Critical reception
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| In October 2001, ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' deemed the album "lukewarm metal oatmeal with funk raisins."<ref name="auto"/> The ''[[Cleveland Scene]]'' called it "looser, calmer, and more varied in its sonic attack."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/rollins-gets-nice/Content?oid=1477389|title=Rollins Gets Nice|first=Rob|last=Harvilla|website=Cleveland Scene}}</ref> The ''[[Hartford Courant]]'' wrote that "songs occasionally drift off into quiet blues-guitar passages, but they're inevitably interrupted by Rollins' brutish bellow, which often feels out of place."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2001-08-09-0108090766-story.html|title=NEW ON DISC|first=Hartford|last=Courant|website=courant.com}}</ref> In February 2002, ''[[Pitchfork (magazine)|Pitchfork]]'''s Dominique Leone gave the album a negative review, awarding it only a 3 out of 10. He wrote, "Henry Rollins' latest release, ''Nice'', is utterly irrelevant in the context of almost every other album reviewed at ''Pitchfork''. It's too macho to be indie, too rock to be punk, too 'in your face, to tha X-treme' to be current, too Guitar Center to be Amoeba. It is certainly too Rollins to be subtle or multi-dimensional."<ref name="pitch" /> | It has received generally mixed reviews from critics. The ''[[Cleveland Scene]]'' considered it to be a continuation of the sound heard on 2000's ''[[Get Some Go Again]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/rollins-gets-nice/Content?oid=1477389|title=Rollins Gets Nice|first=Rob|last=Harvilla|website=Cleveland Scene}}</ref> In October 2001, ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' deemed the album "lukewarm metal oatmeal with funk raisins."<ref name="auto"/> The ''[[Hartford Courant]]'' wrote that "songs occasionally drift off into quiet blues-guitar passages, but they're inevitably interrupted by Rollins' brutish bellow, which often feels out of place."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2001-08-09-0108090766-story.html|title=NEW ON DISC|first=Hartford|last=Courant|website=courant.com}}</ref> In February 2002, ''[[Pitchfork (magazine)|Pitchfork]]'''s Dominique Leone gave the album a negative review, awarding it only a 3 out of 10. He wrote, "Henry Rollins' latest release, ''Nice'', is utterly irrelevant in the context of almost every other album reviewed at ''Pitchfork''. It's too macho to be indie, too rock to be punk, too 'in your face, to tha X-treme' to be current, too Guitar Center to be Amoeba. It is certainly too Rollins to be subtle or multi-dimensional."<ref name="pitch" /> |
| In November 2001, Dylan P. Gadino of ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' compared the album to [[Thin Lizzy]], [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] and [[Black Sabbath]], also giving it a negative review, He wrote, "at 40, one-time hardcore visionary Henry Rollins is a movie actor, host of Fox's anthology series ''Night Visions'', an established spoken-word artist, an author and a poet. In the midst of all this multimedia action, he has continued to pump out Rollins Band discs, mostly with limited success. ''Nice'' is yet another mediocre Rollins album in a string of them." He went on to describe its sound as "blues-metal", and noted that it "avoids aging punk-cliches and [[nu metal]] conceits."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=Nov–Dec 2001 |page=88}}</ref> A more positive review came from [[AllMusic]]'s Chris True, who awarded it four out of five stars, writing "while ''[[Get Some Go Again]]'' had a lot of great songs, and the music of Mother Superior is just what Rollins needed, he never seemed to gel with the band on that album. Here, however, it sounds like Jim Mackenroth, Jim Wilson, and Marcus Blake had ideas of their own, and went for them 100 percent." True added that, "it may be shocking to hear female vocals or a horn section coming out from behind Rollins, but here it works splendidly."<ref name=""*****""/> Ed Masley of the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' gave the album three out of five stars, and said that when compared to the band's earlier work, it was "more [[garage rock|garage]], less metal and — despite the title — more intense."<ref>https://books.google.com.au/books?i...page&q="nice" "rollins band" "garage"&f=false</ref> Allison Linn of the ''[[Associated Press]]'' also noted the album's differences to the band's earlier material, she stated in September 2001 "bluesy backing vocalists and funky bass lines? [[Guns 'n' Roses]]-style guitar solos? Cover art featuring a woman dressed only in a few conspicuously placed dollar bills? Is this really the Rollins Band?".<ref>https://books.google.com.au/books?i...page&q="nice" "rollins band" "garage"&f=false</ref> | In November 2001, Dylan P. Gadino of ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' compared the album to [[Thin Lizzy]], [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] and [[Black Sabbath]], also giving it a negative review, He wrote, "at 40, one-time hardcore visionary Henry Rollins is a movie actor, host of Fox's anthology series ''Night Visions'', an established spoken-word artist, an author and a poet. In the midst of all this multimedia action, he has continued to pump out Rollins Band discs, mostly with limited success. ''Nice'' is yet another mediocre Rollins album in a string of them." He went on to describe its sound as "blues-metal", and noted that it "avoids aging punk-cliches and [[nu metal]] conceits."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=Nov–Dec 2001 |page=88}}</ref> A more positive review came from [[AllMusic]]'s Chris True, who awarded it four out of five stars, writing "while ''Get Some Go Again'' had a lot of great songs, and the music of Mother Superior is just what Rollins needed, he never seemed to gel with the band on that album. Here, however, it sounds like Jim Mackenroth, Jim Wilson, and Marcus Blake had ideas of their own, and went for them 100 percent." True added that, "it may be shocking to hear female vocals or a horn section coming out from behind Rollins, but here it works splendidly."<ref name=""*****""/> Ed Masley of the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' gave the album three out of five stars, and said that when compared to the band's earlier work, it was "more [[garage rock|garage]], less metal and — despite the title — more intense."<ref>https://books.google.com.au/books?i...page&q="nice" "rollins band" "garage"&f=false</ref> Allison Linn of the ''[[Associated Press]]'' also noted the album's differences to the band's earlier material, she stated in September 2001 "bluesy backing vocalists and funky bass lines? [[Guns 'n' Roses]]-style guitar solos? Cover art featuring a woman dressed only in a few conspicuously placed dollar bills? Is this really the Rollins Band?".<ref>https://books.google.com.au/books?i...page&q="nice" "rollins band" "garage"&f=false</ref> |
| ===Legacy=== | ===Legacy=== |
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