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Imserba Webstore - Dark Horse
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $9.93
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Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0016861802820
Label: Roadrunner Records
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Roadrunner Records
Release Date: 2008-11-18
Studio: Roadrunner Records
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Summary: Harmonic Symphonies
Comment: You should buy this CD! This is a must buy for all...First of all this isnt your everday rock CD...this is,from the opening track, Something in your Mouth...till the last one..This Afternoon..a musical adventure!
This offering from the men hailing from Canada is amazing...Great lyrics trembling guitar rifts...awesome lead vocals..haunting background vocals..Thunderous drum beats..intermixed keyboards...it's got it all
ballads and pump your fist rockers..It's fun yet serious..It does what music is supposed to do...get in your Pysche..let you latch on the coattails of somebody who's talented enough to put it all out there and let us ride along as they take us on a musical journey...Just don't judge this CD based on there last CD..judge it on it's own..So buy it,put in on and hold the heck on!
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Summary: Sonically Phenomenol-Lyrically Repugnant
Comment: Nickelback's lyrics get worse with every CD. Maybe these 30 plus year old wanna-be frat boys should try consistantly writing songs about things that really matter. I'm mystified by the "party all day and night till we can't stand up" songs that bookend the album and yet smack in the middle of the set is a song lamenting the OD death of a best friend. Go figure. It's too bad because Mutt Langes' production is sonically perfect.
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Summary: Nickelback deliver a monster album with the help of Mutt Lange.
Comment: I've never been a Nickelback fan and don't love Kroeger's voice, yet I think this is one of the best rock albums of the past few years. Hiring the legendary Mutt Lange was a coup - sonically, it's amazingly lush, powerful & crisp. The sound is unbelievable.
Instead of weakening the band with too much of the overproduced Shania-thing, Mutt balances his strengths with the band's identity quite nicely. He also pushed the songwriting forward, and there are melodic hooks galore. And for once, Nickelback are playing actual guitar solos...not pointless wanking solos, but highly melodic and charged solos (as in the rocker Just To Get High). This disc expands Nickelback's appeal beyond the alt-rock & moody post-grunge thing to rock fans across the board. There's something for everyone. Songs like "If Today Was Your Last Day" or "This Afternoon" are instantly catchy in the way Def Leppard was with Hysteria (just updated), while rockers will find much to like in the opener "Something in Your Mouth", the aforementioned "Just to Get High" and stomper "Burn it to the Ground", among others. This album is tailor-made for world domination and will be massive. Yes, the lyrics are at times sexist and silly...but that's part & parcel of the hard rock game and Nickelback is no exception. It's brash, blunt, and sometimes cliched, but you can't argue with the great rock music. I didn't think Nickelback had it in them, and thought Mutt was past his expiration date when it came to rock, but they proved me wrong.
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Summary: Mutt's touch
Comment: I didn't know Mutt produced this new NB effort and when I listened to This Afternoon, I got the Mutt influence immediately and notice how it had the Pour Some Sugar format in the structure of this song. If you don't believe me listen to the two songs side by side and you'll see the same bridge to chorus format Mutt used with Def Leppard. This is not to say this is bad but it is there. I predict this CD will be the biggest selling CD for NB. There's to many good songs on it. I listened to the CD and found seven songs that could/should be on radio; who knows how many more after a few more listens. This is a must buy for NB fans and fans of good guitar music with Mutt Lang heavy drums. This will be the album of the year and cranked next summer at outdoor parties.
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Summary: Yawn...nothing new here...
Comment: Sadly, Nickelback has become the Jackie Collins of modern rock. Dark Horse is no more than another formula album, more of the same that we've heard on "All the Right Reasons" or "The Long Road". You have the "let's do it in the back seat now!" songs (S.E.X., Something in Your Mouth), the "wish I could find somebody to love" songs (Gotta be Somebody), the relationship songs (I'd Come for You) and the attempt-to-philosophize songs (If Today Was Your Last Day). Nothing new here, nothing to knock your socks off, no growth, no maturity. And without the latter elements, how can the band expect to truly progress? The one element they did have, sincerity, or believability, has been compromised with Dark Horse's "more of the same" offerings.
Unfortunately, it is likely this lame effort will thrust Nickelback further up the superstar ladder. But for this reviewer, heretofore a diehard fan from the first time I popped "Curb" into the CD player, it has taken them off an already VERY short list of "must buy" artists. Perhaps their next album should be called "W.A.S.T.E.D": Well-known Artists Sacrifice Talent (for) Easy Dollars.
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