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Rough copy of the song ripped from a youtube video.
"Misery" is awesome.
And I just got the acoustic "March On" download that you get from pre-ordering the CD from sonymusic.com and I love it!
March 27 needs to come sooner... I wish they would have released it February like they originally said back in September/October.

I will never understand the hype around this lot. Ever since that gash song which was a complete contradiction right from the start, I have tried to give them a chance but for the live of me I cannot like them. Anthem was a catchy tune for about one listen and that's about it. Second album was pish, and this new song is bringing about a new level of shite to the music world. Just utter shite.

My bro's really into them apparently, they suck in my humble opinion
What's with Jefree Star being in their new vid though, he's fucking everywhere. And am I blind or did I spot those guys from A7X there as well? Let's throw in as many famous people as we can gather, a?

Thanks for that, im d/l now, will take a while before i can hear it tho haha
12 days till GMR comes out! (for me) Yay!
oh and on that nicole ritchie thing, they are saying she is pregnant (cause shes has put on a little weight) and b/c they think they are gonna use that as a get out of jail free card..Like seriously who comes up with this crap and thinks ppl beleive it! gahhhh

Trust me, if you felt like shit and you couldn't update your mp3 player and you hear a band you love on the radio, it's really nice. I've loved GC for years and I'm really looking forward to Good Morning Revival so having lots of people vote "The River" to a spot on a countdown is great, especially when there are more GC haters than lovers out there.

Holy crap, I think they turned Paul's amp on for the first time in The River. Which I only watched for Jeffree Star , but whatever. And yay for random M. Shadows appearance...?

The guys from Avenged Sevenfold sing part of the song.

"The River"
(feat. M Shadows & Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold)
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/goodcharlotte/theriver.html

Well, my situation is a bit different. I listen to my CD player, so I can just buy (or probably download) their album (and burn it if I downloaded it). And I don't listen to the radio anymore.

I get what you're saying, and I agree.

http://groups.msn.com/antijoelmadden/howdi...atredstart.msnw
This site is hilarious. It was made by some teenie who "discovered REAL punk through GC" and fanticised about how she though that she would one day marry him. Then she found out he was dating hilary duff, and realized that joel isn't with her instead, so she made this dumbassed site. True teenie paradise!

The guys from Avenged Sevenfold sing part of the song.

"The River"
(feat. M Shadows & Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold)
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/goodcharlotte/theriver.html

Blu, you're pretty much awesome. i've finally met someone who loves GC as much as I do, and gets excited everytime they hear GC on the radio.

Well I admit to liking their first 2 albums.

But their third..............ehhhhhhhh..............it was a big turning point, and really sounded like a bad attempt at making depressing music. Well it was lame, depressing music. Congratulations good charlotte, mission accomplished.
And it seemed like they were following the trend of emo/goth music that was(and probably still is, I have no idea) popular at the time.

Seeing a band go from music that makes you happy to music that makes you depressed, isn't exactly something that will keep you from insulting them.

But hey, just my opinion.

here for you GC lovies, its neat check it out> http://gcstate.com/eng/index.php
I cant wait for their new CD, my birthdays coming up soon, so I might ask for it.

Joel Madden seems to be in good spirits considering someone wishes to kill him. Just two days prior to this interview, he and his then girl-friend, 19-year-old singer and actress Hillary Duff, took out an injunction on a stalker who planned to cause at least one of them mortal harm. The stalker, an 18-year-old Russian man by the name Maksim Myaskovskly, was in love with Ms. Duff. He believed the only thing keeping them apart was the small matter of them never having met. That and the fact that she was stepping out with the singer of popular pop-punk quartet Good Charlotte. But not to worry, a solution was at hand: Joel Madden had to die.

“Dude,” says Madden, shrugging his shoulders with a roll he may or may not have learned watching hip-hop videos. “I’m not afraid of that kid. I’ve been threatened by crazier dudes than him. I’ve been threatened by gangsters.”

Maksim Myaskovskly is not a man you’d describe as a looker. Joel Madden, on the other hand, is good looking. He’s in a band that has sold several million albums. He himself is a millionaire. Today – as yesterday, as the day before – he is dressed in black.

“I’m not going to take this threat lightly,” he says. “But I’m not going to go out simply because some kid wants me dead.”

The week prior to this interview, on November 7, Myaskovskly was arrested in a Los Angeles hotel room, after other guests overheard him in the bar claiming he was set to murder Joel Madden. In the months prior to this, Hillary Duff’s management firm had fielded messages from the Russian requesting the starlet’s company. Threats soon followed. The stalker learned of the neighbourhood in Glendale, California, where Joel Madden lives. He began turning up at a local deli where Madden ate. The singer was tipped off by the establishment’s owner, who told him of an odd character who appeared too many times and asked too many questions.

On October 18, Good Charlotte played a show at the Avalon Theater on North Vine Street in West Hollywood. Again, a young Russian was nosying around. The LAPD was called. Myaskovskly was arrested, but not charged.

“This kid,” says Joel Madden, “I wish he’d go away. To jail, back to Russia, in the ground. I don’t fucking care.”

Do you think there’s a chance he might try to kill you?

“I don’t know,” is his answer. “He could try. But if he gets near me, I’m going to assume he wants to kill me, and I’m going to take appropriate action.”

Do you own a gun?

“Yeah” – like duh! – “I own a lot of guns.”

