With a huge success from "How You remind Me," Nickelback have shot from the west coast of Canada to being a big name in music today. Here's the track breakdown for "Silver side Up":

1. Never Again: A song about domestic violence. This is the most pissed off I've ever heard these guys. 9/10

2. How You Remind Me: The single that launched them to the top of the charts. Need I say more? 10/10

3. Woke up this morning: Love the guitar solo here. Fairly good rock song. 9/10

4. Too Bad: The next single. A bit angrier than How You Remind Me, but still as catchy. 10/10

5. Just For: Really Hard, and doesn't that opening guitar sound kinda like "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? 8/10

6. Hollywood: Nothing really stands out here, I usually skip this. 6/10.

7. Money Bought: Some great lines in this one. 8/10

8. Where Do I Hide: My personal fave. Harder than the singles, but Nickelback sounds better like this. 10/10

9. Hangnail: My second fave on the CD, for all the same reasons as the first. 10/10

10. Good Times Gone: A switch to slow rock , but still as good as the rest of the songs. This features Ian Thornley, the lead singer of Big Wreck, on guitar. 9/10

In general, if you buy this CD for "How You Remind Me", you may be in for a bit of a surprise. However, if you can stand harder music, this is a good album.

As a fan of Nickel back this is the bomb, I wish more bands bunddled DVDs with CDs or put both video and thier tracks on DVD.

This album is really good! They have a lot of catchy tunes but some of them you have to listen to a few times for them to grow on you. Overall I gave the CD four stars because it rocks but their other album "the state" is better. If you like 3 doors down, Incubus and Creed, then this is right in your genre. So go buy it already! :p

I bought the CD "Silver Side Up" tonight. I had previously heard "Never Again", "How You Remind Me", & "Too Bad" through MP3 downloads, but WOW for 10 songs this CD is awesome.

Never Again - Hard but keeps me entertained throughout

How You Remind Me - Great catchy tune w/ a soft side too it

Woke Up This Morning - Another great hard tune

Too Bad - Shows their sensitive side BEST SONG ON THE CD!

Just For - Great Hard tune which shows their ability to rock!

Hollywood - Catchy beginning riff that'll have ya singing it all day

Money Bought - Amazing drums & vocals some high powered music!

Where Do I Hide - Guitar just screams like hell! HELL YEAH!

Hangnail - Fluid throughout the song!

Good Times Gone - Softest tune on the CD still amazing

So if you haven't bought the album get it. The State, Hesher, & Curb were amazing but you ain't heard nothin' yet!!

Okay, I know this band has gotten a lot of criticism from various music fans for reasons ranging from: they are a rip-off of Creed (even though they have been around longer than Creed and have not experienced a Spiritual Rebirth) to the fact that the lead singer looks like Jesus (LOL), to the fact that some claim all of their songs sound alike. Well, even if there is overlap, the songs are good, and good songs make good overlap. So personally, I like these Canucks and even though I usually don't listen to this sort of music, I find SILVER SIDE UP to be a refreshing addition to my CD-collection. The music ranges from angry to angsty and is filled with powerful guitar riffs and lyrics which actually do deal with serious issues (ie: domestic abuse, dead-beat dads) or which just plain penetrate the more typical issues of doomed relationships (ie: HOW YOU REMIND ME.)

NEVER AGAIN: Nickelback's angry tirade against domestic violence. Some of the lyrics are a little corny, but it is nice to hear a guy get so riled up over wife-beating. Very nice, suspenseful riffs touched with this eerie noise in the background, which seems to foreshadow the tragic ending to this song.

HOW YOU REMIND ME: For some reason, no matter how much the radio overplays this song, it still works for me. It is by turns mournful and tender. "It must have been so bad, 'cause livin' with me must have damn near killed you" is probably the best line on this album. This one could probably work as a domestic abuse song as well.

WOKE UP THIS MORNING: An angry song directed at a complicated and failing relationship. At first, I wasn't too crazy about this one, but now I have really gotten to like the chorus.

TOO BAD: A song about the dad who abandoned Chad Kroeger and his brother when they were kids. Rather than being angry, the song seems to take the approach of showing that it is the father who has, in fact, lost out by missing his children's growing up.

JUST FOR: Both angry and sad, this song is about the anger a guy has at the ex-boyfriend (husband, father) who broke or emotionally messed up his current girlfriend (sister, mother).

HOLLYWOOD: This one starts out with some powerful guitar chords. To be honest, this is one of the weaker tracks on the album. I still haven't figured out precisely what it's about. I think it is probably saying something about the superficial nature of Hollywood.

MONEY BOUGHT: Starts out with some kind of ominous guitar chords. Seems to be about the pointlessness of money and a girl who has a lot of it but is empty inside. Catchy verse-starters like, "Cherry stem in her mouth, she can tie in a knot. Every trick she has is one of ten that she's got." This song is edgy and tough.

WHERE DO I HIDE: One of the more anguish-filled tracks on the album. Seems to be about aiding and abetting a criminal. The chorus and middle-verses get kind of emotional with lines like, "I remember that summer like yesterday. And I remember his mother, as he's dragged away."

HANG-NAIL: Yet another angry song about a bad relationship. I really like this one. You can really get into the chorus and the verses. Easy to see why it was such a big hit.

GOOD TIMES GONE: Probably my least favorite track on the album. Also the longest. Seems to be lamenting the loss of the band's uncomplicated childhood in Alberta, Canada. Starts out sounding like a folk-song, sounds a little like Irish music. Ends with the noise of boots storming out and a random soft chuckle from Chad Kroeger, as though maybe he is occasionally happy after all (!!!)

Overall, this is a pretty strong album, the type of thing you can listen to when you are working-out, doing paperwork, or basically anything that doesn't require being calm or keeping still. It is edgy and powerful, depressing, but not teen-angsty. Grunge-metal but not derogatory at all. I commend this band for the amount of hardwork it took for them to reach this level of success, and I look forward to hearing more from them. They are certainly much better than our other neighbors from the North such as punk-pop star Avril Lavigne!