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Nov 21, 2011Integrity to the fans, the fun tongue-in-cheek of the album and the no-*** rock n roll makes Here and Now a standout record for 2011, and may even win Nickelback some new fans.
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Nov 10, 2011It's a well-crafted brand of meat 'n potatoes hard rock.
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Nov 23, 2011Nickelback's seventh studio album arrives nearly three years after their multi-platinum-selling, 2008 release Dark Horse.
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Nov 10, 2011Their ambitions may get the best of them on Here and Now, an album that finds frontman Chad Kroeger volunteering to "kick a hole in the sky."
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Nov 22, 2011Even as Here And Now inspires massive eye-rolls, the nefariously catchy songs stick like stepped-in dog crap.
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Nov 22, 2011Here And Now might prove to be a step above the last effort, but likewise a step high enough to hang its creators on a barn rafter.
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Nov 22, 2011The fist-pumping earnestness of the Bon Jovian "Spaceship" is less objectionable and far more bland. Say this about Nickelback: It knows what works.
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Nov 17, 2011Here And Now reinforces all the reasons so many people hate Nickelback, but those are exactly the same things that make fans pump their fists in the air.
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Kerrang!Dec 12, 2011This Means War and Bottoms Up are such generic rock "anthems" that they could have been releases in any decade since the '80s. The lyrics, meanwhile, seem to date from the '70s, possibly the 1870s. [3 Dec 2011, p.51]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 53 out of 123
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Mixed: 16 out of 123
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Negative: 54 out of 123
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