INTERVIEW: Nickelback Ranks Their Top Five Songs Of All Time

Nickelback has been writing and recording music as a band for over 20 years, and recently, just released their ninth studio album, Feed The Machine. The new album follows the Canadian band's 2014 No Fixed Address album, and features 11 new songs, including their lead single off the same name, "Feed The Machine." 

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The band calls Feed The Machine more "aggressive" than their previously released albums, and that "nothing compares to the new album." They explain, "Overall, thematically, we have a little more of an aggressive album. Probably one of the hardest and heaviest songs we've ever put out, [there's] this angry little number called 'The Betrayal.' It is quite heavy, there's a lot of screaming that goes on in that chorus. I think we've all tasted a little betrayal in our days and it is not a flavor that I think any of us liked to swallow."

The message behind "Feed the Machine," is very transparent. Nickelback explains, "Don't believe everything you're spoon fed. Everybody grows up and sometimes has these epiphanies of like 'I've always believed this, but then I see this and this completely contrasts with what I'm seeing.' So, its about questioning authority in general.'

After over two decades of releasing albums, Nickelback has had a lot of hit singles. So when the band stopped by iHeartRadio HQ in New York City, we wanted to know which they thought were their top five of all time. Find out how they ranked their songs below:

1. "How You Remind Me"

"'How You Remind Me' was our introduction to the world. We tried to introduce ourselves other times and failed miserably, didn't make an impression. But until we came up with that little ditty that went 'I've been wrong, I've been down, into the bottom of every bottle, these five words in my head scream are we having fun yet?' ... until that took place, we were just a band from Vancouver that just wanted to be a band from everywhere."

2. "Photograph"

"It's about [our] home town. [There are] a lot of good memories in that. But it also connected with a lot of people and their memories. That was pretty cool, and that was very well received by our fans."

3. "Burn It to the Ground"

"That's the one that regardless of whether it's a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday crowd, we can still get them jumping and screaming and freaking out. We usually finish the night with 'Burn It to the Ground.' So it's a nice show closer, and really puts the icing on the cake for us, it's a good one."

4. "Rockstar"

That brought back the whole "All the Right Reasons" tour. The tour was over, we were going to go home, and that song went to number 1 in England. So we started everything all over again and did the whole world tour because of that one song, again. That was kind of a surprise for us. We put out six singles off All the Right Reasons, and then we were done, and we put out 'Rockstar' to just ride off into the sunset. And we stopped touring and it really took off."

5. "Far Away"

"From the guy who listens to the heaviest music in the band, like we'll play a two hour set and then we'll get into a vehicle that's driving us away from said arena, and Mike, the only thing I can hear out of his earbuds is [drumming, screaming]. The heaviest thing ever, and you come up with the most melodic little love song that we've ever recorded."

Mike: " I'm a hopeless romantic at heart."

Check out Nickelback's new single "Feed The Machine" below:

Photos: Rachel Kaplan