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Liberation: Songs to Benefit PETA

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Editor's Review:

Fat Wreck Chords and I don’t have a very good relationship so I didn’t expect much out of this record, but Liberation: Songs to Benefit PETA blew most of my expectations away. And on another positive note, the sales of the disc go to benefit PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), so pay cash for your copy or the FBI will be visiting you soon.
The opening track, “Remedy” by Hot Water Music, starts things off right with trashy rocker vocals and chunky guitars and I immediately perked up. Then Good Riddance delivers a song that takes me back to my high school days before these guys started sucking. And Goldfinger actually makes a political point with their ode to Republicans in “Fuck Ted Nugent.” How could I not like that? Sure there is some crappy pop punk like District 7’s “Beyond the Shadows” and the Desaparecidos’ “Man and Wife, The Latter,” but on the whole the songs on this comp are solid, edgy and get more in your face lyrically than the usual Fat fare. And there is a really cute song by the Eyeliners that had even me singing along.
But the clincher is the song by Good Charlotte. I know I’m losing about 500 punk points right now but the acoustic version of “Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous” is the best song on the record. It doesn’t sound like the usual Good Charlotte drivel and gives me hope that these poser mall rockers actually have hearts. Maybe I won’t have to destroy my little sister’s CD collection after all.

– Brad Lambert

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Record Label Fat Wreck Chords

Released July 2003

Tracks

Hot Water Music - Remedy
Good Riddance - More DePalma, Less Fellini
Goldfinger - Fuck Ted Nugent
The Faint - Agenda Suicide
Propagandhi - Purina Hall Of Fame
Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous (Acoustic)
District 7 - Beyond The Shadows
Frenzal Rhomb - Russell Crowe's Band
Story Of The Year - And The Hero Will Drown
The Eyeliners - I Could Never Hate You
Anti-Flag - Bring Out Your Dead
Desaparecidos - Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)
Big Wig - Waste
Midtown - This House Is Not a Home (Acoustic)
The Used - Just a Little
NOFX - Clams Have Feelings Too

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When they started off in Maryland in 1996, Good Charlotte could barely play three chords. Twin brothers Joel (vocals) and Benji (guitar) embraced music as an outlet for familial issues-induced stress, leaving their prior endeavors (namely, baseball) behind. After adding high school friends Paul (bass) and Aaron (drums) to the lineup, the group relocated to Annapolis Maryland and played every venue in every town that would have them. After adding Billy (guitar) to the group, they began opening for bands like Bad Religion and Blink 182 and Lit, and eventually played at WHFS’s HFStival before being signed to Epic and releasing their eponymous debut in 2000. Young and the Hopeless was released in 2002.

–Maurice S. Teilmann (September, 2002)