Many albums have become timeless because the artists behind them have put their lives, heart, soul, patience, and experience the many musical skill. Other albums were made as a marketing formula. You know, those facts as quickly as possible to make the most profit with the least amount of effort. And somehow, the latter are earning more money and sells a lot more copies than the former. And that's when such mediocrity stands out and is successful that we should be regretting the past.
In the last episode, I spoke of the early 2000s and the groups composing the Triforce of Suckage: Limp Bizkit, Nickelback and Creed. At the time, while the rock was changing and that new groups appeared, mainstream media continue to promote these 3 groups! Now this is ironic because Limp Bizkit and Creed are somewhat pariahs on rock Radio and that Nickelback is played only in pop stations to show that they have the "variety". ... and on some sucky rock stations, to be fair.
But after so many requests to continue regretting The Past, it makes sense to consider another piece of tape rot, casting an eye on Canada's favorite punching bag of all: Nickelback. "I have not succeeded as wise I could not do it as a poor thief ..." Yeah, you can not do it either as a songwriter, then you should shut up. Ahhh, Nickelback ...
At one time, you seemed to be a new rock group in Canada with a solid foundation and potential for the future. Then everyone realized what he was listening: a mathematical formula and marketing, as many songs Beyonce and One Direction today. These songs are meant to be catchy and to sell. Which brings us to today's topic: "Silver Side Up". The third album of Nickelback was released on ... No... (September 11, 2001) Wikipedia ... I was well taken, go ... Go to Google when came out this album? Noooo ...
OK, I will not make jokes about this. It was a terrible coincidence, the albums released on Tuesday in the US ... and that's what happened on 9/11. So an album of Nickelback was released on September 11, they would not have known. I will not make jokes about this, so ... ... changing quickly from topic to talk about the songs, and never talk about this again! Silver Side Up, the third album of Nickelback, came out after the second The State, that and it may shock you, actually isn't bad! Yes, I really said that! However, after The State, there was a new idea: not so much make an album with passion and giving everything you've got, but rather taking the research and business aspect to make an album that will sell. "Silver Side Up" is an example of a group wanting to reach the public by playing what people already love.
If you do not believe me, so here is a quote from Mr. Kroeger: "I have studied each piece, all that is sound, lyrics, music, chord structure. I dissected every song heard on the radio or each song worked well in the charts and I wondered why it went well "? That's the problem I have with Nickelback and especially with "Silver Side Up": it was not written or played for the love of art or music, but instead made for profit.
Imagine you have created a barbecue sauce and you start sacrificing quality to save money, but always promoting it as as good as other sauce. It does not make you a better person, but stingy, and an asshole to the sale saying it is as good as the others. But unfortunately, people will buy it if you can promote the well.
I will come back later because I do not want to digress and like last time in Regretting The Past, I'll listen to this album from beginning to end. God, help me.
Track 1: Never Again
Oh my God, just with the first notes and these parasites, I know it will be long ... For the first song that should be rhythmic and energetic, "Never Again" did a good job. The volume is very early and it wakes up, the battery has a good rhythm, but what is interesting are the lyrics. This is a very serious topic to start an album. Whether based on the experience of the group members or not, This album starts on a very dark and sad note on family violence. I'm not saying that we should not talk about it, but it's hard that the album starts with that. Whether you like Nickelback or not, and I know it's fun to make fun of them, this is a serious topic to start your album to 10 tracks. Domestic violence against a mother and a child, it is not something easy to forget. With the lyrics, Nickelback has launched a full description of the situation, but ... we have a bad taste in your mouth when you start an album like this. Speaking of bad taste, here are more Nickelback!
Track 2: How You Remind Me
This song was played EVERYWHERE. It was not bad aired on MTV at the time when rock was not really emphasized. Radio, television ... even the speakers of malls broadcast this song at the time. This is very generic, but not bad at all. The song has an easy to follow format. Basically, this song is about the former girlfriend of the singer. However, there is a reason it has sold so well and has panicked the charts: it was made to copy the generic formats other songs.
This is a single formatted for attention and copy what is already working. Kroeger even said that "How You Remind Me" sold so well because it speaks of a love relationship, universal subject, and had memorable hooks. This is horrible. This song was not written for cathartic reasons she was made to stand out by using the work, the talent and the songs of others.
They just wanted to get noticed and directly sell albums and I do not know how, IT WORKED A PERFECTLY. "How You Remind Me" is one of the last rock singles have been number 1 in the US Billboard Top 100. Only Coldplay will take over 7 years. Statistics also show that this was the most broadcast on US radio song between 2001 and 2009. And if that's not crazy enough to turn your head, know that this album with a single rock formatted to his head,
has sold over 6 million copies in the USA alone and that is part of the 100 best-selling albums of the decade. We ALL fell for it. I remember friends from high school who had this album and who listened to the first songs because there was no real reason to do it, and now I understand. There is no real substance after the first 2 songs.
and that's what bothers me, because after these two songs, it gets worse. So what you just heard, it was the best of the album.
Track 3: "Woke Up This Morning" Although this song is not terrible, it seems very bland. It's filling generic rock. It is not even worth to be played in a concert Nickelback is headlining. It's forgettable, and I think that's the problem with this kind of music: the uninspired filler songs are a waste of time but also forgettable. Completely.
