Bands And Albums.

Has anyone else heard the new Nickelback song with Santana? Man, I LOVE it! It's got everything a good song needs - awesome melodic vocals, some groovin' Santana electric guitar singin' and tells a great story. IMO it's one of the better songs I have heard played on the radio (at least on our stations ) in a long time.

Been working so much I havent had a radio on for ten minuets in two weeks. But I will be on the look out for it. For Santana's sake anyway.

I hate everything nickelback does. His vocals are buzzy, forced, cartoonish and annoying. Santana always plays the same notes, but he mixes it up and they usually rock. That lead is tasty. The beat is a total turnoff. That techno dance beat is just crap reserved for Madonna. Yuch.

wut neanderpaul sed......

For some inexplicable reason I hear Beavis & Butthead
commentary emanating seemingly from nowhere when I hear a
knickelback tune.
Do they subliminal message that stuff in there by any chance ?

Do they subliminal message that stuff in there by any chance ?

Nah I think it's just too many beers Just kidding.

It's down to taste and opinions. I think, like most artists, Chad's vocals improved and he has more control over them since 1996, for example.
I love Santana. No matter what some may say: Repeated, same old same old. I still think his style is f-in' great.

I don't like them together though. They did a song together years ago as well. I didn't like it either. Santana likes to collaborate a lot, and I still think he should do more with Rob Thomas and Everlast (or whatever his name is).

His vocals are buzzy, forced, cartoonish and annoying.

Buzzy? You mean there's natural guitar distortion in his vocals?
Forced. After practising to sing that way, it doesn't become forced at all. More like second nature. I know this for a fact.
I can understand annoying, but I really don't get cartoon-ish. Can you elaborate on that?

but I really don't get cartoon-ish. Can you elaborate on that?

Hey first off....Im a D*** for bashing in this thread
Knickelback are rockstars and I sit in my little bungalow
writing stuff to forums........

OK, that said, I understand the 'Cartoon' stuff...
The vocals are over-the-top emotive. Too forced/ contrived.
I Wanna Be A Rock Star might be what I would offer up as
an example of this. Dr. Hook will never be topped on this now
common cliche. Ok, gotta run and scrub this big "L" offa my
forehead !


<-----------its all good !

I don't think it's bashing. I've heard and seen bashing; it's much worse. You offered your opinion in a.. umm, civil way.
Interesting point of view, I guess. And it's Nickelback without the K

His vocals are buzzy, forced, cartoonish and annoying.

Buzzy? You mean there's natural guitar distortion in his vocals?
Forced. After practising to sing that way, it doesn't become forced at all. More like second nature. I know this for a fact.
I can understand annoying, but I really don't get cartoon-ish. Can you elaborate on that?

Buzzy = a really bad version of the natural distortion Cobain had. Cartoonish like AC/DC's Brian Johnson, Like the villain in inspector gadget, Like kermit the frog. It's just unnatural and annoying. It's cheesy more than anything. As bad as creed's Scott Stapp

I respectfully disagree. I don't think you heard any of the "Cookie Monster" bands

I respectfully disagree. I don't think you heard any of the "Cookie Monster" bands

That's funny, I call those bands mojo jojo bands. He was the villain in the power puff girls cartoon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEMqVSb6TMg

Anybody remember the most awesomistic display of CookieMonsterology
ever in the history of history, InnaGoddaDavida ?

Oh! You guys are killin me! I'll admit, generally, I am not a big fan of Nickelback. IMO their lyrics are second rate. (Andragon & I have discussed this before ) However, for whatever reason, this particular song really caught me. I liked the lyrics - definate improvement for them I felt.

I do agree that Chad's vocals have been getting better over the years. As a vocalist myself, I can relate to that. I would like to see them continually improve with less...I dunno...Metallica-wanna-be attitude...(and I was a BIG fan of Metallica in my stoner days! lol)

Now Santana...I saw an interview with him about a year ago and I was pleasantly surprised on his...hippie-ness. (lol work with me here!) He had a very spiritual vision on his music, and life as well. He was talking about working with other musicians and the interviewer asked him "why he never works on his own since his talent & reputation would allow him to be very successful as a solo artist" or something of the like. And his response was that he feels too many people want to be in the center of it all...no one seems to be happy being in the background anymore. He prefers to be behind the other musician he's working with and "compliment" them rather than overtake them like some teenage boy takin over lead riffs...I got that. Impressed me much...don't hear many artisit talkin like that these days.

Not a big fan of Nickleback, his voice is grating. Santana pretty much had to start doing collabs because his record sales had slid to the point his label was going to drop him. He was a big influence on me when I was younger but he stopped growing as a guitarist years ago.

...he stopped growing as a guitarist years ago.

I wonder if he's happy right where he is? He seems to be...

I know an overweight chick that was walking down-town one night.
A couch bus pulled up beside her and some dude was trying to pick her up from inside the bus.
Turned out, it was Chad? the singer.
She laughed her ass off and called him a "long haired dirt bag that makes crappy music".

You know you suck when even fat chicks don't want any.