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List Price: $52.98 | | Label: Roadrunner Japan
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Released: November 26, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The State Track Listing:
1. Breathe
2. Cowboy Hat
3. Leader of Men
4. Old Enough
5. Worthy to Stay
6. Diggin' This
7. Deep
8. One Last Run
9. Not Leavin' Yet
10. Hold Out Your Hand
11. Leader of Men [Acoustic]
Editorial Review:
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Includes one bonus track. Road Runner.
Description of The State:
Nickelback, winners of Canada's Juno Award for Best New Band and Creed's tour-mates, are heavily influenced by the anthemic and articulate soulfulness of Pearl Jam. The State is consciously dramatic--sweet strums are overwhelmed by crashing waves of distorted guitar. Singer Chad Kroeger meaningfully wails tales of small-town woe, centering on complex relationships, a claustrophobic underground culture, and the struggle between staying and leaving. Yet Nickelback are at their best when they set aside their Pearl Jam debts, as with the heavy "Deep," the grinding "Not Leavin' Yet," and the more experimental "Worthy to Say." Nickelback are good, but still growing--possibly into something great. --Dominic Wills
The State Reviews:
Nickelback-The State 
2009-10-26 - "The State" has some great work by Nickelback. "Leader of Men" is a great song.
Hard rock and some great guitar work
A Best Kept Secret 
2009-08-18 - I, as I imagine many people, thought that Nickelback's first album was Silver Side Up. Finding out that they had 2 albums before it (this one, The State, and another titled Curb) was an amazing discovery. I didn't really know what to expect but I was pleasently surprised listening to this the first time. Though, if you listen to all of the bands work its easy to see how they have evolved over the years, this album is an interesting look at their earlier years and it includes a lot of great tracks.
Nickelback: The State
2009-02-15 - CD was rockin.
CD arrived in a very timely fashion.
CD arrived in excellent condition.
Rock music is dead. 
2008-06-19 - I can't listen to mainstream rock anymore and these guys are to blame. Everything sounds the same - I don't know if these guys are trying to sound like everyone else, or if everyone else is trying to sound like them. Either way, it just makes me want to throw my radio out the window and learn to play music myself. Anyone with any musical aptitude can write and perform better than this drivel.
nickleback state of mind 
2008-06-02 - not as good as their "reason" cd. This one is sort of like a bunch of racket. Gets better each time one listens to it
