Motor City Album Cover (2004) Totally Looks Like Nickelback Album Cover (2005)
Motor City Album Cover (2004) Totally Looks Like Nickelback Album Cover (2005)
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Everything else Nickelback does is derivative so why would they stop with the cover.
touche.
not sure you’re using that right..
touche
WIN!!!!!
Seriously, have Nickelback play 3 Doors Down songs and 3 Doors Down play Nickelback songs and you can’t tell the difference
…and any one of about 10 other “pop alternative” bands that are out today…Daughtry, Theory of a Dead Man, etc.
That ought to offend a few people. Here they come.
P.S. Next time you hear that new Nickelback song (the one about “Feeling like someone cares” (they don’t)), picture three 13 year old girls in a group-jump-hug for the entire song. It makes the song soooo funny.
No, I’m not replying because you “offended” me. I just wanted to point out that Theory of a Dead Man sounds a lot like Nickelback because Chad Kroger has wrote and produced most of their music. He has also gave the singer a lot of pointers, vocal wise, so I’m thinking that you should blame that one on Theory of a Dead man, not Nickelback. Touche on Daughtry though, I agree with you there.
Chad Kroger giving vocal pointers?
I mean…
People actually taking vocal pointers FROM Chad Kroger?
I cry.
Okay, seriously people, the whole not understanding the difference between a homage and coincidence thing has got to end. If two album covers look this much alike, IT’S ON PURPOSE. It’s not a funny coincidence.
Or they could just be using the same stock photo. In which case it’s not an homage, it’s a dumb mistake. You never know.
This argument is used on every looks like pic, but it doesn’t fly this time. They’re not doing an omage to an album released a year before by a nobody by using the exact same picture.
It’s called stock photography. It’s what you SHOULDN’T use on a major project like a famous band album cover, because anyone can purchase the very same photo and use it on whatever they like.
And, whattyaknow, both bands used it.
I’m not buying the stock photo story. I looked it up- this was Nickelback’s sixth album. They’d had some significant sucess by that point and weren’t just taking whatever album cover was given to them. Bands tend to take their album art pretty seriously; it’s not an afterthought. The in joke theory, while unsubstantiated, sounds more plausible.
I also highly doubt that the band itself is choosing the covers. Usually that’s done by PR folk. So blame them.
Please ‘google U2 No Line on the horizon’ for plenty of info on how record companies use stock art for big names without thoroughly checking to see if it’s already been used. The record company usually hires some accountant type to generate product packaging. These usually aren’t the music aficionado’s who would recognize two similar images, or know any band art other than their own.
so because you can use a sweeping generalization about bands who enjoy commercial success, you get to be the arbiter of what’s more plausible? AND you think it’s more plausible that Nickelback, a six-album multi-platinum band would use the exact same photo as another band’s album from the year before as some sort of joke?
wow.
It’s not even A band, it is a compilation album. My sister has it.
why would someone make an homage of an album that was put out only a year before?
Yeah, you see that on book covers all the time.
Normally I’d agree with you, but I don’t think this is homage, this is simply “same stock photo”.
Although I gotta admit the font choices are very similar looking.
As a graphic designer, I’d say this could ALSO be a case of a designer trying to be funny at Nickelback’s expense. Lord knows whenever you submit a joke design THAT will be the one the client likes :p
I don’t think most of these people understand the word “homage”. Really. Like those idiots that can’t quite get the grip on the fact that Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are the same person and post that “look alike” over and over.
I have to agree with that one… a LOT of music artists pay homage to the folks to who inspire them, or they truely appreciate. (I happen to know this because of the line of work I am in).
You’ll find a TON of album covers that look identical to other album covers for that very reason – and artists don’t go after them because – THEY don’t look at it as Copyright Infringement – they look at it as an honor that someone felt it necessary to show some sort of external reference… it’s usually the FANS of BOTH artists that take so much notice to it – rather than those who do not, and it usually boosts album sales in the process…
It’s called Entertainment Marketing – and this is one of the most common of it’s simplest forms.
