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 NickelbackDark Horse Release Date: 2008 11 18 Label: Roadrunner Rating:  |
Nickelback are not known for their insight, but Chad Kroeger's caterwauling claim that "we got no class, no taste" on "Burn It to the Ground," the second song on their sixth album, Dark Horse, is a slice of perceptive, precise self-examination. They work with legendary producer Robert "Mutt" Lange (the sonic architect behind Back in Black and Pyromania, two of hard rock's towering monuments) here, and Lange decides to give the band a production caught somewhere between the two extremes of AC/DC and Def Leppard, pumping up some muscle on Nickelback's heaviest rockers and adding some color to their power ballads, suggesting some heretofore verboten suggestions of modernity in the form of electronic rhythms, even taking it to the extreme of adding drum loops to the surefire crossover hit "Gotta Be Somebody." Lyrically, Kroeger trots out a parade of dirty little ladies in pretty pink thongs, porn stars, strippers, and sluts, all of whom are desired and despised for showing too much skin; he's either had his heart broken by those loose women, or he's singing to the good girl left at home while he's out on the town. Nickelback do manage to shed their leathery rock skin a couple of times, first with an arena-rocking "Burn It to the Ground" and then echoing Toby Keith's "Let's Talk About Us" on the white-boy rap pre-chorus for "Something in Your Mouth," but these are mere glimpses of something unpredictable; Dark Horse was constructed entirely from the group's standard power ballad and hard rock templates. The mood only lightens at the end of the record, when Kroeger and company take a break from carousing to kick back with bros and a bong for "This Afternoon" -- its strum-along choruses are a relief but so is its mellowness, as Kroeger seems calmer, relaxed, even friendly. Maybe it's because there were no women in the picture. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Something in Your Mouth | Kroeger, Lange, Nickelback | 3:38 |
| 2 | Burn It to the Ground | Kroeger, Nickelback | 3:30 |
| 3 | Gotta Be Somebody | Kroeger, Nickelback | 4:13 |
| 4 | I'd Come for You | Nickelback, Lange, Kroeger | 4:22 |
| 5 | Next Go Round | Kroeger, Nickelback | 3:45 |
| 6 | Just to Get High | Nickelback, Kroeger | 4:02 |
| 7 | Never Gonna Be Alone | Nickelback, Lange, Kroeger | 3:47 |
| 8 | Shakin' Hands | Lange, Kroeger, Nickelback | 3:39 |
| 9 | S.E.X. | Kroeger, Nickelback | 3:55 |
| 10 | If Today Was Your Last Day | Nickelback, Kroeger | 4:08 |
| 11 | This Afternoon | Nickelback, Lange, Kroeger | 4:34 |
Member Comments On This Album.
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The H8R  706 |
Mon Nov 17 2008 11:41:12 |
| LOL, how perfect is it that the first track is called "Something in Your Mouth"?! | ||
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elbars23 3 |
Tue Nov 4 2008 14:06:00 |
| im sure this will rock my world. philippines waiting for them. so do i. keep on rockin chad! | ||
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Juliet_0511 2 |
Wed Oct 29 2008 07:03:20 |
| i think it's awesome. actually i don't think there's anything i don't like about any of their songs. THEY ROCK. They've gotta get to South Africa...so many fans | ||
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