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 | Good CharlotteThe Young and the Hopeless2002 Epic 
 Review by: ChaosXing See others by this writer Good Charlotte Website (link) Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on October 11th 2002 Just when pop punk seems to have left it’s former glory days, Good Charlotte comes out with their sophomore album, The Young and the Hopeless. Their hair might be a little more gravity defying, they might have more piercings, and they might have lost their old drummer, but they do show a little more insight with their lyrics. Highlights on The Young and the Hopeless include “The Anthem”, which deals with being institutionalized in high school (almost a continuation of “Little Things”), “My Bloody Valentine”, a twisted love song about a guy who murders the his true love’s boyfriend, “Movin’ On”, which sounds more like it belongs on their self-titled album, and the title track “The Young and the Hopeless”. An honorable mention is “The Day That I Die”, which sounds like a country ballad at first, but then it moves on into imitating Social Distortion’s style. Good Charlotte tries enough new ideas to keep things interesting, while still remaining true to the sound of their first album without getting boring and repetitive. Fans will still remain fans (hopefully) and the people who hate them will, well, still hate them. I don’t expect punk elitists to change anytime soon and realize that this is a good album.People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
Ehh.... I thought SOME songs were OK.... not the album as a whole though. I mean, if YOU like it, I don't care, but personally, only like two songs were good in my opinion. I laughed when I heard people considered this music. I also laugh at the fact that alot of the people who are GC fans and are bashing all the people who hate them posted anonymously so they could avoid the backlash. Hypocrital idiots. GC, please just..go..die, for the good of man kind. You can say whatever the fuck you want. this shit is not music! i'm definitely not gonna give this a score, but Anthem and Lifestyle were catchy as hell. and i think josh freese played drums (?) i dont understand how anyone can listen to this band they are fucking horrible i also dont understand how they got on MTV Better then the last piece of crap but not much.... But it is an improvement....Still they sound like a hundred other Bands of so what’s the point of having them in your CD collection? There’s not. The fact that you can say that imitating bands music is just fine kind of got on my nerves. Nothing original here just more of your mediocre pop punk fare....3 out of 10 Poop taco, with a side of diarreha. Topped with bacon. As good as it sounds, yes. listen everyone is open for their own opinions but to say that they suck when you havnt listened to the cd is absurd. you can like what you like and if you dont like it then there isnt any reason for comment. people may relate to their music, share the same experiences and shit like that so if they want to like them than thats cool. if you think that they suck thats cool too, but there isnt any need to tell them to die. as for them being marketed and so-called selling out, you put a big fat check infront of me and i guess im gonna do the same thing and i can almost guarentee that everyone of you would do the same thing. if you say you wouldnt then you are either lying or are going to be living in regret for most of your life while you are working your 9-5 desk job. "Stop being mean they are just trying to make a living" Damn, big old rift here, Some put 5 stars, other a half. Good Charlotte, no matter how they look, suck. Stop being mean they are just trying to make a living Ok to all u ignorant fuckheads... Gc never said they were punk and to all u *supposed* fans stop liking them if u only think their hot nothing makes me more than teenie boppers so dont say i wanna fuck the lead singer cause hes hot or benji's so fuckin sexy say because their really good at their music and what they write! for fuck sakes! people need to get a life and get around the fact that liking a band just because their hot isnt liking the band! u like the band because their music is good not because their hot get that through ur teenie bopper skulls fuckin damnit! and to "felix" u dont even deserve to say that ur a little teenie bopper who only thinks joel *and yes his name is joel its not lead singer learn his name before u say anything bout him because ur nothing but a bitch... * is hot and u need to be shot thats it. Period OH MY MOON-PIES!!! This is sooo brutal I'm going to write the rest of my feeble attempt to describe this record's "sheer-brilliance" in all caps. that number that the stupid fucker put on is a fake i tried to call it and that number doesn't work. i hate stupid fuckers that try to do that u assholes. good charlotte is the stupidest most cock sucking band of all time. all that they do is sing about themselves. like the rich and the famous lets see whos rich and famous hmmmm i wonder. these stupid little cocksucking bitches deserve to get their ball chopped off and their dicks burned off. i also say that we boycott the mother fuckers. whos with me. death and mutilation to good charlotte. i hate u fuckers with a passion. 