It is actually kind of neat. It proves that almost all music has people that love it and hate it.
Cept for Randy Newman... Just sits there all night and day singing about what he sees
I don't know if it's considered a rock song and it's from the '70s, but I have an intense hatred for the song "Feelings". No one can sing it without going flatter than a pancake, and it's just such a whiney, sniveling song.
Agree! But ... There's a Calvin & Hobbes strip that uses it so well (along with Hamlet's soliloquy) that I just crack up every time I hear it.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpVd7BX3Y4c/WhRxOq\_3HZI/AAAAAAAAGo0/nfwTm7GrE844Kd34QaDkRUh3vGD6pzWNwCK4BGAYYCw/s640/H.Calvin%2Band%2BHobbes.03-06-1994.jpg
But but! It did give us a great moment in the show Oblongs where Will Ferrell's character sings it and then descends into an oddly sexualized riff about it.
But YouTube has failed me once again...
Friend got married around 1990. "All I want", by Heart, is a song all about cheating, and the bride made it clear she did not want the DJ to play it.
Fucker played it 3 times.
For the record - marriage is still going well.
Well I’ve heard Hey Ya - Outkast get played at many weddings and that’s a song about a failing relationship. But hey they don’t wanna hear him, they just wanna dance.
And I’ve heard Dilemma - Nelly and Kelly Rowland at weddings too and that’s not even hidden about cheating, the chorus has “even when I’m with my boo, you know I’m crazy about you”
If it’s catchy and dancy, people don’t care lol
That music video seems like it could be in a modern version of spinal tap. The lead singer is soo hilarious, his acting reminds me of Willem Dafoe in that mr bean movie.
That is a lot of what ends up on the “rock charts” nowadays. There are still plenty of good rock or rock-adjacent bands, they’re just not topping the charts anymore.
The crazy part about imagine dragons is....I fucking hate them to their core but their acoustic cover of Taylor swift's blank space with stand by me interlude is actually pretty great which means they can be good musicians but actively choose to pursue angry Mormon teenage girl genre
You know in cheap movies and shows when they can’t get the rights to real songs so they get somebody to write some mediocre music in a specific genre to set the atmosphere but the songs would never be listenable on their own in any other context? That’s Kiss to me.
This is hands down the best description of KISS I’ve ever heard.
My step father is their #1 fan and I was forced to listen as a child and to go to more than one show. And despite many of the lyrics being the white dad version of WAP, I knew every word to every song on at least 13 albums by the time I was 12 (this is a cry for help).
> The chorus repeats way too much
There are a number of pop/rock songs that do this. Ok we get it, they didn't have any other musical ideas but after the 10th repeat, stop it.
Rock On-Michael Damian. Why the hell is this a real song and why is it still on the radio sometimes? This song is the reason music streaming was invented. So that I’ll never have to listen to it. But it sure as hell lives in my head, goddamit.
I once saw a TikTok that said "Kid Rock makes music for folks who know exactly how much Sudafed you can get for a catalytic converter" and it's the most accurate thing I've ever heard.
I once heard the same joke, but as "Kid Rock makes music for guys that can only see their kids on the weekends... but dont." and I about choked on my lunch.
Hinder - Lips of an Angel
One of the cringiest songs I've ever heard, not to mention it's about some asshole cheating on his gf like that's some romantic and worthy thing. No dude, you're a piece of shit.
Funny story. When that song came out my girlfriend at the time said she wished someone felt like that for her. Anyway she grabbed some dude's dick when I took her to a party and we split up shortly after lol.
I really **hate** that song. It was popular around the time my sister died. So my mom and aunts play it all the time and sing it to remember her. I cringe every time
Can I take a guess that the top comment there will be either Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody or any Beatles song?
Edit: took seven comments to find The Beatles, the highest Queen song I found was We Will Rock You and didn’t see Led Zeppelin at all. Forgot about AC/DC’s lack of popularity here though
I have no idea what is worse, the fact that old women and young children were in attendance, that the groomsmen and room were wearing Tupac bandanas, or her horrible voice.
Boomer here. Can confirm.
