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.
nickelback...silver side up - this is a great product. received in great condition. received in a timely manner.
I prefer this one - against all others! - This CD makes NICKELBACK famous - worldwide. And i can only agree with other customers. It s still the best! The Real Thing - because of tracks like HOW YOU REMIND ME and my all-time favourite TOO BAD. It hits you like a hammer! That are burners! Because of that 4* - The rest is trash!All other albums haven t got a soul - every single repeats itself. In a very few moments Chad can get a hit (for example only in corporation WITH SANTANA INTO THE NIGHT 2007). But that s it! I LIKE NICKELBACK VERY MUCH, but every artist had TOP CLASS times - now (in 2008) it s going down... Mainstream - making money as much as you can...WHEN YOU LIKE NICKELBACK AT IT S BEST - TAKE THIS ONE... (from 2001). This album contains the hot stuff.PS: Nickelback is a very good live-band too! I can only say watch on YouTube NICKELBACK TOO BAD or HOW YOU REMIND ME LIVE AT >>ROCK AM RING
Makes me wish I didn t have ears. - Whenever I hear these singles on the radio, I want to gouge my ears with an ice pick just so I never have to hear another Nickelback song. I flip through 4 stations and sometimes all 4 are playing Nickelback(or someone trying to sound like them). If this is the sound of this generation, then music is dead.
Hard Work Lands Silver Side Up - Nickelback is one of those bands that critics and real music fans hate, while their fans lap it up in droves. To me, they are the typical saga of a hard-working road-warrior band that finally grabbed the brass ring. Listening to Silver Side Up drives the bar band makes good tag home, with a caveat inserted...I pretty much like this album.Granted, Nickelback distills their favorite bands into an easily digestible sound. Soundgarden and Alice In Chains seem likely contributors, but in my heart, this reaches back to all the travelling bands of the 80 s like Reo Speedwagon, Head East or BTO from the 70 s. Singer Chad Kroeger has a distinctive if not very distinguished voice, the songs are generic grunge-lite, and the band throws in issues to make themselves relevant. When the lead song on your album is a chord bashing revenge song about an abused spouse who fights back, well, it ain t your typical party anthem stuff. However, that happens to be the best thing here (and when you remind yourself that the followup The Long Road s Figured You Out is a song about debasing someone sexually, it seems off-kilter), and the album soon begins to sound like the same song 9 different ways. That s not to say that Nickelback is bad, they stand out from most of the early century grungettes (Staind, Puddle Of Mudd, Incubus, etc) that seem to think sounding heavy substitutes for good songwriting. And if there s one thing this band has a knack for, it is laying down a hook, over and over. Both How You Remind Me and Too Bad deal in sour topics (a cynical break-up and growing up without a father) while sticking to the roof of your brain. So critical and snobs be dammed. Silver Side Up matters most to the folks that buy CD s. In a time when hardly anyone, even the heavy hitters, can sell past gold, Nickelback (along with Daughtry) was one of the very few rock acts to go multi-platinum in 2007. From the POV of the jury of purchasing peers, their workmanlike chops and rock-cum-pop sense gets the last laugh.