Nickelback

2005 sees Nickelback continuing on the path to heaviness -- even the ballads are tougher than their trademark fare from the late '90s. The southern rock-ish "Rock Star" and the anthemic "Photograph" are among their best songs yet.

Nickelback's fifth disc consists of eleven giant-chorused songs about prisons of the mind,
wanting to be a rock star and how it's hard to up and leave when she's going down on you.
The band's wordy hooks and big riffs are as meticulously arranged as a thousand-dollar
Nativity scene, but -- with the exception of the sleekly rocking "Animals" and some
hope-and-faith platitudes -- All the Right Reasons is so depressing, you're almost... More >