A Bit of a Rant

Most of the time on this blog, I do my own reviews of music. Now it's my time to blast someone else's take on my type of music. I, for one, am sick and tired of critics railing on how bad Nickleback is, according to them. Nickleback is without question the most successful rock band of this decade, yet published works like Rolling Stone and AllMusicGuide.com, no matter how much success Nickleback has, will ALWAYS speak negatively about them. I for one, am sick and tired of hearing it. Obviously, the so-called "experts" don't their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to music. Else that or the above-mentioned publications assign reviewers whose favorite genre of music must be country or classical music. The past three Nickleback albums are three of the best-selling CD's in recent history, yet the maximum rating given by AllMusicGuide is 3 out of 5, and that's only on "Silver Side Up", the other ratings are 2 out of 5. One critic went as far as to say that Nickleback was "unspeakably awful." The only thing unspeakably awful here is the reviewer's attitude.

Here are some sales performances of Nickleback, in the United States alone:

Silver Side Up: 5.3 million copies
The Long Road: 3.3 million copies
All The Right Reasons: 6. 7 million copies

Even Billboard Magazine gave credit where credit is due, saying that "All The Right Reasons" was the "biggest rock album of the century so far." I believe it is time for the people at Rolling Stone and AllMusicGuide to get their heads out of their asses and into the real world, and wake up and smell the coffee.