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| Pushing through pain to seek peace, Nickelback emerges tighter & fiercer. Far Away, Rockstar, Photograph, Animals, Savin’ Me, If Everyone Cared, etc. |
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| 1 Follow You Home |
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| 2 Fight for All the Wrong Reasons |
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| 3 Photograph |
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| 4 Animals |
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| 5 Savin' Me |
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| 6 Far Away |
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| 7 Next Contestant |
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| 8 Side of a Bullet |
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| 9 If Everyone Cared |
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| 10 Someone That You're With |
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| 11 Rockstar |
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Album Review
With their fourth album "All the Right Reasons" Nickelback ditches any pretense of being a grunge band and finally acknowledges they're a straight-up heavy rock band. Not that they've left the angst of grunge behind: they're a modern rock band living in a post-grunge world, so there's lots of tortured emotions threaded throughout the 11 songs here. But where their previous albums roiled with anger -- their breakthrough "How You Remind Me" was not affectionate, it was snide and cynical -- there's a surprisingly large sentimental streak running throughout "All the Right Reasons", and it's not just limited to heart-on-sleeve power ballads like "Far Away" and "Savin' Me," the latter being the latest entry in their soundalike sweepstakes. No, lead singer/songwriter Chad Kroeger is in a particularly pensive mood here, looking back fondly at his crazy times in high school on "Photograph" ("Look at this photograph/Every time I do it makes me laugh/How did our eyes get so red?/And what the hell is on Joey's head?"), lamenting the murder of Dimebag Darrell on "Side of a Bullet" (where a Dimebag solo is overdubbed) and, most touching of all, imagining "the day when nobody died" on "If Everyone Cared" (which would be brought about "If everyone cared and nobody cried/If everyone loved and nobody lied"). Appropriately enough for an album that finds Kroeger's emotional pallette opening up, Nickelback tries a few new things here, adding more pianos, keyboards and acoustic guitars to not just ballads, but a few of their big, anthemic rockers; they even sound a little bit light and limber on "Someone That You're With," the fastest tune here and a bit of relief after all the heavy guitars. All this makes for a more varied Nickelback album, but it doesn't really change their essence. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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