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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.
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13 tracks of Disney-channel-ready pop, buffed and Pro-Tooled almost beyond recognition--and it's not half bad. [Apr 2007, p.111]
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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.
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Another album that gets further away from the band's core appeal.
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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.
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The production quality is a crowning grace throughout the album in the face of some very dodgy writing and bad musical choices.
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UncutGimmicky 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]
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SpinThere 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]
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Q MagazineIt's all doom and gloom, and it ain't pretty. [May 2007, p.125]
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Alternative PressGood Charlotte have become caricatures of themselves. [Apr 2007, p.175]
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A perfectly functional album of loud guitars, ain’t life a bitch lyrics and the odd nod to different production styles and techniques.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 78 out of 133
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Mixed: 11 out of 133
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Negative: 44 out of 133
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Apr 6, 2011
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Dec 22, 2013
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JoelW.Jun 11, 2008