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Good Charlotte (album)

Good Charlotte is the debut studio album by American rock band Good Charlotte, released on September 26, 2000, through Epic and Daylight Records. Despite receiving favorable reviews, the album undersold expectations, charting at number 185 on the Billboard 200. The album's first single, "Little Things" reached the top 30 on the Mainstream Top 40 and the Alternative Songs charts.

Good Charlotte
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 26, 2000
RecordedMay – June 2000
Studio
GenrePop-punk
Length45:12
Label
ProducerDon Gilmore
Good Charlotte chronology
GC EP
(2000)
Good Charlotte
(2000)
The Young and the Hopeless
(2002)
Singles from Good Charlotte
  1. "Little Things"
    Released: March 1, 2001
  2. "The Motivation Proclamation"
    Released: August 6, 2001
  3. "Festival Song"
    Released: 2002

The band formed in 1996 with twin brothers Joel on vocals and Benji Madden on guitar, along with Billy Martin on guitar, Paul Thomas on bass and Aaron Escolopio on drums. A demo of "Little Things" received airplay from two radio stations and by early 2000, Good Charlotte had signed to Epic Records. Recording sessions with producer Don Gilmore for the debut album took place in four studios in California and New York.

A music video for "Little Things" started getting airplay in November 2000. In March 2001, "Little Things" was released as a single, which was followed by a music video for "The Motivation Proclamation". Between March and May 2001, the group went on tour with MxPx and appeared at HFStival, where a music video for "Festival Song" was filmed. After this, Escolopio left the group and was replaced by Nate Foutz of Vroom. Foutz remained with the group for six weeks before Dusty Bill replaced him. The group participated in Warped Tour between June and August. Also in August, "The Motivation Proclamation" was released as a single and was followed by "Festival Song" in 2002. The album was subsequently certified silver in the UK and gold in the US.

Background edit

The band Good Charlotte was formed in Waldorf, Maryland, in 1995, after identical twin brothers Joel (vocals) and Benji Madden (guitar) had seen a Beastie Boys show.[1] Following the brothers' graduation in 1997, instead of going to college they worked full-time on the band.[2] The Madden brothers focused on getting the band signed, reading books and magazines that would aid them to achieve this goal.[3] They made promotional packages and sent them to record labels.[2] Joel Madden learned that the girl he took to homecoming was a sister of bassist Paul Thomas. Thomas met the brothers and was unimpressed with their performance skills.[4] Soon afterwards, the brothers recruited their fellow high-school pupil Aaron Escolopio as a drummer[1] and began playing clubs in the D.C. metro area.[4] The Madden brothers moved to Annapolis, Maryland, and performed acoustic shows.[5]

Guitarist Billy Martin went to one of these shows at the insistence of Jimi HaHa of Jimmie's Chicken Shack.[3] Martin became friends with the Madden brothers and let them move in with him after they were evicted from their apartment.[5] Martin joined Good Charlotte after the trio learned they had a shared interest in the Australian rock band Silverchair[6] and the break up of Martin's band Overflow. They wrote new songs, and recorded and performed demos.[7] The band began building a following by performing at HFStival in 1998,[1] and support slots for Blink-182, Lit and Bad Religion.[8] In 1999, Good Charlotte opened for Save Ferris in Philadelphia. After the performance, they left a demo of "Little Things" that soon got airplay on local radio station Y100.[3] Benji Madden was certain of the song's potential hit status with its high-school theme and the reality of its lyrics.[2]

A Sony Music employee passed the band's demo to regional promotion manager Mike Martinovich, who was impressed by the group's writing ability and the autobiographical nature of the songs.[2] He contacted talent manager Steve Feinberg, who flew to Annapolis to watch the group perform and later began working with them.[7] Around the same time, WHFS also began playing the demo.[2] As the track became a hit in the area, record labels began showing interest in Good Charlotte.[3] By the end of 1999, the band went on an east-coast tour with Lit. Representatives from several major labels attended the New York City show of the tour.[9] Starting in 2000, the band became a full-time touring act, performing support slots for Lit, Goldfinger, Sum 41 and Mest.[10] Following a showcase in New York City, the band met with people in the music industry.[3][11] Within a week, everyone that saw the performance wanted to sign them.[12] David Massey, executive vice president of A&R at Epic Records, signed the band to the label in May 2000.[13]

