Good Charlotte: Classic or Dud?

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kieron, Sunday, 15 June 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

I guess they're pushing the videos for "Girls And Boys" and "Young & The Hopeless" at the exact same time I guess. Fine with me. Both might make my top ten singles of the year, and the latter might top it.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 June 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

God help us all.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 June 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...
alex you wrote the goings on about town entry for gc this week didn't you? brilliant work, my friend!

Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 17 October 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

though I haven't read it, I'll just say "fuck you" in advance.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 October 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.newyorker.com/goingson/nightlife/

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 17 October 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

It's half right (I agree with the second sentence). So let me change that "fuck you" to simply "...you."

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 October 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
they fucking rock i dunno about the ppl that say suck u guys can go f ur selfs ok lol

peace

lor, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
They suck.

Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, they do.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Their newest single sounds like the Backstreet Boys. The fact that I like it a lot makes me wonder how much I really hated Good Charlotte and the Backstreet Boys to begin with.

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Dud!

Pekka, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

heir newest single sounds like the Backstreet Boys

How is it then different from their other singles?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Duddd. "Authenticity" doesn't even come into it: just horrid songwriting, period. That please-don't-kill-yourself song makes "Everybody Hurts" sound like "Rock'n'Roll Suicide" (which it does anyway, I guess).

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate their whiny vocals.

Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Duddd. "Authenticity" doesn't even come into it: just horrid songwriting, period. That please-don't-kill-yourself song makes "Everybody Hurts" sound like "Rock'n'Roll Suicide" (which it does anyway, I guess).

"Hold On", replete with interview clips from "real" suicide "survivors". So tastelessly manipulative that it's offensive, and not in a good way either.

Dud, dud, dud.

Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 27 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

hardcore punk has been dead for 20 years. green day-style bubblegum punk has been dead for 10 years. how is "reviving" either style NOT inherently rockist? to put it another way, how is reviving ANY dead style to pick at its bones (for fun, profit, or otherwise) somehow a "pop" move?

Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 28 November 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

http://pochettescd.free.fr/images/l/LouBegaFront.jpg

miccio (miccio), Sunday, 28 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

But he was only a one hit wonder and doesn't count. Oh wait.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 November 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Eh Good Charlotte have had some good moments but I've only heard singles and for the most part what I've liked about them I can't imagine were replicated in album form. Basically, I liked their songs in the mix of everything else I listen to on pop radio which is mostly towards the h-h end of things so it sort of threw in a sudden curveball which was good.

But yeah...I can't believe Chuck Eddy likes third eye blind. I mean, maybe everyone here is used to hearing Chuck wax on about bands that "omigod, i can't believe he likes that!" but this goes beyond idiosyncratic and I want to be a rebel to the canon and everything too but jesus 3rd Eye Blind is dreadful. And I'm not saying this from any rockist part of my heart I promise you. The melodies are just so putrid and the songs themselves are so bland and disgusting and revolting ARGERSFDLFJDS. Will there be a point where I won't find myself flipping out about Chuck's taste? Cuz I keep thinking I've reached that point and then in comes another artist from out of left field.

djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 28 November 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Although I suppose this kind of post pleases him.

djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 28 November 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Third Eye Blind isn't nearly as bad as all that, Deej. "Semi-Charmed Life" is a truly great song. The other singles from the first album were pretty OK, too--"Jumper," "How's it Going to Be," "Losing a Whole Year," not bad.

I like Good Charlotte a lot more than I used to. I'm a sucker for "Predictable," and the new one sounds pretty good too. I guess once I stopped caring about the "morality" of Good Charlotte or whatever, I started liking the music way more.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 November 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
So how come nobody (including Anthony Frigging Miccio) ever told me how much I would like "I Just Wanna Live"??? I remember hearing it on the rentacar radio a couple times over the winter, and had no idea who it was -- just wondered what teen-poppers was doing a song with the push and soul falsetto of *NySync's "Bye Bye Bye" plus guitar riffs from "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and then forgot about it a couple minutes later. But now I get *Now That's What I Call Music! #18* in the mail (good album - I also really like the Lenny Kravitz track, bizarrely, and I don't hate Three Days Grace or Hoobastank as much as I thought I would), and turns out "I Just Wanna Live" is by Good Charlotte! What the hell? This is their best song ever, right?

xhuxk, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

..what teen-poppers WERE dong a song with the push and soul falsetto of *NSYNC's...(jeez)

xhuxk, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Just wanna Live" is an alltime OMG! LOL! WTF! classic. I think this was noted previously.

jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I put the track on Stylus' MP3 blog before it was a single and mentioned it plenty in my Stylus review and on my site. Didn't bother sending you a personal frigging e-mail because you underrate their last album work due to the whine, which remains.

It's definitely there most "pop" great song.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

their most. argh.

anyhow, my review of Chronicles Of Life & Death. It's a disappointment but there's enough quality tracks that I don't think they've totally lost what makes them great. As those who can read can see, I agree with xgau's take that they've lost all the specifics from the last album, but I still enjoy their harmonies and (dare i say) earnestness. I hope "Mountain" is the next single. It's sweet.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

their last. typos are my burden.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ok I just woke up.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://www.pagesix.com/files/gallery/022508_pris_benji2.jpg

Ahhhhh, the sweet smell of hypocrisy.

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, it is kind of hypocritical how the guy who always rails against vapid modern celebrity culture is now informing me about who Paris is dating.

Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Is it my fault that this picture was in the New York Post I happened to be reading? Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous indeed.

You shame the name Alex.

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link

So wait, how is it hypocrisy for one of the Maddens to date Paris after the other knocked up Nicole? Or is the hypocrisy that you feel that in light of past Paris/Nicole rifts that this is disloyal? I need to know where you stand, man.

Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

FYI: the Madden Brothers are currently doing an acoustic set in the middle of an Australian cricket match on Australia Day.

Ceci n'est pas une Le Snak (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 26 January 2013 10:21 (eleven years ago) link

?????

curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link

It's all part of this terrific marketing campaign for a major fast food chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUOVvDlQ2U4

Ceci n'est pas une Le Snak (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link

dudes have always been big there. hell, their last album, which i couldn't even bother listening to after hearing the single, went gold, with that single going top ten.

da croupier, Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link

They're so popular that Joel is moving to Australia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X08fRT25rDk

Ceci n'est pas une Le Snak (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link

i remember reading something back during my gossip blogger days that there was strife in the madden/richie family because he was committed to exploring the gold in thar hills (he's a voice australia judge iirc) while nicole richie had no fucking desire to move down under

da croupier, Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link

ok so apparently the australian voice panel is joel, seal, delta goodrem and until this season, keith urban. replacing keith in 2013...ricky martin

da croupier, Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link

Yep, Joel was a judge on The Voice Australia with Seal and Keith Urban (who got a promotion to American Idol and will now be replaced with...Ricky Martin) because...well, I have no fucking clue, all I know is every commercial break on television these days has 'I'm selling fried chicken or mobile phone coverage.

Ceci n'est pas une Le Snak (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1WCT9W11Ok

da croupier, Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link

Anyway, LAWN BOWLS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIX27v5SmgY

Ceci n'est pas une Le Snak (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 January 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

I salute them for surviving these tough times

http://www.theonion.com/articles/good-charlotte-recording-10-new-songs-to-be-played,35797/

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link


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