• Record Label: Jive
  • Release Date: Jun 14, 2005
User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 107 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 107
  2. Negative: 39 out of 107

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  1. Matt
    Aug 18, 2005
    3
    I know it's easy to bash them, but they are still the same generic boy band.
  2. CosmoPrelog
    Aug 5, 2005
    1
    I give it a solid A. As in A for A-hole. Great job Boys ?????????
  3. brenta
    Jul 31, 2005
    1
    i'll give 'em 1 for turning up. i'd vote higher if they promised it was their last ever. they may have grown up to be men but have done so in a bubble of unreality and a great lack of inspiration.
  4. JasonL
    Aug 8, 2005
    1
    Boy, Mikey really will listen to anything.
  5. jasonm
    Jul 29, 2005
    0
    More of the same fake, overproduced crap that is more big business than it will ever be musical talent. No one should ever pick on the Backstreet fans though. It's just a big company that cleverly markets generic garbage.
  6. JakeD
    Sep 7, 2005
    0
    They should have quit while they were........behind.
  7. NedS
    Jul 31, 2005
    0
    backstreet boyz deff. need to give it a rest
  8. HotCarl
    Aug 17, 2005
    0
    This was really really bad!
  9. CalebF
    Aug 4, 2005
    0
    well it plain sucks nuf said
  10. johnb
    Sep 12, 2005
    0
    Absolutely crap, backstreet boys need to realize that their time has long gone. Boyband has gone down the ditch whatever effort put into trying to revive those glorious days are uselss. absolute junk might as well use em as coasters.
  11. CarlosP
    Sep 7, 2005
    0
    I concur...absolute garbage
  12. SamD
    Apr 30, 2006
    0
    yes they were, and i wish they wouldv'e stayed that way. the cover art isn't even good!
  13. RM
    Aug 17, 2005
    0
    sucks
  14. JamieM
    Aug 19, 2005
    0
    Jess, that's against the rules to say a backstreet boys album ROCKS. That's just crazy if you say that. Oh and by the way, it does not rock. It is the most dull, shockingly bland album you will ever hear.
  15. sarahp
    Aug 7, 2005
    0
    it sucked. alot.no one wants to hear the backstreet boys try and be ben folds.....ever. because they never will be because there a POP band. way to show no creativity and steal other peoples work you sure went for the gold::rolls eyes::
  16. BBB
    Aug 8, 2005
    0
    The songs are built to stick in your head even if you hate them.
  17. drewB
    Mar 8, 2006
    0
    3 words der der der is all this piece of shit deserves
  18. ALANR
    Jul 24, 2005
    0
    Are you kidding?
  19. BJW
    Jul 28, 2005
    0
    it takes one listen through to realize that this is horrible filthy trash.
  20. jacobm
    Aug 29, 2005
    0
    absolute crap
Metascore
40

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Never Gone [is] a solid adult contemporary album, which will please both BSB diehards and the dwindling ranks who wish that the glory days of Jon Secada never ended, but its relative strength does highlight one problem with the album: this kind of music doesn't sound quite as convincing when delivered by a group of guys as it does by one singer.
  2. Blender
    40
    Never Gone's rock ballads are painfully and sometimes powerfully earnest demands for meaning and redemption. [Aug 2005, p.108]
  3. Even if they aren't Never Gone, their inspiration certainly is.