Recording and composition edit

Good Charlotte was recorded mainly at Encore Studios in Los Angeles, California, and was produced by Don Gilmore who also acted as engineer and was assisted by Mauricio Iragorri and engineer Bob Jackson. Additional engineering was done by John Ewing Jr.[14] The band wanted to work with Gilmore as they liked his work on Eve 6's self-titled album (1998).[15] Drums and bass were recorded at NRG Studios in Los Angeles with assistance from Matt Griffen[14] in May 2000.[16] Guitar and vocals were recorded in June with assistance from Paul Oliveira at Battery Studios in New York City.[14][16] Martin, Thomas and Escolopio sang additional vocals on "Little Things" while HaHa contributed additional vocals on "The Motivation Proclamation".[14] Vocals were recorded with assistance from Pete Novack at Larrabee West, Los Angeles. Gilmore mixed most of the songs except "Little Things", "Change" and "Seasons" at Encore Studios. He mixed "Little Things" at Battery Studios. "Change", "Seasons" and "Thank You Mom" were mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at South Beach Studios in Miami, Florida. Vlado Meller mastered all of the tracks except for "Little Things" at Sony Music Studios in New York City. "Little Things" was mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City.[14]

Musically, the album has been described as pop punk,[17][18] drawing comparisons to Green Day, Smash Mouth,[19] Eve 6 and Lit.[20] All of the songs on Good Charlotte were written by the Madden brothers. Josh Ian wrote additional lyrics for "Seasons" and "Let Me Go".[14] Throughout the release are references to religion and God, who the group go as far to give acknowledgement to in the album's booklet.[19] "Little Things" makes reference to the Madden brothers' upbringing with their parents. One of the lines mentions their father abandoning them, which made Joel Madden uncomfortable. Benji Madden reasoned it worked within the context of the song. "Waldorfworldwide" is about the brothers' ambition and frustration; according to Joel Madden it was written when they had no money.[2] According to Martin, "The Motivation Proclamation" talks about "breaking out of a cycle if you're depressed on something ... getting over it and going on".[21] Joel Madden wrote "Festival Song", which is about attending HFStival, a festival he grew up with.[22] The album's hidden track "Thank You Mom" is a tribute to the brothers' mother, who raised them after their father left, reminiscing on childhood memories.[23]

Release edit

Good Charlotte was released on September 26, 2000,[24] through Epic and Daylight Records.[14] The Japanese edition included "The Click", a cover of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "If You Leave" and a live, acoustic version of "The Motivation Proclamation" as bonus tracks.[25] Sales of the album did not meet the label's expectations and the group were nearly dropped from Epic.[26] In October and November 2000, the group embarked on a US tour with Fenix TX,[27] and another with MxPx that lasted until the end of the year.[28] Also in November 2000, a music video for "Little Things" began receiving airplay on MTV.[2] The video was filmed in Canada and was directed by Nigel Dick[29] It depicts the band as troublemakers in high school; Joel Madden breaks into the principal's office and talks into a microphone[30] addressing "Waldorf High School".[2] The principal finds out and is angry with the band. He follows the microphone cable into the gym to find out who is causing trouble. The group are shown walking down a halfway and performing on a golf cart. Singer Mandy Moore, who appears as Madden's girlfriend in the video, is then seen.[31] The clip ends with an impromptu concert in the gym.[32]

In December, Good Charlotte appeared at HFSmas, the winter edition of HFStival.[33] On March 1, 2001, "Little Things" was released as a single in Australia.[34] The CD version includes "The Click" and "Thank You Mom" as extra tracks.[35] Despite the lack of success of "Little Things", Epic allowed the band to make a video for "The Motivation Proclamation".[36] The video was directed by Marc Webb;[29] it depicts the band members lying on the ground, waking up one-by-one and beginning to playing together. Scenes from Undergrads are shown being played on a television.[37] Between March and May 2001, the group supported MxPx on their headlining US tour.[38] In April, the video for "The Motivation Proclamation" received airplay on video outlets.[8] While on the MxPx tour, Good Charlotte was consistently selling 3,000 copies per week. As a result, the group wanted to make a live music video.[39] At the end of May, the group performed at HFStival. During their set, a music video for "Festival Song" was filmed;[22] it was directed by Webb.[29] The video is a mini-documentary about the day.[40] Members of Mest, New Found Glory and Linkin Park appear in the video.[41]

Sometime afterwards, Escolopio left the group to join his brother's band Wakefield.[42] He was replaced by Nate Foutz of Vroom, who left the group after six weeks because Vroom signed a major label deal.[43] Two days before the band went on tour,[44] Dusty Bill was hired to play drums.[42] The band gave him a copy of Good Charlotte and the following day, began practicing with him.[44] Between June and August 2001, Good Charlotte appeared on the Warped Tour.[45] Between tour performances, the group performed at Y100 FEZtival.[46]