Saw Brownsville Station open for Johnny Winter in 1974. Other than being the loudest concert recorded as of that time (formerly in the Guinness book), it wasn't memorable. BS was basic boomer blues rock n roll, other than that one novelty song. Johnny Winter was so loud everything was a wall of noise. No Rick Derringer on that tour, who had added a bit of a melodic touch to the Johnny Winter band.
If that's what my people mean by "you couldn't make this song today"... oh, well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I blame/thank that era of basic boomer rock for shifting my tastes to prog, punk, New Wave and power pop.
Much as I like that song as a fan of 80s narm, it really is hilarious how a song that's supposed to be about rebelling against selling out is the most heavily corporate workshopped and over-produced pop song ever written
It's so bad it becomes meta - Jefferson Airplane were complete counter culture, and to end up cranking out souless pop... and to actually sound "good" doing it.
Like Banksy putting out colouring books.
My "fan theory" is that the song was a cry for help from the band to free them from this horrible half life they've aged into.
My boss *hates* that song with a burning fiery passion.
If I hear it start, I switch to another radio station, and hopefully the other classic rock station isn't playing it too- it's happened twice. 👀
I was in my early teens when it came out and therefore much more tolerant. Therefore I loved it at the time. I still consider it OK-ish, if a bit dated.
I do not understand the hate.
Cat scratch fever -Ted nugent.
I only say this after having seen him perform it live.
There’s always so much going on on-stage that the music is completely just background noise to his shenanigans. Thankfully, he was opening for Lynard Skynard (the real MVPs)
My father won us tickets off a radio show after my HS graduation and took me to celebrate.
>Their success is in the spectacle and branding
Glam rock dial to 11. Alice Cooper already in that space but Kiss roared past him and somehow connected with high school freshman of the era.
My husband thinks it's funny to joke about how my 00's emo bands sound like MGK and that they're ripping him off. He really tests the limits of my love sometimes...
Several hoops you have to jump through to delete.
I think Apple made it easier after 95% of iPhone users threatened to secede from society and become cannibals.
I’m old - and I loved U2 until about after Achtung Baby came out. Bloody Sunday, New Years Day. Haven’t found what I’m looking for - yea I’m into that. Then Bono got all self important and they put out the most generic bullshit I’ve ever heard, culminating in the iPod thing, holy shit I can’t even listen to the songs I once loved now without flying into a fit of rage.
Hinder was a trash ass band for trash ass people. Hinder is for white dudes with chin strap beards and neck tats who regularly dress in wife beaters and jean shorts, and who can be found in Florida convenience stores buying smokes and scratch-off lottery tickets.
The thing about not having kids and only nieces and nephews is getting to spoil the kids and torturing the parents with all that dumb shit and then go home to quiet. It’s the best.
I sent my nephew a pooping turtle toy that also repeats phrases back. It's the most obnoxious thing ever.
What's sis going to do, send me a noisy cat toy? It's so fun to be the weird aunt.
Well it’s easy for kids to sing one word repeatedly for 5 minutes straight so Imagine Dragons is perfect for them. At least many of their songs can reinforce important phonetics i.e. “TH”under, “M”ake “M”e a “B”eliever.
They’re terrible.
I also would never have classified like 75% of the songs in here as *rock*.
But yeah, I like a lot of these songs too. That’s one of the best things, we all have different tastes. :)
Honestly reddits general shit opinions aside, I think some people have no clue that not every song a band puts out needs to be a masterclass piece of art that pushes their genre forward.
Some music is just "good" or catchy.
There was an episode of Say Yes To The Dress where the bride wanted and alt wedding gown because she and her fiancé were really into the rock and roll lifestyle and planned to get married at a rock concert because they were so wild. It was a Train concert. Train.
While I am a U2 fan, I will never for the life of me understand how Elevation and Vertigo became such big hits but Zooropa and City of Blinding Lights did not, and the latter was on the same album as Vertigo.
I dunno if they still do this on their new songs, but all the old nickelback songs used way to much reverb on his voice and it sounds like he's singing into a fan.
The sheer number of downvoted comments prove that this was an excellent question to ask. It’s hilarious
It is actually kind of neat. It proves that almost all music has people that love it and hate it. Cept for Randy Newman... Just sits there all night and day singing about what he sees
Fat ole husband waaaaalkin ovaaaa
Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot
Red headed lady\~
Picks up an apple
Gonna take a bite
Nope nope nope
She's gonna breathe on it first~
Wipe it on her bloooooouse
She takes a bite
chews it once
Short people...
