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Well.....it's a miss.
Nickelback's appeal as I see it is that they are a ROCK band, that plays ROCK for the regular guy, which most of the "rock" bands out there don't do anymore. They are making music for the Label execs, and trying to please THAT market instead of what they should be talking to, which is the buying public.
So when Kroeger and co. decided to work with a guy (Mutt Lange) who has admittedly made some of the definitive music of the last 20 years, and had a MAJOR run in modern pop music, you can understand why they did it......but the result speaks more to the history and sounds of the Mutt, than it does to the non-existent evolution of Mutt's sounds, and more importantly the forward movement of the band....
The result is a record that lacks a center in terms of sound and direction, that has dated (in some cases VERY) sounds and styles, and that ultimately sounds like a retrospective of MUTT's career as the producer and writer for bands like Def Leppard and AC/DC and acts like his ex Shania Twain, and very little to do with Nickelback.
So we get very period late-80's BG vocals, we get the Mutt signature drums sounds, we get the kinda mid-rangy mixes, and we don't get that very produced but very ROCK sound that the last Nickelback had, and we don't get the focused overall "album" sound, and we don't get a CD that while you're playing it, your remembering why keggers are fun, back seats are better, and fistfights make sense.....ok they don't, but you know what I mean.
This CD won't make you feel like you're ready for the night to start and that you're gonna get the girl.....
I'm very disappointed, I think Chad got distracted by the record company and he lost his way. I think he's gonna regret listening to the bean counters on this one, and I'll bet he sometimes looked at himself in the mirror while making this record and wondered what the hell he got himself into.
I gave the CD to a friend to listen to it. He wrote back - "Dude this CD is SO BAD!".
Pretty much.
Review Date: 5/21/2009
  | Title: Dark Horse Artist: Nickelback Label: Roadrunner Release Date: 11/18/2008 Date: 5/21/2009 |
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Well.....it's a miss.
Nickelback's appeal as I see it is that they are a ROCK band, that plays ROCK for the regular guy, which most of the "rock" bands out there don't do anymore. They are making music for the Label execs, and trying to please THAT market instead of what they should be talking to, which is the buying public.
So when Kroeger and co. decided to work with a guy (Mutt Lange) who has admittedly made some of the definitive music of the last 20 years, and had a MAJOR run in modern pop music, you can understand why they did it......but the result speaks more to the history and sounds of the Mutt, than it does to the non-existent evolution of Mutt's sounds, and more importantly the forward movement of the band....
The result is a record that lacks a center in terms of sound and direction, that has dated (in some cases VERY) sounds and styles, and that ultimately sounds like a retrospective of MUTT's career as the producer and writer for bands like Def Leppard and AC/DC and acts like his ex Shania Twain, and very little to do with Nickelback.
So we get very period late-80's BG vocals, we get the Mutt signature drums sounds, we get the kinda mid-rangy mixes, and we don't get that very produced but very ROCK sound that the last Nickelback had, and we don't get the focused overall "album" sound, and we don't get a CD that while you're playing it, your remembering why keggers are fun, back seats are better, and fistfights make sense.....ok they don't, but you know what I mean.
This CD won't make you feel like you're ready for the night to start and that you're gonna get the girl.....
I'm very disappointed, I think Chad got distracted by the record company and he lost his way. I think he's gonna regret listening to the bean counters on this one, and I'll bet he sometimes looked at himself in the mirror while making this record and wondered what the hell he got himself into.
I gave the CD to a friend to listen to it. He wrote back - "Dude this CD is SO BAD!".
Pretty much.
Review Date: 5/21/2009
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