Lines such as: 'Dirty little lady with the pretty pink thong, every sugar daddy hittin' on her all night long' are simply beyond parody. That crown goes to the frontman's lecherous lyrics about a 'hottie' with a 'million dollar body'. Based around a barrage of rehashed metal riffs, it features Kroeger performing a Limp Bizkit-style rap in the chorus, but incredibly that isn't the worst part of the song. Opener 'Something In Your Mouth' sums up the record's sheer awfulness in three and a half minutes. The result is a mixture of foul tunes and gross misogyny that makes this disc a prime contender for worst album of the year.

However, it's Lange's work with hairy '80s rockers Foreigner and Def Leppard which clearly caught the attention of Nickelback, who've abandoned their usual grungey sludge and entered the world of cock rock. This sixth outing finds the group working with Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, a man well-versed in making blockbuster records as the producer of Shania Twain's Come On Over.

Chad Kroeger's band may have the collective personality of a damp dish cloth, but their ludicrously earnest ballads and daft stompers have cornered the commercial rock market and pummelled it into submission.

Since 1995 the Canadian band have churned out five albums of post-grunge anthems, each of which has sold by the bucket-load, and conquered the airwaves with the bafflingly huge singles 'How You Remind Me' and 'Rockstar'. The Bermuda Triangle, the origins of Stonehenge and the lost city of Atlantis have nothing on the mystery that is Nickelback.

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