Or, what do we say to lines like “Too many long lines in a row / I love the powder on your nose / (…) and I like the way you like me best ( …) I like the white stains on your dress”? I won’t assume this is something singer/front man Chad Kroeger wants to tell thirteen years old fans about? ( Eh…but who, then? ) Still, The Long Road contains lyrics that one can guess are meant to shake of the reputation Nickelback has got as a band recruiting youngsters as fans only. The lyrics sure are, from time to time, touchy, telling about heartaches and bad childhood memories and related power ballad ingredients. The songs might not cut deep, but they will get beyond your surface. Though the sound is clean, the edge of it is jagged. The album’s major parts deliver much more interesting stuff than easy rock listening. They know for sure that radio air time helps sell records, but believe me, only a few tracks on The Long Road will be played on regular radio stations. ( Brit-pop’ers went through a similar thing.)Ĭanadian Nickelback, born only one borderline away from the cradle of grunge, Seattle, plays it safe. …and make it big! Bands like these are not given a fair enough chance by the press. The world is not too rich on new bands that modify the sound of the long time dead grunge era and bring it alive for a less depressed 2003 crowd. Sometimes it looks like the only post-grunge bands accepted are those who still have got members who actually survived ( …literally ) a band career in the early 90s. A lot of critics aren’t too understanding about that, saying this only is thanks to the band’s commercialized approach and some very radio friendly hit songs. ![]() A seven-numbered amount of people has bought Nickelback records. Post-grunge rock band Nickelback is not as bad as most critics want you to believe, but they are not as good as their CD sales numbers indicates either.
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