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Good Morning Revival
by Good Charlotte


5.8

based on 18 reviews
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The Chronicles Of Life And Death

Twins Joel and Benji Madden lead the Maryland pop-punk outfit through 13 tracks on this delayed fourth album.

LABEL:	Sony
RELEASE DATE:	27 March 2007
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Alternative, Rock

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rolling Stone

Another album that gets further away from the band's core appeal.

Sputnikmusic

The production quality is a crowning grace throughout the album in the face of some very dodgy writing and bad musical choices.

New Musical Express

Vile, goth-jock pop with all the wit and nuance of a urine-soaked sock.

The Guardian

A fourth album of stunning fatuousness.

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]

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.

The average user rating for this album is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 102 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.

Good Morning Revival by Good Charlotte

Good Morning Revival
by Good Charlotte