Because they are horrible.
I wish
I could give you plus a bazillion. But I can't so I will award you a bazillion hypothetical mgopoints
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
Because musical taste is
Because musical taste is subjective and their music makes me want to cut off my ears.
Also the generic wannabe Nickelback bullshit doesn't help.
To each their own
That is the beauty of music. Regardless, it's a sweet pic of him.
No. This is not ok. I
No. This is not ok. As the inventor of music, I can tell you that this is not what I had in mind. There are rules in music and you are not allowed to just ignore them when its convenient for you. We are a nation of laws.
There are
also rules in spelling and grammar.
Not anymore bro! It's 2012
Not anymore bro! It's 2012 and the world is going to end in 9 months!
Michigan FB, Michigan BB, Michigan HKY, 49ers, SF Giants, Sac Kings, Red Wings
This
Would've been funnier if you had messed up and used "its."
Also, stylistically, write out numbers ten or less.
Thanks Thorin/Mgovideo for avatar
OP has a point, you know.
OP has a point, you know. "The players like it" is the catch-all excuse for wearing stupid uniforms, isn't it? Anyone who's ever said that, IME, now has no choice but to accept Pop Evil, too.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
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But is the music meant for
But is the music meant for the players or the crowd?
I could ask the same about
I could ask the same about the jerseys.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
Blogging the Virginia Cavaliers at http://fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com/<
Why don't you whine about it
Why don't you whine about it a little more. I'm not sure we got the point the first time.
I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.
This jersey debate kills me.
This jersey debate kills me. Never thought that something so superficial (color of facemasks or numbers on the helmet) could cause people to bicker so much about something that deserves your undying support. Whatever is good for the kids is good for me.
Good call
Some people act like snobby bitches on here. They throw stones and live in a glass house.
[Caved troll is caved. Sorry, Mobile app users.]
It's sad, some people care
It's sad, some people care more about what the football team looks like than the school it represents.
I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.
"Why don't you whine about it
"Why don't you whine about it some more?"
Oh wait....you mean that it's OK now to make a point more than once? Who'd've thought. Novel concept, really. Guess I'll drop the Mean Girls act.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
Blogging the Virginia Cavaliers at http://fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com/<
I've never understood that
I've never understood that argument.
For one, we have no idea what the players like. Do you really expect those guys to come out and say "Pop Evil sucks" or "I wish DB would stop messing with the best uniform in sports"?
Exactly. I can't believe,
Exactly. I can't believe, for example, that 100+ college guys are unanimous on everything, even things like numbers on the helmets, and it wouldn't even be remotely healthy for there to be a public disagreement about it.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
Blogging the Virginia Cavaliers at http://fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com/<
You forgot the next picture
Mike Martin destroys them in the next picture. You can tell by the looks on their faces they know it's coming.
Because they make terrible
Because they make terrible music?
I guess this means
I'm out of the running for the scholarship
Because they look like they
Because they look like they belong in Bam Margera's entourage?
This reminds of an article I
This reminds of an article I read where the drummer of The Black Keys was giving a half-hearted apology for ripping Nickleback. The comments devolved into BK vs. NB with NB supporters using record sales for their support. I found that logic akin to stating McD's is superior food based on volume sales.
I hate NB, but more people
I hate NB, but more people willing to put their money where their mouth is seems like a good indication of popularity.
When does popular=superior?
Popular is not always superior. Hence, why I used 'superior' based on volume sales, not 'popular'
How do you determine
How do you determine superiority? Once again, I hate NB, but this is a snobs argument.
More people like option A, but they don't know that option A is inferior to option B. Therefore, the option B is superior to option A (bc I know better).
Beyond the fact that one of
Beyond the fact that one of your premises states that the more popular option is inferior to the less popular option, that is not his argument. I can give you an equally shallow and inadequate argument for popularity. Option A wins more accolades and collaborates with more musically talented and successful individuals, but more people with little musical background like Option B more. More people liking your music makes you superior Therefore, Option B is superior. Equally lacking. If no one ever heard any of Mozart's symphonies, would NB be better musicians than he was? No.
He also does not indicate that he knows better. All he was stating is that popularity is not always indicative of superiority. Superiority comes from complexity, depth, substance, appreciative value (popularity to an extent), rarity, uniqueness, innovation, etc. Popularity is a facet of it but not indicative of superiority. Do most people really have a grasp or understanding of music to really appreciate what makes some music better than others? No, well not really. Most (myself included) cannot tell you why Beethoven and Mozart were geniuses and most would either say they suck, they do not like that type of music, or that they can appreciate their talent but just do no understand classical music. People just have different interests and some music resonates better with them. That being said NB and Evil Pop suck.
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates.
While I agree with what you
While I agree with what you are saying in general, your example makes the assumption that NB's music is more readily available than BK's, which isn't true.
Disagree in part. While you
Disagree in part. While you can certainly purchase both NB and BK on itunes etc. and listen to both on youtube try driving around most of America and listen to commercial radio, NB is played far more than BK. So while both are readily available, both are certainly not marketed equitable, not even close.
I know eventually it's about the fast money for the suits (we are capitalists after all), but in 50 years the art is what will hold value. BK will be listened to by future generations far more than NB.
Sometimes I am just fed up with the over marketization of crap to our kids instead of real music artists. We now equate popularity with superiority and this is a slippery slope.