Check the year, and the original album. I thought homage too at first, but it’s a compilation, from the year before. That ain’t homage.
actually if you look at the details of the clouds you will see that it is not a homage at all. It is a straight copy. the clouds are exactly the same on both. the only difference is that nickleback darkened the windshield of the car a little so you couldn’t see in.
it,s not on purpose. why would they pay homage to an album that was released a year before their own? it is called a stock photo.
they had no idea they were using an image from another album. no one would do that in such a close time frame.
dont be stupid dumby.
Nobody said it was a “funny coincidence”, moron. The general agreement is that Nickelback straight up stole the album cover. It’s not an homage, it’s the exact same photo used on both covers.
It’s not EXACTLY the same…Nickelback had the driver/steering wheel photoshopped out…;)
If the stock photo was available for purchase, then they didn’t “steal” it either. Its fair game, although pretty embarassing when someone notices it!
wheeeeedoggie’s comment is a WIN!
wheeeeedoggie’s comment is a bigger FAIL than Nickelback are… if that’s even possible.
It’s easy to be a bigger FAIL than Nickelback.
Ever hear of The Darkness?
“I believe in a thing called Loooove… OooOOoOOoooh!”
a massive space squid tentacle raping a space ship with a strange british band on board…
nothing “win” there
the darkness…..a band you listen to when you have nothing else to do and want to hear a guy who sounds like a chick and must enjoy space octopus…
Hey leave them alone xD
Their the only thing New Zealand has got…’part from sheep. nd me
ya nickelback is a really awesome band they arent FAIL people who think they stole the album art are FAIL the biggest fail ever of cousre ( i agree with Hoopy Frood is the darkness.
Wow.Just,wow.You should get an award for that comment. (Note sarcasm,if you know what that means). Oh and nice spelling too. It’s “course”,not “cousre”.Now excuse me as I laugh myself to death.
FAIL.
The Darkness might’ve been a fail, if they were trying to be serious:P
Ah Nickleback… The phoniest, least talented band in the entire world, paying a “tribute” to a CD cover by duplicating it down to the nth degree… What douchebaggery, what tools, what frauds.
True dat!
Couldn’t they have at least tilted the photo to the other side or something?
I agree go google nickleback sucks and look for the audio clip they even rip off their own @#$@# songs…
I don’t think it’s “ripping off” if it’s their own music. It’s “resampling,” and a lot of artist do it.
Secondly, Nickelback has its flaws, but I wouldn’t say they’re the worst in the world. Have you heard what hipsters are listening to lately? Yikes.
He’s right, we all know that the truly worst music in the world is japanese rap.
uuuhhhhg….
That’s not re sampling….Its blatant unoriginality
gotta love america
Yeah, except Nickelback is Canadian, and besides Celine Dion they’re pretty much on the top of my list of things I don’t want to admit are Canadian ;_;
O-range… I feel your pain.
D:
You do realise that America is a continent don’t you? Canada is a part of said continent. to be accurate maybe he/she should have said Americas… knobjocky
North America is a continent. So is East America. America is a country. It has a bunch of united states in it. (Like forty of ‘em.)
Mr. Johnson here was unaware that Quarterback is from Canadia, not America (the united one I mean). No one with a grasp of the Americanian language would be referring to Mexico, America, and Canada with that comment.
Knobjocky.
I think only one year’s difference between the two indicates it’s not homage, it’s lack of creativity.
You can’t accuse the 2004 cover of looking like the 2005 cover. When are people going to figure out how to put these in the correct order?
These aren’t accusations. They are supposed to be funny comparisons, which means the order doesn’t matter. Unfortunately, this one doesn’t fit that criteria either.
No, the order matters. The newer thing should be on the left.
The order TOTALLY matters. You cannot say something that came first looks like something that came after.
Unless you are really stupid.
Yes, you can say it and not be stupid. You can be something between ironic and sardonic, or you can be logically correct, situation depending.
You might note that on this site, the older objects are often (maybe even usually) on the left, i.e. “backwards”. Younger people, when they first encounter something that happens to hail from before their time, often naively say something like “ooh, that looks like [name of newer object with which they are more familiar].” Now, an oldster might respond “you mean [newer object] looks like [older object]” as a prelude to describing the history of said objects. Down the line, people find it amusing to intentionally duplicate the idiom of “reversing” the order.
