Nice (Rollins Band album)
Critical reception
Critical reception
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It has received generally mixed reviews from critics. The *[Cleveland Scene](/wiki/Cleveland_Scene "Cleveland Scene")* considered it to be a continuation of the sound heard on *Get Some Go Again*. In October 2001, *[Spin](/wiki/Spin_%28magazine%29 "Spin (magazine)")* deemed the album "lukewarm metal oatmeal with funk raisins." The *[Hartford Courant](/wiki/Hartford_Courant "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." In February 2002, *[Pitchfork](/wiki/Pitchfork_%28magazine%29 "Pitchfork (magazine)")**s Dominique Leone gave the album a negative review, awarding it only a 3 out of 10\. Leone 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."***

In November 2001, Dylan P. Gadino of *[CMJ New Music Monthly](/wiki/CMJ_New_Music_Monthly "CMJ New Music Monthly")* compared the album to [Thin Lizzy](/wiki/Thin_Lizzy "Thin Lizzy"), [Clutch](/wiki/Clutch_%28band%29 "Clutch (band)") and [Black Sabbath](/wiki/Black_Sabbath "Black Sabbath"), also giving it a mixed 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](/wiki/Nu_metal "Nu metal") conceits." A more positive review came from [AllMusic](/wiki/AllMusic "AllMusic")'s Chris True, who considered it an improvement over *Get Some Go Again*, writing that "\[here] it sounds like Jim Mackenroth, [Jim Wilson](/wiki/Jim_Wilson_%28guitarist%29 "Jim Wilson (guitarist)"), 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." Ed Masley of the *[Pittsburgh Post\-Gazette](/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette "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](/wiki/Garage_rock "Garage rock"), less metal." Allison Linn of the *[Associated Press](/wiki/Associated_Press "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](/wiki/Guns_%27n%27_Roses "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?". On September 20, 2001, Mark Jenkins of *[The Washington Post](/wiki/The_Washington_Post "The Washington Post")* claimed that, "*Nice* is not a total makeover, but it does attempt both musical diversification and a little attitude adjustment", adding that "Rollins is still protesting loudly, but his rants are now tempered by pro\-hedonism lyrics and such musical touches as the gospel chorus of the [funk\-metal](/wiki/Funk-metal "Funk-metal") "Up for It," the pop backup vocals of the punk\-metal 'Stop Look and Listen' and the jump\-jazz rhythms of 'Let That Devil Out'".
### Legacy

*[Louder Sound](/wiki/Louder_Sound "Louder Sound")* ranked it as the worst Rollins Band album in 2022\.
Track listing
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"One Shot" – 3:03
"Up for It" – 4:39
"Gone Inside the Zero" – 2:39
"Hello" – 3:04
"What's the Matter Man" – 2:58
"Your Number Is One" – 4:27
"Stop Look and Listen" – 1:48
"I Want So Much More" – 3:42
"Hangin' Around" – 5:25
"Going Out Strange" – 4:51
"We Walk Alone" – 3:59
"Let That Devil Out" – 4:21
Bonus tracks'
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1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. "Nowhere to Go but Inside" – 3:02
2. "Too Much Rock and Roll" – 3:49
**Australian edition**-
3. "Soul Implant" – 4:57
4. "Marcus Has Evil in Him – 4:00

How does the album 'Nice' fit into the overall discography of Henry Rollins and the Rollins Band?