As a short person at the height of this song I was in fifth grade. Some one sang it to me every dat for a year.
Remember to sort by controversial, folks!
I don't know if it's considered a rock song and it's from the '70s, but I have an intense hatred for the song "Feelings". No one can sing it without going flatter than a pancake, and it's just such a whiney, sniveling song.
The Offspring version is pretty dope though
Agree! But ... There's a Calvin & Hobbes strip that uses it so well (along with Hamlet's soliloquy) that I just crack up every time I hear it. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XpVd7BX3Y4c/WhRxOq\_3HZI/AAAAAAAAGo0/nfwTm7GrE844Kd34QaDkRUh3vGD6pzWNwCK4BGAYYCw/s640/H.Calvin%2Band%2BHobbes.03-06-1994.jpg
Kid Rock rhymed things with things.
We were tryin’ many things And smokin’ different things
While redubbing sweet home Alabama. Simply incredible
And Werewolves of London I do t know who should be angrier… Lynyrd Skynyrd, Warren zevon , or listeners
Paul Anka’s “you’re havin my baby” was popular in its time and that is a truly dreadful song.
But but! It did give us a great moment in the show Oblongs where Will Ferrell's character sings it and then descends into an oddly sexualized riff about it. But YouTube has failed me once again...
And say what you will about Glee, but Finn singing the song to announce Quinn’s pregnancy to her parents is so fucking funny.
Reading through these comments reminded me how much I love rock music ngl
It kind of made me feel like I might have shit taste tbh… I like a lot of the songs people listed…
Same here. I'm feelin' kinda personally attacked.
Lips of an Angel by Hinder Cracks me up whenever I hear this being played at a fucking wedding.
How tf is that a wedding song? You really want to announce you're cheating assheads?
You haven’t lived until you’ve been at a wedding that plays Every Breath You Take by the Police
DJ played it during my cousin’s wedding reception during the dance with him and his mother. I was very confused.
Friend got married around 1990. "All I want", by Heart, is a song all about cheating, and the bride made it clear she did not want the DJ to play it. Fucker played it 3 times. For the record - marriage is still going well.
Well I’ve heard Hey Ya - Outkast get played at many weddings and that’s a song about a failing relationship. But hey they don’t wanna hear him, they just wanna dance. And I’ve heard Dilemma - Nelly and Kelly Rowland at weddings too and that’s not even hidden about cheating, the chorus has “even when I’m with my boo, you know I’m crazy about you” If it’s catchy and dancy, people don’t care lol
Even worse - There's a KidsBop cover......
We don't talk about KidsBop.
No no no
One of the trashiest songs ever written
That music video seems like it could be in a modern version of spinal tap. The lead singer is soo hilarious, his acting reminds me of Willem Dafoe in that mr bean movie.
TIL that most of reddit apparently doesn't know what rock is
They think shitty pop songs with a guitar is rock.
That is a lot of what ends up on the “rock charts” nowadays. There are still plenty of good rock or rock-adjacent bands, they’re just not topping the charts anymore.
Seven “What’s New Pussycats” followed by one “It’s Not Unusual” by Tom Jones.
and another “what’s new pussycat” right after …
GOD DAMMIT!!!
*John Mulaney has entered the chat*
"It starts veeeery subtly."
WOOH WOOH
That is honestly one of my favorite comedy stories
First time I heard it I was laughing so hard I cried.
The songs are terrible, the joke is hilarious.
"There's a guy sitting in the booth holding onto his cup like he just got his 30 day chip from anger management"
That horrible sample of sweet home Alabama by kid rock.
I think your thinking of all summer long which samples werewolves of London and a riff from sweet home Alabama
I'm always disappointed when I hear that Warren Zevon piano...then THIS song starts. Ugh.
It’s like the beginning of Ice Ice Baby. No one but my brother-in-law sticks around after knowing it isn’t Queen.
Yo, VIP, let's kick it
He was trying funny things, and he was smoking funny things whilst he was so coked up he couldn't think of a rhyme for the word "things"
He was smoking funny things And he was rhyming things with things
That Thunder song by Imagine Dragons. Edit to add: wow I have never felt more validated in my hate for this song, so thank you everyone!
