Nickelback Music:

Silver Side Up Track Listing:
1. Never Again
2. How You Remind Me
3. Woke Up This Morning
4. Too Bad
5. Just For
6. Hollywood
7. Money Bought
8. Where Do I Hide
9. Hangnail
10. Good Times Gone

Editorial Review:
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Includes one bonus track. Road Runner.

Description of Silver Side Up:
Following Staind's footsteps, Nickelback make the personal public and vent a history of frustration and resentment to melodic hard rock. The band's second album, Silver Side Up, starts with "Never Again," an angry tirade against domestic violence that sheds light on the issue without too much sap or sentiment. The album's catchy radio hit "How You Remind Me" and the song "Woke Up This Morning" tell of rotting relationships, while other tracks touch on damaged hope and lost dreams. The post-grunge, alt-metal combo backing these songs packs as strong a punch as the lyrical material, going hard with lots of hooks. The additional slide guitar on "Hangnail" and sludgy, alt-metal riffs on "Hollywood," "Money Bought," and "Where Do I Hide" add a little meat to the alt-rock bones on Silver, elevating Nickelback above the heap of copycat rockers clogging the airwaves. --Jennifer Maerz

Silver Side Up Reviews:
Silver Side Up
2009-12-11 - "Silver Side Up" is an impressive rock album full of powerful, heavyish but very catchy rock songs. Melody and power are not always something that are captured together on rock albums but Nickelback have managed it on this to great effect. You are launched into this wonderful world with the gorgeous opening track "Never Again" and the album just does not let up, delivering one storming song after another. The combination of pace, power and enjoyment in a studio album is rare - extremely impressive!!

Nickelback rocks it.
2009-09-04 - As an old or new Nickelback fan, you should love this album. This is the album that first put Nickelback on the charts with "How You Remind Me", "Never Again" and "Too Bad". This is one of their better efforts and it is one of the few cd's where I listen to every single song, rather than skipping around to my favorites.There is literally not a bad song on this one. The song and sound quality is very good on this album, and all of the songs are just straight up rock and roll. Excellent listening.

Really Enjoy It
2009-06-13 - I have liked Nickelback since I first heard "How You Remind Me" which was a great pop rock song, blended together just right. Really also liked the vocals and lyrics.

I never got around to getting the record, but heard the song on the radio and purchased the record. This is very good and well rounded, with poppier fare like How You Remind Me and songs that are a bit darker or not quite run of the mill rock.

Maybe they do pay homage to older rock acts and perhaps they have been overplayed, but it does not detract that they write well and I enjoy listening to them.

are you kidding me?
2009-03-05 - this is the worst kind of rock out there. cookie cutter grunge rock made to sell lots of records. I dont think these guys take themselves as serious as some of the fans who gave this album good reviews. they just trying to cash in.

Rock and a hard place
2009-02-25 - Most of the time I listen to a singer or group a few times, buy an album, and then can form my opinions right there. Nickelback took me a while. They have a lot of great radio hits, they're as vanilla-mainstream as Microsoft and Blockbuster Video (maybe even more so given how much BV is struggling), and they're both loved and hated to a ridiculous extent. I couldn't see any reason not to get one of their albums, so I got one. (Don't remember why I chose Silver Side Up in particular; all I know was that it sounded more promising than their debut.)

It wasn't until listening all the way through (several times, mainly because I kept tuning out...red flag right there) that I realized the problem. You ready? Here it is:

They're just not an album band.

They have the creativity and talent for big, even huge singles (Someday and If Everyone Cared are fantastic), but that's about it, and as a result each album has a *lot* of filler. There is some merit to the frequent complaint that "everything they do sounds the same", as they're not capable of much more than making slight tweaks to what worked.

I count no less than four filler tracks in Silver Side Up: Hangnail, Hollywood, Money Bought, Too Bad. Additionally, Where Do I Hide and Woke Up This Morning are virtually interchanagable. And Never Again deserves special mention for being about a very serious subject (domestic) that sounds like it was composed by a 5th grader. Seriously, haphazardly jumping between two incredibly repetitive stanzas does *not* belong in a commercially released album.

Get How You Remind Me and ditch the rest of this joyless exercise.