MetaChat - i kinda like some nickelback songs

I like Animals. It's sexy. My son has it on a CD that he leaves in my car and I turn it on and crank the volume up full blast and scream it.

posted by iconomy 03 October | 16:59

ahhhh *brean asplodes*

posted by muddgirl 03 October | 17:01

I am currently listening to the song "Found Out About You" by the Gin Blossoms. I like it too. I have two thumbs.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 03 October | 17:03

Not when my son is with me though. That would be creepy, considering the lyrics.

I have two thumbs.

Heh.

posted by iconomy 03 October | 17:05

I like U2's "Pop" CD.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 03 October | 17:14

i kinda liked that hansen song way back when it first came out. y'know, the mmmbop one. please don't hurt me.

posted by dersins 03 October | 17:16

I like the song "Gravity" by A Perfect Circle.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 03 October | 17:18

I went to a Nickelback concert once. True story.

posted by amro 03 October | 17:20

Any second now someone's going to pop in and say REM's Monster CD is their best.

posted by dobbs 03 October | 17:22

I went to a Collective Soul concert once. The opening band was pretty bad but they covered Bang and Blame which is by far the best REM song ever.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 03 October | 17:24

Oh yeah, well I saw The Spin Doctors live. Top that.

posted by amro 03 October | 17:32

I saw Blind Melon live. They and Midnight Oil opened for Neil Young.

posted by item 03 October | 17:39

Top that.

Well, I saw these guys live.

posted by dersins 03 October | 17:41

Of course, the other three bands playing that evening were Primus, Anthrax, and Public Enemy, but still-- I ACTUALLY STOOD THERE AND WATCHED YOUNG BLACK TEENAGERS PERFORM.

posted by dersins 03 October | 17:42

I saw Ray Stevens live. Twice.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 03 October | 17:43

I own the 'Tap The Bottle,' cassette single.
I have an mp3 of 'Tones Of Home.'

and Monster's not REM's best but it had it's moments.

also, I like Twisted Sister, Faith Hill (that may be due to seeing 'This Kiss,' used as background music for an Aria Giovanni/Dani Ashe lesbian porn mpg), Night Ranger and the Archies.

I'm way less cool than any of you.

posted by jonmc 03 October | 17:45

I also own Raven's Live At The Inferno on vinyl.

posted by jonmc 03 October | 17:48

and at this exact moment I am trying and failing to find mp3's off Lone Justice's first album (I already have 'Ways To Be Wicked,' which I consider one of the finest songs of the 1980's.

posted by jonmc 03 October | 17:51

I saw the Gin Blossoms open for Toad the Wet Sprocket.

posted by jrossi4r 03 October | 17:57

I still think "Hey Jealousy" is a fine song.

posted by jonmc 03 October | 18:00

It is, jon. It is. And Nothing is Alone by Toad still gets to me. There I said it!

posted by jrossi4r 03 October | 18:02

I love the Archies and the Grass Roots and some Marshall Tucker Band and some Lynyrd Skynyrd and, okay, yeah, Cheap Trick I Want You to Want Me, and not in an ironic way either.

I've never even heard of Nickelback

posted by mygothlaundry 03 October | 18:24

My first concert was John Denver. I went with my mom, saw him in the round at some place in Chicago. We both loved him. We wrote to him, and he sent back an autographed photo, signed "To Dirk and Mom." I took guitar lessons because of him, grew my hair like his, and bought similar glasses. I took one of my guitar picks with me that night, hoping it would serve as a good luck charm and I'd get to meet him. I never did. But I still like him. His Christmas album with the muppets was a favorite of my mother and mine, and it now makes me weep like a baby. I listen to it every Christmas morning and think of my mom singing along.

posted by tr33hggr 03 October | 19:45

I think I'm confusing Nickelback with somebody else. Nickel Creek? Is that also somebody I probably wouldn't like?

(I've got a couple Young Black Teenagers 12-inches. 'To My Donna' is a lost classic of Bomb Squad production, and one of the records that marks the end of the Golden Age of sampling--it's overdue for reevaluation.)

posted by box 03 October | 19:46

That John Denver/Muppets album is one of the best Christmas records ever made.

posted by box 03 October | 19:57

I kinda like Courtney love's "celebrity skin". I think it's a good album. Which is a shame because everyone (including courtney) thinks it's crap.

posted by seanyboy 03 October | 20:05

Seanyboy, that's one of my favorite CDs, for real.

posted by amro 03 October | 20:17

I like most songs with partially yelled lyrics, like Nirvana and that She Hates Me song. And a lot of Latin/Latin inspired stuff.

I caught my husband playing The Carpenters in the bathroom player. heh

posted by auntbunny 03 October | 20:52

The first concert I ever went to was Spandau Ballet.
I was probably wearing eyeliner.

posted by chococat 03 October | 21:00

i once attended a concert by gary puckett and the union gap. true story. years later i partied backstage with fee waybill to make up for it.

posted by quonsar 03 October | 21:02

I have a soft spot for Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. C'mon, they sold 76 million albums, so this is a pretty mainstream guilty pleasure. And that Whipped Cream and Other Delights album cover is still one of the great bits of promotional genius ever sold.

posted by paulsc 03 October | 21:12

I liked Nickelback when their first song came out. But then they came out with the same song, over and over again.

posted by Eideteker 03 October | 22:23

Of course, the other three bands playing that evening were Primus, Anthrax, and Public Enemy

I saw that tour too! Salem, OR, fall, 1991! Hell yeah!

I once heard a radio DJ announce the upcoming "Nipple Creek" concert.

posted by Triode 03 October | 22:30

I own the 'Tap The Bottle,' cassette single.

As do I, is it any wonder at all jon lad?

I think rock your body and cry me a river by Justin Timberlake are top quality pop songs and toxic by britney spears (not really the vocals) but the beat is a minor masterpiece.

So fucking HA!

posted by Divine_Wino 03 October | 23:16

I'm way less cool than any of you.
posted by jonmc

My lord, how many times have I seen that now? Gotta be triple digits.

FWIW, also seen Ray Stevens (in his theater in Branson) and witnessed the Goo Goo Dolls open for No Doubt open for Bush.

Being 15 in Tulsa ain't kind.

posted by ufez 03 October | 23:59

Livin' on Tulsa Time is a good song.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 04 October | 01:12

I saw that Primus, Anthrax, PE tour, too!!

posted by safetyfork 04 October | 08:38

My first concert was John Denver. I went with my mom, saw him in the round at some place in Chicago. We both loved him. We wrote to him, and he sent back an autographed photo, signed "To Dirk and Mom." I took guitar lessons because of him, grew my hair like his, and bought similar glasses.

That explains the treehugging. I suppose it's a lucky break your mom wasn't into Liberace.

posted by jonmc 04 October | 08:42

I saw Rod-fucking-Stewart in a massive stadium concert, in the "forever young" days.
I also saw Skid Row and W.A.S.P., but that was at the Donnington Monsters of Rock and included Slayer and Iron Maiden, so it was still cool.

posted by signal 04 October | 08:44

I saw the Gin Blossoms open for Toad the Wet Sprocket.

So did I, right as "Hey Jealousy" was hitting radio! In a little auditorium at a community college nearby! I had back-row seats, and we were *still* just 50 feet from the stage. It was a great show. (I'm a big TtWS fan, though, so YMMV.)

And I saw Blind Melon on the 120 Minutes tour in '91, before their album came out and they were still in a thrashy Southern Grunge mode. Way cooler than the hippy vibe they ended up with, although that was good too.

posted by me3dia 04 October | 12:23

03 October 2006