Nickelback – How You Remind Me

"How You Remind Me," the lead single from Nickelback's third album, Silver Side Up, was apparently written about Chad Kroeger's dysfunctional relationship with a former girlfriend.

When it came out, Nickelback still seemed fresh to me, but this song was so overplayed that it helped transform them from a Pearl Jam successor to a poor parody. According to Nielsen Soundscan, it was the most played song – over 1.2 million spins – on US radio during the first decade of the new millennium.

Click below for:

• the original album version
• the video (Gold Mix) version (with the heavy guitars edited out of the chorus)
• the Avril Lavigne cover version (a bit ironic, since Kroeger's new woman is singing his song to a former woman)

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Personnel

• Chad Kroeger – lead vocals, lead guitar
• Ryan Peake – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Mike Kroeger – bass
• Ryan Vikedal – drums, percussion