The Long Road
by Nickelback
User Score
4.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 132 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 132
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 132
  3. Negative: 61 out of 132

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  1. DerekR
    Jan 10, 2007
    3
    From "If Everyone Cared": "If everyone cared and nobody cried If everyone loved and nobody lied If everyone shared and swallowed their pride We'd see the day when nobody died " Anyone who manges to rhyme "cried", "lied", "pride", and "died" right in a row in a crap chorus like that should be banned from ever making music again. Makes me want to vomit.
  2. Kult
    Mar 26, 2007
    1
    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.
  3. GregA
    Apr 10, 2007
    0
    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.
  4. LukeM.
    May 28, 2007
    0
    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 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.… Expand
  5. Ryan
    Nov 2, 2003
    0
    If you have bought this cd or are thinking about, please jump off of a bridge.
  6. RobinS
    Oct 16, 2003
    0
    This is album sucks cock so bad! Damn male-machismo, just go back to canada and DIE!
  7. sdfsdf
    Oct 21, 2003
    0
    Nickleback is awful. If you listen to this, you are probably a loser with awful taste in music.
  8. DirkDiggler
    Dec 9, 2003
    0
    What a bunch of losers! The only thing worse are losers who blare this outta their car stereo!
  9. TrickC
    Jan 18, 2004
    2
    If Chad Kroeger is prolific, what does that make Robert Pollard? "now the story's played out like this / just like a paperback novel" How appropriate (or is it ironic?). The only saving grace of this CD is the knack for hooks, but nevertheless they're all throwaway post-(post)-grunge trash with no shelf life; their only strength is sounding monstrous and heavy while filling the If Chad Kroeger is prolific, what does that make Robert Pollard? "now the story's played out like this / just like a paperback novel" How appropriate (or is it ironic?). The only saving grace of this CD is the knack for hooks, but nevertheless they're all throwaway post-(post)-grunge trash with no shelf life; their only strength is sounding monstrous and heavy while filling the room (taking it hostage) through the speakers. And to subject the Earth to such horrors is the ultimate evil. I'm beginning to suspect Chad Kroeger is so deceptive that although he lures mainstream audiences into proclaiming him the Messiah, he is actually the ANTICHRIST.… Expand
  10. JamesY
    Apr 30, 2004
    0
    If you don't like Nickelback, then you obviously don't like bad music.
  11. oprahwinfrey
    Jul 2, 2004
    0
    it gets so annoying, chad kroegers voice drives me crazy, and every song is the same. its the most annoying cd ever!
  12. SeanT.
    Jan 17, 2008
    1
    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.
  13. GeorgeC.
    Feb 7, 2008
    1
    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.
  14. WhitdawggOwns
    Oct 12, 2003
    0
    Don't buy Nickelback
  15. Beercan
    Sep 17, 2004
    2
    Moneyback.
  16. RobbinL
    Sep 29, 2005
    0
    So fellas you sold your souls to your record company. Here is how I think the conversation went down at Roadrunner headquarters..... Label- "Man, that 'How You Remind Me' Song sure helped us sell a lot of your records" Band- "Gee, we think you're right and it only took us a hour to write and record it." Label- "You know what you should do? Write an entire album of 'How So fellas you sold your souls to your record company. Here is how I think the conversation went down at Roadrunner headquarters..... Label- "Man, that 'How You Remind Me' Song sure helped us sell a lot of your records" Band- "Gee, we think you're right and it only took us a hour to write and record it." Label- "You know what you should do? Write an entire album of 'How You Remind Me's' and be as derivitive as possible, Okay." Band- "Done! Now get us our Viccadine and fur coats, Beeotches."… Expand
  17. BryanG
    Jan 23, 2006
    0
    This is definetly Nickelback's best work yet - and it is pure shit. This album shows how untallented Chad Kroeger really is. He is lame, his songs are lame, and his band is lame. I really feel sorry for the people on here who like this kind of "music". Were you oxygen deprived in your formative years? Was your drinking water supply exposed to chemical waste? I can only assume brain This is definetly Nickelback's best work yet - and it is pure shit. This album shows how untallented Chad Kroeger really is. He is lame, his songs are lame, and his band is lame. I really feel sorry for the people on here who like this kind of "music". Were you oxygen deprived in your formative years? Was your drinking water supply exposed to chemical waste? I can only assume brain damage occured at some point. What other way can one explain liking Nickelback, My Chemical Romance, or Theory of a Deadman? Nickelback is sad and pathetic, and their fans are worse.… Expand
  18. JordanB
    Dec 16, 2003
    0
    They aren't just bad, they're "funny bad." This is just as lame as their other lame albums. Nothing on this album is as funny as "Never Again" from their last crappy album, but everything is still as terrible. Just as bad as Creed, Staind, Chevelle and all of those other lame bands. Please don't buy this album, please don't promote terrible music. Save yourself the They aren't just bad, they're "funny bad." This is just as lame as their other lame albums. Nothing on this album is as funny as "Never Again" from their last crappy album, but everything is still as terrible. Just as bad as Creed, Staind, Chevelle and all of those other lame bands. Please don't buy this album, please don't promote terrible music. Save yourself the pain and shoot yourself in the foot instead. … Expand

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Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Q Magazine
    60
    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]
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    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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  3. AllMusic
    40
    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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