Good Charlotte: Classic or Dud?

I saw them on this video request channel they were showing at the pub where we last played. If you imagine, say, minor threat as this brand new bar of kid's soap, in a fancy shape, lika a chevrolet corvette or a skateboard or something. Good Charlotte are that same bar of soap after it's been used at bathtime for s.th. like 2 weeks regularly, and it's worn down to this kind of smooth shapeless oval/teardrop thing. I thought they were rubbish.

On that note, it should be noted that the band has just re-released its eponymous debut from 2000.

The original cover:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YC1G.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The re-released cover:

http://images.bestbuy.com/mimages/music/1107/11075896.jpg

Notice anything different? The photo of the boys looking more like less "credibly Punk" has been excised in favor of simply the logo.

Revisionism anyone?

Me talk right one day. That should've read: The photo of the boys co-opting the Lit/Sugar ray vibe (as opposed to their current Varukers/GBH vibe) has been excised.

I don't really have a Good Charlotte opinion myself anymore, but I do gotta say it's annoying how EASY a target they're becoming. All the people whining about how they're not a "real" punk band make me WANT to like them. More people seem to complain about their haircuts than their music. So maybe I'll even make Anthony Miccio happy one of these days, and go back and listen to my kid's copy of the record.

A sly little dig right there, if you want to interpret it that way.

Their music sucks, by the way....regardless of what they wear.

They don't know any better and have lower standards.

Horseshit. And the Moody Blues were better than "Sugar Sugar," right?

Depends on which track.

And *Dressed to Kill* basically IS an Archies record, for crissakes (even if they should've broken up after their debut album, where they used up almost all of their memorable riffs.)

What would Bryan Adams be doing if he hadn't recorded Summer of '69?

Guns'n'Roses on MTV Awards

and

GnR reclaims their glory!

Number of the Beast. I'm pretty sure my second one was "License to Ill".

I dont care about all this 4real punXor nonsense. I just don't think they're a very good pop band.

However. I would like to see them on the streets where I hope they wouldn't last a week.

And didn't we not care then?

they suck.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Ahhhhh, the sweet smell of hypocrisy.

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.

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.

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.

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

?????

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Anyway, LAWN BOWLS.

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

I salute them for surviving these tough times

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