Wednesday
Sep172014
What The Heck Is Diet Rock?
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 12:01AM Check it: my boys Nickelback just released a video for their new song "Edge of a Revolution." The video is good: very glossy, you can tell it cost some cash. No big deal since the guys in Nickelback are loaded. Plus they are a hit machine. Anyway, I was reading Blabbermouth comments about the video (I know, I know) and people kept calling them "bro rock"and "diet rock" I have never heard the phrase diet rock... ever. What does that even mean? Someone please enlighten me.
Nickelback will release their new album, No Fixed Address, on November 18. They plan to tour in 2015 -- and I'll totally be in the crowd at one of their shows.
Reader Comments (28)
They are just ok for me.
Not my generation.
Fyi Corabi is doing a tour for the 20 year Crue cd. Interview on metal sludge and blabbermouth.
That is one AWESOME song! How this as*clown ever pulled that one out of his derriere, I'll never know.
All of the distortion, none of the musical credibility.
EXAMPLE... "Last Christmas Santa ran out of lumps of coal for bad children, so he substituted Diet Rock CDs by Nickleback." etc.
Great Metal: Sabbath, Priest, Saxon, Megadeth, Motorhead ("Ace of Spades","1916"), Overkill, etc.
Shite Metal: Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, etc.
Iron Maiden have more than one good song (I even pointed the way months ago to the non-Dickinson sung "Reach Out" as an example). So, too, the other bands you list Metalboy! You won't even give a nod to _Ride the Lightning_/_Master of Puppets_ era Metallica, that sweet spot in the days of Cliff Burton? While I tend to find Anthrax "meh," they put out some great songs with both Belladonna and Bush handling the vocal duties. And, just to be clear, I also like every single "great" band you listed.
Taste is fickle, ain't it? And I think that Kixchix got at it, at least in part: some of this is generational. But some of it is simply aesthetics. I could push it a bit further and make the case that much of it is random and/or geographical. But I know people have issues with my tangents.
Nickelback? Not my cup o' chowder. Heck, not even Avril Lavigne's cup nowadays. Wait. Too soon?
Same with Maiden... Yeah, okay, there are a couple of others by them that are decent, but nothing on the level of "Can I Play With Madness". And Dickinson's solo masterpiece, "Tattooed Millionaire" is the best Maiden related product to ever come out of that camp.
All of Anthrax's stuff sucks save for their Sabbath, Cheap Trick and Joe Jackson covers.
Like I said, I call it like I hear it. You guys are kidding yourselves defending these boring a*s bands when compared to the flawlessness of Judas Priest, etc.
As I've mentioned before on this site, I saw 'em open for The Ramones at Roseland in NYC off "Reign In Blood".
Slayer and the rest of those "Metal" bands are a joke and the joke is on you for thinking they're legit.
Probably the closest thing I could come to what Slayer sound like live is visiting the Dog Pound in NYC while hearing a Subway train screeching around the corner.
Or like wearing a thimble on every finger and dragging them down a chalk board.
Listen to SAXON's cover of Priest's "You Got Another Thing Comin'". THAT'S the kind of METAL MUSIC I'm talking about... Not Metal Bullsh*t.