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70It's a steadfast assault, whether he's brooding over dust in the wind ('If Today Was Your Last Day') or idealizing a girl ("She ain't no Cinderella when she gettin' undressed/'Cause she rocks it like the naughty Wicked Witch of the West").
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Lange keeps things rolling--and to his credit, Chad Kroeger gratifyingly comes off as more of a regular guy than a rock star.
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70The bulletproof Nickelback provides affordable fun that promises good returns in hard times.
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For the first time Nickelback is produced by Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Shania Twain), who has nudged from the band a tougher sound more suited to its inner louse....But he couldn't fully jolt the band out of its comfort zone.
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70Dark Horse is attractively adorned, but don't expect any sort of wild ride.
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60Lange hasn't changed Nickelback wholesale: mostly, they still rock like a post-grunge Metallica. [Jan 2008, p.104]
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The band's Beavis- like embrace of rock & roll debauchery is a sort of marvel of low art.
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50There's no question about which side of the disc is the more interesting- sleaze beats manufactured sentiment any day--but ultimately it's the country half that most people will pay attention to, and to that end there is very little to actively criticise.
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The addition of superstar producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange to the mix ensures that everything here is as radio friendly and mainstream minded as heavy guitar rock gets.
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40A familiar blend of big-riff rockers and pseudo-sensitive power ballads, Dark Horse won't win the Canadian band any new fans--or will its hearty endorsements of oral sex disappoint the devoted.
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Dark Horse was constructed entirely from the group's standard templates of bleating power ballads and dulled hard rock.
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Their latest is ridiculously brazen, comically outsized, and defiantly Bruckheimer-esque.
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30Dark Horse finds the group at a creative low point. Each song sounds like an older, better Nickelback hit, and Kroeger only once displays his prior songwriting strength with the sad-bastard portrait .Just to Get High.'
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20The hilarious, parodic single 'Rockstar' excepted, Nickelback's music reaffirms every sex-and-stupidity cliche hard rock can offer.
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20Kroeger's voice sounds more like a wounded goat than ever before, and their blatantly recycled songs touch on familiar themes like strippers, sex, prostitutes, drugs, sex, drinking and sex.
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michaelk5Nickleback has just gone down hill since Silver Side Up. All the originality is gone and now they just sound like any other mainstream Alt Rock band.
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