Good Charlotte Band • Page 19

I think depending on whether or not you actually grew up when these guys blew up around 2002-2003, you'll never really appreciate

Yo that's a sin putting self titled at the bottom.

 

Yeah I know it's probably not a popular take. Kind of like me putting Clarity at the bottom of Jimmy Eat World's discography (I've gotten some flack for that in the Jimmy Eat World thread). I don't know, self-titled is fine, but they just weren't quite "there" yet as a band for me. It's not to say I don't enjoy it though.

 

Actually they’ve had kind of a revival among this whole pop-punk/emo-rap scene/whatever you wanna call it scene

 

This is the first time I've ever heard anyone else mention Broken Hearts Parade but yeah that song fucking rules

 

You either love horns or are a monster

 

As a big fan of the song and the horns, this interview bummed me out when I first read it a long time ago lol:

Young and Hopeful: An Interview With Good Charlotte, PopMatters

(Don't ask me why I still have it bookmarked lol)

 

Had no idea GC opened for Timberlake lol

 

yeah the style of good morning revival kind of matched up with pop/dance. So for promotional purposes it made a tiny bit of sense i guess?

 

Man I hated Dance Floor Anthem the first time I heard it, but it is honestly pretty catchy.

Good Morning Revival did dance and synths like... 5 years too early

 

Keep Your Hands Off My Girl is such a banger.

 

Def not the oddest pairing. I was super out on GC at this point but it seems like an album I should give a full chance. Always liked The River at least

 

I Just Wanna Live already was being played on the same radioshows as JT, for a while there they crossed all the way over, beyond pop punk’s mainstream moment. Similar to Simple Plan when they had that Sean Paul song etc.

 

I pretty much hated that Boys and Girls (Girls and Boys? Idk which way it goes) was a single and I hated I just Wanna Live. I bought Chronicles still but never liked it really. So I was pretty out on them for a while I guess til Cardiology

 

The River is a great song though. If I remember right, it won the bracket we did for GC.

 

That song did peak in the top 20 on the pop charts. However, I believe that song was one of many that was a part of that one "scandal" where the label was pushing radio stations to play certain songs of their artists (I forgot the exact details).

 

I mean in Europe specifically I should add. I doubt that happened over here, because many of our big top 40 radio stations are public. Anyway, that song was huge here. They still play it occasionally.

 

I secretly loved Dance Floor Anthem when it came out and now I have extremely heavy nostalgia for it so I have zero issue with that song

 

Dance Floor Anthem is a banger. The bridge is one of the best in their career.

 

Tried to listen to Cardiology and Youth Authority yesterday and couldn't really get into them. The production is eh and I prefer my GC a little darker.

I quite like Generation Rx though!

 

I probably like Generation Rx way more than most.

 

looks like GMR is 15 today. still my least favorite of theirs but i wouldn't complain about some sort of reappraisal. don't think it ever deserved the place it apparently got in the dustbin of terrible album history. not to mention a shitton of bad faith criticism

 

Totally agree. It's got a few bad tracks on it, but as a whole, isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be.

 

i think it still has more skips than good tracks (maybe not if the three b-sides that got released swapped out three of the missteps) but you can't in hindsight tell me a number of critics weren't looking for a punching bag of sorts. 2007 was perhaps the height of the vitriol GC got, and joel starting to go out with nicole amidst some bad press of her own certainly didn't help at all

 

like i was mad disappointed a decade and a half ago when i heard the whole thing and had all this dance rock shit that was closer to what was huge in the mid-00s but it getting pummeled in the press the way it was just seemed excessive

 

Good Morning Revival is a masterpiece and Misery is legit one of the best songs in the genre.

Also, self-titled is one of those "you had to be there" things I think. That album was monumental to me and a lot of people when it hit. There just weren't a lot of bands doing it that way yet that made you feel a part of the music.