Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

This really is a full service blog.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

This fight is for everything.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

T R E 4 5 O N

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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  2. 2.

    Keith P.

    I’ve got Nickelback and even Staind (worst band on the radio IMO) in my collection after getting a secondhand hard drive. I don’t believe in deleting data so I still have them in spite of never playing them. I feel dirty as well.

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    Splitting Image

    Nickelback hatred is completely hipster at this point. I hated them before most Americans even knew they existed.

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    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    It’s ok Cole, I still can’t quit Alice in Chains. I’m a grown man now, sort of, and I oughtta know better, but that sludgy guitar work and the harmonized vocals still get me every damn time.

    Hollow

  6. 6.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @Splitting Image: Nickelback hate has moved well past hipster and into cliche at this stage. Makes me wonder if there’s a Slate essay out there defending their artistic vision.

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    Betty Cracker

    It’s probably a leftover from your wingnut days. You’re a changed man, and for the better. It would be beyond churlish to hold that against you.

  8. 8.

    lockewasright

    I catch so much crap for being a music snob (read: for failing to be adequately indiscriminate), but this never happens to me.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @Splitting Image: Amusingly, the article gushes about how much money they make with their ‘by the numbers’ approach. Doesn’t really touch the aesthetic question much. I suppose it’s nice to know he can laugh at himself, but that doesn’t make them less shitty.

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    RepubAnon

    Not to worry, the Nickelback detritus was probably planted by the NSA as a means of discrediting you…

    (Darn, the only tinfoil left in the house is on the leftover turkey.)

    ;)

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    kindness

    Just tell anyone you were loaded when you bought it John. You had to be. You wanted to hear ‘Rockstar’.

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    Woodrowfan

    eh, it’s too cliche to hate them. they have a couple good songs. So does Staind. Alice in Chains had good stuff too. If you like it, listen to it

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    RobertB

    I’ve got Woodrowfan’s back up there. Silver Side Up is a pretty decent album. In fact, it’s so good that Nickelback made it four more times.

    If you put Alice In Chains in the same sentence as Nickelback, you should just throw your iPod away and listen to AM talk radio.

    Staind…I like a few Staind songs. Aaron Lewis is a hardcore Tea Party type. There’s an interesting subject there about, “How do you deal with music you like, from musicians that you don’t?”

  22. 22.

    Woodrowfan

    Aaron Lewis is a hardcore Tea Party type. There’s an interesting subject there about, “How do you deal with music you like, from musicians that you don’t?”

    ARGH!!!!!! Really? Damn. I tossed out my Ted Nugent albums. OK, small loss musically, but still.

    Well, I didn;t say AiC and NB were equally as good. ;P

  23. 23.

    cmorenc

    @John Cole:

    Hey, it could have been worse: you could have found some Captain and Tenille in your collection.

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    Keith P

    @RobertB: I even hatd Staind before I heard that Aaron Lewis was Tea Party. What did it for me was the time the radio played an acoustic version of “Epiphany”. It sounded like a college open mic night performance….just Lewis painfully – PAINFULLY – hitting chords on his guitar while doing what sounded like a bad Eddie Vedder parody. The DJ even apologized for playing it. Then I found out there are actually people out there with tattoos of him (ballcap included)! Makes me wonder what planet I landed on.

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    BruceFromOhio

    Gaia, wtf is with people? Cole, there are far worse things you can find on your hard drive than a Nickelback mp3 file. It’s music. Just like food, beer, wine, whiskey, movies, books, fashion, sex, modern art, automobiles and interior decorating, every one has stuff they like and stuff they do not like. So I despise the Sex Pistols and love Bowie, can’t fucking stand to here another note of Lou Reed, and will crank up Foreigner as loud as Smashing Pumpkins, so and what. Nickelback, Staind, Alice in Chains, Hootie and the Blowfish, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, Imagine Dragons, Rush, Van Halen, Boston, find something you hate and don’t listen to it already.

    Or vice-versa.

    ETA: If it was Men Without Hats ‘Safety Dance,’ then I’d be worried.

  27. 27.

    Hunter

    Hating Nickelback is a cliche. Add in a dash of drama queen and you’ve got this post.

    I’ll give you the same response I gave a “music critic” at the rag I used to work for: You may not like what they do, but they do it very well.

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