1 435 668 4377 cell number to a faggot who loves this band WHAT THE FUCK is with all u fags coming on to this site and trashing GC? Im not saying im in love with the band but what im saying is i dont see how u can come on to a bands review that u dont even listen to and say how u hate it. It just makes u sound soo fuckin dumb, if u hate it so much get off this site and get onto yer own fuckin bands review site. Im not gunna go trash Thrice, i dont even listen to them, what would be the point of doing that? God u guys are fuckin gay, If u hate the band or dont listen to thier fuckin music then get off this site!!! Dont sit here a trash a band just so u can sound like a badass... seriously guys need to get a fuckin life!!! =) "They also host a show that plays Nickleback and Default.....Martha Stewart is more punk than these guys." Why is this album even reviewed on a website called punknews.org? They try to play themselves off as punk, and dont deny it either Good Charlotte never said they are punk... Unwashed mouths? Its your post that has fuck scattered all throughout it. And keeping punk alive? Good Charlotte is not keeping punk alive because they are not punk. It is bands like Good Charlotte that is killing punk. It is bands like Good Charlotte that are taking advantage of peoples ignorance (because these people have never heard real punk) by telling them their band are punk. Go listen to refused. i think the young and the hopeless video kick ass! i Ok, im a loser with no life. I agree. My name is felix too. I love Good Charlotte. Want to fuck the singer, He is so hot. All you motherfuckers are gonna pay, You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all fucking next. Wow "Rezellos" as you call them made honest punk. GC have not. I really should stop coming to this website, because it seems that no band can ever get any sort of kudos at all. "Lifestyles of the faggots! we are queers we have problems! we had no friends in high school so we have to write songs and sing about it so that people that have no friends in highschool can listen to our music we are gay!" yah i just saw some dick head say "oh if they sucked howd they make it to #1 on TRL?" that really pisses me off becuz halfway intelligent people know that they are marketed on TRL so people like you can buy there little wristbands and hats and Joel and Benji fucking barbie dolls our whatever they have out there, but thats the reason they are on there so u vote for them they get money and then they keep it to themselves and say "Hey look at those fucks giving us money all though we suck" they are exactly like Rap artists in every way only they play POP. u got that right! I don't have as much time as u tho. They do suck tho, but don't rip on Box Car cause they're ok hey dude, don't be an asshole... if you are asking what's so great about the guys in the band, how the fuck can you be saying how much they suck? you can't just dismiss stuff because thirteen year old girls like them and shit... that's really discriminating and really sad... try putting in your energy into something more productive than being negative all the time... you have your opinion and i respect that... just don't be an asshole dude... i respect whatever you choose to listen to... i don't really care (until you start being an asshole about it)... oh... i agree with with the dude that said that there are a few good songs on the album... i like it for the most part, but there are some that i don't really like... whatever Good Charlotte sucks cock, half the people at Warped Tour were there for GC and come people left right after GC was done. What's so great about those stupid twins, all they do is jump around on stage. Why don't you stupid ignorant 13 year old girls go back and listen to your Boxcar Racer. i dunno how into the whole pop punk thing i am, but i dunno Good Charlotte doesn't annoy me as much as other bands. I used to like them like 2 years ago and when i heard they were coming out with a new CD i was curious and bought it. besides the REALLY annoy songs like "boys and girls" and "the day that i die" its a pretty nice collection of them copying other bands. I mean the song "hold on" could definitly be a Finch song while the opening of "my old man" is really Blink 182 and then turns into a more MxPx song. and the last song "moving on" the first like 10 seconds i swear are from and old Smashing Pumpkins song. but whatever its not horrible and there are a few gems on the album. some bitch down there just said "if they suck, then how did they make it to TRL?" what the FUCK??? are you kidding me? or was that just a joke post? You don't need to be a genious to know that anyone band or group on TRL is MARKETABLE, which by the way is a lot different than having talent. TRL caters to little shitheads like you so go on and cheer for Carson Daily. YAY!! AHHH TRL!! Oh shut up you fool. I've heard this whinney album and it sucks the ass big time- zero originality, zero creativity. It doesn't matter if it's punk or not- I like all kinds of music, but this just reeks! hey everyone... i can't believe that some people would actually judge a band without even hearing the music or listening to their lyrics. to tell you the truth, that seems really sad and