In ten minutes I'll be laying out flat on the floor

Continuing my trip back through the 2003 album charts.

28/09/03 : The Long Road - Nickelback

I've never listened to a Nickelback album - I"m lead to believe it's unlikely to be a pleasant experience, but it's more than possible that's just the critics being overly snooty.

Well, I'd struggle to say it was entirely pleasant, but it certainly wasn't too unpleasant. For the most part, it was pretty samey - if you love "How You Remind Me", then I suspect you're pretty much gonna like this. For me, it was mostly bearable (although some of the lyrics were a bit "ewww") whilst also utterly without merit - but if you want this in your life then, as the saying goes, knock yourself out.

We're at #5 with a new entry in the chart this week on the start of a fifteen week run, which annoyingly featured a drop in every week except one. The rest of the new-entry heavy top five were Muse, The Darkness, Sting and R Kelly, with only The Darkness not debuting this week and the next highest new entries were Limp Bizkit (#7), The Chemical Brothers best-of (#9) and Gareth Gates (#11).

Wikipedia tells us this is their fourth album and it features a change in style with double bass drumming and heavier downtuned riffs in either B or C tuning - obviously I picked up on that. Critically, the angry music was well received although some also went "ewww" at the lyrics, but commercially it did way better than I was expecting, getting to #6 in the US and #1 in Canada, selling over five million copies globally (and there's absolutely no chance for me that it deserved such appreciation).

"Customers also listened to" Hinder, Theory Of A Deadman, 3 Doors Down and Creed - not a selection I know very much about. And if it's anything like this album, then I'm absolutely fine with that. Just no, thank you.

21/09/03 - Average, yet successful
05/10/03 - Tolerable but pointless