Listen to "Woke Up This Morning" and ask yourself if you see yourself listen this song. It offers nothing. Ironically, there is a song by Nickelback happens to wake up in the morning.
[Luke sleeping. "Photograph" starts playing and he panics out of bed.]
Track 4: "Too Bad" "Too Bad" was one of three singles have bee n entitled to a large radio broadcast and a clip. The voice is not horrible and the song is slow, no problem. But the song is melancholy and melodramatic. Writing lyrics is a namby-pamby waste that never ends.
The clip shows people with a broken heart, with the "dark lyrics to reflect" background but in reality, a little anger looks like teen with a big budget. The songs are more generic music level, and, strangely, increasingly depressing and whining level words! I mean, it gets sad! I know we have done with the singles, but it's got to be a nugget in this album, right?
How could this be sell SIX. MILLION. COPIES?
Track 5: Just For
"Just For" is one of those songs about separation and revenge. It's interesting to listen because we hear the guitars and drums playing know but one can not help but feel that this is a relaxing day in the studio to make a song that they necessarily will play. I wonder who can fill the list of songs by another title on relationships.
"Hey, people buy this stuff, so why not?" I'm sure it was a group of executives in Toronto who met for recommendations on how the music business. The kind of people who do not listen to rock since the late 60s but that say how to make profit. And unfortunately, they succeeded.
Track 6: Hollywood
This synthesized voice, like the rest of "Hollywood" has no value. Just now, when I said I never heard my friends listening to the latest songs, I understand why now. After the track 2, there is no more substance. All groups will release an album where some titles seem not to have them. But for "Silver Side Up", it looks like they have songs about 2 singles and released the album as soon as possible. Looks filling and mess! People paid $ 10 when the album was released. Now it serves as a coaster!
I know listener still regularly this album Nickelback! Oh, it's so boring, it's so bland ... This is blander than bland, this is more generic than generic! There are copyright-free songs on Youtube with more substance than that! I do not believe that more than one person wrote, or even produced this album. I mean, it looks like this kind of bad bands playing in bars where you go, you see fifties playing on stage, you hear them play songs like this and turn the heels immediately, never to return. I talked about earlier, with writing based on universal subjects words that everyone can be involved but now they are quite dark lyrics with innuendo sad! I mean, it is very depressing and negative! Some are so emo that they could be on a t-shirt My Chemical Romance!
I mean, listen to some words out of the context of the album. "This time, I made the mistake of giving you a heart that deserves to be broken" "But you were not there just when I needed it most." "I've been a loser all my life. I'm not going to change." "I still hear the screaming" Where I hide "He asks me and I say"? Hurry back ... "" "My hopes fell and I not see the reason, why there is blood on my sleeve."
Is Nickelback is an emo band? Because with that, I have a feeling. But you know what ? Maybe I will not hear this music in the right conditions. Some lyrics are depressing and slow. We must listen to music in some way, and the fact of listening to sit here is not good. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to listen to these words of Nickelback how it was likely to do.
[20 sad and cold minutes later ...] No, it does not help. We continue.
Track 9 "Hangnail""... I do not sing well ..." At least you admit it! This song is still the generic fill. It's horrible to criticize by saying that half of an album is a waste of time to fill, but that's what it felt. I really hope "Silver Side Up" will finish on a strong note.
Track 10: "Good Times Gone
"Silver Side Up" does not end on a strong note. It ends on an extremely long note, endless and plucked string. Over 5 minutes guitar tricks and rope pinch, always behind the very bad storytelling. And that's one reason why Nickelback is not taken seriously their words have a bad storytelling.
The instrumental could give something good with a little work, but even the best tools can not save this effort. The structure is super-generic without any substance. At the beginning of this video, I said that mediocrity was saleswoman and that we should regret the past. Imagine you are a fast food chain and people would say that you do not have enough variety, but you did a lot of profit by selling the same rotten burgers.
Why bother? Money talks itself! This also applies to Nickelback. Why worry about what critics and other musicians say while they know it'll work and writing banal manner, poorly told and playing guitar with little effort will give them a fortune? We should not support such things, but without much reason, we did and continue to do so. Everyone loves something, and there is something for all
so if you like Nickelback, support them, buy their music and go to their concerts. "Silver Side Up" is clearly not the worst album I've heard is very far from being the worst album of Nickelback but there are albums like this that are killing the rock today. The mediocre albums of the past, but which have market kill the next generation by showing them that they do not have to make an effort to be millionaires. That's the worst in this album.
Mediocrity so successful that creativity and true passion sprayed, and people are afraid to do. If you want the rock to get better, buy the music you like, but also go in concert, buy a t-shirt to show. Things like that help more artists that you will never understand, and it beautifies the evening a fan. And with this, I run a final warning: In 20 years, when mediocrity always work as well, generations worsen, and something horrible will happen.
Both Canadian, award-winning musicians will have an offspring. This offspring will become a musician with a fortune to produce his music, and it will be posted EVERYWHERE. If the mediocre music still prevail, then this is what the future will produce rock abomination: something far worse than these two predecessors did. Then, erase mediocrity. Support good music. It exists somewhere. I promise you. The Past regretting not talking as the world's worst albums, but the albums we must regret having paid at the time.
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