I would hereby like to claim name creation rights for the musical genre known as “nickelrock”. Nickelrock, whose foremost member is Nickelback, is characterized by crunchy guitars and cheesy sap lyrics. If you hear a song and it sounds like Nickelback, it’s nickelrock. Synonyms for this genre are “shite” and “christ is that Nickelback on the radio again?”
Introducing Nickelrock
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#1 by Chad on 15 February 2007 - 8:32 am
A Nickelrock-free zone may be found at the CBC Radio 3 website (http://radio3.cbc.ca), and via live stream at
http://icecast1.cbcradio3.com:80/r3
Nothing but good music there!
#2 by Brad on 15 February 2007 - 11:04 am
Ah true! Their weekly podcast is also a fine source of nickelrock-free music. I need to subscribe to it again…
#3 by Amy on 15 February 2007 - 12:57 pm
Oh, that provoked a snort out loud. I knew exactly what you meant the first time you used the term.
Righteous.
Very righteous indeed.
#4 by John Wilson on 22 February 2007 - 4:50 pm
This reminds me of my friend Mike’s observation that there was really only one popular band in the mid-90s: just about every song on the radio was by the Pearlgarden Pilots.
#5 by Kane Foster on 22 February 2007 - 6:46 pm
We call it “Theory of a NickelFault”, to cover all of Chad Kroeger’s dreadful spin-offs.
#6 by Starbuck on 06 March 2007 - 4:32 am
it is complete crap. you are right.