Nickelback - Dark Horse DTS 2

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Nickelback - Dark Horse DTS
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Artist...............: Nickelback
Album................: Dark Horse
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: Lossless
Year.................: 2008
Burn test............: 10/22/2012
Channels.............: 5.1 / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Included.............: WAV,CUE,NFO,Cover
Posted by............: MrMalikai on 5/16/2010, 11/24/2012
How to burn a DTS CD
How to Play a DTS-CD or DTSWav
Information..........: Play it LOUD!
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:39) Nickelback - Something In Your Mouth
2. (00:03:31) Nickelback - Burn It To The Ground
3. (00:04:13) Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody
4. (00:04:23) Nickelback - I'd Come From You
5. (00:03:45) Nickelback - Next Go Round
6. (00:04:02) Nickelback - Just To Get High
7. (00:03:47) Nickelback - Never Gonna Be Alone
8. (00:03:40) Nickelback - Shakin' Hands
9. (00:03:55) Nickelback - S.E.X.
10. (00:04:08) Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
11. (00:04:35) Nickelback - This Afternoon

Playing Time.........: 00:43:38
Total Size...........: 325.93 MB
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It's a stereo to DTS 5.1 conversion. Burn it to a standard CD-R.
Can be played on home theater systems that have a DTS decoder
and on PC's with the software to play DTS.
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Nickelback are not known for their insight, but Chad Kroeger's caterwauling
claim that "we got no class, no taste" on "Burn It to the Ground," the second
song on their sixth album, Dark Horse, is a slice of perceptive, precise
self-examination. Nickelback are a gnarled, vulgar band reveling in their ignorance
of the very notion of taste, lacking either the smarts or savvy to wallow in bad
taste so they just get ugly, knocking out knuckle-dragging riffs that seem rarefied
in comparison to their thick, boneheaded words. Of the two, the music is far
less offensive, particularly on Dark Horse, where they work with the legendary
producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, the sonic architect behind Back in Black and Pyromania,
two of hard rock's towering monuments. Mutt Lange decides to give Nickelback a
production caught somewhere between the two extremes of AC/DC and Def Leppard,
pumping up some muscle on Nickelback's heaviest rockers and adding some color to
their power ballads, suggesting some heretofore verboten suggestions of modernity
in the form of electronic rhythms, even taking it to the extreme of adding drum
loops to the surefire crossover hit "Gotta Be Somebody." Nickelback do manage to
shed their leathery rock skin a couple of times, first with an arena-rocking
"Burn It to the Ground" and then echoing Toby Keith's "Let's Talk About Us" on
the white-boy rap pre-chorus for "Something in Your Mouth," but these are mere
glimpses of something unpredictable; Dark Horse was constructed entirely from
the group's standard templates of bleating power ballads and dulled hard rock.

These two sounds have been the group's trademark for a while now, ever since Kroeger
started plumbing the depths of his shallow soul to spit out invective toward lovers
and fathers on 2001's Silver Side Up, but stardom has stripped away all lingering
angst, leaving behind slow songs about love and fast songs about partying, all
designed to woo women he'll later hate. Underneath the housewife-hooking power
ballads -- "I'd Come for You," "If Today Was Your Last Day" -- plus "Just to Get
High," an ode to a fallen junkie friend that's part of the proud tradition that
stretches back to at least Body Count's "The Winner Loses," Dark Horse seethes
with ugly misogyny, as Kroeger trots out a parade of dirty little ladies in pretty
pink thongs, porn stars, strippers, and sluts, all of whom are desired and despised
for showing too much skin. Kroeger may claim that "S is for the simple need/E is
for the ecstasy" in his middle-school chant "S.E.X.," but there is no joy in his
carnality, just bleak veiled violence, and that nasty undercurrent undercuts his
pleading lovesick ballads; he's either had his heart broken by those loose women,
or he's singing to the good girl left at home while he's out on the town. This all
turns Dark Horse into a murky, wearying listen, with the mood only lightening at
the end of the record, when Kroeger and company take a break from carousing to
kick back with bros and a bong for "This Afternoon" -- its strum-along choruses
are a relief but so is its mellowness, as Kroeger seems calmer, relaxed, even
friendly. Maybe it's because there were no women in the picture.