On August 6, 2001, "The Motivation Proclamation" was released as a single.[47] Following this, the band supported Blink-182 on their US tour before embarking on a tour of Australia in October.[48] The group closed the year with a US headlining tour called the Uniting the States Tour, with support from Mest, the Movielife, and Midtown.[49][50] In 2002, "Festival Song" was released as a single.[51] In September 2004, the album was reissued as a two-CD package with The Young and the Hopeless (2002).[52] It was reissued again in January 2010 in a box set alongside The Young and the Hopeless, The Chronicles of Life and Death (2004) and Good Morning Revival (2007).[53]

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [19]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[54]
Melodic      [18]

Critical reception edit

AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann said, "The beats come fast and furious, the simple guitar chords noisily fill the middle range, and the vocals are sung with snotty belligerence".[19] He also said the lyrics touch upon "standard-issue stuff" with the only oddity being "an occasionally expressed religious interest".[19] Chart Attack wrote that the group sounds "so much like a cross between Eve 6 and Lit that it's frightening".[20] The website said Good Charlotte is "energized with angsty teenage punk, and though the lyrics are cynical, the music is peppy and autobiographical".[20] David Hiltbrand of Entertainment Weekly said "crosscurrents of anger and optimism" appear throughout the album,[54] and that the band has an "astringent punk style" combined with "crafty pop underpinnings".[54]

Melodic writer Johan Wippsson praised Gilmore's "very nice" production and called the record a "very nice punk-pop album with no really bad song".[18] His only complaint was the lyrics, which he found to be a "little bit to [sic] teenaged" at times.[18] Steve Schwadron of Ink 19 wrote that the lyrics seemed "very simplistic, and the music isn’t much more complicated", and apart from being "good party music", he does not "get much out of Good Charlotte".[55] The Morning Call reviewer Joe Warminsky said the group "spares nothing in its effort" to join its contemporaries "of lame pop-rock bands that populate non-hip-hop radio".[56] He said the album "wears thin quickly" and that most of the songs are "just plain shameless".[56]

Commercial performance and legacy edit

Good Charlotte charted at number one on the Catalog Albums chart,[57] number 13 on the Heatseekers Albums chart[58] and number 185 on the Billboard 200.[59] It also reached number 12 in New Zealand[60] and number 194 in the UK.[61] It was later certified silver in the UK[62] and gold in the US.[63] "Little Things" charted in the US at number 23 on both the Mainstream Top 40[64] and Alternative Songs charts.[65] The album charted in Australia at number 61.[66] "The Motivation Proclamation" charted in Australia at number 67.[67]

Two tracks were remixed for inclusion on the band's Greatest Remixes (2008) compilation: "Waldorfworldwide" (retitled "Los Angeles World Wide"; by JNR SNCHZ) and "Little Things" (by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy).[68] "Little Things", "The Motivation Proclamation" and "Festival Song" were included on the band's Greatest Hits (2010) compilation.[69] Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 46 on their list of the 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums.[70] In 2016, Benji Madden said of the album; "We were young and excited kids who were full of dreams and still trying to figure out our musical identity".[71] Later that year, Joel Madden said; "[W]e didn’t over-think the pre-chorus, we didn’t think how we could make the bridge bigger, we wrote the songs until they were done. It’s more raw; the hope, the vibe and the spirit of that hopefulness has returned to the music."[72] Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive has expressed admiration for the album.[73]

Track listing edit

All songs written by Benji and Joel Madden. Additional lyrics on "Let Me Go" and "Seasons" by Josh Ian.[14]

No.TitleLength
1."Little Things"3:23
2."Waldorfworldwide"3:21
3."The Motivation Proclamation"3:36
4."East Coast Anthem"2:27
5."Festival Song"3:00
6."Complicated"2:49
7."Seasons"3:15
8."I Don't Wanna Stop"2:41
9."I Heard You"2:43
10."Walk By"2:42
11."Let Me Go"3:01
12."Screamer"3:36
13."Change" (includes hidden track "Thank You Mom")8:38
Total length:45:12
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."The Click"3:33
15."If You Leave" (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark cover)2:45
16."The Motivation Proclamation" (live acoustic version)3:42
Total length:51:39

Personnel edit

Personnel per booklet.[14]

Charts and certifications edit

References edit

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External links edit

  • Good Charlotte on Spotify (streamed copy where licensed)
  • Retrospective at Louder

