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Nickelback: is it Classic Rock?

No...it's recurrent rock at best. Personally, this is nothing but an overhyped band with their music or singles starting out with alot of hype, and trys to sound like something spectular is gonna happen....but runs dry and bland during the course of the song.....and it ends mediocre at best. hooks are not catchy at all. More irritating.
It's like someone hootin' and howling at party that grabs your attention for a minute....and you look around wondering what's going on? Big deal.
Put it this way...there not Lifehouse or Coldplay IMHO.
 
Well there's a station in my market that positions itself as "Pure Classic Rock" and they play Nickelback ("Rockstar" and "How You Remind Me"), Green Day (tracks off Dookie and American Idiot), Nirvana, STP, Alice In Chains, RHCP, Offspring, etc. as well as 80s hairbands (which are acceptable to most programmers and consultants). There's an active rock station that plays that stuff in my market.

It's a pressing issue to programmers on whether or not to play anything post-1990 yet alone post-2000 and call yourself "classic rock." How about put them in an AMT (auditorium music test) and see what happens?

"It doesn't have to be old to be classic rock!"
 
Anything past 1990 has no place on a classic rock station

Otherwise you are a mainstream rock station
 
Nickelback isnt nowhere near classic rock, classic rock are bands that had singles out that went big in that era of music, right now, active rock/modern rock is in. Hairbands are classic rock or anything in the 80s and before. Even Seattle bands are classic rock.
 
One classic rock station in Fresno plays rock up to 2000,but they don't play Nickelback,and neither does the active rock station or the hard alternative,they both stops playing Nicckelback about the same time they stopped playing 3rd Eye Blind,Smashmouth,and Blink182.the only place to here Nickelback is on Hot AC Alice 96.7 or Adult Hit JACK-FM KFJK 105.9.
 
Oh yea Nickelback is a mainstream rock group,The alternative station KFRR does play Coldplay,Lifehouse,Chevelle,along with 90's grunge bands but no Nickelback.
 
It depends upon your definition. Nickelback actively campaigned songs to "Heritage based" stations. meaning Classic rockers that play new music that sounds in the style of the older.

Nickelback has been worn out by stations with no new material since 2005! So in the tradition of most singers who don't produce new material, it got dumped to secondary status in most markets.

The classic rock stations here are playing it, but depends up on your definition of classic rock. The two that take the 5 years and older approach are playing them, with true definition classic rockers (ending in about 1995) won't play them at all.
 
If a few are starting to play late 90's and Creed, then yes, Nickelback will be. Classic Rock is oldies now...the new Classic Rock is Classic Alt
 
If NB offically becomes classic rock I will lead a full scale protest outside every station that is guilty. And, hair metal is not classic rock. In order to be considered classic rock there has to be some creative, artistic, merit to the music. It has to have some redeeming social value.
 
I dont consider 70s rock as classic rock.. I consider it RedNeck Rock!

Actually any Rock Song (not band) that is more than a decade old should be considerd "Classic Rock" I dont care what style of Rock it is!
 
I don't think listeners would describe Nickelback as Classic Rock. I disagree that Classic Rock can't play anything post 1990 though. When Classic Rock got started with KLSX in Los Angeles in 1985 it played music from the late 70's. At some point the format has to move forward or all of their listeners will be dead.
 
Yes I would consider Nickelback ,the same way I consider Foo Fighters,Creed , Linkin Park,Stained,Chevelle, and 3 Doors Down and It it rock, and more than 5 years old IT'S CLASSIC ROCK.
 
kenrayc said:
Yes I would consider Nickelback ,the same way I consider Foo Fighters,Creed , Linkin Park,Stained,Chevelle, and 3 Doors Down and It it rock, and more than 5 years old IT'S CLASSIC ROCK.
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Yuck! No tastes at all!
 
You cant say Bands as Classic Rock. You have to say Song. Any song that is more than 10 years is a classic rock tune. Any Nickelback song more than 10 years ago is classic rock, and yeah its hard to say that since they have alot of recent songs people recognize.

Since Hairbands-Active Rock sounds are now dominating the ratings scene, if a classic hair band that never had a big hit back in the day, releases a New Song and it makes the top 10 nationally. Are they Classic Rock or New Rock since they were unknown back in 1990?

My point is, you cant say a band is classic rock, but you can say a music single!
 
As far as Nickleback...I've been working on an Internet Rock station that will consist of everything from the Yardbirds to the year 2000 primarily. I was contemplating putting groups Linkin park, Nickle back, Lifehouse, or specialize them as future classic rock hits...but my concept is "Rock Hits"..then under that perception, yes I can place Nickleback, Coldplay with Zepplin, and Creedence and it all depends how you image it. It can all blend together as i had experimented with it.
 
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