Okay, this is awfully cool. It’s Nickelback’s “Someday” in the left channel and “How You Remind Me” in the right.
The two tracks aren’t unaltered; they’ve been cut to fit together, although not in ways that are obvious until you listen to each channel individually.
The neat part is that I enjoy the two together much more than either one separately.
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Please never delete this. Two years later, it’s still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard :)
pg
Friday, October 13th, 2006, 9:24 pm
Lol brilliant find. These songs actually sound really good together, thx for this
Will
Monday, October 16th, 2006, 4:24 pm
Thank Goodness this is still here!! I am showing it to a musician/song writer-friend .
He’s BLOWN away!!!
Brilliant … FORMULA. =)
KB
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006, 1:53 am
i am dissapointed in music.
jordan
Saturday, November 25th, 2006, 10:45 pm
hatred
hatred
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006, 7:31 pm
this is kinda ridiculous… listen 2 how much it’s been altered, the solo from someday is looped like 3 times! they dont even sound the same either. they have the same amount of measures in the chorus and stuff, but i dont see wut’s so similar about it…
Marcus Klink
Thursday, May 24th, 2007, 10:49 pm
Marcus you moron, the have the same, accousic and electric guitar lines, same beat, same song, just different lyrics.
Acid Trip Man
Saturday, July 7th, 2007, 9:13 pm
yeah this cool/funny as hell.i think everyone should hear this atleast once.
nice work bro.
fenix
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007, 2:50 pm
I play alot of guitar and I honestly dont see the similarity
Anonymous
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007, 11:32 am
I don’t play a lot of guitar, but I can see how this guy above is an idiot.
Squints
Thursday, September 27th, 2007, 7:38 pm
hahah I play a lot of guitar, and I totally see the similarity…. but I really don’t think they sound good together though :S
Pétur
Friday, September 28th, 2007, 6:32 pm
Ah common. For me every hiphop or electro song is the same. Yeah, it’s right, comparing the two songs this way, they seem very similar. But they aren’t. It is not only beat or harmony that matters… They tell different stories, talk about different emotions.
Chris
Saturday, September 29th, 2007, 5:19 pm
Hmmm,,, one of my speakers is kinda broke so cant really hear it right, but, pretty much all bands do this, especially bands such as Nickelback.
when you’re playing poofy stuff like that, you’re gonna write songs that end up sounding similar, they probably didnt even realise they had done it, it just happens.
and from what i could hear, songs didnt go that well together. which is a shame cause i wanted them to lol
Matt
Saturday, September 29th, 2007, 7:03 pm
ive been saying this about nickelback for a long time. i swear they just go back and re-record the same album everytime they want to release a new cd.
Tom
Sunday, September 30th, 2007, 8:57 pm
I think when you’re as good as nickleback you can do what ever you want we with your music.
I love nickle back and I don’t care how much they copy themselves, they put on an awesome concert
jade
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007, 11:43 am
I’d think if this person above me was such a big NickELback fan that they would know how to spell the band’s name…but as for the song, I have been a fan of this band since their beginnings outside of Vancouver way before they got radio play or became Hollywood-ized. They are a lot different than they used to be. The main reason for their success is Kroeger’s ability to write catchy chorus’s. Without them, Nickelback’s songs would never be as big. When I first heard this “How your Remind Me/Someday” song I was disappointed. Bands need to make an effort to make songs that don’t sound the same. If you want to hear Nickelback when they were good I’d invite you to listen to “Leader of Men,” a song that they nowadays neglect to play at the majority of live shows. Nickelback could be labeled “sell-outs” and a lot of people in Canada scorn them for that.
Jimmy
Thursday, October 11th, 2007, 11:15 am
Hahahaha :))
This is exactly how some of our songs end up in the studio on 136 tracks, if we have too much time to work on them.
