Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
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Free Music Review: Not afraid to take a chance
Hit: 3 Stars
Ok, I am a fan. This is not going to be my favorite album, but it is still a good CD. I will probably sit on this for a why before analyzing the songs individually. Break Apart Her Heart pops for me, I'll say that right now. This album is getting notice by other musicians and the music world, folks, and it looks to me that GC is finally being viewed as paying their dues. Does anyone know this album has been in the top 10 most anticipated albums of 2007? Does anyone realize this music is being played on radio stations that have stated they would NEVER play Good Charlotte?
I would like to comment that is still clear to me as it has been all along that so many people, even GC 'fans,' do not get this band. They do not get them musically, lyrically, or personally. Let me try to clarify a few points about this band in general:
1. Don't try to categorize them. They appreciate many genre's of music and will explore what they will. They will continue to go where their interest takes them and challenge themselves.If anyone has paid attention to the media attention, looking past Hilary and Nicole, the brothers have been into the club scene between this album and the last. I was expecting nothing less than a heavy club scene influence on this album.
2. They are excellent song writers, exploring emotion, faith, life, satire, parody, metaphors, etc. Read the lyrics.
3. They are excellent musicians. Just because Benji and Billy don't stick their guitars in their crotches like 80's power rockers and riff a smoking guitar solo, doesn't mean they can't play. Pay attention.
4. They sought fame and fortune so how can anyone accuse them of selling out? Because they wrote a song poking at the Rich and the Famous? Read the lyrics to ALL of their songs.
5. Does anyone get that The River is basically Christian Rock as is many of their songs?
6. Chronicles is an excellent, rich, album. Marketing was a joke and song release was mismanaged. I am really not sure if the band were just tired or took bad advice. If Mountain had been the released as a single, and released first, what a difference that would have made.
7. GC's music is generally interesting. It's not boring. It's not the same pop shallow chorus over and over with one or two actual lyrics thrown in. The songs mean something.
8. Has anyone read the other reviews and realized that the GC fan base AND critics are maturing and can actually explain why they do or do not like the CD and/or the band? So far, no comments about orientation, girlfriends being skanky, and pop vs. punk. Fabulous.
Free Music Review: Emo-Turity
Hit: 3 Stars
Oh, the pain of growing up. Good Charlotte have aged past the point where The Young and Hopeless would apply to them. And like so many bands in the pop-punk or emo genre, the genre is moving forward. The bands must evolve or perish. Some, like Green Day on American Idiot, gain perspective. Fall Out Boy found the funk on Infinity on High and Panic at The Disco looked back to the sixties for Pretty. Odd.
Good Charlotte seem to be ditching the manic energies of youth for "Good Morning Revival." Only a couple of times do the songs reach the adrenaline amperage of yore, like "Misery." But there's also the blatant Coldplay cop on "Beautiful World," and the Gorillaz-esque "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl." They no-longer seem like the Blink-182 obsessed high-school kids they started as, now they seem to be aiming for the audience attuned to Hot Fuss. The 80's buzz of "I Don't Want to Be In Love" would be cool if Good Charlotte weren't so darn serious about it.
"Good Morning Revival" is an album that was made by a band in transition. Joel and Benji Madden went from being snot-nosed punks to being Hollywood Gossip subjects. It's hard not to read Joel's tabloid-fodder dalliance with Hilary Duff into "Broken Hearts Parade" or the heartbreak ballad "Where Would We Be Now" (or the good boy loses to bad boy "Break Her Apart" tirade). However, it was their adolescent frenzy that made Good Charlotte interesting and "Good Morning Revival" sounds like they want to become another generic arena rock band.
Free Music Review: Better than Expected
Hit: 3 Stars
Good Charlotte has always left a bad taste in my mouth. Why should fans listen to a man who complains about being famous? In any case, I picked up this record after I heard "The River" which has one of the best pop-rock hooks to be recorded in a while. So once hooked into a song on the album, I figured giving the rest of it a shot. Reading and hearing this album was pure garbage I went into this one with the lowest of expectations.
This is sadly one of those albums that has such potential and then fizzles towards its doom. "Where would be now" starts the downfall of this "mature" album. Every song after it sounds like the same old Good Charlotte crap. The music is uninspired and the lyrics are a joke. "All Black" is simply one of the dumbest songs ever written "Like the Rolling Stone's want to paint it black". Good job Joel you're depressed like all of us, but could you write something that isn't a reference?
Enough with the bad though. There is gold on this album. Once again "The River" is an emotional song about loosing yourself and then wanting to find something to believe in. "Keep Your Hands off My Girl" represents how shallow club life is not matter what generation one lives in. The first few tracks flow and the lyrical content is a bit more mature.
Rolling Stone did say it best though, it seems growing up sucks a lot more than this band thought.
Free Music Review: It Will Grow on You, But....
Hit: 3 Stars
It shouldn't have to GROW on you. This is a very poppy record, with the exception of a few tracks that feature a pulsating beat reminiscent of the Killers, and a good bit of guitar. Gone are all of the three-chord, pop-punk staples from their earlier years. The tracks don't grab hold of you and hook you, and that is a problem because this album dosen't rock enough, particularly toward the end, and therefore the record sounds good while its on, but leaves little behind when its done. Oddly enough, there is a tremendous hidden track called "Face The Strange" available for download that is better than anything on either of this band's last two albums. Why this was not on the CD is a mystery to me, since the track really rocks. Unlike New Found Glory and Relient K, who basically put out lush, mellow records this past year with NO rock songs on them whatsoever, Madden and his crew do their best to find a happy medium. At times, they get it right (The River, Broken Hearts Parade) but other times they sound like a wierd combination of The Cure and Men At Work. If you like a mix between the Killers, Duran Duran, and the sound of the "Chronicles" album, this may be just what the doctor ordered. Fans of NOFX, Anti-Flag, and the Dropkick Murphys beware: this album is not punk. If you can get past that, it is actually fairly decent.Free Music Review: THIS is a revival?
Hit: 3 Stars
I didn't think Good Charlotte would be going anywhere after their first album didn't exactly ignite with Earth-shattering record sales. But their second and third albums put them on the map, so fans would probably expect their latest offering, Good Morning Revival, to keep things rolling in that direction. But instead of a superior album, it seems like Joel and company threw together some quick songs to try to throw Fall Out Boy off the throne or something.
Things do start out on the right foot with songs like "The River" and especially "Misery". But when the guys shoot for romantic tunes, they hit ("Where Would We Be Now") and miss ("Break Apart Her Heart"). And there are a lot more misses than hits. "All Black" doesn't go anywhere, and "Dance Floor Anthem" makes no kind of sense. Also, "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" won't keep your hands off the fast-forward button.
And the last four songs on the album really don't hold your attention. I mean, the songs aren't terrible, but they would be more acceptable if this were Good Charlotte's first album; they really have no business on their fourth. GC needs to take more time to get better ideas for a REAL comeback because Good Morning Revival isn't much of an emergence.
Anthony Rupert