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  • Nickelback writes cookie-cutter style music.

  • I think the more surprising thing is that Nickel back actually has fans to defend this buggery. Chad needs to be banished from music.

  • Wow they really did rip this song off. It's not just the riff it's everything. When the drums come in, the drum beat, the bass...shit everything.

    Wow.

  • i hate nickleback but i dont think this really even carrys weight

  • Nickelback is better, nothing else to it.

  • @ChadKroeger1111 LOLWTF, If it wasn't for Nirvana, Nickelback wouldn't exist.

  • @ChadKroeger1111

    Nickelback is the worst band ever and also the most hated.They suck ,all their songs sound the same.Fuck of chadkroeger

  • @woohoopopsucks All their songs sound the same? Bullshit. The only Nickelback songs that sound slightly the same are Flat On The Floor and Money Bought.

    You know who's songs DO all sound the same? AC/DC, one of the best bands in the world. So even if you were right, it still wouldn't be a ligitimate argument.

  • @ChadKroeger1111 chad kroeger should just kill himself

  • And Honestly, How Do You Think That Sounds The Same?

  • Lol, You Believe Wikipedia, Wikipedia is Nothing But Lies.

  • no

  • unbelievable that people still defend a band that has shown over and over again to not be artists... nickelback is nothing more than a corporate shill -- taking simple, shallow, BS catalog music and pumping out the same garbage over and over to make money off people stupid enough to continue to listen. it comes on the radio and it just gives me the retard tingles. i mean... that shit is truly awful.

  • @EliteBeave Truth.

  • both bands suck nigger dick

  • That's pretty much the same exact riff, only somehow Nickelback made it generic and cliche. I don't even mind when artists borrow stuff from greater artists, but Nickelback is different, they are not creative or innovative in any way.

  • nickelback is the gayest band ever Nirvana is the best band ever you see the difference?

  • Sounds nothing alike you prick

  • i like both bands. i prefer nirvana, but i like nickelback too. yes, nirvana are better, but does that honestly have to mean that everything nickelback writes is terrible?

  • sure did rip it off.......but kurt ripped off riffs to.....but at lease he was honest about it

    nickelback is such a poser band

  • @MrSoullicker dude do you know how easy it is to write your own song and it accidentally sounds like a song that's come out before? you subconsciously think about it and your song can sound a least bit like another and then you get fags like you talking shit about a very successful band.

  • Nickelback must die. Period. 

  • Have you ever played guitar? There's only so much you can do with a power chord haha. And out of billions of power chords played from bands you don't think they could be similiar?

    "Oh and I am in absolutely no means defending Nickelback... They are the scum of today's rock music..." :D

  • @fighisver Tom Morello can do so much more with power cords.... why cant nickelback? OH YEAH CUZ THEY SUCK

  • @TheExploitedNirvana wow do you even know how stupid it sounds to rip on a band that is extremely successful when i know, you know, and everybody else knows you'll never amount to anything if you keep talking shit.

  • @fujidude1 Nah an, nickelback really isnt god at all and if i really wanted to i could do something with my life, i just dont give a fuck because this world is screwed anyways

  • god, nickleback are so dogger. 

  • Yes, the riff is similar. So fucking what?

    Nickelback ARE talented musicians in a sense that they can surely put on one hell of a live show. Kroeger IS a fantastic singer (like their music or not). Their music is mostly between mediocre and awful (with expections like "Flat on the Floor" or "Because of You"). So yes, Nickelback can play, they just need to learn to write better songs in general.

    And yes, I love Nirvana. They were definitely one of the greatest bands to emerge from 90's.

  • Nirvana did it first, but Nickelback did in fact change it. Who cares?

  • Uh, can we have a 'reaction' over here for as 'stupid'? cause that's what this is.

  • Nickleback ripped off Nirvana? I laughed so hard I almost puked. I love Nirvana and I think Nickleback is barely mediocre at best. They writes marginal lyrics and Chad's voice is subpar (but kick ass riffs most of the time). That riff is only slightly similar to "Swap Meet" There's nothing wrong with taking a riff and altering it. Besides, I'd be a little surprised if Chad owns more Nirvana than "Nevermind" and "Unplugged".

  • @musicphan1 hey why don't you try to learn how to spell if your going to try and talk shit about Nickelback.

  • Nirvana>Nickelback

    Nickelback is GARBAGE.

  • the nirvana one is better

  • both bands kick ass. ny haters to them can go fuck themselves.