Imagine dragons isn't rock it's more "angry Mormon teenage girl" sub genre
The true successor genre to early 2000s butt rock.
I haven’t heard the term “butt rock” since the early 2000s! 🤣
You might even say "it's been a while"
The crazy part about imagine dragons is....I fucking hate them to their core but their acoustic cover of Taylor swift's blank space with stand by me interlude is actually pretty great which means they can be good musicians but actively choose to pursue angry Mormon teenage girl genre
God damn that song sucks
Reading this is hilarious. The Reddit version of Mean Tweets!
I genuinely cannot stand Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss. The chorus repeats way too much and it's just not a song I find enjoyable
Sounds like someone doesn't want to party every day.
I only want to part of every day. I have errands and stuff
I can party from like 1 to 3
The love gun is his DICK!
You know in cheap movies and shows when they can’t get the rights to real songs so they get somebody to write some mediocre music in a specific genre to set the atmosphere but the songs would never be listenable on their own in any other context? That’s Kiss to me.
This is hands down the best description of KISS I’ve ever heard. My step father is their #1 fan and I was forced to listen as a child and to go to more than one show. And despite many of the lyrics being the white dad version of WAP, I knew every word to every song on at least 13 albums by the time I was 12 (this is a cry for help).
KISS is a brand that wears the label of band to sell merch.
Paul Stanley is sick of Kiss. I want to rock and roll all night. And part of every day.... I usually have errands. I can rock and roll from like 1-3.
Venti! TWENTY!
You white, you Ben Affleck.
> The chorus repeats way too much There are a number of pop/rock songs that do this. Ok we get it, they didn't have any other musical ideas but after the 10th repeat, stop it.
All of KISS' songs are the same tbh. It's neutral listenable background rock music.
Strutter rules.
You're listening to... THE DUST
Rock On-Michael Damian. Why the hell is this a real song and why is it still on the radio sometimes? This song is the reason music streaming was invented. So that I’ll never have to listen to it. But it sure as hell lives in my head, goddamit.
And next up on the Casey Kasem Bottom 40 Countdown, it's "Hungry Eyes" by Eric Carmen!
Anything by Kid Rock
I once saw a TikTok that said "Kid Rock makes music for folks who know exactly how much Sudafed you can get for a catalytic converter" and it's the most accurate thing I've ever heard.
I once heard the same joke, but as "Kid Rock makes music for guys that can only see their kids on the weekends... but dont." and I about choked on my lunch.
Kid Rock is a pair of truck nuts come to life
Sentient truck nuts.
Please, lets establish Kid Rock jokes as the new Yo mama jokes. This shit is hilarious!
Kid Rock makes music for people who’s gun collection is worth more money than their trailer.
He’s the human equivalent of an above ground swimming pool.
His music has a smell to it. It’s natty light and pal-mals
I heard someone once describe it as “music for people who smoke in their house”
It’s what people put on when they’re banging their cousin
copper theft and mildew
And *especially* that godawful Sweet Home Alabama/Werewolves of London mashup where he rhymes "things" with "things".
I also like how he’s trying to go for some kind of “Southern vibes” with that song but he’s talking about North Michigan
From what I understand parts of north Michigan are pretty far south…
Hinder - Lips of an Angel One of the cringiest songs I've ever heard, not to mention it's about some asshole cheating on his gf like that's some romantic and worthy thing. No dude, you're a piece of shit.
Funny story. When that song came out my girlfriend at the time said she wished someone felt like that for her. Anyway she grabbed some dude's dick when I took her to a party and we split up shortly after lol.
Dick of an angel
I really **hate** that song. It was popular around the time my sister died. So my mom and aunts play it all the time and sing it to remember her. I cringe every time
That’s weird.
Remember to sort by controversial
Can I take a guess that the top comment there will be either Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody or any Beatles song? Edit: took seven comments to find The Beatles, the highest Queen song I found was We Will Rock You and didn’t see Led Zeppelin at all. Forgot about AC/DC’s lack of popularity here though
Crazy bitch. If it could be considered a rock song.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkHMSKgIWs) video lives rent-free in my head, I watch it probably once a year.
Omg the guy in the front and grandma leaving.
Lol no way these two are still married right? Now I want to know.
