Good Charlotte: Classic or Dud?

I'd wear cowboy boots, a luchador mask, and a Pope costume

Dammit, Nickalicious, I expect you to be wearing that every day by default! Especially at work!

My own list: GC, blah, Misfits, rah, Iron Maiden, eh, Kix, I actually like the few songs I've heard from them and Steve Whiteman's interview with Metal Sludge is good fun so that counts for something.

As for Peter Green-era FM, try Then Play On...

And you have my sympathies Chuck, but that's what you get for writing damn good shit in 1990. I'd hate it if I still had to defend my belief that EMF was the 3rd best band ever (or INXS being 2nd), which I had in 1992.

You have a crush on Michael Jackson, Ally??? Wow, that *rocks*!

Now that I mention it, John Mayall/ Bluesbreaker's *Bare Wires* feat. a young Mick Taylor, anyone??? Perhaps this deserves it's own thread.

BTW, who is Good Charlotte?

p.s. Siegbran is dead wrong about Kix's lyrics, by the way. Donnie Purnell's love of dirty puns was right up there with Bon Scott's, and Ally will be happy to know that they even have a song called "Kix are For Kids." (Corny!) But I'll print these instead; they clearly beat Iron Maiden to hell, though a fairer comparion might well be Morrisey:

Once upon a time in a deserted little town
An incubated boy was born and they tried to put him down
Didn't have no muscles here
Didn't have no fat
But when he opened up his mouth ya heard the biggest trap
They called him big mouth
Big trap
Loud mouth
Mighty mouth
Here comes the M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Mighty mouth
No silver spoon, grew up too soon out on the dirt
He took a big deep breath and popped the buttons off his shirt
He's no zero oh he's a hero
He's every mother's dream
And all the boys could feel the noise
They'd shake when they'd hear him scream
They called him big mouth
Big trap
Loud mouth
Mighty mouth

WOULD.

ROCK.

"if yer gonna die (bwowm chicka bwowm) die with yer boots on (bwowm chicka bwowm) if yer gonna die...
With Isaac Hayes on backup vocals.
"Now, how are my little undead crackas this mornin'?"

Surely, like I argue here with regard to other examples, they are merely the next in the series of anti-boy band boy bands? ;-)

boy-to-girl: "I can't believe you're buying a GOOD CHARLOTTE CD!"
girl-to-boy: "It's for my friend!"
boy-to-girl: "If they listen to Good Charlotte, they're not your friend."
girl: "whatever"
boy2-to-boy: "What's wrong with Good Charlotte?"
boy-to-boy2: "They're so mainstream!"
boy2-to-boy: "I thought you liked mainstream punk?"
boy-to-boy2: "No, I like mainstream punk, stuff all punks know about, like Fugazi and NOFX. But Good Charlotte aren't mainstream punk, they're mainstream punk..."

(at this point they get distracted by my LAUGHING OUT LOUD at their conversation, I feel bad, pay for my Blur CD and my Tomahawk CD and my Pharaoh Monche CD and leave)

Somebody buy that kid a beer!

Just want that on record.

peace

How is it then different from their other singles?

"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.