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Originally posted by Freeway@Oct 7 2005, 02:07 PM
I picked it up along with the new Nickleback...pretty damn good. While it does lack that infectiousness of the first album, it's musically more distinct and energetic. Tons of good songs, and the lesser stuff on this album is better than the lesser stuff on the first album.
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My mother said if I can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. So I'll let a reviewer of the new Nickelback CD say it:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...10:9gez97ifkrgt
Sure, they stretch a little bit, but they still favor clumsy, plodding riffs, still incessantly rewrite the same chords and melody, still harmonize exactly the same way on every song, Kroeger still sounds as if he's singing with a hernia, he still writes shockingly stupid lines . . . he still shows no discernible sense of humor. Which means, despite all their newly developed relative nuances, Nickelback remain unchanged: they're still unspeakably awful.
Check out these highly rated new CDs instead:
Wolf Parade (Canadian):
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/wo...stothequeenmary
Broken Social Scene (Canadian):
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/br...okensocialscene
Franz Ferdidand:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/fr...eitsomuchbetter
New Pornographers (Canadian):
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ne...hers/twincinema
Sigur Ros (Iceland):
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/sigurros/takk
Supergrass:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/su...ass/roadtorouen
Metric "Live It Out" (Canadian).
Nickelback notwithstanding, this is a new golden age in Canadian music. Some of the best CDs of the last two years were Canadian: Arcade Fire (MTL), Wolf Parade (MTL), Weakerthans(WIN), Broken Social Scene(TOR), New Pornograpers (VAN), Hot Hot Heat (VIC) Tegan & Sara (CGY) Metric (TOR).