Song · Nickelback
“Side of a Bullet” by Nickelback
From the album All the Right Reasons (2005)
“Side of a Bullet” by Nickelback appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2007. It was first released in 2005 on the album All the Right Reasons. Its best result is #5 on the WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #405 alternative song of 2007.
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Nickelback wrung one last single out of All the Right Reasons, their 2005 album, with "Side of a Bullet", sent only to US rock stations in March 2007 as the seventh and final release from the record. It's a hard-hitting slab of metal with a Southern-metal lean, and Chad Kroeger wrote the words.
The guitar solo is the story. It's stitched together from Dimebag Darrell outtakes first meant for Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven, used with the blessing of his girlfriend, Rita Haney, and his brother, Vinnie Paul. The band asked Paul to drum on it as well, but he passed, figuring Daniel Adair could play it every bit as well as he could. It climbed to number seven on the Mainstream Rock chart, the album's fourth top-ten hit there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 65 | CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC | CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 5 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2007 | 105 |
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