But in the strict logical sense, resemblance by itself is irrespective of chronological order; if A looks like B, then B looks like A regardless of which really came first. It is only when we introduce the notion of something intentionally designed in another’s image that chronology becomes a factor in which looks like what, i.e. if A was made to look like B, then it is probably illogical to say that B was made to look like A. Nevertheless, you can go right ahead and say B was made to look like A, and when some bright spark “corrects you” that actually, A was made to look like B since A is newer, you can respond “thanks for the tip, captain obvious.” (Sometimes the stupid make the mistake of assuming that everybody is just as stupid.)
To say “your father looks like you” sounds backwards because it is generally understood that children are “made” in the image of their parents. However, if the father is actively trying to resemble his child, the intent of the comment is likely to be less on the mere physical resemblance than on the father’s actions.
Explanation Win! =o)
Or you could just meet someone that’s older than your dad and say, “That guy looks like my dad.” It depends on which subject you were first aware of.
Yup. That simply means the role of [name of newer object with which they are more familiar] is played by “my dad” in the scenario I already described.
The real question is this: Does VWJunkie28 have the worst taste in music ever?
From what I can tell Motor City Magic is a show group specializing in Motown and R&B covers. Nickelback, as has been discussed, is just a really crappy band.
How does one become aware that these albums exist?
Motown covers are not crappy music, as long as they do the original song and artist justice. Nickelback however, is just an utter FAIL.
I’m not saying they suck, I just can’t see an album by a motown cover act doing very well.
VH1
if you look at the clouds you can tell that they are basically the same
Actually, this is a graphic artist fail.
They used the same stock photography in this case:P
Not anything to do with Nickelback or Motor City Magic…like most novel covers, this is all in the marketing department.
It doesn’t surprise me that Nickelback would steal from another group. They already steal from themselves.
Nickelback obviously believes that by stealing a cover from a band that has little to no attention from the media will automatically mean no one will ever notice. WRONG! Idiots. I hate Nickelbarf.
Nickelback was originally gonna call themselves “Twenty cents less than a quarterback” but they couldn’t fit it on the cd cover. lol
Oh and totally agreed on the suckage… Nickelbarf….ha awesome
“DO WE HAVE ANY NICKELBACK FANS IN PORTUGAL???” XD
lolz. “you guys wanna hear some rock and roll?
I CERTAINLLY HOPE NOT!!! >:3
- But, teacher, an image on istock costs only like 4 bucks, why can’t we use one of that for our album cover?
- See kids, that’s why exclusive license rights in photography were invented, so that no one else can use an image but you.
This should also be posted in the Failblog, with the title: Photography Licensing Fail.
I totally agree with you.
OMFG get some fact people!! Tis is photos is of Mike Kroegers (from Nickelback) own muscle car that was taken on a photoshoot while filming the video for the song ‘Fly’ (which tanked onthe charts). The whole thing is an in-joke between Kroeger and the Motor City bassist.
Source?
For real! I googled some stuff and couldn’t find anything about it. Sounds like bunk to me. I NEED PROOF!
How could they win that title when songs from the 20’s, 30’s & 40’s are still being played on the radio? Heck, they even still play Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg & lots of other types pre 20th century music!
I just want to point out that being the most overplayed band on the radio does not equal talent. Yes, Nickelback can be considered a successful band in a marketing/business sense, but they still “fail” artistically. A radio station can play Nickelback all they want, I’m still going to turn it off before my ears start bleeding.
There is no video for Fly.
no matter how you slice it, nickelback fails SOOOO hard
They are called Stock Photos.
nickelback = ULTIMATE FAIL
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I’ll repeat it because it deserves repeating:
Stock Photo totally looks just like (the same) Stock Photo!
Golly!
May be bad but they are still wealthier than all of the people here combined.
Just throwing that out there.
Nickelback sucks. Like most bands from the 2000s.
Age of group, fail.
Correction, Like most MAINSTREAM bands from the 2000’s.
There are tons of underground bands that still rock.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0471451800
Im pretty sure its a stock photo…
The presence of this exact same photo on books that are out of print would debunk the theory that this is a picture of anyone who matters’ car and it’s an inside joke between the bands.
nickelback sucks anyways…
the first pic looks a lot better in my opinion, though
also, I don’t find it fitting with Nickleback’s album title
theory of a nickel creed
Nickelback are not worth this site. Sorry fans, but, like most mainstream bands nowadays, they suck big time. All the good bands are unpopular, the only place I find people that like good music is online. It’s sad.