pathetic... just be a little open minded and look a little deeper than appearances.... you can't just dismiss a band because they got on trl, just like you can't say that a band is good just because they got on trl... you can't say that good charlotte is good just because benji is hot... i mean, c'mon... i am not saying that anyone is stupid or anything, everyone likes their own things for their own reasons. i have my own reasons for liking good charlotte.... first of all they are really nice guys, i met them at warped in tahoe, and i hadn't heard them before but they put on a good show... they make really good connection with people who go to the show.... i like most of their lyrics, i can identify with a lot of stuff they talk about... then i figure that gc is a good gateway band... for a lot of people it is difficult to get into punk.... (i'm from mexico)... and if you start liking good charlotte you might realize that there is sooo much stuff going around... so that's cool... i think that this album is really good... there are a couple of songs i don't like... but anyways.. thanks for reading... I don't care what any of you say but Benji is FUCKING SEXY. And if GC sucked all that bad then how could they have made it #1 on TRL. Answer that you fuckers, who have enough guts to get on here and trash Good Charlotte. They are going to be famous. You just wait and see. I'm going to make sure all you people who wrote that GC sucked are going to be FUCKED to HELL!!! I LOVE Good Charlotte and if any of you don't you can kiss my ASS!!! ohh mines bigger than yours..... Shitty Review, Shitty Band, Shitty Album. Period. To the dumb fuck gc ball suckin ass below me, learn how to spell before you rant-oldpunker- this is pathetic you little suddo punk rockers listen if you kids are so punk why the fuck are you reviewing a good charlotte cd and why the fuck are you online involved with organized punk get the fuck back on the street and go work your dead end fast food jobs and live your uneducated lives. one more point if you knew anything about music you would realize you need diversity in what you listen to or everything you write will sound exactly the same and like ever gay punk band you listen I admit I couldn't define a 'real punk' but I am not naive enough to know that these guys are not punk at all. Its not the fact that they are on MTV, its more the fact that their record company wrote some of their songs for this album. They also host a show that plays Nickleback and Default.....Martha Stewart is more punk than these guys. anyone that uses the term "haters" needs to be slapped i hate the guy below him I hate the guy below me i think that this review is a pretty good one, i disagree with one thing though, there not pop-punk, i would barley call them punk though, there just a rock band, and who the fuck are you haters, to go and say that they suck, honustly, if u knew shit about them, which you ovbiously dont (at least most of you dont), you would realize, that wow, they've actually succeded in making there dream, so here they are, selling CD's which alot of people happen to like, including me, and there makin it. so fuckin what if there on trl, does that instantly make them fuckin pop? so does that mean korn's pop, and green day, no fuckin way, there not pop. ahh all you people do is hate. and im sorry if i did in this comment, but i couldnt take it. but the way, wtf makes you punk in the first place? I know this is really O/T, but I don't pay attention to Good Charlotte anymore. Who's their drummer? I haven't heard anything from their new album... and I don't intend to. The fact that you even put gc and the mighty social d in the same sentence is a crime in itself. Oldpunker- Social Distortion rocks...who cares how straight forward their drumming is. It gets the job done. Mike Ness makes Social D anyway..you could have anyone drumming. Chaosxing you aren't serious are you? Please tell me you are joking when you gave this album an 8? oh yeah? well Lars gave me a handjob. beat that (pun). Mr. Kenzington, you just wanted to mention that you met Lars. Well, he gave me a flyer for a Nerve Agents/Lars and the Bastards show and said "you need this." I said "yep"........ The kid below is good. If i was that old guy i would be pretty upset. especially seeing how right he is. And good charlotte. I went with some kids to warped that liked good charlotte a couple years ago. Didnt see them much. They spent the whole day at the nu-metal radio station booth. They missed good stuff like ALK3 and finch and lagwagon. They're loss. If kids want to subject themselves to that crap, more power to them. Street punk - times have changed. You're old. You're being discarded. You're no revolutionary, you're a reactionary. You have become the opposite of everything you once purported to stand for. at least bands like NFG know they are for girls, dont pretend to be all punk and tough. GC thinks people actually buy the mohawk and how they are real "punk", not like the other bands that play their style. They should fuck off and die cause this band is really really shitty. QUOTE: Ah crap I forgot to rate the album in my last post. And I agree..to the guy a couple posts below who said this album rocks..GET HELP! Interesting that you'd miss