Joel Madden then pulls out a knife. He holds it out and says “I’m ready.” He says that one of the guns he owns is a Glock Model 26 that would “blow you to fucking pieces.”

If you believed that Maksim Myaskovskly was posing an immediate threat to yourself or Hillary Duff would you kill him?

He gives his reply no thought at all. He doesn’t shrug his shoulders. He doesn’t move his eyes. He just says “absolutely.”

I was reading a magazine scan in the GCstate.com gallery the other day and they were talking about how they aren't following trends. They are just going wherever the music takes them. With Chronicles, it depends how you hear the music. It's two faced, I guess in the same way the cover art is: life and death. You can either hear it and find it depressing, or hear it and find hope and life. I hear life. Listening to it makes me feel better in a way. Their first album, I actually have a hard time listening to it, but it has one of my favorite songs on it (Little Things). And on the 2nd album, I still fall towards the darker songs. Chronicles just mixed everything into a melting pot and it leaves you able to determine how you want to see it.
They said in the magazine, Chronicles didn't sell well, but that didn't matter. It solidified their stance as a band and has allowed them to create Good Morning Revival.

here for you GC lovies, its neat check it out> http://gcstate.com/eng/index.php
I cant wait for their new CD, my birthdays coming up soon, so I might ask for it.

I can understand feeling better with a song like We Believe, but if you put a song like that on the same album as a song like The World is Black, that's just downright contradictory.

And I don't see how they "mix everything" on Chronicles. All I hear is depressing songs, and musically, it doesn't sound anything like any of their earlier albums.

If you prefer dark, depressing songs over something that actually gives you hope(through the whole album, not just one or two songs), fine then.

But I already go through too much shit to let some band rub it in my face.

Two weeks after this interview took place, Joel Madden and Hillary Duff broke up. More to the point, it seems he was chucked by her – although Good Charlotte’s management company have yet to comment on or confirm this. In the meantime, internet rumours circulate that Madden is stepping out with ‘Simple Life’ star and Beverly Hills socialite Nicole Richie. The same week, Richie is arrested driving her Sports Utility Vehicle the wrong way up the car pool lane of the 134 Freeway in Burbank, California. At 1:45 in the morning. At the police station, she weighs in at six stone, one pound.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous, indeed.

About that. Yes, Good Charlotte once wrote a song called ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”. It became thir most popular song. With it they became rich and famous, and now they appear to be living the lifestyle. It was the kind of tune, and they the kind of people, that took the battle lines of what could and couldn’t be termed ‘punk’ and crushed them to the dust. It wasn’t that the distinction no longer applied, it just rendered it yesterday’s news. Today, in Los Angeles a billboard on Melrose Avenue advertises a show called ‘One Punk Under God’, a ‘reality’ series starring tattooed ‘punk pastor’ Jay Baker, son of the disgraced TV evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. A hundred yards down from this you can buy Black Flag t-shirts manufactured in a third worl country. As Far as four letter words go, ‘punk’ no longer fits the description.

“Of course, people are going to look at us and make assumptions.” This is Benji Madden speaking, Joel’s twin brother. He has an armful of tattoosand a pair of $150 Ben Sherman sunglasses that he got for free. “But we still keep things real. We are real. You can either come with us, or you can be left behind. I don’t care. But we’re Good Charlotte and we do things unapologetically. Yes, we hang out in Beverly Hills sometimes, but we’re still a working class band.”

How many famous women have you slept with?

“None.”

Bullocks.

“Alright, a handful.”

This lunchtime, the Maddens – together with Good Charlotte bassist Paul Thomas and guitarist Billy Martin (drummer Dean Butterworth tours with the group but is not established as a paid up member) – are sitting in a function room at the Roosevelt Hotel, up high on Hollywood Boulevard. On the other side of the road is the Kodak Theater, venue for The Oscars. Tonight it hosts the Victoria’s Secret Lingerie Awards. Red carpet is being laid and camera crews are getting themselves ready. This recently renovated and suffocatingly exclusive hotel will host the aftershow party. Planners and technicians bustle about. In contradiction of the no smoking signs, the Maddens do the opposite. The spent butts swim in a broth of nicotine and bottled water. The band wait for hamburgers to be delivered.

“Our aim from day one was to be the biggest band in the world,” say Benji. “We did not set out to stay poor.”

Because poor is what they were. Mud poor. They were raised in the dish-rag districts of Maryland, a few miles from Washington DC but closer to the violent streets of Baltimore. Their childhood was not the kind you see portrayed on party political broadcasts. One Christmas Eve – the twins were 15: they no longer believed in Santa Claus but they certainly believed in family – their father left home. Their mother followed him. Neither parent returned. Benji and Joel Madden shot hoops outside on the driveway and then climbed into bed, in the dark. On Christmas morning they opened presents. But the presents weren’t for them, they were for their cousins.

“Every day I have at least one moment that reminds me of how fortunate I am,” says Benji, comparing and contrasting. “Whether it’s riding around in a nice-ass car, or catching a glimpse of the Hollywood sign or just standing in the sunshine. These moments reminds me that where I am is not where I came from.”

Joel Madden puts it more bluntly. “The things about the song ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ that people tend not to pick up on is that we’re saying, ‘if you don’t want the money, we’ll have it. I’ll take it off your hands’. Money has never been a problem for me.”

so its the twins birthday..
damn, i just realised

How old are they now, anyway?