Good Charlotte - The Young And The Hopeless | Regretting The Past | Rocked 

I was already a fan, but that rant against The Day That I Die just solidified it. As someone who's battled with depression and knows people who had attempted to take their own lives, that really meant a lot to hear.

About song 3 - "I forgot how forgettable this song was." Best quote ever.

As someone with depression. Your rant is justified and I agree with your opinions.

On a sidenote, this is the same band that participated in PETA demonstrations and protested KFC... and then did a bunch of KFC commercials. The hypocrisy is astounding. No wonder it seeped into their songs.

These guys wine so much, I got alcohol poisoning.

Good Charlotte cereal: The Bland and the Tasteless

That rant man... wow. Just... bravo! You may think you went to far, but you were speaking for the heart.

23:50 is why I subscribed. Your obvious and sincere passion about music and how kids get into it is admirable. Kudos to you as well for being sensitive towards issues of suicide. As a person who suffers from bipolar depression, it was greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work, man; you've earned a subscriber for life :)

Hey, at least the Anthem sold less than Linkin Park's Numb, which is an amazing song.

I like how at 16:13 he's wearing a slipknot shirt, that makes about as much sense as putting gravy on a snickers bar

The Young and the Oatless. 100% sugar, 0% substance. Part of this ridiculously oversold breakfast!

The thing that separates this album from No Pads, No Helmets, No Way In Hell Did This Actually Happen is that when I listen to The Young and the Hopeless, it legitimately ruins my day.

Holy shit! I'm so glad that I found this channel again. RU-vid's subscriptions page has gone to shit and I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of this channel. But I found it. This is by far your best review, in my opinion. I really liked the fact that you got serious for a couple of minutes, instead of relying on cracking jokes. Jokes are fine, but the real meat and potatoes for me is the message behind it all. And telling it like it is for a moment was pretty damn interesting. Nice job.

MTVs darling PG rated Green Day :'D That killed me

"It's not something to mock & praise, & then go on like it never happened!" Now try telling that to Seth McFarlane.

Good Charlotte has paid, in the long run, for the aura of falseness that surrounds them. Blink-182, Yellowcard, Jimmy Eat World, New Found Glory, Sum-41 even, all these guys are still beloved to one degree or another by today's young people, but Good Charlotte? Dated dated dated. And largely forgotten aside from a song or two.

I feel like Good Charlotte is to pop punk what Avatar is to movies. At one point it was massively popular, moved a lot of units but their cultural legacy is largely forgotten.

I had a really funny experience with Riot Girl. When I was revisiting this album (And then crying myself to sleep) and I got to Riot Girl, I was honestly expecting a song about being in love with someone from the Riot grrrl movement. Ya know, Sleater-kinney, Bikini Kill, those bands. I was really thinking "Huh, what a completely unique choice for a pop punk song, but why did he spell it with a regular Girl instead of grrrl?" And then the song played and it was about a Psychopathic girlfriend who makes his social life a living hell. And then I threw the CD across my room for making me think this band had depth for a second. Great review BTW.

I like this album, but I respect your opinion. See it's not that hard guys.

So, the album includes both an anti-suicide song followed a few tracks later by a song about the joy of committing suicide. I used to think Good Charlotte was just another crappy 2000s pop-punk band. Now, I find them truly loathsome. I'd like to see you take on at some point 2011's metal trilogy of suck: Metallica's "Lulu," Morbid Angel's "Illud Divinum Insanus" and Queensryche's "Dedicated To Chaos."

Take my like, good sir. You deserve it after that really pissed off rant, dude.

I guess Simple Plan and Good Charlotte had a competition to see who was the whiniest and how many albums they could sell.

I know. I'm ridiculously late. But your rant reminded me of my friend that I lost when I was 17 and she was 15. I was one of the last people to talk to her at school before she hung herself in the school bathroom. She was OBSESSED with Good Charlotte. This album came out shortly before she killed herself. She listened to their music NONSTOP. I truly believe that her relief and happiness when I spoke to her that day was due to bands that she felt "got" her telling her that the best day she'd ever have was her final one. I beat myself up for YEARS asking myself why I missed the signs or telling myself I should have caught on. But now, at 33, I know I couldn't have known. And I also know that trash like that song pushed her in that direction.

I will also say this. I about broke down when you began your rant. It took me back to a time where I was suicidal. It was a bad time and it seemed that everyone was against me (when they weren't but I kept telling myself that.) The fact that GC wrote a song about suicide is disgusting. You had every right to say what you said in your rant. Stay awesome Luke.

