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      I don’t think there’s that many people who dislike Nickelback. It just became trendy to dislike them, so people jumped on the bandwagon, regardless of whether they actually cared either way.

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      I tried because so many of my friends dig them. I just can’t get past the songs that seem like they’re written with a rhyming dictionary and they’re full of teeny bopper cliches. I love the guitar tone and some of the riffs but I just can’t get past those dumbass lyrics.

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      Coldplay is among my favorite bands, absolutely agree there

      A lot of people criticize the direction they’ve taken recently, and while I don’t keep up with their newest releases, Viva la Vida is still one of my favorite songs. And other tracks like Paradise, Sky Full of Stars, etc. will always be fun for me to listen to as well

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    I listen to a lot of stuff that would be widely disliked if it were widely heard. Extremely dissonant, abstract, and harsh avant-garde metal is for very few people. It’s hard to describe it without sounding like a dopey elitist type, but I just like caustic, hostile, and often formless stuff.

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        Worked with Billy about a year ago on his wrestling program.

        I heard him tell a small audience of people that he was, “Rock n’ Roll.”

        The context was in regards to covid protocols, something like “I’m Rock n’ Roll and all, but we’ve gotta do what the facility says…”

        Not the worst in context I suppose, but I just couldn’t get past, “I’m Rock n’ Roll”, falling out of his mouth.

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    I’m not sure how many bands even sit in the widely known and also disliked by most Venn diagram. The only example I can even think of is Phish, which I can’t stand but I know a guy who lives his whole life around their touring schedule.

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      Phish is a weird one. When I listen to a whole record it kind of all sounds like one long song. An experimental variation on the theme. But live… Holy s***. I’ll go see him anytime they’re close.

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    I think a lot of people got burnt out on sex and candy, but Marcy playground’s first two albums are legitimately fantastic. I didn’t even get into them until like 2018

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      Sex and Candy got overplayed so much on radio, it was everywhere. I remember mom switching radio station because it came on like twice in the same hour and the station she fliped to was playing it as well.

      There were so many good songs just ran into the ground like that.

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    One of the few albums from my youth I can listen to is Anti-Nowhere League - We are the League

    It was a kind of joke album mocking punk music and some of their bigotry and phobias, but of course people took it at face value and thought it was serious.

    It’s an absolute work of offensive genius and beautifully produced