
Counting Crows
Michael Franti and Spearhead (Franti is a pompous ass -- goes through life barefooted, in solidarity with the poor of the world. Yeah, that really puts food on the table of the starving. Right.)

And, speaking of altering known songs, take a lame song by The Police, strip out the creepy stalker lyrics, add lyrics in memory of a late friend, and you get a song about a hundred times better than the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM0-ZU8njdo&feature=related

Late to this party. Maybe its because they're hometown, but I've never totally understood the hate on for Nickleback. Sure they can produce 20 new songs that sound just like the last ones at the drop of a hat, but the boys know how to put on a good old-fashioned pyro show. (Yes, I'm a child of 80's hard rock!) It was an entertaining way to spend my Monday night!

> I'm definitely not waiting for a
? reunion of A Flock of Seagulls.

I'll never forget the first time I heard a FOS song. The clock radio went off one morning when I was working (for a wage close to slavery) in a famously dull Midwestern city just after college. And out came this droning, horrible tune... That toddler's chord progression; those rhymeless, tranquilized lyrics; those listless, shapeless rhythms; that charmless computerized mixdown.... As the dreams faded and the atrocity reached in through my ears, I just wanted to curl up and die.

Suddenly pop culture could be a force for Evil. It didn't seem possible... Even in such an unloved, catchpenny corner of our Darwinian animal nation, it just couldn't be that licensed-to-broadcast Americans would inflict this kind of morning drive stupidity on others and get away with it. And this was before anyone knew about the hair....

Later that year a newsweekly reported that their first tour of America had been a financial bloodbath, owing to recession. I felt like a snowball after surviving the first night in Hell. We thought the British were our friends, y'know? But the Durans were about to double down...

> I love how you speak for everyone of
> your generation.

Someone's got to take the hit. There's a lot of sin to answer for.

Man, I am so late to this one! Too late to contribrute this?:

http://tinyurl.com/26ps5uo

Apologies.

Someone's got to take the hit. There's a lot of sin to answer for.

I'll share that hit with ya, Crid. I've got 2 years on you. (But I wear it well! Ack! Another cringe-worthy song! But I used to like Rod the Mod. For about 5 minutes.)

Well, I was a teenager in the 80's, but there is no way in hell I am taking the blame for this.

@Flynne: "But I used to like Rod the Mod."

Me too. Still do, as a matter of fact. His was one of the few concerts I ever saw, back in 1991, it must have been. It was an outdoor show, and his opening acts were Joe Cocker and Status Quo. Rod asked the audience if they wanted to hear his new album, or the old stuff. The crowd, half of which must have been my parents' age back then, cheered for the latter. So out came "You Wear It Well," "Gasoline Alley," etc. Lot of fun.

I never did manage to make it to Terre Haute, Crid, though I'll bet Lafayette was almost as exciting (dry campus and all that, you know).

Ah, the memories!

> I never did manage to make it to Terre Haute

You didn't miss a Goddamn thing. Lafayette uses the same river to better effect, with a truly world-class university, besides.

I'm surprised nobody's jumped on the Justin Bieber / Jonas Brothers / Miley Cyrus bash bus.

"I'm surprised nobody's jumped on the Justin Bieber / Jonas Brothers / Miley Cyrus bash bus."

Jumping on the bus? I'm driving it. Much hate for all of them. *patooie*