The most ironic thing about Lifestyles of the rich and the famous is that the two Madden brothers dated Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie 😂 that was the moment I couldn't take this band seriously

I remember seeing Benji say, and I quote, "we weren't good enough to play other people's songs, so we wrote our own" Oh how little I knew

What's with the bass (or lack thereof) on these pop punk records? I feel like bassists are pretty much the secret weapon of good punk bands.

You know what else this album outsold?THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES!!!!!!!BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES THE!!!!!!!OF LOS ANGELES THE BATTLE!!!!!!!LOS ANGELES THE BATTLE OF!!!!!!!ANGELES THE BATTLE OF LOS!!!!!!!THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES!!!!!!!

My high school English teacher missed her prom back in the day to attend a Good Charlotte concert. Really

8:43 Yesterday, I had a Zoom class focused on celebrities, and my teacher played this song and told my classmates and I to analyse it (and by that, I mean its message, not the song itself). Fortunately, since we all consisted of adults, we all unanimously agreed that the basis on which the song was built up was misinformed, narrow-minded and just plain stupid, with some of them citing other reasons celebrities can act messed up, and me citing Weird Al Yankovic as an example that, despite the song telling you otherwise, you can be a celebrity AND still not be a stuck-up, arrogant, vain, out-of-touch jerk.

Your anger, honesty, and passion about Song #11 made me love you and this channel even more. I was suicidal when I was a teen back in '94, and was until around '96. Thank God I was older and wiser by the time these bozos came along! KUDOS to you for standing up for kids who think it's the only option. THANK YOU!!!

Good lord, "The Day That I Die." I never had this album and at least had a bit of respect for Good Charlotte back in the day for writing "Hold On," but knowing that both the band and execs were tone-deaf enough to have both of those songs in the band's repertoire, much less the same album...these guys just might be worse than Nickelback.

I love how you went all CoverKillerNation at the end with that rant.

My favourite good Charlotte memory. At reading Festival people were throwing the odd bottle of piss at them. They stopped playing and said " we like Metallica! If you like Metallica you won't throw anything at us." There was a 30 second pause in the crowd whilst they played a clip from sad but true. Then the sky filled with bottles of piss going stageward. They ran for cover and left the stage. It was hilarious.

This is why I love this channel, you’re such a good person, you understand that some bands are actually out there to help people and help people heal from whatever is hurting them. Peace and Love is what we need, not greed and money that make people sing about serious shit that would actually hurt people.

That is not the intro of a pop punk band. That's an intro you'd hear from a symphonic metal band like Sabaton or Rhapsody of Fire. EDIT: The lyrics to My Bloody Valentine sound like an attack from the Denny's Stalker.

They couldn't call it "Anthem Pt. 2"... A even better band from the same genre and time period already released a song with that title that is a million times better *Cough* Blink-182 *Cough*

I was super into pop punk as a kid like Yellowcard, Sum 41, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Paramore etc. but I do not remember these guys. I dodged a bullet I guess.

I had this album as a kid, I had just gotten into Green Day and other bands of the pop punk ilk and at the time I though this album was awesome. I had forgotten all about it uptill I saw this video in my sub box and Now I see this album is auditory garbage. In the same breath, this kind of music somehow influenced me to get into Metal, Hardcore/Metalcore, Punk, and oddly enough Prog Rock/Metal. It's not all bad if here were kids like me who heard this album and thought "Hey, I like the general sound and style of this but I want something with deeper lyrics, actual musicianship and song writing ability, and heavier. It may have been forgetable Pop "Rock" bullshit, but if it's what helped push kids to dig deeper into the genre of Rock, Punk, and Metal, it can't be all bad. Loving these Regretting the Past videos and the reviews of modern albums and your personal favorites as well.

When I saw this sold as much as Lateralus, I made my table do a quadruple somersault.

This album is my guilty pleasure. In 2003 I had a back shift cleaning job. I would bring my disc man into work every night. After getting sick of listening to my few CDs I owned , I borrowed my friends little brothers cd (this one) and I admit I got into it.

I'm seeing that rant in 2020. Still holds true.

So, Good Charlotte are the Teen Titans GO! of that time. They contain very little in regards to substance, and they do not care what they write about, as long as it panders to their demographic, and TV channels promote the ever-loving shit out of them. Lovely. -_- P.S. On a side note, you mentioned Donkey Konga 2, which does contain The Anthem, in the North American release, alongside Staind, Smash Mouth, and Trapt. (to be fair, there are really good musicians on that release too) You wanna know what the Japanese release had? The opening themes to Mazinger Z, Dekaranger, and Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. Seriously, look those songs up, and you'll be fuming on how the US got screwed over.

