
Nickelback is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The eighth, No Fixed Address, was released in 2014, followed by Feed the Machine in 2017. In 2011, the seventh album, Here and Now, topped the charts. Dark Horse sold well in 2008, producing eight singles, one cracking the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and two in the top twenty. In 2005, the band's best-selling album to date, All the Right Reasons, produced three top-ten and five top-twenty singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including " Photograph", " Far Away", and " Rockstar". The fourth album, The Long Road, was released in 2003 and spawned five singles, including Canadian No. 1 on the Billboard and Canadian Singles Charts. The band then released its biggest hit, "How You Remind Me", a No. This album was commercially successful, as was its follow-up, Silver Side Up, in 2001. The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and re-released its once-independent second studio album The State. 7 on the Billboard top artist of the decade list, with four albums among the publication's top albums of the decade. In 2009, Billboard ranked it the most successful rock group of that decade " How You Remind Me" was the best-selling rock song and the fourth-best overall. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. It went through several drummer changes between 19, achieving its current lineup when Adair replaced Ryan Vikedal. It is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. Now I’ll alphabetize Nickelback between Willie Nelson and No Doubt in my CD collection.Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. Tracks that, by the way, prove that bands don’t need better drummers than Nickelback’s. Rather pay attention to the opening track “Flat on the Floor” or “Figured You Out,” “Because of You,” and “See You at the Show.” Not inventive in any way, but sure songs that rocks. The single Someday ( the successor of their big hit How You remind Me from the Silver Side up album ) won’t put you on fire. 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.
