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Never Gone Image
Metascore
40

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 107 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the first album in five years for the boy- er... man-band.

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Empty spaces fill me up with holes Distant faces with no place left to go Without you, within me I can find no rest Where I'm going is anybody's... See the rest of the song lyrics
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. Entertainment Weekly
    50
    This corny comeback is hardly a triumphant return. [24 Jun 2005, p.165]
  3. Even if they aren't Never Gone, their inspiration certainly is.
  4. Blender
    40
    Never Gone's rock ballads are painfully and sometimes powerfully earnest demands for meaning and redemption. [Aug 2005, p.108]
  5. Rolling Stone
    20
    The Backstreet men rarely accelerate beyond a mid-tempo thud. [16 Jun 2005, p.100]
  6. What stops the Backstreet Boys from being any fun is, I think, their inability/refusal to wink at their audience.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 58
  2. Negative: 20 out of 58
  1. esmem
    Aug 23, 2005
    10
    muy buenisimo el disco!!!
  2. AlexS.
    Dec 24, 2005
    10
    A very good album, with a very good sound and amazing lyrics; One of the best Cd by Backstreet Boys
  3. MichelleM.
    Feb 3, 2008
    10
    The Backstreet Boys are the best. Their cd, Never Gone ruled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will always be a BSB fan.
  4. Juliet
    Jul 25, 2006
    9
    I've been a Backstreet fan since the beginning; and though there sound has matured a bit I still love them just as much, if not more. I've been a Backstreet fan since the beginning; and though there sound has matured a bit I still love them just as much, if not more. Every song is just as easy to sing along to, even if some of them sound incredibly similar. Loved it! Expand
  5. TiffL
    Dec 8, 2005
    7
    After taking a five year hiatus, the Backstreet Boys are back with a new album sounding a little older but wiser. Appropriately named, Never After taking a five year hiatus, the Backstreet Boys are back with a new album sounding a little older but wiser. Appropriately named, Never Gone, this album shows a lot of growth that the Backstreet boys have done. I saw appropriately named Never Gone because they might Expand
  6. ALANR
    Jul 24, 2005
    0
    Are you kidding?
  7. drewB
    Mar 8, 2006
    0
    3 words der der der is all this piece of shit deserves

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