The other songs in “All the Right Reasons” are:

1. “Follow You Home” – 4:20
2. “Fight for All the Wrong Reasons” – 3:43
3. “Photograph” – 4:19
4. “Animals” – 3:06
5. “Savin’ Me” – 3:39
6. “Far Away” – 3:58
7. “Next Contestant” – 3:35
8. “Side of a Bullet” – 3:00
9. “If Everyone Cared” – 3:38
10. “Someone That You’re With” – 4:01
11. “Rockstar” – 4:14

This is quite a good album and so I suggest just going for it and purchasing the entire thing. You won’t regret the purchase and it’s not a lot of money. You can get it all for just under $11 from Amazon. That’s a saving of $8, or 42%. You’ll still need to add shipping on top of that though.

If you’re not sure about whether or not this is a good purchase, think of this. All the Right Reasons was certified 7x Platinum by the RIAA and has sold 7,225,557 copies as of September 19, 2009. All is not a bed of roses, however for Nickelback. Though they have sold millions of copies, the critics love to hate them. It’s a musical phenomena where they sell tons of music but then there are quite a few mixed reviews about them. Maybe one of their best selling points is that they let the music speak for itself and the band refuses to be interviewed.

So will you choose to buy the album or listen to the critics and pass this great album off as another lame joke? Well the choice is up to you but I say you might as well try it out. There’s not much to lose but plenty to be gained.

Being a photographer myself I thought the different artistic effects in the video were pretty appealing. I know there are lots of videos that are similar, but this one just has a little something extra I feel. Nickelback’s choice of locations and settings in the video was well done. They all added to the nostalgic effect pretty well. The cars were all older cars, which make us think of times past. One setting was walking through an older neighborhood. Several times we found ourselves out in the fields by barns and stuff, which has the effect of thinking back. All these just get added together to create a powerful visual experience. That combined with the powerful audio, which is in essence what Nickelback is, an audio maker, make Nickelback Photograph all that much more of an appealing song.

The humor in the song about schools is not left out of the music video of course. Like I already previously mentioned, Nickelback adds humor, maybe unintentionally, to many of their songs. Talking about not being accepted back into the school, and saying that he doesn’t even know if he’d accept himself back is pretty humorous in my book. I love that they show themselves all set up with their entire outfit in a school gym at that part of the song.

I guess the only thing that kind of annoyed me about the whole thing was the angle of the camera. Several times we had an almost birds eye view of Chad Kroeger singing, and it just wasn’t a pleasant view, especially for the number of times that they chose it.  It’s a little thing in my mind, just thought I should mention it.

All in all though I thought that the Nickelback Photograph music video was fantastic. There’s a lot of good to be said about it and not much bad. If you’ve got a couple free minutes to watch it, I recommend it! Here is where I watched the music video of Nickelback Photograph.

Photograph is a single from their 5th studio album, released in 2005. It is hugely popular in Canada, the US and around the world. It made it to the #1 spot on the Canadian charts and stayed there for seven whole weeks. In the US it made it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That’s pretty impressive. Photograph was also released in Japan, the UK and other areas of Europe.

So what does the song mean? Well there are a lot of great nostalgic themes in the song, in fact, that’s basically what it’s about. Chad Kroeger is remembering what his life was back in the day, and he has a lot of mixed feelings. There is quite a bit of humor behind the lyrics and we find ourselves chuckling at times. This is quite a feat to pull off – being nostalgic about the past, both missing it and wanting to leave it behind – and also finding humor in everything that has happened. There is room for a lot of interpretation but looking back on the past is the main jist of the song.

The actual music is pretty good too! Some may like Chad’s voice and others may not. In this song it’s not quite as overpowering as it is in other songs from the band. If you like rock this will be a song you definitely want to hear. The chorus especially is a chorus that makes you just want to sing along with them. I suppose if the song wasn’t so good, there’d be no reason to have a blog about it!