Alternative Hard Rock » nickelback http://www.alternativehardrock.com Where Music And People Meet Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:51:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Buying Nickelback Photograph http://www.alternativehardrock.com/buying-nickelback-photograph.html http://www.alternativehardrock.com/buying-nickelback-photograph.html#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:19:50 +0000 Kerry Underwood http://www.alternativehardrock.com/?p=24 So you’ve read a lot about Nickelback Photograph, listened to the song and watched the music video and now you want to buy the song for yourself. Well hey, good job! You’ve made a good choice. Nickelback Photograph is a song on the album “All the Right Reasons”. This is the fifth studio album created by Nickelback. It was released in January of 2005. So where is the best place to buy it? Well if you just want to buy only the song “Photograph”, I would suggest downloading it from the iTunes Store. Otherwise you can purchase the entire album from a number of places. Amazon is as good as any place and here is a link to buy it.

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.

]]> http://www.alternativehardrock.com/buying-nickelback-photograph.html/feed 2 A Look at Nickelback Photograph http://www.alternativehardrock.com/a-look-at-nickelback-photograph.html http://www.alternativehardrock.com/a-look-at-nickelback-photograph.html#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:04:54 +0000 Kerry Underwood http://www.alternativehardrock.com/?p=4 Nickelback is a Canadian rock band that was formed in 1995 and is one of the most successful Canadian groups. Nickelback got their name from the band member Mike Kroeger who would tell customers “Here’s your nickel back” at Starbucks, where he worked. If you ask me that’s a pretty unique way of getting a name for a band. Nickelback Photograph is the name of one of their most successful songs, and that song is what this blog is all about. It may seem like a funny topic to run a whole blog around, but I find it to be a rather interesting topic.

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!

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