Nickelback - The Long Road
List Price:
Our Price: $13.99
You Save: $4.99 (26%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $2.14 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: NickelbackEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: Roadrunner Records
Soundtracks:
- Flat On The Floor
- Do This Anymore
- Someday
- Believe It Or Not
- Feelin' Way Too Damn Good
- Because Of You
- Figured You Out
- Should've Listened
- Throw Yourself Away
- Another Hole In The Head
- See You At The Show
Free Music Notes for The Long Road
Free Music Review: Definitely the best of their last three
Hit: 5 Stars
Having heard the two most popular albums by Nickelback, SILVER SIDE UP and ALL THE RIGHT REASONS, I decided to buy this one as well because I knew a few of the songs on it and remembered that I didn't have this one yet. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, but after listening to it a few times I decided this is their best album of the three that I've heard. It's the closest to perfect I've ever heard on a post-grunge album.
I thought SILVER SIDE UP was too heavy on the guitars and all of the songs sounded too similar, and I thought ALL THE RIGHT REASONS was a better album but sounded too forced for the mainstream. This album has the perfect balance of metal-influenced heavy rock and hook-filled choruses that would sound great on rock radio (a few of them proved they do). The reader is probably familiar with at least the song "Someday". That song and "Do This Anymore" are probably the most ballad-like, with lyrics focusing on broken relationships over soaring harmonies and great hooks in the chorus. Other songs are heavier, such as the barn-burning opener "Flat on the Floor", "Because of You", and the merciless guitar-riffer "Throw Yourself Away". What makes this album stand out from the aforementioned others is the consistency of this album; the band knows what they're doing and sounds like they're having fun doing it. Even on tracks like the acoustic-based "Should've Listened", which is a step in a different direction for the band, the quartet pulls it off perfectly.
Buy this album if you're a casual Nickelback fan like myself, and get a taste of this popular group at their best.
The Long Road Poster
It's never easy following up a multi-platinum success, but Canada's Nickelback's latest seem sure to match the sales of the many-million-selling Silver Side Up. The formula remains pretty much the same--nothing fancy, just radio-friendly grunge that lends an appropriately dramatic backing to the powerful and increasingly confident voice of Chad Kroeger. Aside from the fast and punchy opener "Flat on the Floor," the tough, staccato "Because of You," and the Oasis-like "Figured You Out," the band deal exclusively in soft-rock anthems (soft, that is, by 2003's pulverizing standards). The only real change here lies is in Kroeger's lyrical concerns. Where 2000's The State found him suffering the frustrations of small-town life, now he's tortured by a heavy touring schedule that promotes destructive drug abuse and strains relationships to breaking point. That said, you can't help feeling the ruthlessly analytical Kroeger would turn a visit to the supermarket into a riot of hatred and self-recrimination. For fans of Silver Side Up, Nickelback have delivered the goods once more. --Dominic WillsPop Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Music I listen too over & over...
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the ShapeRelease date: 2003-10-07; Music CD
Best price: $7.56
Price in other shops:
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to LoseRelease date: 1999-11-02; Music CD
Best price: $6.96
Price in other shops:
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & GraceRelease date: 2007-09-25; Music CD
Best price: $4.69
Price in other shops:
Dry Kill Logic - The Darker Side of NonsenseRelease date: 2001-06-19; Music CD
Best price: $10.40
Price in other shops:
Dry Kill Logic - Dead and DreamingRelease date: 2004-10-05; Music CD
Best price: $9.61
Price in other shops:
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch EngageRelease date: 2000-07-11; Music CD
Best price: $8.66
Price in other shops:
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just BreathingRelease date: 2002-05-21; Music CD
Best price: $10.85
Price in other shops:
Killswitch Engage - The End of HeartacheRelease date: 2005-03-01; Music CD
Best price: $12.79
Price in other shops:
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight DiesRelease date: 2006-11-21; Music CD
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Cold - Year of the SpiderRelease date: 2003-05-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.44
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
3 Doors Down - Seventeen DaysRelease date: 2005-02-08; Music CD
Best price: $5.55
Price in other shops:
Three Days Grace - One XRelease date: 2006-06-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.38
Price in other shops:
3 Doors Down - The Better LifeRelease date: 2000-02-08; Music CD
Best price: $5.57
Price in other shops:
Hinder - Extreme BehaviorRelease date: 2005-09-27; Music CD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
Nickelback - All the Right ReasonsRelease date: 2007-07-10; Music CD
Best price: $8.75
Price in other shops:
3 Doors Down - Away From The SunRelease date: 2002-11-12; Music CD
Best price: $6.21
Price in other shops:
Nickelback - CurbRelease date: 2002-06-25; Music CD
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
Nickelback - The StateRelease date: 2000-03-07; Music CD
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Nickelback - Silver Side UpRelease date: 2001-09-11; Music CD
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Nickelback - All the Right ReasonsRelease date: 2005-10-05; Music CD
Best price: $5.87
Price in other shops: