Nickelback continue to be the most meme-friendly band on the internet, with a new album of their songs performed in a Motown style.
The biggest surprise: it actually sounds pretty good.The project started in late 2011, when a 55,000-strong
internet petition begged for the band not to play a Thanksgiving show during a football game in Detroit.At the time, New York pianist
Scott Bradlee arranged a band to record a
Motown-esque cover of "
How You Remind Me", which proved so successful that it inspired them to start a
Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording for a full album. $3,294 later, and the album is ready.Listen to the
Motown tribute to
Nickelback here:
It's not the first time Nickelback have been the target of a web meme. In December they were unamused by a
parody cover of "
Photograph", and in 2011 one enterprising coder published a tool which
blocks any mention of the band from the internet.