Dr. Crap
Saturday, October 13th, 2007, 5:28 pm
to me it just seems the same in the sence that the voices raise at the same part at each song but it seems pretty cool to me. Nickelback still rock :)
Anonymous
Friday, October 26th, 2007, 10:59 am
nickelback is the worst band ever and the epitome of evertyhing cliche and mediocre. they’ve never done anything that can even be seen as ok. they are quite possible the worst band of all time
Anonymous
Sunday, October 28th, 2007, 12:54 am
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH—-
THIS IS WHERE I WENT TO SCHOOL—-
So catchy and deep~! :D
Anonymous
Thursday, November 1st, 2007, 9:22 pm
This seems totally contrived. Take any two songs, by different artists, genres, etc and you can line them up because 98% of pop songs follow the same pattern of 8 bar sections - intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, with a few small variations. Add in other similarities which are present across artists and genres, like a guitar building to the chorus, and most songs will sound “the same” as any other song, especially when they are CLIPPED AND EDITED together so that the parts match up exactly I’m not defending Nickelback, I don’t really like them in fact, I’m just saying this isn’t “proof that Nickelback sucks”. You could take any 2 songs on the radio by 2 very different artists and done the same thing with the same results. It might be interesting to try…
Tony
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007, 7:17 am
Yeah, I don’t see how anyone can’t hear a similarity. It really sounds like just one song. I guess nobody has heard of the response from the shithead bass player. “I think that’s remarkable for someone to notice that there is a hit quality. If all hits sound the same, then sorry. When you are a band that has a distinct style such as us or AC/DC, that happens. When you have a distinct style, you run the risk of sounding similar.” He compared nickelback to AC/DC. That is the most captain insane-o. Anyways, : http://www.freetimes.com/stories/12/11/soundcheck-mike-kroeger-nickelback-guitarist is my bibliography. Nickelback sucks.
Joe
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007, 11:06 pm
I agree with the poster that said they are the epitome of everything cliche and mediocre, they really are, to the point where i dont even know what nickleback song it is if i dont catch it at the chorus, and to think i really liked leader of men, i thought it was great, sadly it was to be the first and last nickleback song i ever thought listenable
Roger
Sunday, November 11th, 2007, 8:42 pm
Ya know, if you could play each song on an instrument, you’d see that they really aren’t alike. The chords are completely different. The length may be pretty close, just like the melody and the way the guitarists do the palm mute right before the chorus (but Nickelback does this a lot; listen to Feeling Way Too Damn Good). But to justify the melody, all you have to do is think that the same guy wrote both songs. There is going to be some similarities.
John Fogerty, lead singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, was sued in the ‘70’s for writing solo songs that sounded too much like CCR’s songs, which he wrote himself. He won the case, because he explained that when someone writes their own songs, there are going to be similarities. The judge agreed with him.
What’s so different about this than a vehicle manufacturer? All Chevys look the same, all Fords look the same, all Dodges look the same. Do you know why? Because it’s the same company that makes each one of these. The same goes for songwriters.
However…if you wanted too songs that sound alike, try “Too Bad” and “Savin’ Me.” Their chords are exactly the same, especially in the chorus.
Adam
Thursday, November 15th, 2007, 2:58 pm
That’s supposed to be “two” instead of “too.” Oops.
And to research the John Fogerty thing, here’s a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fogerty
It’s under the “First Comeback” section.
Adam
Thursday, November 15th, 2007, 3:01 pm
Hahaha, this is pretty funny! Thanks for keeping it up!
Mike
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007, 4:35 am
“I love nickle back and I don’t care how much they copy themselves, they put on an awesome concert.”
You aren’t allowed to use the say the word “music” anymore. Now, you have to say “crap” instead.
So the chords aren’t different-it’s the same progression. You can dismiss that the melodies and song structures are the same, but if you do, you have to acknowledge that they are not a band. They are not songwriters. They are not musicians. They should go back to being a cover band.
To say that this is okay because all pop songs are the same is completely ridiculous. A lot of pop songs suck but that has nothing to do with the genre because there are a lot of pop songs that are very well written and produced.
