NickelbackAll The Right Reasons
2005
Rating: 2/10
When I took this project on my goal was to prove to myself that maybe Nickelback isn't as bad as I make them sound and maybe they have something that could redeem them. I mean this album has now gone seven times platinum in this great country of ours and has sold a total of nine million copies in all of the world I figured there might be something good on this album. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried I was sadly mistaken.
It's weird when I was listening to this album I thought man this first track is awfully long. Then the album ended and I realized that all the songs sounded so much alike that you can't distinguish one from another. Think of Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Now try real hard to think of the complete opposite of him and you get this album. Nickelback doesn't experiment at all on this record instead they go with the same song formula over and over. They are still doing heavy guitars with nonstop riffs and they never seem to want to change chords or melodies between songs. After going to a shrink because I wanted to cut my ears off and never hear again I decided that at least Nickelback has one thing going for them. They have a horrible lead vocalist in Chad Kroeger with lyrics that are equally as bad, so at least they aren't outdoing themselves in anyway. Not to mention Chad Kroeger makes having a lot of money sound horrible with all of his depressing lyrics. Now I don't want this album to look like a total failure. Although it is sub par for many bands around right now, for them this is a stretch adding more keyboards and acoustic guitars than on previous albums. Also on Follow You Home, the first track on the album, there is a small guitar part coming in about halfway through the song that sounded good, but I soon found out it was played by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top instead of their regular guitarist. I am afraid there is nothing that can save this album from being anything but bad art.
In conclusion, this is the first and last time I will listen to this album. I will go as far as to say this album is unlistenable under any circumstances. I don't care if tomorrow someone offered me a million dollars to listen to this album again I couldn't do it if I tried. Bassist Mike Kroeger has tried to defend their similar sounding music by saying that when you have a distinct style it's hard to not sound the same. He even tries to compare them to that of AC/DC. There are two main things wrong with this statement. First, if you are trying to defend yourself why drag an almost equally bad band like AC/DC into it. Second, there is nothing distinct about Nickelback's sound. It sounds like every other hard rock band out there right now bland and uninspired. Yet all the other bands find some way of at least sounding different for every song. I suppose if you happen to like predictable songs and like to hear the same song over and over with slight changes then this album is for you. Aside from that group of people I think this comic says it best.
-Niko Gruber
1 comment:
Then why'd you give it a 2? Maybe a 1 or 0. When I worked at Verizon this summer, Nickelback put on the loudest and most explosive show of the season. I wore earplugs and I was working in the back of the pavilion by the front of the lawn. It was a cool night but I was warm when the fireworks went off and flames shot up on every song. The flashbangs were fun, too; although they were very scary. The people at the concert liked them and I'm convinced that they played their own intstruments. But it sounded like the kids who practice the same cover songs over and over and then are the first ones to grab a guitar and exhaust their repritoire for the girls. And then they go and get drunk or something. At least that's what Nickelback did on stage.
That came out much more negative than I intended. Still, their live show is the only thing that will redeem them for me.
And so, redemption is here! Live show gets a 4!
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