So anyone else read the Good Charlotte article in the Po

[bull930]

Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
  Sales have slumped at Hot Topic recently.  And the food court wiggers have moved on to Borders.

Wiggers?

[chaz]

Originally posted by you be betty:
  Yes.  Interesting article.
 
 I'm not gonna lie, I bought their first album when I was 10 years old and thought they were really cool and got all excited every time I heard them on HFS...it was a quality pop-punk record.  You know, that stuff is fun to dance to when you are young and don't know any better.  But their second album didn't do anything for me; it was pretty over-produced and slick sounding...too marketable.  Though maybe that was the point in my life when I realized that most pop-punk wasn't quality at all...
 
 

Sometimes when I read Betty's posts I feel like I'm watching that kid in the movie Jesus Camp who said "I was saved when I was 5.  I just felt like my life had no meaning."

[HoyaSaxa03]

 There are more singalongs, more songs, including "Little Things," the first track on the first album. In recorded form, it opens with a dedication: "To every kid that got picked last in gym class; to every kid that never had a date to no school dance; to everyone who's ever been called a freak." Another loser anthem. On stage, the band's version of "Little Things" emphasizes the twins' experiences growing up, from "the time in school when we got free lunch and the cool kids beat us up" to "the time that girl broke up with me cause I wasn't cool enough."

the cool kids in the 90s in my high school in florida were the ones with fugazi and sunny day real estate patches on their backpack ... is that weird?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Sounds like you went to an upper middle class school in suburbia.    
 
 

Originally posted by Hoyas Final 4:
   

 There are more singalongs, more songs, including "Little Things," the first track on the first album. In recorded form, it opens with a dedication: "To every kid that got picked last in gym class; to every kid that never had a date to no school dance; to everyone who's ever been called a freak." Another loser anthem. On stage, the band's version of "Little Things" emphasizes the twins' experiences growing up, from "the time in school when we got free lunch and the cool kids beat us up" to "the time that girl broke up with me cause I wasn't cool enough."

the cool kids in the 90s in my high school in florida were the ones with fugazi and sunny day real estate patches on their backpack ... is that weird? [/b]

[ArvinSmee]

these guys suck.  their music sucks and they suck as people.  i seen benji (or joel, whatever) in annapolis all the time, often with a body guard - even though no one gives a fuck who he is.  they fell out of the spot light years ago, why post an article about a bunch of shitty has beens?
 
 in other news, the 930 club over charges for beer and is full of pretentious hipsters.

[sweetcell]

wrong - that's not news.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  Was pretty good, interesting view of a band trying to get back on top.

agreed, that was better than most of the stuff i read in spin / rolling stone ... for as much shit as j-free takes on here, he's a really solid writer

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by bull930:
   

Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
  Sales have slumped at Hot Topic recently.  And the food court wiggers have moved on to Borders.

Wiggers? [/b]

They prefer to be called Whafrican Whamericans.

[you be betty]

The show is at 9:30 and Army of Me is opening.

[you be betty]

just kidding...still at the cat...

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Originally posted by Brandon Brendall, the thief:
  This quote says pretty much all you need to know:
 
   

"Honestly, I wouldn't be standing here right now if it wasn't for them. I live in West Virginia and have purple hair. People stare at me and give me a hard time. Joel and Benj know what it's like to be a total outcast and a misfit. They made me proud to be different."

[/b]

i wish they would slit their wrists with me.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

how many pretentious hipsters actually hang out at the 930 club?  I think you're more likely to find them at Saint Ex.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  how many pretentious hipsters actually hang out at the 930 club?  I think you're more likely to find them at Saint Ex.

hipsters? at saint ex? are you talking about like a random monday night?

[ggw]

Did anyone else see the review in this week's NY Times?
 
 Ouch:
 
 GOOD CHARLOTTE
 
 �??Good Morning Revival�?�
 
 (Epic/Daylight)
 
 Joel and Benji Madden are the twins who lead the pop-punk band Good Charlotte, and they�??re the kind of people who show up on magazine covers and start clothing lines and date Hilary Duff. (She spent a few years with Joel, who is now being photographed alongside Nicole Richie.) But �??The Chronicles of Life and Death,�?� from 2004, was a dud, overblown and, not coincidentally, underbought. Now it�??s time for the Madden twins to make amends.
 
 What they have made instead is �??Good Morning Revival,�?� a mystifyingly inept CD that includes some of the worst lyrics you will �?? or, with any luck, won�??t �?? hear all year. �??Keep Your Hands Off My Girl�?� is a foolhardy foray into rap (�??The hipsters mean-muggin�?? on me all night long�?�); �??Something Else�?� is a clumsy ode to odd coupledom (�??Her daddy�??s a lawyer, and mine�??s not around/She has good manners, I�??m rough all around�?�); �??All Black,�?� which strains in vain for anthemhood (�??Take a look at my life, all black/Take a look at my clothes, all black�?�), may single-handedly convince the nation�??s goths to embrace pastels.
 
 This band can still crank out a grand chorus, and there�??s one in �??The River,�?� about decadent Los Angeles. But to find the album�??s most memorable moment, you�??ll have to explore �??Where Would We Be?,�?� a sub-Coldplay ballad that contains this admission: �??I must confess that I�??m a sinking ship,/and I�??m anchored by the weight of my heart, �??cause it�??s filled with these feelings.�?� One promising target market for this CD: countries where they don�??t speak English. KELEFA SANNEH

[funkypunky]

Chyeaaaaaah, i read it. It was good, and interesting...and kinda made me like Benji and Joel. Butttt it was odd the was they weren't such "losers" in high school...but they indirectly "claim" it alot in their music.