![]() ![]() As soon as I get sick of playing How You Remind Me, Mick Jagger should walk up to me and slap me in the face and say: ‘Hey! When you’ve played Start Me Up as many times as I have, then you can bitch. ![]() “You have to realise that you’re not the first band to have a song like this. “You have to maintain perspective,” he offers. And I think when the honesty came out people appreciated it.” And he hasn’t tired of playing it. “Before How You Remind Me, I was hiding behind metaphors, I wasn’t saying what I wanted to say. Kroeger maintains that he wasn’t trying to write for the masses, he was just being honest. After nearly 10 years of toil, Nickelback were finally an overnight success. In the loneliest places, When I can’t remember what. In the mirror all I see, Is who I don’t wanna be, Remind me who I am. And bought – by enough people to send it to No.1 in Canada and the US, and to keep it in the UK top five for weeks. Verse 1: When I lose My way, And I forget my name, Remind me who I am. Read Classic Rock, Metal Hammer & Prog for free with TeamRock+īut How You Remind Me was heard.The Story Behind The Album: AC/DC's Back In Black. ![]() Chad Kroeger: Stone Sour sound like Nickelback lite.Peake wasn’t convinced either: “Almost every band, when they put an album out, hopes certain songs will be heard on the radio. “We almost went with Never Again for the first single,” Kroeger says, “just cos we thought it was really powerful, and maybe we were afraid to show the other side of Nickelback.” Like many big hit singles, How You Remind Me was nearly buried as just an album track. We paid him $5,000 for that – for one suggestion!” He was like ‘you guys should do a big stop there.’ We already had those ‘ I’ve been wrong/I’ve been down’ lines where we were stopping, but we needed the third chorus to do something special. Kroeger: “The big climax of the song at the third chorus, when there’s a stop and I sing ‘for handing you a heart worth breaking’, that was our drum tech’s idea. But the defining moment in the song’s genesis came from drum technician Andrew Mawhinney. Peake had already suggested a series of ‘stops’ to give the chorus more impact. Read or print original Remind Me Who I Am lyrics 2023 updated Verse 1: / When I lose My way, / And I forget my name, / Remind me who I am. ![]()
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