1. Follow You Home
2. Fight for All the Wrong Reasons
3. Photograph
4. Animals
5. Savin' Me
6. Far Away
7. Next Contestant
8. Side of a Bullet
9. If Everyone Cared
10. Someone That You're With
11. Rockstar
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Throughout their nine-year career, Nickelback have stayed true to their roots, releasing five CDs of straight-up, unapologetic rock & roll. So how have things changed for the Canadian boys since the massive success of Silver Side Up and The Long Road? Well, brothers Chad and Mike Kroeger still live in the Great White North, and they still write hook-laden rock songs. The only difference now is that they have the satisfaction, 10 million CDs later, of smugly knowing that even some of their biggest naysayers will guiltily admit to singing along with Nickelback's catchy hits. On All the Right Reasons, one track definitely ranks high up in hum-ability: the first single, "Photograph," reminisces about the bittersweetness of high school in a small town--once again reconfirming frontman Chad Kroeger's ability to write memorable hooks. Regarding the rest of the disc: standard rock topics like love, lust, jealousy, and breakups abound, with riff-y delivery that longtime fans will love. The guilty pleasure bunch will also find what they need within the grooves, on the ballad "If Everyone Cared," the riff-heavy "Fight for All the Wrong Reasons," and the Metallica-inspired "Savin' Me." The disc's most impressive and simultaneously surreal moment, however, exists on "Side of a Bullet," a passionate revenge tale written about the killer of Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, which features one of the late Abbott's guitar solos as donated by Pantera bandmate and brother, drummer Vinnie Paul. --Denise Sheppard
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All the Right Reasons
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2005-10-05)
- Publisher: Roadrunner Records
- Label: Roadrunner Records
- Studio: Roadrunner Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 375 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #198
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Generic as it gets! 2008-11-09
Comment: This is as generic and bland as rock music can get. This CD is immensely boring. This album basically embodies all the stereotypical radio rock elements you can image.
If you want the monotonous truck-commercial sounding riffs and awful wannabe-Pearl Jam sounding vocals, you have it all in this album.
There's honestly A LOT a band can do with 2 guitars, bass and drums. What drives a band to produce a CD of music which seriously sounds like it was made specifically for the radio? Probably money. Don't buy this album if you're a music fan. Leave this one for the casual radio listeners.
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Summary: Real rock n' roll! 2008-11-08
Comment: This album earns 5 stars from me! I love Chad's voice. The way he croons "hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar!" just blows anything sung by Roger Daltrey or that Plant guy out of the water! The way he sings the deep lyrics "look at this photograph, every time it makes me laugh" just tears out my heart. He sings with such honesty and integrity with a gritty edge to them that assures me that Mr.Kroger is one of the finest vocalist of all-time. The virtuoso guitar playing, maniac drumming and intense bass makes this album a true winner.
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Summary: This Cd is AWESOME! 2008-10-28
Comment: This is possibly nickelback's best cd. every song is awesome. i especially love the base on animals. all in all: this cd ROCKS!
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Summary: Never Again!!!! 2008-10-04
Comment: The CD is great, but I will never shop at Amazon again. It took over 3 weeks to get 3 cds from California, I live in Reno, NV. Not acceptable!!!
They had them in stock.....
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: (1.5 stars) It's REALLY this easy to be a famous musician these days? 2008-09-18
Comment: Nickelback's latest smash is a horrifying testimony to what happens when a really bad band gets really popular. Kicking off with a thudding, awkward rocker that rides its arena-rock cliches - wah-wah, screamed vocals, loud guitar riffs, Zeppelin-ish rhythms- into the ground, it's painfully stale, wearing its grunge-era borrowings like a badge of honor. Okay, so I'm not gonna pretend that Pearl Jam or Nirvana were original bands, either. But Pearl Jam had Eddie Veder and actually did things to distinguish their songs from another. Unlike these guys, who don't even try to make "Follow You Home," "Fight for All the Wrong Reasons," and "Animals" different from one another. And Nirvana? Well, they're Nirvana. Chad Kroeger may think he's Kurt Cobain for the twenty-first century, and he's got all the mannerisms down - hoarse vocals, unintelligible screaming, angst-ridden lyrics - but what he's missing is Cobain's raw sincerity and self-mocking wit. He can't write a song, either. There's more to it than repeating three or four chords, screaming, and throwing in a few generic verse/chorus dynamic shifts, you know. Unfortunately, the rockers and ballads meld together in a similar slop. Just as "Follow You Home," "Fight for All the Wrong Reasons," and "Animals" are the same things, power ballads like "Savin' Me" (yet another take on "How You Remind Me," but with strings this time) and "If Everyone Cared" are no different from one another. The sad thing is that, no matter how lame the ballads are, at least they're listenable. This group is wretched at rocking out. I have to admit I actually kind of like "Photograph" and "Far Away." "Far Away" has a pretty if generic acoustic guitar part and a uplifting melodic twist. It's the only song here I can classify as "good." "Photograph" isn't really a good song, but it has a decent melody, even though Kroeger ruins it by oversinging. You don't bellow your way through something that's supposed to be tender and sensitive. Which is why I prefer the version of it my friends sang at an end-of-school party we had recently. They understood how to sing something tender and sensitive. Chad Kroeger hasn't a clue how to do that. It's a lot better than the "experimental metal" of "Next Contestant" or the utterly crappy "Side of a Bullet," which I think is supposed to shred. I'll give you a hint: it doesn't. At all. I mean, I'm not in love with the aforementioned "If Everyone Cared," but at least my ears don't reject it the way they reject "Next Contestant" or "Rock Star." Now, let me talk about "Rock Star." If it's supposed to be anti-fame, anti-materialistic, anti-corporate, and everything else, then why is it so commercial? Why does it sound like any other modern rock hit? Some of the lyrics are funny, but ultimately, it's just another song. A bad song, too. It's just a disposable modern-rock smash. Which, now that I think about it, would be a good one-sentence review of this album. If it were up to me, I'd point you to some of the '90s rock classics that inspired this album.
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