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Nickelback - Silver Side Up Audio CD

A fair review of the Nickelback "Silver Side Up" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Nickelback reviews here, or go back to the Nickelback tabs.

Nickelback Band: Nickelback
Title: Silver Side Up
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-11-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Never Again 2: How You Remind Me 3: Woke Up This Morning 4: Too Bad 5: Just For 6: Hollywood 7: Money Bought 8: Where Do I Hide 9: Hangnail 10: Good Times Gone

Nickelback rocks it.
This is the album that first put Nickelback on the charts with "How You Remind Me", "Never Again" and "Too Bad". As an old or new Nickelback fan, you should love this album. This is one of their better efforts and it is one of the few cd's where I listen to every single song, rather than skipping around to my favorites. There is literally not a bad song on this one. The song and sound quality is very good on this album, and all of the songs are just straight up rock and roll. Excellent listening. .


Really Enjoy It
Really also liked the vocals and lyrics. I have liked Nickelback since I first heard "How You Remind Me" which was a great pop rock song, blended together just right.

I never got around to getting the record, but heard the song on the radio and purchased the record. This is very good and well rounded, with poppier fare like How You Remind Me and songs that are a bit darker or not quite run of the mill rock.

Maybe they do pay homage to older rock acts and perhaps they have been overplayed, but it does not detract that they write well and I enjoy listening to them.


are you kidding me?
cookie cutter grunge rock made to sell lots of records. this is the worst kind of rock out there. I dont think these guys take themselves as serious as some of the fans who gave this album good reviews. they just trying to cash in.


Rock and a hard place
Nickelback took me a while. Most of the time I listen to a singer or group a few times, buy an album, and then can form my opinions right there. They have a lot of great radio hits, they're as vanilla-mainstream as Microsoft and Blockbuster Video (maybe even more so given how much BV is struggling), and they're both loved and hated to a ridiculous extent. I couldn't see any reason not to get one of their albums, so I got one. (Don't remember why I chose Silver Side Up in particular; all I know was that it sounded more promising than their debut. )

It wasn't until listening all the way through (several times, mainly because I kept tuning out. . . red flag right there) that I realized the problem. You ready? Here it is:

They're just not an album band.

They have the creativity and talent for big, even huge singles (Someday and If Everyone Cared are fantastic), but that's about it, and as a result each album has a *lot* of filler. There is some merit to the frequent complaint that "everything they do sounds the same", as they're not capable of much more than making slight tweaks to what worked.

I count no less than four filler tracks in Silver Side Up: Hangnail, Hollywood, Money Bought, Too Bad. Additionally, Where Do I Hide and Woke Up This Morning are virtually interchanagable. And Never Again deserves special mention for being about a very serious subject (domestic) that sounds like it was composed by a 5th grader. Seriously, haphazardly jumping between two incredibly repetitive stanzas does *not* belong in a commercially released album.

Get How You Remind Me and ditch the rest of this joyless exercise.


So Bad It Makes my ears Bleed
Where to start. . ok, these guys are obviously pearl jam wannabes who are bad at what they do. pearl jam isn't even good to begin with so why they copy them i dont know. all these songs sound the exact same! they are also all about pretty much the same thing. why they have fans, i dont know. i actually went out and bought this cd, i brought it home and listened to it, then burnt it.

horrible, if i could give it negative stars i would.


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