Good Charlotte

With the arrival of its fourth LP, Good Charlotte, the band that made its name decrying "the rich and the famous," are absurdly rich and famous. But you know what they say: Mo' money, mo' problems. "Keep your hands off my girl," warns Joel on the band's flirtation with electro-industrial. "The River" is as ginormously hook-riddled as anything they've written, and "Beautiful Place" may be the first pop-punk song to feature a slide guitar. The latter tune is a pleasant departure, but for the most part it's business as usual for this post-millennial answer to the Knack.

When they first got famous, Good Charlotte were easy to make fun of but still kind of
likable: working-class guys dressing like Rancid and making catchy mall punk with little
pretense. Then came 2004's overblown, overreaching The Chronicles of Life and Death,
and now comes Good Morning Revival, another album that gets further away from the
band's core appeal: Its songs are dark and sour, with shimmery electronics and s... More >