Silver Side Up
by Nickelback

Nickelback basically spawned a whole new generation of dummbasses, rednecks and morons. They are truly an embarassment to Canadian music. If you have absolutley no taste in music and no personality then this record is for you! (Edited)

From Mr. Shankly TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/08/2009 01:56 | #6013 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I agree that Nickelback is a bad joke of a band, but it's really the musical movement they came out of that is the problem, which All Music refers to as the "post-grunge" period where every band and its brother had a lead singer that sounded like Eddie Vedder accompanying bland AOR mid- tempo distorted guitar rock that sounded pretentious, self-important and totally unoriginal. Remember Nickelback came up with the likes of Staind, Puddle of Shit (Mudd), and the worst of all, Creed. It was a bad time for music. I suppose Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Nirvana are all to blame really although none of those second-rate bands had the originality of their forebearers.

Here's what All Music says about post-grunge:
"The major difference is that while the Seattle bands were firmly rooted in underground alternative rock of the '80s, post-grunge was influenced by what grunge became -- a wildly popular form of inward-looking, serious-minded hard rock. That meant many post-grunge groups imitated the sound and style of grunge, but not necessarily the individual idiosyncracies of its original artists." Hence why bands like Nickelback suck. (Edited)

From mayonaise93 05/07/2010 19:43 | #11543 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

You've got give it to them for "How You Remind Me" and "Too Bad". Those two tracks were great songs and "Too Bad" goes off like a bomb. Nickelback may not have originality but for a moment in time they did have flair which a lot of bands around the start of the last decade didn't have. Flame me all you want but the fact is most people will never write a song half as good as "How You Remind Me". Bring on the HATE :p (Edited)

From Goliath 07/07/2020 17:51 | #255181 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Not my favourite band but this album has its moments and should not be rated so low. Because Nickelback are unsubtle and considered uncool, all their albums get unfairly lambasted. An average rating of 40 for this album is ridiculous. (Edited)

From Eastwood 12/15/2016 07:49 | #180197 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Very good album. Best 10 songs average is 90,0/100 and the album can get very good 90/100. Best song ist "How you remind me" great, followed by "Neveragain", "Too bad", "Money bought" and "Where di I hide" all very good. All other songs quite good. Favourite!
Genre: Post-Grunge, Hard Rock (Edited)