MTV's order of manipulation:1999:Backstreet Boys 2000:NSYNC/Limp Bizkit 2001:Limp Bizkit/ NSYNC 2002:Good Latte

Here in Australia, Good Charlotte have David Hasselhoff-in-Germany levels of popularity... Joel is the longest-serving judge on the Aussie version of The Voice, and last year Benji got dragged into it as well. Having said that, THANK YOU, Luke, for tearing this mob the new one it deserves, because in Oz, you would never be able to do that without the mainstream media coming all over you like a ton of bricks. Although you may have missed one of the biggest opportunities in this series so far... Joel and Benji are now married to Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz respectably. How you didn't mention that during track 3 is a total mystery.

There is a Good Charlotte cereal, I believe it was called Kix.

I actually really like the concept of "The Day That I Die" I think it could lead to a very interesting song. Two problems though. 1). They're marketing this album towards preteens, so not a good song to have on this specific album. If the rest of the songs were more mature and were marketed towards older teenagers and adults, I could see it working. 2). Like he said, Good Charlotte literally had a song three tracks previously about holding on and not killing yourself. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS. Other than that, if this song was done by a better pop-punk band, say Green Day or blink-182, I think it could've been pretty good.

According to Songfacts, The Story of My Old Man is based of their real experiences with their dad, who they reunited with in 2008. Madden is their mother's name, Combs is their dad's.

I fell for them when they opened for Mxpx in 2001. My infatuation began to decline when this album came out.

I feel Hold On and The Day That I Die COULD have worked in reverse. Like, if the suicide song was BEFORE the Anti-Suicide/Never Give Up song. Kinda like the character wated to commit suicide and the NEXT TRACK said dont do it, idk i feel that COULD work. (Both songs are still shit and as someone who stuirggles with suicidal thoughts ad depression, I really really hate The Day That I Die, but i feel it could work). Well..at least it might have worked a tiny tiny tiny bit better :P

So, I remember reading something in a Tiger Beat or Bop as a kid where Joel Madden talked about how their father left them as a kid and him and his brother were raised by their mother. So, yes, "The Story of My Old Man" is based on the Madden brothers' actual experience, and not a marketing ploy. And yes, Good Charlotte were frequents in the Tiger Beat and Bop magazines.

I love that intense rant at the end.

Luke you really spoke from the heart on this one. I was a depressed teen when this album came out and saw right through the shallow hypocrisy. I love your videos man and 5 years later they're still on point

Jazzed as hell to have recently found this channel. Love all the content. As a diehard Tool fan (not just an mjk fan), you've had the best takes on lateralus and 10,000 days. Love the humor and sarcasm as much as the thought and interpretation. Very impressed. Kudos sir!

23:30 OMG That Trust Company album! I still play it to this day!

I knew there was a reason I was up at 2 A.M. Sleep is for the weak. Also wow did that rant get serious.

I know my comment is 3 years late to the video. However I still love the album (product of the times for me in all bias) I never really sat down and thought about a lot of this until you broke it down. At least in later albums, they don't fight as much for the popularity and their newer albums are actually pretty decent. I have a lot of bias to Cardiology.

Dang it, now I wanna see the rest of that CD case!

THIS is what people my age were listening to when I was in middle school? Jesus tap-dancing Christ. I'm going to have to thank my mother sometime for never letting me watch MTV. ...say, Process of Belief came out at around the same time as this album didn't it? I'm 'a throw that on. Get this...junk out of my head. "It's a matter of SEX! No, not the science-picture kind!"

everyone is you watched this video and felt he held back at track 11 look it up on vimeo. he held back on the final video. when I requested this (last time I'll say this I promise) I didn't realize it would touch Luke like this. and to be honest it touched me too. I wish I would of saw this in my 20s. I didn't realize songs were literally telling me to hold on and hurt myself at the same time.

I always felt that "Lifestyles..." was Baby's First RATM, only the shit version.

15:41 So THAT'S where the tumblr meme came from... and isn't that sad that GC's biggest contribution to society is just a sad tumblr meme?

During this time period, so many of those pop punk bands had singers with this EXACT SAME VOICE as this band. You could have swapped singers between any of these bands and no one would have known that you had swapped them.

I once followed Good Charlotte on tour. My feet still hurt from all the walking.

I didn't know Simple Plan and Wes Scantlin teamed up...

I’ll say this, I don’t see the problem with an artist letting out all their pain, anger, or anguish into a suicidal song, the issue here is that these fake edgy hacks made a song about the joy of it, and directed at early teenagers.

