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Originally Posted by FlamesFanInVan

Just glancing through this, one should understand that you do not go to a hockey forum and expect to see people with good taste in music.

That being said, there are some things that should be common knowledge in music by now, even on a sports forum.

1. Nickleback is awful. Everyone knows that. All you have to do is listen to them and you can figure that out.

2. If you haven't listened to any music from the past couple decades, then your opinion does not have any credibility when discussing music from today.

I do not really have much faith in the general populace's taste in music, mostly because not too many of them spend time looking for good music; however, that being said, two things happened in the last couple weeks that somewhat renewed my faith in the "mainstream's" tastes. First, the Black Eyed Peas performed at the Super Bowl and everyone routinely recognized how bad they were. This is good. More people need to understand that they are terrible. Secondly, the Arcade Fire's "Suburbs" won for album of the year at the Grammys. More people need to understand that they are (if nothing else) important, so this is also good.

As for my take on Metric, I think they are solid. However, I prefer the super group to which Emily Haines and James Shaw also belong.

Follow your own advice there, champ.