Tool vs Nickelback
 

Hmm, I would have liked to have made this one in a Poll format except that the option didn't appear available?

Anyway, I think this could provoke an interesting discussion. Both of these bands are the masters of their given sub-genres of mainstream commercial rock in the present day, so who do you, the people, feel is the better act?

I'll start off by giving my nod to Nickelback, who I feel have excelled in the past (if not recent times) in pushing the envelope and watching it bend. Like modern rock overlords, they've created the equivalent of the great symphonies of old - How You Remind Me is in all senses the 21st century's answer to Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th. Drawing from a wide range of influences including (but not by any means limited to) early 70s The Who, AC/DC, The Buzz****s, Sonic Youth, The Stooges and Television, they've taken a hodgepodge of ideas and merged them perfectly into a single distinct cohesive sound that has rocked bedrooms across the world.

Tool by contrast draw from fewer sources, most evidently the likes of King Crimson and Led Zep (you can hear the influences all over IV), and really have created very little (if anything) of their own device at all. Sure, they've made a few rocking songs here and there, but they fail to really conjure up that lasting, timeless appeal.

What are other people's views?

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Hahahahaha this is the best joke ever.
Comedy genius.:)

:rofl:

I'd actually say something more along the lines of "They took Smells Like Teen Spirit, turned down the distortion, wrote some sappy lyrics and then gave it to the record company." Television? Give me break, if you hear Television in Nickelback I'm wondering if you've ever even listened to Marquee Moon.

this thread ftw!

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how many red bulls have you had today?

awesome thread , I love it. even before I read the thread I voted for nickelback.

/is missing Dirt

Where's the option for anal beads?