"Mom, can we have Green Day?" "No, we have Green Day at home." Green Day at home:

Yep. The dude pretty much nailed it about these Rancid wannabes.

Holy shit. Your suicide rant was really... Wow... So much emotion. I had to take a deep breath after hearing that. Well done sir.

you forgot Josh Freese started out as the drummer of another "pop punk" band called the Vandals.

What's wrong with Donald Trump? He's almost as good as Good Charlotte. Oh wait.

It’s funny how one of the guitarists is wearing a NOFX shirt, when NOFX themselves wrote a song about how punk rock became too safe and lost all meaning around this time. Seems pretty telling of what was going on around then!

I remember hearing these guys as the opening of the show "Undergrads".... another Mtv show......

tbh I don't think they ever "sold out", you can tell they wanted to go this route from the very beginning. Their first album is pretty generic and attention seeking. I don't think it was the label that made them this way, they were going to go this route anyway.

Many years ago, when the song "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" was big, I visited my Dad at the plant where he worked (it was for a school assignment). Greenpeace climbed onto the cooling tower, so until security took care of them, we were locked in. I still remember sitting in Dad's office, and we were watching that music video on his laptop. He thought the song was funny, and it always makes me think of that day. I miss you, Dad. R.I.P. :'(

It's bands like this which is the reason why 5 Seconds of Summer get categorised as a Rock Band when they toured with One Direction before they released an album.

i do not at all know how someone can make a song like the day that i die and feel clean

lateralus does not deserve to be on the same level as Good Charlotte the young and the hopeless

23:55 - 26:40: That was the greatest rant I have ever heard on RTP and I would say the same thing to people if they did or said this to me. It’s not funny to laugh about those people who suffer and it hits me too, but I am glad someone has to rant about it. That rant about that song they are singing about, was a great rant and I don’t like that song and the lyrics are absolutely horrible and I have seen people get through stuff like that and it’s sickening since I heard that song. I couldn’t have said it better.

Fun Fact or Not So Fun Fact:The Anthem was featured on the soundtrack for Guitar Hero Live

I always thought they sounded like 'The Brady Bunch' taking a stab at punk rock.

It's bands like this, Simple Plan and Fallout Boy that killed rock. This shit is about as punk as the Back Street Boys.

I feel that the song The River was their high point. Really it's one of the few Good Charlotte songs I listen to.

When I saw that the album was Lateralus - I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

I love this band's first 4 albums. I still respect your opinion on it.

By the way, you sounded seriously upset during the rant towards the end! Ouch man :/

Honestly the rant probably just made me a permanent fan. It was needed and as someone that's been there, it's really not okay that they wrote that song. So thanks for that.

My best friends little sister use to crank this album. I remember hearing it when we'd be trying to play GTA. I told her about the psyco chick and that the album seemed like a money grab. I had been playing guitar for a couple years when this album came out. I literally learned it by ear before I even knew what learning by ear was. You pretty much called it as it is man. Mad respect!

Are you sure Bloody Valentine isn’t about the Denny’s Stalker?

Josh Freese is the Jeff Porcaro of the '00s. Don't know who that is? Hardly a single album came out of LA from like '77 to '90 without Porcaro (or his Toto bandmates) somewhere on it. And I agree Josh Freese is the best thing about this album.

You have no idea how thankful i am that you reviewed this

Hold On was probably Good Charlotte's go at cashing in on Blink 182's Adam's Song.

"p.s. anyone but Trump" p.p.s. anyone but Reigns.

Does anyone else remember when Good Charlotte first came out and gave an interview about being "pure" and how Benji and Joel had purity rings so that they could save themselves for their marriage partners?

dude, I LOVE Good Charlotte, Limp Bizkit, Simple Plan and all that shit (even some Nickelback), but I can't miss any of your videos, they're just amazing hahaha, it's so funny to see you bashing all the albums I like hahah, I don't know how people take it personal and shit. I think Young & the Hopeless is one of the best pop punk albums ever made, still I fucking loved your video hahaha it was great. Keep it up man, best channel about rock music I've seen!

I once dated a girl, and when this album came out, she went and got a huge tattoo of Good Charlotte on her back, just under her Incubus tattoo. It didn't last.

Have you ever checked out Simple Plan's self-titled album? I feel it's the best one they've got and it actually has great substance

The only time I can stand to listen to The Anthem is when it's soundtracking a washed-up baseball player stopping a lava golem attack on an amusement park.

Cannot lie, I would buy a Good Charlotte cereal.

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