Alvin
Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 12:43 pm
Worst. Band. Ever
Steve
Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 10:01 pm
i write songs in a band. this doesn’t make me an expert on song writing, but i know some stuff. i have had many cases where i write a song that sounds just like another song that i’ve written before. however, i ALWAYS notice that the two songs sound the same and i make changes to the song i am working on in order to make them sound differently.
i cannot understand how this Chad guy could write both of these songs and not notice how similar they are. so it is apparent that he just doesn’t care that his songs sound the same, which to me means that he…
…SUCKS BALLS!
dave
Saturday, December 1st, 2007, 3:31 am
i don’t care just how much nickelback repeats their songs coz they rock and if you don’t agree with me it’s totally your poblem. you nickelback haters might like something i really can’t stand and i’m not gonna say that the band you like sucks. we all like different things don’t we? so don’t acuse those who are different then you.
Anonymous
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007, 3:20 am
Wow…. they sound just as bad together as they do seperately
Anonymous
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007, 10:14 am
Wow, a lot of Nickelback lovers and haters in here. Obviously, if this band can make this many people buy their albums AND make this many people think they’re horseshit at the same time, THAT is more amazing than two of their songs being synced together to me.
Those of you who say Nickelback isn’t a band and can’t write good songs, well, that’s simply your preference. Obviously, a TON of people would beg to differ because a couple of their albums have gone platinum. Also, how can anybody say they don’t count as “music?” I personally don’t like a lot of bands; in fact, I hate some bands. But that doesn’t mean those bands don’t make music.
As for the haters, I COMPLETELY understand why you wouldn’t like this band. The music sounds like generic rock and Chad Kroeger looks like Jesus Christ after using sun-in. Many people aren’t going to like this band simply because of how he looks alone. He just has this annoying look and you don’t know why it annoys you, but it does. Nonetheless, these factors don’t annoy a lot of people and they continue to support the group.
“How you Remind me of Someday” is entertaining regardless of your opinion about the band. If you love them, you think it’s kind of cool because you can sing along to two of your favorite songs at the same time. If you hate them, it’s cool because it justifies your point that they suck because they are ripping themselves off and are therefore unoriginal bastards.
I think Nickelback should play along though, maybe when they do live shows have some random band come onstage, dressed exactly like them, to play one of the songs and Nickelback themselves plays the other. Fans won’t give a shit—in fact, they’ll love it—half the crowd could sing “Someday” and the other half could sing “How you Remind me.” The people who hate them will laugh because it shows that Nickelback knows their songs sound similar, but what can they do about it now?
All in all, it’s a little like “Snakes on a Plane.” That movie knew it was joking, but made a shitload of money in the end.
Anonymous
Friday, December 28th, 2007, 6:02 pm
Wow, a lot of Nickelback lovers and haters in here. Obviously, if this band can make this many people buy their albums AND make this many people think they’re horseshit at the same time, THAT is more amazing than two of their songs being synced together to me.
Those of you who say Nickelback isn’t a band and can’t write good songs, well, that’s simply your preference. Obviously, a TON of people would beg to differ because a couple of their albums have gone platinum. Also, how can anybody say they don’t count as “music?” I personally don’t like a lot of bands; in fact, I hate some bands. But that doesn’t mean those bands don’t make music.
As for the haters, I COMPLETELY understand why you wouldn’t like this band. The music sounds like generic rock and Chad Kroeger looks like Jesus Christ after using sun-in. Many people aren’t going to like this band simply because of how he looks alone. He just has this annoying look and you don’t know why it annoys you, but it does. Nonetheless, these factors don’t annoy a lot of people and they continue to support the group.
“How you Remind me of Someday” is entertaining regardless of your opinion about the band. If you love them, you think it’s kind of cool because you can sing along to two of your favorite songs at the same time. If you hate them, it’s cool because it justifies your point that they suck because they are ripping themselves off and are therefore unoriginal bastards.
I think Nickelback should play along though, maybe when they do live shows have some random band come onstage, dressed exactly like them, to play one of the songs and Nickelback themselves plays the other. Fans won’t give a shit—in fact, they’ll love it—half the crowd could sing “Someday” and the other half could sing “How you Remind me.” The people who hate them will laugh because it shows that Nickelback knows their songs sound similar, but what can they do about it now?
All in all, it’s a little like “Snakes on a Plane.” That movie knew it was joking, but made a shitload of money in the end.
