If you turned on the radio in 2001, you would have heard the likes of Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Godsmack and a plethora of other bands clogging the airways with alternative-metal and post-grunge rock. Atop the excess was Nickelback’s hit song “How You Remind Me.” I suppose if you liked that year of music, you’ll love Nickelback’s All the Right Reasons, because it’s exactly the same. It’s four years and three albums later, but Nickelback still thinks it’s 2001.

With their fifth full-length release, vocalist Chad Kroeger and company do their best to remind themselves of “the good ol’ days” of 2001. To do so, Nickelback has simply applied the same formula that brought them their initial successes. Such nostalgia even came through in the lyrics. Nickelback’s newest single, “Photograph,” is a ballad about leaving the town in which Chad grew up: “Every memory of looking out the back door/I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor/It’s hard to say it, time to say it/Goodbye, goodbye,” Kroeger cries through the chorus.

The following track, “Animals,” sounds like Kid Rock’s NFL Coors commercial. Surely you remember “And TWINS!” Take the same tune and apply it to the lyrics, “I, I’m driving black on black/Just got my license back/I got this feeling in my veins/this train is coming off the track.” Is it catchy? You bet. Is it original? Hardly.

Similarly catchy is the opener “Follow You Home,” a song about survival (“But you can never keep me down”) or a stalker (“I’ll still follow you home”), depending on how you look at it.

The last track, “Rockstar,” is a song mocking the lifestyle of today’s superstar rockers: how they don’t eat, have too many cars and have too much access to drugs and women.

Fans of Nickelback will be pleased with the quality of All the Right Reasons. The lyrics are strong and the melodies are catchy. Though the formula does not change, and the album certainly has nothing new to offer, that’s what one would expect from copycat rockers. Have no doubt; All the Right Reasons will quickly bring you back to the glory days of post-grunge, if that’s really what you want.