ickelback with Curb and The State were okay post-grunge albums that
didn't set the world on fire, but were listenable despite Chad Kroeger's
rangeless vocals that sound like a third rate cross between Kurt Cobain
and Sammy Hagar. However, Silver Side Up had the hit How You Remind Me
and led them away from their post-grunge roots. Who knows what would
have happened if that song wasn't the biggest rock hit of the current
century? Would they be closer to a band like Seether? The route they did
take was towards hard rock that sounds more like Buckcherry lite. I
have