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Good Morning Revival

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 103 votes
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Album Info
Label: Sony
Release Date: 27 March 2007
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock
Summary
Twins Joel and Benji Madden lead the Maryland pop-punk outfit through 13 tracks on this delayed fourth album.
Also By This Artist: The Chronicles Of Life And Death
Also On The Web: GC @ MySpace Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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Amazon.com
Their multiple piercings, shaved heads, and abundant tattoos have them labeled a punk band, but on [Revival], Good Charlotte... fall much more under the umbrella of 1970s arena rock and mainstream ballads.
Read Full Review >Billboard
An album that proves being rich and famous doesn't always blunt a band's creative appetite. [31 Mar 2007]
Entertainment Weekly
Their cannily constructed songs won't change anyone's life, but they sound good enough to almost convince you they mean something.
Read Full Review >Blender
13 tracks of Disney-channel-ready pop, buffed and Pro-Tooled almost beyond recognition--and it's not half bad. [Apr 2007, p.111]
Read Full Review >Spin
There are a few clunky dance tracks... but it's Madden's search for love in the L.A. wasteland that gives Revival a certain charm. [Mar 2007, p.86]
Uncut
Gimmicky moments are plentiful, but it's the box-fresh pop songs like "Misery" and "The River" that benefit most from their renewed sense of purpose. [Apr 2007, p.100]
Hot Press
A perfectly functional album of loud guitars, ain’t life a bitch lyrics and the odd nod to different production styles and techniques.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
You know what you're getting with Good Charlotte, and while it's all very well and respectable to make shapes on the dance floor to one of their tunes after several pints, buying this album is both pointless and foolish. It's a pop album; just burn the singles if you must.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Whatever snotty humor they once had has calcified into smug sanctimony, rendering this a slick, stylized, stiff affair whose brief signs of life... only put the shortcomings of the rest of this turgid mess in stultifying relief.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
It's all doom and gloom, and it ain't pretty. [May 2007, p.125]
Alternative Press
Good Charlotte have become caricatures of themselves. [Apr 2007, p.175]
NOW Magazine
After years and years of hating every ounce of Maryland's mall-punk icons Good Charlotte, it seems now that the actual trick to enjoying their music on any plausible level is to go into the whole thing with absolutely no expectations. Not even low expectations. Nothing.
Read Full Review >Sputnikmusic
The production quality is a crowning grace throughout the album in the face of some very dodgy writing and bad musical choices.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
Vile, goth-jock pop with all the wit and nuance of a urine-soaked sock.
Read Full Review >The New York Times
A mystifyingly inept CD that includes some of the worst lyrics you will — or, with any luck, won’t — hear all year. [26 Mar 2007]
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
The problem is that for all the slick operations and glorious machinations of the marketing and production, this band has run out of steam; soulless without being undead.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 103 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Joel W. gave it a10:
While this isn't the most mature album they've done it is very catchy and does still have some songs that show depth. it is really catchy and i love take your hands off my girl and the river. good job good Charlotte! i look forward to seeing what you do next.
Beelay gave it a0:
If Johnny Cash were alive, he's kick the shit out of those Madden tools. The only thing more pathetic than this band is their fans. Talk about a bunch of empty-headed, superficial, vapid peons.
Kyle A. gave it a10:
A brilliant, brilliant album. Never liked the band before but this is, I can't get enough of!
Anna anne gave it a10:
I like it.....a lot!!!At keast the most part of it....
DAn A gave it a9:
Listened to the whole album again and again cant get enough of it, once again most of the bad reviews are because its different just give it a chance and it bloody grows on ya. Best song deff victims of love.
Matt S. gave it a2:
Makes a decent drink coaster.
Benji M. gave it a10:
GC are the best their songs are so meaningful, listen to beautiful place,misery,march on. These songs are incredible. What's wrong with u ppl? OK, all black sucks ass and keep your hands off my girl but they are so amazing and the messages in their music are awesome. They're just kids from Maryland living the dream...let them u selfish cunts(sorry distasteful but just making my point) GC 4 LIfe. OK im done.