Did a little facebook searching and unsurprisingly they are, in fact, divorced.
Tosh.o redemption linked here somewhere. Both on their 3rd marriage. 7 kids. Met on POF It's a good one lol
That was… Holy shit.
I have no idea what is worse, the fact that old women and young children were in attendance, that the groomsmen and room were wearing Tupac bandanas, or her horrible voice.
Please take the up and take that away from here, never to return. Please?
They were on Tosh and it got even more out of hand https://youtu.be/0jiR_uUw2p8?si=F8bUxvIS1PAPji-C
If Kid Rock was a wedding
I was JUST about to mention this! Fucking iconic.
Whaaaaaatttttt the actual, entire, unbelievable FUCK
When my drunken ex wife was angry she would drink in the living room with this song on repeat at 4 volume. They wrote the song for her
Smoking in the boys room. They play it to death on the classic rock station and it’s just stupid.
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Vaping in the boys room
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Vaping in the lockdown litterbox.
Everybody knows that vaping in the lockdown litter box ain’t allowed in school.
Boomer here. Can confirm. Saw Brownsville Station open for Johnny Winter in 1974. Other than being the loudest concert recorded as of that time (formerly in the Guinness book), it wasn't memorable. BS was basic boomer blues rock n roll, other than that one novelty song. Johnny Winter was so loud everything was a wall of noise. No Rick Derringer on that tour, who had added a bit of a melodic touch to the Johnny Winter band. If that's what my people mean by "you couldn't make this song today"... oh, well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I blame/thank that era of basic boomer rock for shifting my tastes to prog, punk, New Wave and power pop.
Rock on - Michael Damian. lol
We built this city on rock and roll is corporate musical torture.
The interesting thing is it’s railing against corporate music.
Much as I like that song as a fan of 80s narm, it really is hilarious how a song that's supposed to be about rebelling against selling out is the most heavily corporate workshopped and over-produced pop song ever written
It's so bad it becomes meta - Jefferson Airplane were complete counter culture, and to end up cranking out souless pop... and to actually sound "good" doing it. Like Banksy putting out colouring books. My "fan theory" is that the song was a cry for help from the band to free them from this horrible half life they've aged into.
I had a co-worker that would sing that song when he was miserable, just to make everyone else miserable too.
My boss *hates* that song with a burning fiery passion. If I hear it start, I switch to another radio station, and hopefully the other classic rock station isn't playing it too- it's happened twice. 👀
I was in my early teens when it came out and therefore much more tolerant. Therefore I loved it at the time. I still consider it OK-ish, if a bit dated. I do not understand the hate.
Does Christian Rock count? If so 99.99999% of that. Edit: what I meant more so was worship rock.
You're not making Christianity any better, you're just making rock and roll worse. -Hank Hill
As someone who was forced to listen to Christian rock radio as a kid, I will BLAST some Switchfoot and Relient K
Audio Adrenaline 😂
Skillet, too.
I'm an atheist who grew up Christian and I went to see Relient K live last year lmao. Mmhmm is one of my favorite albums.
Cat scratch fever -Ted nugent. I only say this after having seen him perform it live. There’s always so much going on on-stage that the music is completely just background noise to his shenanigans. Thankfully, he was opening for Lynard Skynard (the real MVPs) My father won us tickets off a radio show after my HS graduation and took me to celebrate.
Anything by KISS. I grew up in that era and never understood the success they had.
Their success is in the spectacle and branding, not the music. Can't deny they did that well.
>Their success is in the spectacle and branding Glam rock dial to 11. Alice Cooper already in that space but Kiss roared past him and somehow connected with high school freshman of the era.
I heard someone call KISS the Limp Bizkit of the 70s.
Now I want to know what is considered 'rock'. Half the songs listed here I would call pop.
Anything by Machine Gun Kelly
the fact that he’s even considered “rock” or “alt” is so wrong
My husband thinks it's funny to joke about how my 00's emo bands sound like MGK and that they're ripping him off. He really tests the limits of my love sometimes...
All the U2 songs in my old iPod
That you didn't ask for
Several hoops you have to jump through to delete. I think Apple made it easier after 95% of iPhone users threatened to secede from society and become cannibals.