  • Who cares? They both blow.

  • Wikipedia is probably the least reliable website ever. You can't trust anything you see on there.

  • @xxNickelbackRockz123 judging by your name, your comment is pretty bias.

  • LOL

  • holy crap the song scared the fooshizle outta me

  • Yeah this is dumb. What else do you expect with 4 notes?

  • I do not like nickelback and i love Nirvana but this is just stupid.

    The beginning of smells like teen spirit sounds also like the riff in Boston's More Than a Feeling.

    Big deal __'

  • haha Nickelback what a gay band lol

  • Nickelback sucks, but I think the riff is only similar and Nirvana ripped off Killing Joke anyway.

  • nirvana and nickelback=rock roll

  • @TheGregory2707 no sir, nickleback is not rock and roll...nickleback sucks

  • @TheGregory2707 Chuck Berry and Chubby Checker = Rock n' roll.

  • I love both nirvana and nickelback. Used to listen to nb more but now im on to nirvana. they sound similair however the rythym is slightly differnt. Its hard to write anything today that doesnt sound like someone elses song really.

  • I agree with ispepteid1 in a sense. Vana would be broken up cause the "suicide letter" looked to me like a retirement letter he wrote to be addressed to fans. he was obviously getting a divorce and leaving love. i also think it was a dumb comment by saying that he was huge cause he died at the height of his fame cause In Utero wasn't their first successful album

  • @clavis001 yeah but he was getting more popular day by day.

  • nickelback is horrible compared to nirvana if nirvana was still around to make more albums theyde be more known for sure. if kurt wasnt murdered and all ud be hearing more nirvana stuff.

  • @kunkushun1 If Nirvana was still around, they would just be another broken-up band that reigned in the 90's. See, the only reason Cobain is huge, is because he died at his height of fame. Its like this, If Morrison died at 40, the doors would be as popular as 60's bands like The Outsiders or The Grassroots. Its all about timing...

  • @ispepteid1 maybe maybe not. its not like Nirvana's succes started after he committed suicide. it was their second album that sold the most, not the third. and they knocked off michael jackson on the billboard chart years before kurt died

  • @ispepteid1 not necessarily. I really dont think its relevant honestly sure maybe hes a bit more famous cause of that but their style was already rapidly changing up into in utero.

  • @ispepteid1 I think Cobain and Morrison both could have had successful solo careers after their bands' popularity waned.

  • @kunkushun1

    Kurt Cobain committed suicide

  • @kanhezatsu uhhh whatever u say lmao bahahaha.

  • @kunkushun1 people like you make me wanna start a business selling tinfoil hats

  • nickleback blows

  • Nirvickelback - "Swapping In Your Mouth"

  • They both stink, yeah Nirvana and Nickefools. Nirvana genious, my arse.

  • @theloya1965 and y watched this video why then to be a dick to nirvana/Nickleback fans cuz u have low self esteem or an idiot

  • @theloya1965 And Marc Almond is?

  • aha i like it how u hate nickelback i do to :P 

  • sounds pretty god damn similar to me... not to big up nickleback, cuz they suck... but go check out the song 80's by Killing Joke if you wanna hear rip off city.

  • Now, look... it goes without saying that Nickleback blow goats for, well.. nickles!! ...,but this is not a direct theft in any way. The phrasing &, accent & rhythm have similarity's, but are not at all the same.

  • Now, look... it goes without saying that Nickleback blow goats for, well.. nickle!! ...,but this is not a direct theft in any way. The phrasing &, accent & rhythm have similarity's, but are not at all the same.

  • this sounds nothing like it...you people who dont know music have to learn that something can be in the same key and sound similar and not be a copy

  • Maybe some songs just sound similar... And these two songs don't even sound that similar.. But just because two songs have similar sounds, that doesn't mean that somebody ripped somebody off

  • No you gotta be on crack to think they are the same

  • Nirvana is my favorite band and I hate Nickelback, but it's not like Nirvana themselves didn't use the same riffs as other bands. coughcomeasyouarecough...

  • @TheGoldenShamrocks where did they get the idea for come as you are for? haha

  • @Guitarist2095 Come As You Are bares a striking resemblance to a song called "Eighties" by Killing Joke. I don't know if it was intentional but they sound suspiciously alike.

