Nickelback - All The Right Reasons

Blurb
It's fantastic how Nickelback churns out hit single after hit single. All it takes is a slight tweak on their signature sound, an interesting theme backed up by solid songwriting, and whoosh, there goes another song destined to be played to death on radio. The Brothers Kroeger still live up in Canada eh, and do what they started out doing a decade and four albums ago.. write great hooks with catchy riffs. And no matter how much rock purists will put them down, they have sold over 10 million records doing what they do. Oh yeah, they make some really good music videos too!

They have released four singles off this album, and you know they could probably put out a couple more if pushed. 'Photograph' is a nostalgic song about Chad's small town high-school; 'Animals' is a frolicky song about making out - it should be just as good to make out to. Then there's 'Someone That You're With' and 'Far Away', which are reasonably good ballads. 'If Everyone Cared' is a touching song, and rounds off the guilty pleasure, softie songs. 'Side Of A Bullet' is a tribute to slain rocker Dimebag Darrell, while 'Savin' Me' is as close as they'll come to Metallica. 'Next Contestant' and 'Rockstar' address standard rock song themes of jealousy and livin' it up, like a rockstar.

The next Nickelback album should be interesting - do they keep the same sound and find new things to write about, or do they move in another direction? If I had my way they would go back and listen to 'Leader Of Men' again, and do more of that.

Track Listing
1. Follow You Home
2. Fight For All The Wrong Reasons
3. Photograph
4. Animals
5. Savin' Me
6. Far Away
7. Next Contestant
8. Side Of A Bullet
9. If Everyone Cared
10. Someone That You're With
11. Rockstar

Overall Rating
This album will hang around your CD player for a while.. that should deserve about an 8/10.