the warped tour because of one band. Thats why there's more than 1 stage you jackass!! If you didnt want to watch GC you could go to another stage...worked great for me. Maybe you were just afraid of getting your ass kicked in the GC pit..because we all know how "Intense" they are...I hope you're picking up my sarcasm cuz I'm laying it on pretty thick. You are an idiot. GO FUCK YOURSELF you pompous I'm punker than you piece of shit! You got problems kid. This album totally rocks!!! I love Good Charlotte! since everyone's quoting ages, i'll say mine, i'm 23. hahahaha i personally think this band it worthless, i remember they were at warped tour two year ago and it was pathetic.....them and warped tour. They were on it again this year so i decided just not to go. Who cares who's punk enough or whatever bla blah, i hate this band because i don't like them. Thats my opinion, you can like them if you want I am with the guy/girl who is 22. I too am 22 and everyone needs to get over it. This album fucking sucks!Where's the creativity and complexity?!Kill ALL Sony/Epic artists!!! i hate you punx any band that isnt on a major or mtv is being categorized as punk. depends what u mean by "punk" ahhh. punk isn't tops. just because it might be better then other genres doesn't mean it's good. This is pathetic (not Gay), but punk isn't. A lot of punk rock blows the shit out of other genre's weak offerings. Fucken hate all punk! punkers are the biggest pussyshits in the world!!!! Arby's is punker than you bitch..... I like taco bell. I can't resist those Grande nachos. McDonalds? YUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKK!!! Fast food= American Trash You know, I used to be real skinny and kids made fun of me for it. I used to go into McDonald's and just eat as many fucking hamburgers as I could to gain weight. One day, Lars from Rancid said to me, "What are you gonna do? Eat the whole fucking menu?". I guess it all boils down to this: Just be yourself and keep on playing that fucking shitty pop punk music. "What next, country folk trying to say it's punk and then people defend that it is?" "A street punk who's been here since it all started, that's who. Ya fucking kid." This Cd sucks and ENOUGH with this childish "I'm punker than you....hahaha" bullshit. None of you must be any older than 15 I swear, I'm 22 and I never bitched about that stupid shit! Just let people think what they want, it's just their opinion. i've got a "New Idea" GC can try: Kill Kill Kill Kill Die Die Die Die Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Annihilate Annihilate Annihilate Annihilate Obliterate Obliterate Obliterate Obliterate All Corny Music! This review sucks....there is no detail and it doesn't even talk about half of the songs on the album. Who's running this show anyways? Did they put up another review just so there could be more posts? I can't imagine them putting up this review with the intention that it would be read, because it doesn't say anything useful about the CD. "who are you to say what is punk and what isnt?..." "putting labels on music is gay... who are you to say what is punk and what isnt?... music is music... like what u like... and if u slam my music... because it isnt "punk enough"...then fuck off... cause your hopeless... oh yea and ignorant" "haha, funny shit. it's funny how a lot rich suburban kids i know actually act that way." yea sure this cd is good if you like catchy uninspired derivative music with bad lyrics. and no im not a punk elitist. and whoever said punk changing or expanding its sound is a bad thing, well youre an idiot. if all you listen to is street punk then i feel bad for you. I reviewed the other one, and I just have to say this guy is completely wrong. I was a GC fan and this CD is beyond horrible, it is so boring, dull, and has the worst lyrics I have ever heard, they are not insightful at all. get a clue a second review of this piece of shit was a waste of time. i didnt even read it. i just wanted to let you know that. shit, im wasting my time commenting right now. but oh well. who cares, really? I said this on other review of this shit. If music was "just music" it wouldn't have the unbeleiveable social and cultural impacts that it does. Think about the way it influences our culture and tell me that's all it is. Purposely misspelling words and using the word "gay" out of context makes you both hopeless *and* ignorant. putting labels on music is gay... who are you to say what is punk and what isnt?... music is music... like what u like... and if u slam my music... because it isnt "punk enough"...then fuck off... cause your hopeless... oh yea and ignorant "THE ONLY REAL PUNK IS STREET PUNK - IF YOU DON'T AGREE YOU'RE HOPELESS..." Shit like GC exists. Think about that for a second? Punk has been disgraced on ever level possible: skateboarders fucking up the scene with their baggy pot smoking ways, adding pop punk. Then emo walking around holding hands with pop punk, now flat out pop says it's part of punk too. What next, country folk trying to say it's punk and then people defend that it is? Oh wait, Avril Lavige does exist. Second GC review, yet no sign of my One Man Army review...eh, it wasn't that good anyways. this didn't need to be reviewed once, let alone twice. |