Spaulding '04
Friday, December 28th, 2007, 6:04 pm
Sorry, I’m a retard and posted this shit twice—sorry if that annoyed some of you, which it probably did and now someone will just criticize me for being an idiot. Oops.
Spaulding '04
Friday, December 28th, 2007, 6:06 pm
I don’t understand all the fuss about this? The two songs sound SIMILAR at best, and that’s only because of the tempo and the vocal melody in certain points of the chorus. They don’t even end on the same measure in their original length (Someday’s solo is looped).
Try picking up a guitar and singing the lyrics of How you remind me to Someday’s chord progression. You can’t quite get it to sound right, can you? If you can, post it on YouTube so we can all have some more fun..
I think the songs that really define Nickelback as who they are are the songs that don’t get released as singles. Sadly, most of the people posting here that define themselves as ‘haters’ have never heard these songs and clearly have no opinion of their own.
Johnny B. Goode
Friday, January 11th, 2008, 6:36 pm
I agree with Johnny! If you listen to a whole album youd stop thinking its all the same cause the songs are very different. This mix was well made though. How you remind me is played much louder so you concentrate on that song and dont realise the differences. Its like those optical illusions in sound. Congratulations to the maker!!!
Anonymous
Thursday, January 17th, 2008, 4:56 pm
Here’s a little something I put together myself. It’s the same principle, only the two songs are much more like each other (both use the same chords, just not always in the same progression). With enough effort you can put together any 2 songs that use similar chords and song structure and make them sound like they’re the same.
http://www.box.net/shared/040jxal4wo
Johnny B. Goode
Sunday, January 20th, 2008, 10:35 am
Amazing. Good thing you kept this page up, I just now heard about this.
Henry
Saturday, February 9th, 2008, 4:50 am
Nice work on the Daughtry/Nickelback mashup, Johnny.
I think music is just such a personal thing that all the “they suck/they rock” stuff seems silly to me. Like the bands you like, don’t like the bands you don’t like, and don’t criticize the tastes of others, lest they criticize yours right back.
I happen to like Nickelback. At 42, that probably means I’m immature or shallow or whatever, but so be it.
Sinfonian
Saturday, February 9th, 2008, 9:32 pm
hmmm…
it is interesting to hear.
good thing it’s still up.
blue
Sunday, February 10th, 2008, 11:12 am
brilliant, mate. the reactions of nickleback fans squabbling over the minute differences in the “two” songs only escalate the hilarity. i particularly enjoy that the drum parts sound like essentially the same take.
syd van vliet
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008, 8:25 am
Yes, you can mash up many popular songs to overlap; the problem comes when it’s the same artist twice. Pop songs might follow a formula, but when an artist follows that formula to a T with each consecutive release, we’ve got a problem. Yes yes, they changed the key and stuck in some extra bridges, but they’re still essentially writing the same song multiple times. And that just speaks to a lack of creative talent.
Also, posting a mash-up with Daughtry just shows that he’s one in a long line of people to visit the musical equivalent of Kinkos for inspiration.
F
Thursday, February 14th, 2008, 12:57 am
The mash-up was great, loved it. You should put it up for download so we can listen to it on the go, if we want. Also, men and women have different tastes for several different things. Music, food, sex, television, hobbies, you name it. I wont criticize your tastes, I’m not that conceited to think I know better. So what if Nickelback’s songs sound similar? They have a sound, that sound has sold MILLIONS of records WORLDWIDE. It’s clearly a sound people enjoy, why change it because a few ignorant people complain? Chad knows what he’s doing from experience, yeah, if one person creates several things, they’re going to be similar in one aspect or another to suit that persons tastes. A taste shared with millions. People can hate the sound, ok, it’s not to your taste, so don’t bother coming to a page and complaining about it while the rest of us give complements or constructive criticizm’s. Once again, great mix, keep it up, and throw another couple together, I’d like to hear the result.
Zer0
Sunday, March 16th, 2008, 2:50 am
Great Band, it doesn’t matter if the two songs matches in some parts..
