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| All the Right Reasons | 
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| Artist: Nickelback
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  376 reviews
Sales Rank: 143
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 618300
UPC: 016861830021
EAN: 0016861830021
ASIN: B000ASATO4
Release Date: October 5, 2005
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 No "Right Reasons" to buy this album... December 9, 2005
26 out of 33 found this review helpful
Listening to this album, I constantly asked myself how anyone could possibly enjoy it. It seemed so shallow, predictable, and lifeless compared to anything else in my CD collection. But after some rumination, I've arrived at an explanation. Allow me, at the risk of sounding incredibly pretentious, to present the allegory of Plato's Cave. Suppose a group of people are raised from birth inside a darkened cave, chained to chairs facing a wall. Now, on this wall shadows of forms are projected. Now, given that these people are raised from birth inside the cave, these shadows and forms are all they know of the world; in their minds, they ARE the world. But suppose one of them is dragged to the surface, and sees for the first time what the world is really like, full of color and life. And if they went back down into the cave, they'd never be able to look at the pictures on the wall as anything but mere shadows.
So it is with music. For most people, their only experience with music comes in the form of sanitized, corporate radio-rock, typified by Nickelback. But once you listened to music beyond the mainstream; been "dragged out of the cave" so to speak, you never really look at the mainstream with such fondness as you did before.
What's sad about "All The Right Reasons" is that Nickelback, either through a conscious decision on their part or by pressure from their label, refused to expand, develop, or otherwise alter their sound at all. Rest assured, if you liked "Silver Side Up" or "The Long Road" you'll love "All The Right Reasons." But if you found those albums to be soulless, manufactured and repetitive, you'll be able to say the exact same thing about this album, too. Nickelback exemplify 100% safe, watered down, exceedingly simplistic and generic Hard Rock. This is the kind of music you can imagine Soccer Moms "rocking out" to. Listening through ATRR painfully reminded me why I had left mainstream "verse-chorus-verse" rock behind a long time ago.
"All the Right Reasons" hits all the right cliches for generic, formulaic rock. We've got the more aggressive track "Animals" so that the band can establish some kind of hard rock credibility. We've got the made-for-a-hit-single "Photograph," the supposedly angry swagger of "Next Contestant" and syrupy, cheesy dreck like "If Everybody Cared" or "Far Away." By far the worst track has to be "Rockstar," where Chad brags about how good it will be when he's a big rock star, which is a pitiful attempt at being sarcastic and ironic, but only comes across as being unintentionally honest, given that the band clearly have their sights set on money-making and nothing else.
"All the Right Reasons" is yet another bland offering from the masters of mass-produced, corporate rock. Nothing dangerous, nothing new. The sound of Nickelback is not of a band wishing to express themselves artisticly; it's the sound of a band who have found a very profitable trend and are going to milk it as long as they can. Spend your money elsewhere.
Ugh December 29, 2005
20 out of 33 found this review helpful
Why are these guys even popular? Nickelback has come to represent what main stream rock has become. Instead of getting The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, or Guns N Roses...my generation gets Nickelback! It is not fair. Where has the talent gone? Everytime I turn on the radio I hear this band. The lead singer sounds like he is constantly constipated and the guitar licks are pitiful. Maybe they need to spend time with Eric Clapton or Neil Young to find out how to write a decent rock song. It is just not fair that my generation has to listen to acts like Nickelback, Ashlee Simpson, Good Charlotte, and Simple Plan. Where has the talent gone!?!
Typical "Vanilla" Rock band April 19, 2006
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
Nickelback has taken people by storm, and even though they write radio friendly pop rock, there are 100 bands that are on the pop charts that are better then these guys. First off, they sound like a total rip off of Creed, which already gives them 2 Strikes, second off, the musicanship is horrid, and the only good thing is there is a solo done by "Dimebag Darell" which was sent in by Vinnie Paul, for the band to use. Even though I will admit, they do write some catchy tunes, its something that we have all heard a million times before, and like most of these flash in the pan bands, they will be long forgot in a few years. I really cant recomend this band to anyone, except maybe to teens and younger, that want some real simple rock, otherwise its just awful
 I've said it before; I'll say it again: October 16, 2006
20 out of 32 found this review helpful
"at least they released the right songs."
I'll get right to the point and say that you pretty much know what to expect when you listen to a Nickelback album because amidst all the "harder" rock songs are a few made-for-the-radio jams (which, in contrast to what other reviewers want you to think, isn't necessarily a bad thing). Thus, if you heard "Photograph" and then picked up All the Right Reasons when it first came out, it was probably pretty obvious that "Savin' Me" (my favorite song) and "Far Away" would be the next two singles. (And if they release a fourth single, it'll most likely be "If Everyone Cared".)
But the thing is, the rest of the songs are kind of stupid. Case in point: "Next Contestant" is a misguided track about Chad beating down anyone that tries to talk to his girlfriend. And it's obvious that some people don't like "Side of a Bullet" because they don't realize it's referring to the brutal murder of Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott (of Pantera and Damageplan), but even so, the song could have been written a little better. I also thought that Chad and the boys learned from "Figured You Out" that sexual songs just don't work for them, as evidenced by "Fight For All the Wrong Reasons". But "Animals" is worse, where they talk about doin' up a girl in the car and then being found out by her parents. How old are they, sixteen?
At the end of the album is "Rockstar", which reminds me of Lenny Kravitz's "I Don't Want to Be a Star" in that it's the kind of song that an artist should put on their first album, not after they're several albums in the game. Basically, even if you're like I am and don't accuse Nickelback of being sellouts or rock wannabes, the only right reason for buying this album is for the singles.
Anthony Rupert
WHY???????????????? February 28, 2006
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
You are buying this for all the wrong reasons! I can't take it anymore. I have kept my mouth shut for long enough. This is the worst album I have EVER heard in my entire life! I can't beleive this uninspired modern rock band has made it this far. Every CD they put out sounds exactly the same and copies every other uninspired modern rock band that has come out before them. The song "Animals" made me gag and casued me to contemplate tossing this worthless piece of plastic in the street. I can't escape this band, they are on every radio and television station. They are always the topic of the day. Other bands, that actually know how to successfully manipulate their instruments should be given more airtime than these clowns. Stop buying material form bands like them such as: Staind, Shinedown, Crossfade, Seether, Breaking Benjamin, Hoobastank, Chevelle, 3 Days Grace, 3 Doors Down and support bands that have put out good albums and play outside of the mainstream. Bands like: 32 Leaves, Oceansize, Unjust, Oddzar, 10 Years, Onesidezero, .click., Depswa, Edgewater, or anything else. For heavier bands try: 36 Crazyfists, Mercury Switch, Remembering Never, He is Legend, Look What I Did, Horse the Band, At All Cost, Nothingface, and many many more........
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