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This made the rounds in April, but I missed out because I read other websites about as often as I listen to the radio. Fortunately my friend Chuck is a big Nickelback fan. (Heh, just kidding, Chuck. Now put down that knife.)

I’ll leave the explanation to Brandon from nintendorks.com:

It’s probably no surprise that I don’t enjoy “popular” or “Top 40” music. It’s corporate, bland, overplayed, unoriginal, boring, bland, and boring, It’s also dumb. But just because I don’t enjoy it doesn’t mean I don’t listen to it. I mean, how can you not when radio and TV is infested with this crap. Lately, one of the bands that I love to hate is Nickelback, slowly climbing the ranks and placing themselves up at the top with Creed, Matchbox 20, and countless others as “worst bands in the history of music.”

So I received tremendous joy when I found the following file over on the SA Forums. Some internet genius took Nickelback’s first horrible “hit,” and mixed it with Nickelback’s newest awful “hit.” By “mixed” I mean one shitty song plays in the left speaker, and the other ear-bleeding excuse for rock plays in the right speaker. What a surprise, they are almost EXACTLY THE SAME. It’s uncanny, sad, and hilarious at the same time.

Here’s the combined song: You Remind Me of Someday

I was honestly shocked at how good these songs sounded together. Both songs hit the chorus at the same time. The tempos are the same. Even the second chorus comes at the same time. It’s formula rock at its best! Or worst, depending.

I dug deeper. I needed to know if the person behind this mix altered the sources. Maybe he’s a Creed fanboy trying to discredit Nickelback?

I found that the songs were altered slightly. “Someday” is slower, about 82 bpm, whereas “Remind Me” taps out at about 89 bpm. The combination sits somewhere in the middle.

But in the end it doesn’t affect the conclusion that is immediately apparent to anybody with ears. A tempo change is irrelevant; the arrangements are identical. Even the cliches are repeated. Here’s what I found, comparing the originals:

*I guess I’d better pull that prechorus build out of Ode to Soup!

For more analysis and discussion of other bands that either suck or are comprised entirely of visionaries and geniuses, see the MetaFilter thread.