Like people said above, hip-hop, dance, elektro musics, follow that 8 pattern, that’s trully ridiculous…
nickelback rocks…
Fabio
Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 7:25 pm
amount of times i have lisend to these songs and i havnt noticed a thing until i lisen to them both together. its amazin ow they both jump into chorous together.
if nickelback have done this on purpose…. I DONT CARE
if theyv not, wat an amazin coincidence
Nathan D
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008, 5:04 pm
Well, whatever, they sound similar i guess. I like them both. That’s all that matters to me. Truth spoken like the truth.
Joshy boy
Friday, April 18th, 2008, 12:07 am
i really could care less. they have same lyrics, so what. both songs are completely different in lyrics. and for those who hate them, who cares!!!! so cry about it. u hate nickelback because they are good. for the record. the songs are on different albums and both albums have went 4x platinum. guess no one really cares. if u spend ur free time trying to find similarities on the two songs, it shows that you just have no life.
Anonymous
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008, 2:45 am
That’s not even Chad Kroeger’s voice singing the lyrics from Someday you f-tards. Nickelback rocks!!
JT
Monday, May 5th, 2008, 12:55 am
But what the hell!I’m a Nickelback fan and who did this joke is a fn b*d! and don t know nothingh about Nickelback songs.
If you listen the real unaltered SOMEDAY maybe you will discover that it s long 3min and 27sec,different from HOW YOU REMIND ME (3min and 43sec!)
Then if you try to do this 2 songs with your guitar you realize that Someday begins with Bm chord,while HOW YOU REMIND ME begins with C chord!in this case try to listen on your pc this two song (original version not like that):they are completely different.
TRY IT.
ivan
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, 7:38 pm
I wonder if the people who think it’s a bad thing for artists to use a certain formula for a song have ever listened to blues music. Or perhaps Iron Maiden. Based on that argument, Maiden should be burrowing somewhere close to Earth’s core regarding their musical creativity - they use the same fucking 3 chords in 9/10 songs on ALL of their albums. I don’t even want to get started on blues..but still, it’s all good music.
Nickelback have turned into a mainstream rock group. They write catchy tunes, they put up a great rock show, have a great sound and Chad has one of the best and most unique rock voices ever to walk the face of the planet. That’s all there is to it.
Johnny B. Goode
Sunday, June 1st, 2008, 5:50 am
If anyone is curious i can post exactly what i did to the tunes to match em up. There really wasn’t that much to do. also: anyone who thought the other mash up posted here was good: i think you missed the point of the original. The chord progression is not the same in the daughtry song.
Mikey Smith
Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 12:52 am
I’m a big nickelback Fan
and this is unreal, it doesnt emhpasise nickelbacks sound, no not at all. If anything, just makes it better.
Nick Siler
Friday, June 20th, 2008, 8:25 am
I’m a big nickelback Fan
and this is unreal, it doesnt negativaly emhpasise nickelbacks sound, no not at all. If anything, just makes it better.
Nick Siler
Friday, June 20th, 2008, 8:25 am
if you are a nickelback fan you must not enjoy creative music. I do not hate them because they are popular, I hate them because they write songs that appeal to chicks. For God sakes Rockstar proves my point about this band. i could give a crap about thier corny and unrealistic lyrics and songs that include 5 cords in drop d. Music is not music unless their purpose is to make good music and affect peoples’ lives positively. This whole genre sucks( shinedown,saliva,daughtry, and any other band with a singer that sounds like scott stapp).
phillip tyler
Monday, June 23rd, 2008, 10:24 pm
Hey- similarity happens. It’s an old issue- there’s a joke in the classical music world that goes “Some people say that Vivaldi wrote 486 concertos during his lifetime, and some say that he wrote 1 concerto 486 times”.
“Everything has been thought of before. The difficulty is to think of it again.” Goethe
btw- I like Nickleback.
Slarti Bardfarst
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008, 8:56 am
The Daughtry mashup proves that with a little bit of editing, you can make any two songs in the same genre sound similar. This mashup is much more heavily edited than the Daughtry one; it’s looped at parts, sped up, and the keys still don’t match.
Ed
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008, 12:53 am