Nickelback, The Long Road Review

Overall Rating

It is a creative CD, it has a great blend of sounds and great subjects (high school) that everyone can relate to.

It had a few boring and less energetic songs that almost make you depressed.

The Long Road is one of my favorite albums from Nickelback due to being fresh new ideas in the issues discussed, it focuses on teen issues. The album is easy to sing to in the car with catchy riffs.
My two favorite songs are, "Figured You Out," and "Throw Yourself Away."
"Figured You Out," is the most popular song on this CD. It is congruent with the rest of the CD due to having the high school issues theme. It has the Nickelback quality in that it is catchy and is a song that not many artists would touch from this perspective. Other groups generally don't come out and describe a relationship with the details that Nickelback sings.
When comparing to other groups like Three Days Grace, songs like "Pain" which is about relationships but it just focuses on the bad parts. "I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all " Nickelback grabs your attention in a different way by taking a new perspective.
"Throw Yourself Away" by Nickelback is a favorite because it is about a baby being born at the prom. It has the traditional riff, "wash my hands of this," that makes you want to sing. It is lively and upbeat and has the Nickelback tradition of grabbing your attention because not many groups would sing about high school issues like teen pregnancy, going along with the rest of the CD in the teen issue theme.
This album is geared to a younger crowd as it is mostly high-school-related songs about prom, and teen issues. "For All the Right Reasons," their latest CD, is more grown up, singing about getting rich, being a star, drugs, adult relationships, and more mature issues. "I want a brand new house on an episode of Cribs "

Members' Comments onaresdreams's Review

• Anonymous101 on 13th Feb 2007

  I agree. The Long Road by Nickelback is a great album!