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 NickelbackAll the Right Reasons Release Date: 2005 10 04 Label: Roadrunner Rating:  |
With their fourth album, All the Right Reasons, Nickelback ditches any pretense of being a grunge band and finally acknowledges they're a straight-up heavy rock band. Not that they've left the angst of grunge behind: they're a modern rock band living in a post-grunge world, so there's lots of tortured emotions threaded throughout the 11 songs here. But where their previous albums roiled with anger -- their breakthrough "How You Remind Me" was not affectionate, it was snide and cynical -- there's a surprisingly large sentimental streak running throughout All the Right Reasons, and it's not just limited to heart-on-sleeve power ballads like "Far Away" and "Savin' Me," the latter being the latest entry in their soundalike sweepstakes. No, lead singer/songwriter Chad Kroeger is in a particularly pensive mood here, looking back fondly at his crazy times in high school on "Photograph" ("Look at this photograph/Every time I do it makes me laugh/How did our eyes get so red?/And what the hell is on Joey's head?"), lamenting the murder of Dimebag Darrell on "Side of a Bullet" (where a Dimebag solo is overdubbed), and, most touching of all, imagining "the day when nobody died" on "If Everyone Cared" (which would be brought about "If everyone cared and nobody cried/If everyone loved and nobody lied"). Appropriately enough for an album that finds Kroeger's emotional palette opening up, Nickelback tries a few new things here, adding more pianos, keyboards, and acoustic guitars to not just ballads, but a few of their big, anthemic rockers; they even sound a little bit light and limber on "Someone That You're With," the fastest tune here and a bit of relief after all the heavy guitars. All this makes for a more varied Nickelback album, but it doesn't really change their essence. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Follow You Home | Nickelback, Kroeger | 4:20 |
| 2 | Fight for All the Wrong Reasons | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:44 |
| 3 | Photograph | Nickelback, Kroeger | 4:18 |
| 4 | Animals | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:06 |
| 5 | Savin' Me | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:39 |
| 6 | Far Away | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:58 |
| 7 | Next Contestant | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:34 |
| 8 | Side of a Bullet | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:00 |
| 9 | If Everyone Cared | Nickelback, Kroeger | 3:38 |
| 10 | Someone That You're With | Nickelback, Kroeger | 4:01 |
| 11 | Rockstar | Nickelback, Kroeger | 4:15 |
Other Releases:
| All the Right Reasons [CD/DVD] Release Date: 2007 Label: Roadrunner |
| All the Right Reasons [Japan Bonus Tracks] Release Date: 2005 Label: Roadrunner |
| All the Right Reasons [Japan Bonus Tracks/DVD] Release Date: 2005 Label: Roadrunner |
| All the Right Reasons [Australian Bonus Track] Release Date: 2005 Label: Roadrunner |
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