  • @TheGoldenShamrocks haha wierd they do sound similar

  • @TheGoldenShamrocks And the song Eighties sounds similar to the song Life Goes On by the band, The Damned. ~_^

  • @NicePlaylist It's rip-off mania!!! lol

  • Although I like limp bizkit, theykinda stole the riff from big cheese( by nirvana on their bleach almbum) for break stuff. But then again Fred Durst (lead singer of limp bizkit) did admire kurt to the point he got a tatto of him on his chest sooo.....

  • Mustasch - Double Nature, listen to the intro, sound the same to me...

  • Sorry for a double post but I just watched the video again, and holy shit, I must've not even been paying attention because they sound EXACTLY THE SAME. Just more evidence that Nickelback is a Nirvana rip- off

  • Love Nirvana, hate Nickelback, but I'm saying "no". Because if I was sitting back stage at a terrible rock show with a guitar and nothing to do, I would propably end up writing something like this. So I would be ripping off two songs

  • Yes, he totally did! In general, they're trying to rip-off Nirvana, but the effect they get is not Nirvana-like at all, regarding the style. Kurt's song writing was immensely more creative, swift flexible dynamics..

  • I don't know, if I came up with that riff that Nickelback used I'd throw it away, Nirvana's however is worth hanging on too, I'd think it was a joke if someone played that for me over the phone, you know what might be more accurate is if he was playing Breed and came up with that ditty because the progressions are likely very similar

  • yeah this is a bullshit video real waste of time bloke

  • it's the same timing and same rif, just that Nirvanas is more downtuneed and heavier

    fuck Nikcelback

  • man its the same thing i used to like nickelback but not anymore

  • dude the nickleback singer already looks like a kurt wannabe

    i thought that even before i saw this

    nickleback and nirvana both start with an n

    nirvana means something what the fuck does nickleback mean?

  • @Gazelle78Sideburns he looks nothing like a kurt wannabe.

  • @sickstar14 Hmm.. lets see: he has dirty blode hair like Kurt, Nickleback starts with an N just for the heck of it and obviously it doesn't mean anything, he tries to immitate the same scratchy, grungy voice as Kurt, and there's proof in this video that he ripped off Bleach songs

    i dont have anything against that but its just true

  • @Gazelle78Sideburns once again, he looks nothing like a kurt wannabe.

  • Coolz788 & their 23 dittoheads, thanks for your opinion: that you have no opinion. Fence sitting blowhards that keep arguments going by insisting that no one argue really chap my hide.

    If you really believe that those clips are 'scales' tho, then you really ought to learn a little more about music before commenting on it.

  • This is really getting to be very annoying...

    Yes some bands use riffs and shit from others...

    Stop posting fucking videos about them on youtube.

    The only people with the right to bitch about this are Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic...

    Oh and I am in absolutely no means defending Nickelback... They are the scum of today's rock music...

  • @maggottilthegrave666 Or rather Chad Channing and Krist Novoselic.

  • @TellySavalis ....Fuck... I forgot about him completely... Yes... My bad... <_<

  • @TellySavalis Or Rather courtney love because the bitch owns the nirvana rights

  • @maggottilthegrave666 I'm a studio tech and I HATE HATE HATE Nickelback. It's not the same riff, it's not even in the same key. Do your research before you diss somebody. By the way Nickelback sucks my dick and then spits.

  • @maggottilthegrave666 why r they scum exactly??? becus u dont like them they sure as fuck play better music then u could is it becus theyr mainstream? which the worst reason ever

  • @joemoin It's funny because I actually do play guitar, and could outplay Chad Kroeger any day.

  • @maggottilthegrave666 easy to say isnt it

  • @joemoin and also, Nirvana is mainstream too.

  • @maggottilthegrave666 totally disagree,we are the Nirvana fans have the priority to shame those who ripp off Kurts songs

  • @maggottilthegrave666 idiot, when there would be an band that covered everything from nirvana and said its their, you find it ok ? dickhead

  • @maggottilthegrave666 the drummer that played this song was chad channing your idiot! Stop commenting on videos is don't know!

  • @maggottilthegrave666 except nirvana is bestest. nickelback has yet to create a progression that even matches a nirvana song.

  • @maggottilthegrave666 Dude, so you don't care if a band ripped of a song from an another ? When it would be a band ripped of a song from your favourite solo artist 'Hanna Montanna' , and somebody just wanted to inform the others on youtube, you're against it ?

  • @maggottilthegrave666 Music can based on the original hook or idea from another artist. That then idea is taken forward too make a "different song". "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal" - Quote by Igor Stravinsky

  • reference to wikipedia does not = credible source

  • What a fucking suprise...

