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Entertainment Weekly

It offers a heaping helping of meat-and-potatoes rawk that never veers far from the sing-along template established by their hit ''How You Remind Me.''

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Amazon.com

For fans of Silver Side Up, Nickelback have delivered the goods once more.

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E! Online

Nickelback's so safe, so sanitized and so damn catchy that it's downright scary.

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Q Magazine

None of their new album will be remembered in a few years' time. Yet, like most fast food, there's very little wrong with it right now. [Dec 2003, p.130]

Rolling Stone

Brazenly consistent, if unimaginative. [13 Nov 2003, p.99]

All Music Guide

Nickelback can now afford a little more time in the studio and a little more time to indulge themselves, and they turn out the same record, only slicker, which only highlights just how oppressively and needlessly sullen this group is.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 65 User Votes

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George C. gave it a1:
Jerk... come on. Half a page of text to defend Nickelback? All you really have to do to judge this album, is to ask if anyone will remember it 10, 20, 30 years from now. I think it's safe to say... not a chance.

Sean T. gave it a1:
A friend of mine bought me this cd at Christmas thinking that as I like Pearl Jam I might like this. It is probably the worst collection of songs I have had the displeasure of listening to. Its pure commercial by the numbers rubbish. A sad fact...for every American that has bought the most recent cds by Pearl Jam and Radiohead, eight (!) have bought this Nickelback crap.

Jerk - gave it an8:
I think Nickelback is the perfect target for whiney "musical experts" who are pissed off because what they think defines rock no one wants to listen to/cares about, so they take out their frustration built from years of musical failure on a band that doesn’t cut it by their musical standards. Not every band has to whip out massive intricate solo to make good music, if you don’t like Nickelback then fair enough, but who are any of you to say “there is such a low level of talent”, clearly they had enough talent to write 50 - 100 songs, record them, play as many gigs as they have played, promoted them selves to achieve mass success, sold 25 million albums, won dozens of music awards. Have their last album go triple platinum and achieve numerous hit singles. Have you looked at their gig schedule? They perform live almost every day, they have a day off like every second day, which is probably filled with rehearsals and briefing on their next performance, or time spent working on new material, they have released and continuously marketed and toured 3 albums in the past 6 years without break, it wouldn’t surprise me if you couldn’t last 2 months on tour. Maybe you should take a few lessons instead just shooting them down and branding them as “low level of talent”. I like the way Nickelback keep it simple, I think the things they do to brighten up their music are more subtle then just throwing in a “kick-ass guitar solo that's so mind blowing because of how much technique he uses”. Wow, you really tapped into some unique song writing formula there, no one’s ever resorted to that before. Nickelback may not be the most innovative exquisite musical trail blazers of our time but at least they don’t delude them selves into trying to be the next Kurt Cobane or Jimi Hendrix.

Luke M. gave it a0:
Hard rock you say? If you want hard rock listen to something good like Bullet For My Valentine. Thiese are wannabe hard rockers from another corporate funnel trying to tell society "this is what rock is" when there is such a low level of talent with Nickelback. People who REALLY know rock don't listen to Nickelback because they're terrible. Honestly, make the lead guitarist play a "kick-ass" guitar solo that's so mind blowing because of how much technique he uses. That's just it, it won't happen. It's not like Dragonforce or Avenged Sevenfold where the guitarist can play practically anything. I could find a high school guitar player with the talent level of these guys. If this is hard rock, then I guess Green Day is now considered heavy metal.

Greg A gave it a0:
This is one of the worst albums of all time. Scratchy vocals that sound like they came from a robot, highly unoriginal guitar riffs and songwriting that stinks.

Kult gave it a1:
It's just not good music. I hate it, actually. It's so bad. It says a lot when a band can sell millions of records with an album that says absolutely nothing.

M V gave it an8:
I love how Derek R managed to pan this album without mentioning a single thing about it. Absolutely beautiful. I believe 'All The Right Reasons' is the one you were looking for? As for me, I think this album is good. Good tunes, heavy riffs, a consistent style (a little repetitive though), and not nearly as mainstream as the follow-up. For Kerry H, in my opinion, Curb is their best by a mile- heavier, rawer, and simply more fun.

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