'It's great to be back in your town,' he howled several times. Kroeger offered the perfect cure for rock singers who forget which city they're in. When he offered the most universal memory he could possibly sing about, 'We used to listen to the radio,' they showed a radio.ДҐ. The band's montage of photographs was extremely literal during - what else? - its mega-hit 'Photograph.' When Kroeger sang, 'This is where I went to school,' they showed a school on the big screen. Case in point, during 'Figure You Out,' Kroeger drew a roomful of screams when he growled, 'I like your pants around your feet/ I like the dirt on your knees.'Д¤. They just come right out with the sexism. They avoided trying to be coy or cunning with their raunchy lyrics, like AC/DC does. But brawny sameness didn't stop the latest 'F&F' from taking in $72.5 million last weekend.ДЈ. Sure, critics say the band uses pyro to cover up the brawny sameness of its music.

Those two hours offered more explosions, flaming devices and other pyrotechnic effects than a 'Fast & the Furious' movie. The band performed for two hours and even threw in a drum solo. Instead, here's a list of 10 positives - that the 15,500 fans might tell their friends about the concert.ДЎ. There will be no jokes about frontman Chad Kroeger's weirdly sculpted rock-star hair, nor any lines that link the band to the long line of other questionable Canadian rock groups. Let's break from tradition and offer at least one unpredictable thing about the show: This is not going to be yet another snide review of music critics' most-hated rock band of the decade. Canadian hard-rock hitmakers Nickelback returned to Minneapolis on Tuesday for what seemed like their umpteenth packed-to-the-roof Target Center concert, on another tour to support another in a long line of albums with singles that earn incessant radio play.

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