But which came first?
Oes it get more radio play then more people buy it, or do more people buy it, so it gets more radio play?
And really, most of the songs we listen to from 50 years ago was pretty popular then, too. The amount of "Citizen Kane's" that bombed originally but became classics is rare in most genres. Maybe no where more rare than music.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
I'll say it again
I'm a blue hair and I really like them and the song. How many teams have their own pep song? Michigan has more songs than almost any university. Go to a glee club concert and get a small selection out of huge repertoire. Some may be outdated but they're representative of the time they're written. The reaction in alumni section didn't seem at all negative. Many I'm sure maybe indifferent.
Keep in mind that in the 60's the most popular local band was Bob Seger. For those who remember Shakey Jake, another local star at the time was Washboard WIllie and His Super Suds of Rhythm.
High School football
When I was in High School we used Seger's "Heavy Music" and "2+2" to pump ourselves up.
"You're fat and you're mine". Bo to Dan Dierdorf.
2+2
Has a great bass line. As a gray/ blue hair I love it. Anti- Vietnam song.
Ask yourself: In 20 years,
Ask yourself: In 20 years, will this still sound good?
"He has an uncanny ability to get kids to believe in him and believe in themselves. He doesn't do it with smooth words. He's not smooth. He does it by being the same genuine person day after day." ~Jason Whitlock on Brady Hoke
What type of music can you
What type of music can you really say that and still think it sounds good? Not much. I would only say that IMO (I am 28), Sinatra, some Elvis tunes, and some 80s rock still have an appeal to me. 80s hair metal, disco, early rap, and all country not done by Garth Brooks sounds like garbage to me.
Still.....
They would have had to sound good in the first place in order to still sound good in 20 years....and they don't so the point is moot.
I like them. I am not 17 nor
I like them. I am not 17 nor do I wear black eyeliner.
Careful! I said in the Nickleback thread
After the Thanksgiving game announcement something to the effect that while they should not be playing the game, there is nothing wrong with pop-rock music if you understand that it is what it is, and that NB aren't so bad at that. A bunch of people then demanded I get the ban hammer!
People get real offended, real quick when you speak against the mob on these music topics!
"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer
People are crazy.If you
People are crazy.If you actually listen to their music and not judge them by what they look like then you might be surprised.
"Are you an official here?Because you've officially given me a boner."
I did listen to it and the
I did listen to it and the lyrics are what bother me the most.
"In the Big House, we'll put your lights out! Come on and shout out!"? Sorry, it sounds like a 5th grader wrote this.
In the Big House, we'll put your lights out! Come on and shout
That's right up there with the following sophisticated lyrics:
"Go right through for MSU,
Watch the points keep growing,
Spartan teams are bound to win,
They're fighting with a vim!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
See their team is weakening,
We're going to win this game,
Fight! Fight! Rah! Team, Fight!
Victory for MSU!"
I don't care what they look like or where they're from. The lyrics are juvenile and the music is warmed over metal.
I don't care what they look
I don't care what they look like. I don't like them because "In the Big House" is as embarrassing of a song for U of M fans as "We Are Notre Dame" is to ND.
Really, their problem is they
Really, their problem is they come from West Michigan? That seems to be the least of the issues I have with them.
I wish I could vote this up
I wish I could vote this up more than once.
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates.
I hate Pop Evil so much I would take on Mike Martin in
a cage match to give him the beat down he deserves for such bad taste.
/ Internet Tough Guy
Your opinion has no value.
The guy behind Martin looks
The guy behind Martin looks like Kevin from The League.
are you attacking
the band itself or "in the big house" ............I don't listen to the band, "in the bighouse" I thought was good for converting a fight song into a rock theme that is still safe for little ears and the bluehairs.............. seriously what else are you going to do with it and keep it family friendly.....
All in all people take their music, I say that loosely, as personal as they do their sports teams, some even more personally. Heck scroll through each band or vocalists videos on youtube and you see nearly as many haters as there are fans posting back and forth...and no shot at anyone on this board but music fans are as bias as any without regard for true talent when it comes to musicians. I may not like many bands or artists per say but I do know who is talented and who is all show and little talent.....there is a major difference some understand nothing about music but know how to entertain, others are great musically but need tons of help to entertain...few are both....
It pumps up the crowd.
It pumps up the crowd. Apparently the players like it. The opposing team and fans surely don't like it. You should all stop being old and stupid and get over it. It's better than AC/DC, isn't it? It's all ours.
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I'm with you. I don't know
I'm with you. I don't know if it'll be back next year or not but i liked it. I ESPECIALLY liked it when it was cranked up and played loudly over the screaming fans waving maize pom-poms immediately following the end of "UTL-11".
Anybody who was there and says they didnt get chills is either a liar, deaf or was passed out That song was MADE for that exact moment.
no chills
Definitely didn't get chills from hearing that song at the end of the game because I'm pretty sure I was yelling something along the lines, " NOOOOOOOOO DEAR GOD WHY". We already have a song made for that moment called "The Victors".
In terms of OP, good for Mike Martin, but it doesn't change my opinion on the song or band.
Knock Knock
Who's there?
ZACK NOOOOOOVAK
Because they are horrible. Really, very terrible and horrible in every way.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.