Talking about a broad exclusive absolute statement: “All the good bands are unpopular, all popular bands suck”.
I wish I could be as firm as you, but you see, I actually detect the flaws in a logic like that from times to times. Yeah, I know, thinking more than superficially sucks.
Well, yes, I know that there are SOME good popular bands, but I’m saying that the mainstream music culture seems to be almost entirely made up by things like Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift, Soulja Boy, and pretty much every awful rapper ever born. Talented, original bands/singers are very hard to find nowadays. Go to your average middle school and ask the students what bands they like, and TRUST ME on this one, 90 percent of them will say bands like those I mentioned before. I think that it is accurate to say that the best music comes from bands that aren’t advertised on VH1 or-even worse-Disney Channel. (I’m sorry if anyone is offended by this.)
but what are they inspired by? :3 or you must be talking about something exceptional, but it makes me wonder what… but if I think about one of my favourite bands, it’s possible.
So, it’s much cooler to hate a band because they’re popular than to like a band because they’re popular? Sorry, bud – it’s just as superficial. Use your own brain determine if you like something.
Dammit! I am really getting tired of [stock photo] looks like [stock photo]
Here Here!
Music industry …..totally out of ideas.
It’s not even a photo, so atop with the stupid stock photo theory.
It’s not even a photo, so stop with the stock photo theory.
Ok, seriously…SO tired of seeing these ones that were obviously two uses of the same stock photo, or done on purpose as an homage. Not funny. Wasn’t the first time, won’t BE funny if continued.
Y’know, I actually thought “Jesus, not another obvious homage…”, then I looked at the dates and realised they were identical stock photos. Now it’s actually pretty funny.
As musician and having written a song or two myself I try not to chuckle sometimes when I hear professional appreciators rip up a band for sounding like another band. I am willing to be the majority of you have never written a single note of music yourself that you weren’t transcribing. There are only 7 notes available (not including accidentals) If you bothered to pay attention to musical history one would note periods of music in which things sound remarkably similar. It has been that way for a very long time.
Every musician has been influenced by someone and receive their inspiration from someone or something. Very little is truly original. I’m almost done pissing on the fun parade, I get what I deserve for checking out a site based on making fun of similarities given my pet peeves…
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Nickelback aren’t the only people Nickelback copy.
A little research on TinEye.com reveals that we are dealing with a stock image…
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0471451800
http://www.amazon.com/Motor-City-Magic-Various/dp/B000K5LYQ4
Well, most of there songs sound the same with lack of creativity, so why should they be creative with the cover? Just steal some other people’s cover!
It’s the exact same photo with a person shopped in/out of the car.
Way to go Nickleback, you fail again.
Nickelback is garbage. They are doing to the white people what “gangsta rap” is doing to minorities. “My girlfriend is stoned and she blows me with her pants around her feet with meth on her nose” pretty much a sum of there lyrics. Standard white trash anthem! “lemme turn this up in ma truck on the way to the bar where all im going to drink in bud light and jack daniels! on the way home ill get a dui or kill a family!”
So is that worse or better than “I shoved my girlfriend in the trunk and shot her”?
I prefer their “Saving Me” and “Photograph” and “Someday” songs. I like Nickelback, but not every single one of their songs is on my playlist.
Your name is an epic fail! You could say something about my name but its not even my real name! ME FOR THE WIN! You are so lame… TO COOL FOR SCHOOL for the FAIL!
You would win at me kicking your ass though.
Seriously, who is Motor City?? I cant find then in Amazon.
GOD I F*CKING HATE NICKELBACK SO SO SO SO MUCH.
seriously, it’s the same picture….look at the clouds, they are the same!
Was gonna say the same thing. its imposible for that cloud formation to be the same twice. Its the same photo just moved down sightly and zoomed in a smidge.
TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE
TURBONEGRO!
There is no way that those arent the same picture
You sir, are teh win.
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/graphics/RUNNING.GIF
From 1976!!
its the same one people always steal pics
VROOOOM
Further evidence that Nickelback smokes pole
Wow, how is that possible?!