    What do you expect from a band like Nickelback? Everybody knows that they are just an cheesy pop excuse

  • don't hear even the slightest similarities.

    "my band uses notes & instruments to play our songs, therefore, nobody else can use notes or instruments.

  • Interesting...Nickelback seems to do a lot of repetitive material. Wild. I'll take the second version though. Seeing as it was by a true group of Artists. Chad Kroeger can die that talentless scam artist pussy.

  • You knew that Wikipedia lies right?... If the information isn't secured it might be fake so watch out...

  • Btw nirvana is such a awesome band. Dun compare it wif nickelback. U are terribly insulting nirvana.

  • Nirvana rulez. Nickleback can go suk cok.

  • I love Nickelback and Nirvana :D

  • lol who cares guys, Nickelback are a bunch of talentless fucks

  • first...nickelblack suck....2nd...is not a copie....is the same scale so maybe kinda the same sound and if they used the same riff?what the hell...they suck lol the copuied a riff

  • that is defo coppied

  • It actually doesn't really sound much like swap meet.

    You people have to learn how to play guitar and get a good ear.

    PS: Nickelback fuckin suxx

  • There are more egregious examples of plagarism than this, and this might not even necessarily be plagarized. Rock riffs are bound to sound similar, especially at this point in time as there's only so many ways to do it and most of them have been done before.

    However, as a side note, using a cell-phone-recorded riff on their album would have to be the only remotely cool thing Nickelback ever did. Man, it makes me happy to see so much hatred for Nickelback; there's hope yet!!

  • The difference is one sounds gay the other amkes me want to head bang.

  • Nickelback are so lazy they even ripped themselves of!

  • I used to listen to Nickelback

    then my brother introduced me to nirvana

    The only nice thing my older brother ever did for me

  • nickelback sucks.

  • Things like that happen all the time, you hear a song from a long time ago, forget that you heard it, bring something that sounds like that up during band practice and you go on. Of course, someone elsr says hey ive heard that before like 90% of the time though. Youd have to be in a band to understand. Btw nickleback sucks hardcore

  • @konheeed

    your fucking dumb NIRVAN and ONLY NIRVANA could do that intro best so go kill yourself you low life turd

  • PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE NIRVANA TO nickelback....

  • Nickelback Rip Off Nirvana That's like saying AIR IS CLEAR! lmao. We opened for Big Wreck back in 98 and Nicklebush was on between us and them. First song NB played I looked at my buddy and said: "Sounds like?...." "Bush, who ripped off....?", he replied. "Nirvana" "Who yanked from...", said my bud... "The Pixies". But seriously, if a time eraser machine got rid of Nicklebush, Theory of a Nicklebush, Default-o-back, and all of Jesus Kroeker's spawn, the world would smile more
  • @YowzaDJofRD While I agree, Nirvana was influenced by the Pixies, they didn't actually sound or play instruments or sing similarly at all.

  • Nickelback haters are pathetic. You people are saying they should be sued for ripping of Grunge. Well erm i hate to break it to you but Nickelback are the biggest Grunge artists of all time. Get bent

  • @BusterThePuppy Well erm i hate to break it to you but Nickelback is not grunge its post grunge which is commercially acceptable and therefore sucks the creativity out of the movement. on the upside nickleback is ok

  • @BusterThePuppy HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!! you are right.

  • @BusterThePuppy HAHAHAHAH!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH! WHAT A FUCKING DUMBASS!

  • @BusterThePuppy You have no grasp of music. The riff sounds hideously stolen. Not to mention that Nickelback is nothing like Grunge, they're corporate, friendly-for-the-masses garbage. You want dangerous, listen to some effing Deicide.

  • Erm - Thats just fucked up. 'Something In Your Mouth' is an AWESOME song. You know both artists are brilliant. You are just not facing up to the reality that you are just jelous of nickelback becasue, whilst they are out there selling albums worldwide, you are stuck in your house making videos of songs with similar riffs and posting them online saying they have been 'Ripped Off'. TBF You must get a life- also they don't even sound THAT similar.

  • @BusterThePuppy But you have to admit Nickelback licks big kangaroo balls.

  • jajajajajaj you hate nickelback because they sell many albums , only for that , but their music is as good as nirvana's music.and i have to say that i like nickelback as much as nirvana pearl jam alice in chains soundgarden screaming trees and that kind of music.its ridiculous what you say about about nickelback./and many songs look like others , even nirvana has many similar songs in their own discography if you listen to their music ,and not to your '''principles''¡¡.

