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134 of 141 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Defective CD?, September 17, 2009
Nickelback was a band I had heard of, but I'm not very into the modern music scene. My friend suggested this CD to me.
I ordered this CD with high hopes. When I got it and put it into my laptop, everything seemed normal. There was every song, different names, different lengths.
I listened to the first song, and all was well. I then moved on to the second song.
It was the exact same song? I knew I couldn't be mistaken. Surely every song would have its own unique attributes to differentiate from the others. I went on to the next song, and then the next...but every single one was the exact same.
I called my friend who had suggested the CD, but she said her CD was fine and that maybe something was wrong with mine. We got to talking about music videos and she told me her two favorites, I went and looked them up online.
IT WAS THE SAME SONG FOR BOTH VIDEOS.
I'm completely confused. Why are all the songs exactly the same?
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21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Dull radio rock: uninspired and formulaic, April 13, 2006
A Kid's Review
This board is crawling with zealous Nickelback fanatics all singing the praises of their favourite band, and lauding this album with glowing five star reviews, so I doubt I'll get any "Helpful" votes for my review. But you know what? The truth hurts! Face it: this album su.cks. Anybody who thinks this album is worth four or five stars must have too much wax in their ears!
If I could describe Nickelback's music with only one word, it would be "dull". That's right Nickelback fans, DULL! Nickelback's music is written for one reason and one reason only: to get on the radio! And it just so happens that Top 40 radio is home to some of the blandest music in the world! So when you are tailoring your songs to be a perfect fit for radio, you end up with music that is so generic that you'd think it rolled off the assembly line in a factory! I guess I can't blame Nickelback for wanting to have a hit and make a lot of money, but that's not the point this review. The point of this review is to review the MUSIC, not the band's motives. There is nothing WRONG with trying to acheive commercial success; but when an band trades in artistic integrity for commercial success, they usually end up with music that is pretty flat and uninspired. That's exactly what has happened to Nickelback. Sure, they've got a multi platinum album, but the music on that is just a bunch of made for radio filler; these songs don't speak to me at all!
Monotony reigns supreme throughout this album. The songs don't sound the least bit exiting or creative; they just drone along in that mindless, uninspired, radio friendly way. Sure, this stuff is great by the standards of radio rock, but I HATE radio rock! Radio rock is the most boring music there is. It has nothing original or creative about it; it is just a steady droning sound. RRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! I hate radio rock! It all sounds the same! The lyrics are in ther same monotone voice throughout the entire CD. They use the same distortion on every song! Its very boring to hear. Its radio rock!
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36 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
No "Right Reasons" to buy this album..., December 9, 2005
Listening to this album, I constantly asked myself how anyone could possibly enjoy it. It seemed so shallow, predictable, and lifeless compared to anything else in my CD collection. But after some rumination, I've arrived at an explanation. Allow me, at the risk of sounding incredibly pretentious, to present the allegory of Plato's Cave. Suppose a group of people are raised from birth inside a darkened cave, chained to chairs facing a wall. Now, on this wall shadows of forms are projected. Now, given that these people are raised from birth inside the cave, these shadows and forms are all they know of the world; in their minds, they ARE the world. But suppose one of them is dragged to the surface, and sees for the first time what the world is really like, full of color and life. And if they went back down into the cave, they'd never be able to look at the pictures on the wall as anything but mere shadows.
So it is with music. For most people, their only experience with music comes in the form of sanitized, corporate radio-rock, typified by Nickelback. But once you listened to music beyond the mainstream; been "dragged out of the cave" so to speak, you never really look at the mainstream with such fondness as you did before.
What's sad about "All The Right Reasons" is that Nickelback, either through a conscious decision on their part or by pressure from their label, refused to expand, develop, or otherwise alter their sound at all. Rest assured, if you liked "Silver Side Up" or "The Long Road" you'll love "All The Right Reasons." But if you found those albums to be soulless, manufactured and repetitive, you'll be able to say the exact same thing about this album, too. Nickelback exemplify 100% safe, watered down, exceedingly simplistic and generic Hard Rock. This is the kind of music you can imagine Soccer Moms "rocking out" to. Listening through ATRR painfully reminded me why I had left mainstream "verse-chorus-verse" rock behind a long time ago.
"All the Right Reasons" hits all the right cliches for generic, formulaic rock. We've got the more aggressive track "Animals" so that the band can establish some kind of hard rock credibility. We've got the made-for-a-hit-single "Photograph," the supposedly angry swagger of "Next Contestant" and syrupy, cheesy dreck like "If Everybody Cared" or "Far Away." By far the worst track has to be "Rockstar," where Chad brags about how good it will be when he's a big rock star, which is a pitiful attempt at being sarcastic and ironic, but only comes across as being unintentionally honest, given that the band clearly have their sights set on money-making and nothing else.
"All the Right Reasons" is yet another bland offering from the masters of mass-produced, corporate rock. Nothing dangerous, nothing new. The sound of Nickelback is not of a band wishing to express themselves artisticly; it's the sound of a band who have found a very profitable trend and are going to milk it as long as they can. Spend your money elsewhere.
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