>They'll never be more than "eh, it's better than
>commercials" music to me, because they were all dead (or oxidized
>until moot) by the time I was old enough to listen to music and care.

I'd just like to point out that, in an age of recording technologies and the rampant atemporality they bring with them, this is a damned silly thing to say. In fact, on some level it's been a damned silly thing to say since roughly the invention of writing. Go through your library and remove everything that a person who is now dead was involved in the production of. Go on, I'll wait. How many books have you got left? Yeah, I thought so. Now get rid of all the music you have that was made by living people (since we already know you don't do music by dead people :), but contains musical influences from people who are dead. Also, be sure not to look at any architecture or use any technology that might be derived in whole on in part from the work of people who have since died.

See? Didn't take long for the premise to become absurd, did it? :)

>Also, secondary question: is Nickelback really any worse than, say,
>Motley Crue? Not attempting to defend them, by any means, just
>wondering what singled out this one group to be made into failures of
>myth and legend?

That, I can't help you with. I'm not sure I've ever heard them. It might just be that too-cool-for-school thing again. Like the guy I knew in College Mk I who used to throw out the albums of bands he Used To Like when they got real record deals, i.e., Sold Out and Began Retroactively to Have Always Sucked.

Or maybe they just suck as bad as people say! It's entirely possible. Lots of bands suck and it hasn't stopped all of them from achieving commercial success. In some cases, sucking was the point all along!

Also, I must insist that the name of the other band you reference is "Mötley Crüe". If you're going to dis one of the best-selling hair-metal acts of the '80s, you might as well at least spell their name correctly wrong. :)

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