  • they sound nothing a like

  • i think someone needs to sue nickelback, not for this, but because they ripped of all of grunge

  • @chrisissince1985 Someone should sue them for being shit, if Kurt didn't die there wouldn't be any shitty bands like Nickelback, BMTH and other shit. It would be Nirvana and Breaking Benjamin ruling the musical world.

  • 7 beers in and i can still easily tell ; not the same. Besides heaps of bands rip each other off ; Placebo - Taste in Men ripped off some old Pink Floyd song i dont know the name of. Silverchair - Slave ripped off Mad Season - I don't know anything.

  • nirvana are good but nickelback are better

  • @CWCgamer noooooooooooooooooooo nooooooooooooooooo hell nooooooooooooooooooo noooooooooooooooooo

  • Nickelback sucks huge testicles, but they don't sound too alike.

  • this sounds nothing alike at all. lol. Why must everyone hate on nickelback? Ya they are a very commercial band but who isnt these days. well you got your screamo /wrist bands that dont get signed because they suck. Nickelback is a good band that comes out with more Cd's than any of your punk rock bitch bands will ever make.

  • It's not the same at all.

  • fuck nickelback they suck ass!!!!!!!!nirvana!!!!!!!!!!!!­!forget nevermind the unknown albums are the best

  • *Appluades* Very nicely put. Nickelback - and mainly Chad Kroeger - are Nirvana wannabes. Cockrock sucks.

  • @Kurtcobainfanchick Nickelback were Nirvana wannabes but they stopped being that a lot time ago and became the cock rock band they are today.

  • @alexfanx Good observation. When it all comes down to it, though, Nickelback suck... Always will at this point.... There could have been a possiblility for them to save themselves if they had skipped the cock rocker phase, but since they jumped right into it, they are as good as fucked.

  • Fuck, that intro for the drums is even way similar. that's bullshit.

  • I imagine that he really did rip off Nirvana. that's pathetic, just assuming that you can steal Nirvana's sound just because Bleach is lesser known. this makes me like nickelback way less. Nirvana is my favorite band though

  • I never liked nickelback and now I have more of a reason, fuck you nickelback Nirvana still rules.

  • Wow... Sounds like they copied them for sure. That gives me one more reason to hate Ticklesack.

  • There's always Concidences !

  • it sounds kinds like it, but its not the same...

  • Uhh. . .it does kinda sound like it. . .but I'm not sure if it's a rip off.

  • nirvana set a sort of template for these kids to come along and try to ''rock'' oh and dont forget your make up baby'' :L silly little idiots thinking they can slightly imitate nirvana ... basically preps love this shit , yeah they know how to ''rock'' they might aswel listen to screamo :L

  • Nickelback sucks.

    Nirvana is amazing.

  • even the drums sound the same! the thieves...oh well they suck anyway

  • THIS IS HOW I SEE IT...

    what artist can use a color better?

    Kurt in my eyes harmonized the riff more than nickelback..

    reason being, nickelbacks vocals are very stale on this song anyhow..

    also, with come as you are and killing joke.

    listen to killing jokes song and you will see nirvana harmonized that riff 10fold compared to killing joke..

    killing joke should be thanking nirvana for putting attention to them.

  • Killing joke stole that riff from the band called 'the damned' in their song 'life goes on'

  • @odiumimbues true..but again...i dont think it was kurts intenion to do that. he may have never even heard the song for all we know. anyways, he still did it better and he always wrote his own music. And badass, unique music at that ;)

  • Nirvana isn't grunge. The media labelled them grunge.

  • Gasp songs that have the same scales thats never happened before

  • @coolz788 people just never learn do they

  • @coolz788 Gasp, songs from the same scale with the same exact notes used in those scales and those same exact notes are used in the same exact order never happens before! Oh wait it doesn't ever happen, or rarely does, and when it "rarely does" it's that shitty post-grunge band copying a riff.

  • @coolz788 No. But it's funny that the structure not only of the riff is identitical. But the the actual song intro and timing. That's the part that is funny to me. Way to stick up for Nickelback though man.

  • most people who listen to more than nevermind are smart enough not to listen to nickelback

  • @hiddenpunk291 Incesticide is my favorite, bleach second, In Utero third. Nevermind can suck it.