The only Nickelback album worth owning in my opinion is "The State." There are a bunch of good songs on that album. But pretty much every album after that is Top 40-rock-garbage that caters to the posers and meatheads who think listening to Nickelback is "rock and roll" or "metal."
I've never heard Nickleback, but yesterday was listening on NPR to a review of the new "American Idol" produced CD (can't remember the guy's name, but no matter). In the end, the reviewer said that the music was just shallow, generic music without substance, written to appeal to bland tastes, and cited Nickleback as a comparable. I took that to mean the reviewer did not think highly of Nickleback.
