Comments on: Motor City Album Cover (2004) Totally Looks Like Nickelback Album Cover (2005)

By: E-Monster

E-Monster — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:28:12 +0000

Wow, how is that possible?!

By: shoopdawhoop

shoopdawhoop — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:25:28 +0000

Further evidence that Nickelback smokes pole

By: 0xym0ron

0xym0ron — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:17:33 +0000

VROOOOM

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:13:01 +0000

its the same one people always steal pics

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:24:48 +0000

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/graphics/RUNNING.GIF

From 1976!!

By: Counterpart

Counterpart — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:32:46 +0000

DOUCHEDOUCHEDOUCHEDOUCHEDOUCHEDOUCHEDOUCHEDOUCHE

By: Eliza

Eliza — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:01:46 +0000

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.

By: IHaveAHeadache

IHaveAHeadache — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:29:57 +0000

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.

By: Six

Six — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:57:37 +0000

Chad Kroger giving vocal pointers?
I mean…
People actually taking vocal pointers FROM Chad Kroger?
I cry.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:04:22 +0000

You sir, are teh win.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:00:50 +0000

There is no way that those arent the same picture

By: Gargisar

Gargisar — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:40:00 +0000

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.

By: bophus

bophus — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:16:39 +0000

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.

By: Dylan Wisor

Dylan Wisor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:18:41 +0000

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.

By: dman762000

dman762000 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:23:08 +0000

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.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:00:16 +0000

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.

By: Dixie Normous

Dixie Normous — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:36:23 +0000

TURBONEGRO!

By: saitokthx

saitokthx — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:04:24 +0000

TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE

By: hmmmtity

hmmmtity — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:27:14 +0000

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

By: lol

lol — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:50:16 +0000

touche

By: Stree

Stree — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:11:10 +0000

seriously, it’s the same picture….look at the clouds, they are the same!

By: Spanky

Spanky — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:02:09 +0000

GOD I F*CKING HATE NICKELBACK SO SO SO SO MUCH.

By: Bobsaget

Bobsaget — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:57:14 +0000

There is no video for Fly.

By: Nickelbarf

Nickelbarf — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:27:53 +0000

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.

By: Rhyz

Rhyz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:26:12 +0000

Hey leave them alone xD
Their the only thing New Zealand has got…’part from sheep. nd me

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:30:22 +0000

Seriously, who is Motor City?? I cant find then in Amazon.

By: LissFirefly

LissFirefly — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:39:06 +0000

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.

By: LissFirefly

LissFirefly — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:37:52 +0000

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.

By: dookel

dookel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:01:47 +0000

not sure you’re using that right..

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:25:10 +0000

You would win at me kicking your ass though.

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:23:48 +0000

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!

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:21:07 +0000

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!”

By: Dreolin

Dreolin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:25:24 +0000

It’s not even A band, it is a compilation album. My sister has it.

By: And Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

And Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:56:10 +0000

FAIL.

By: nicklebackeatsbabies

nicklebackeatsbabies — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:48:13 +0000

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.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:37:18 +0000

It’s the exact same photo with a person shopped in/out of the car.
Way to go Nickleback, you fail again.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:34:29 +0000

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!

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:29:39 +0000

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

By: Helena

Helena — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:05:26 +0000

Nickelback aren’t the only people Nickelback copy.

By: Mstar

Mstar — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:49:00 +0000

Yeah, you see that on book covers all the time.

By: HalloweenDog

HalloweenDog — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:21:36 +0000

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.)

By: goat

goat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:24:41 +0000

why would someone make an homage of an album that was put out only a year before?

By: MusiciansPoint

MusiciansPoint — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:40:17 +0000

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.”

By: ShroudedOne

ShroudedOne — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:54:30 +0000

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!

By: ShroudedOne

ShroudedOne — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:48:42 +0000

VH1

By: Traitorfish

Traitorfish — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:08:05 +0000

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.

By: bigjesus

bigjesus — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:55:55 +0000

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.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:57:30 +0000

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.

By: MentalFloss

MentalFloss — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:41:02 +0000

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.

By: WarDragon

WarDragon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:58:21 +0000

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.