http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/focus-group-11-good-charlotte/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/focus-group-11-good-charlotte/#comment-260087 cis Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:28:00 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/focus-group-11-good-charlotte/#comment-260087 It's probably the record that's grown on me most: I started out being broadly but vaguely positive, which is my standard starting point for anything remotely Young People's Emo, but every time I hear it I like it more. There's some strange alchemy here, the ridiculous stream-of-consciousness lyrics just blur into a relentless tuneless grind (like, in a good way), so my attention fixes onto the guitars and finds them perfect. plus: falsetto hook, not to be sneered at. It’s probably the record that’s grown on me most: I started out being broadly but vaguely positive, which is my standard starting point for anything remotely Young People’s Emo, but every time I hear it I like it more. There’s some strange alchemy here, the ridiculous stream-of-consciousness lyrics just blur into a relentless tuneless grind (like, in a good way), so my attention fixes onto the guitars and finds them perfect. plus: falsetto hook, not to be sneered at.

]]> http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/focus-group-11-good-charlotte/#comment-259059 Tom Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:51:15 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/04/focus-group-11-good-charlotte/#comment-259059 This is my favourite thing to have been in the Top 40 so far this year, by the way. This is my favourite thing to have been in the Top 40 so far this year, by the way.

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