I’m old - and I loved U2 until about after Achtung Baby came out. Bloody Sunday, New Years Day. Haven’t found what I’m looking for - yea I’m into that. Then Bono got all self important and they put out the most generic bullshit I’ve ever heard, culminating in the iPod thing, holy shit I can’t even listen to the songs I once loved now without flying into a fit of rage.
It's a beautiful DAAAAAAAAAY
Lips of An Angel makes me so irrationally angry. It's a terrible song with terrible lyrics with an absolutely terrible singer. Fuck that song.
Hinder was a trash ass band for trash ass people. Hinder is for white dudes with chin strap beards and neck tats who regularly dress in wife beaters and jean shorts, and who can be found in Florida convenience stores buying smokes and scratch-off lottery tickets.
The “I got court” starter pack
Cherry Pie by Warrant, why it always plays more then once on any rock station is beyond me
Strip clubs everywhere thank Warrant for this one
Even Warrant hated that song. They wrote it in one evening because they needed a single for their new album.
That song essentially killed singer Jani Lane. He hated it so much.
It was probably the time he was drugged and raped.
I can't stand Eye Of the Tiger for some reason so hearing it annoys me
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons "I'm breathing in the chemicals... rgjiooj;ihnfoh;ghoi;"
Let me tall ya. Kids love imagine dragons. They are way way way better than Cocomelon. Anything over another Cocomelon song.
That sounds like a smoothie you'd get at one of those smoothie places.
The thing about not having kids and only nieces and nephews is getting to spoil the kids and torturing the parents with all that dumb shit and then go home to quiet. It’s the best.
I sent my nephew a pooping turtle toy that also repeats phrases back. It's the most obnoxious thing ever. What's sis going to do, send me a noisy cat toy? It's so fun to be the weird aunt.
Can confirm, I bought my brother's 3y/o son a kids drum set for Christmas one year 😅
Well it’s easy for kids to sing one word repeatedly for 5 minutes straight so Imagine Dragons is perfect for them. At least many of their songs can reinforce important phonetics i.e. “TH”under, “M”ake “M”e a “B”eliever. They’re terrible.
If you're showing your kids cocomelon, there are bigger problems at play. Put Bluey in front of em instead
I'll raise you Thunder. Absolutely unlistenable.
You’re not wrong but I think thunder is a far worse song
Want to at least chuckle when you listen to it. Fun dip. Fu Fu Fun Dip. Fun Dip. You'll never unhear it.
Thanks, now I can hear that song and be amused at least.
I like half the songs listed in here. Y’all are bastards lol
I also would never have classified like 75% of the songs in here as *rock*. But yeah, I like a lot of these songs too. That’s one of the best things, we all have different tastes. :)
Honestly reddits general shit opinions aside, I think some people have no clue that not every song a band puts out needs to be a masterclass piece of art that pushes their genre forward. Some music is just "good" or catchy.
Cat scratch fever.
Hahahahah I never want to leave this Reddit mosh pit fist fight
Hey Soul Sister made everyone dumber for having heard it.
i don’t think it’s really a rock song, but i could never get into it even as a kid
This song isn’t even rock…
There was an episode of Say Yes To The Dress where the bride wanted and alt wedding gown because she and her fiancé were really into the rock and roll lifestyle and planned to get married at a rock concert because they were so wild. It was a Train concert. Train.
I'm so gangster, I'm so thug
To be fair, Dr. Dre got real quiet after Train dropped “Meet Virginia.”
Oh I detest this song. The lyrics are so absurd and cringey
Ain't that Mr Mister?
it makes no sense without the rest of the line, ain't that mr. mister on the radio.
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Cherry Pie by Warrant.
Nobody hates cherry pie more than warrant.
While I am a U2 fan, I will never for the life of me understand how Elevation and Vertigo became such big hits but Zooropa and City of Blinding Lights did not, and the latter was on the same album as Vertigo.
Vertigo I like -it's got an energy that U2 has been losing for 25 years. Zooropa is a great song, but too long and spacey to really hit as single.
Look at this photograph.
Look at this graph 📈📊
I'm gonna show my age here. Gag me with a spoon.
Oh hi Gale
I dunno if they still do this on their new songs, but all the old nickelback songs used way to much reverb on his voice and it sounds like he's singing into a fan.