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Good Charlotte is the debut studio album by American rock band Good Charlotte released on September 26 2000 through Epic and Daylight Records Despite receiving favorable reviews the album undersold expectations charting at number 185 on the Billboard 200 The album s first single Little Things reached the top 30 on the Mainstream Top 40 and the Alternative Songs charts Good CharlotteStudio album by Good CharlotteReleasedSeptember 26 2000RecordedMay June 2000StudioEncore NRG amp Larrabee West Studios Los Angeles California Battery Studios New York City New York GenrePop punkLength45 12LabelEpic DaylightProducerDon GilmoreGood Charlotte chronologyGC EP 2000 Good Charlotte 2000 The Young and the Hopeless 2002 Singles from Good Charlotte Little Things Released March 1 2001 The Motivation Proclamation Released August 6 2001 Festival Song Released 2002 The band formed in 1996 with twin brothers Joel on vocals and Benji Madden on guitar along with Billy Martin on guitar Paul Thomas on bass and Aaron Escolopio on drums A demo of Little Things received airplay from two radio stations and by early 2000 Good Charlotte had signed to Epic Records Recording sessions with producer Don Gilmore for the debut album took place in four studios in California and New York A music video for Little Things started getting airplay in November 2000 In March 2001 Little Things was released as a single which was followed by a music video for The Motivation Proclamation Between March and May 2001 the group went on tour with MxPx and appeared at HFStival where a music video for Festival Song was filmed After this Escolopio left the group and was replaced by Nate Foutz of Vroom Foutz remained with the group for six weeks before Dusty Bill replaced him The group participated in Warped Tour between June and August Also in August The Motivation Proclamation was released as a single and was followed by Festival Song in 2002 The album was subsequently certified silver in the UK and gold in the US Contents 1 Background 2 Recording and composition 3 Release 4 Reception 4 1 Critical reception 4 2 Commercial performance and legacy 5 Track listing 6 Personnel 7 Charts and certifications 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 7 3 Certifications 8 References 9 External linksBackground editMain article Good Charlotte Good Charlotte 2000 2001 The band Good Charlotte was formed in Waldorf Maryland in 1995 after identical twin brothers Joel vocals and Benji Madden guitar had seen a Beastie Boys show 1 Following the brothers graduation in 1997 instead of going to college they worked full time on the band 2 The Madden brothers focused on getting the band signed reading books and magazines that would aid them to achieve this goal 3 They made promotional packages and sent them to record labels 2 Joel Madden learned that the girl he took to homecoming was a sister of bassist Paul Thomas Thomas met the brothers and was unimpressed with their performance skills 4 Soon afterwards the brothers recruited their fellow high school pupil Aaron Escolopio as a drummer 1 and began playing clubs in the D C metro area 4 The Madden brothers moved to Annapolis Maryland and performed acoustic shows 5 Guitarist Billy Martin went to one of these shows at the insistence of Jimi HaHa of Jimmie s Chicken Shack 3 Martin became friends with the Madden brothers and let them move in with him after they were evicted from their apartment 5 Martin joined Good Charlotte after the trio learned they had a shared interest in the Australian rock band Silverchair 6 and the break up of Martin s band Overflow They wrote new songs and recorded and performed demos 7 The band began building a following by performing at HFStival in 1998 1 and support slots for Blink 182 Lit and Bad Religion 8 In 1999 Good Charlotte opened for Save Ferris in Philadelphia After the performance they left a demo of Little Things that soon got airplay on local radio station Y100 3 Benji Madden was certain of the song s potential hit status with its high school theme and the reality of its lyrics 2 A Sony Music employee passed the band s demo to regional promotion manager Mike Martinovich who was impressed by the group s writing ability and the autobiographical nature of the songs 2 He contacted talent manager Steve Feinberg who flew to Annapolis to watch the group perform and later began working with them 7 Around the same time WHFS also began playing the demo 2 As the track became a hit in the area record labels began showing interest in Good Charlotte 3 By the end of 1999 the band went on an east coast tour with Lit Representatives from several major labels attended the New York City show of the tour 9 Starting in 2000 the band became a full time touring act performing support slots for Lit Goldfinger Sum 41 and Mest 10 Following a showcase in New York City the band met with people in the music industry 3 11 Within a week everyone that saw the performance wanted to sign them 12 David Massey executive vice president of A amp R at Epic Records signed the band to the label in May 2000 13 Recording and composition editGood Charlotte was recorded mainly at Encore Studios in Los Angeles California and was produced by Don Gilmore who also acted as engineer and was assisted by Mauricio Iragorri and engineer Bob Jackson Additional engineering was done by John Ewing Jr 14 The band wanted to work with Gilmore as they liked his work on Eve 6 s self titled album 1998 15 Drums and bass were recorded at NRG Studios in Los Angeles with assistance from Matt Griffen 14 in May 2000 16 Guitar and vocals were recorded in June with assistance from Paul Oliveira at Battery Studios in New York City 14 16 Martin Thomas and Escolopio sang additional vocals on Little Things while HaHa contributed additional vocals on The Motivation Proclamation 14 Vocals were recorded with assistance from Pete Novack at Larrabee West Los Angeles Gilmore mixed most of the songs except Little Things Change and Seasons at Encore Studios He mixed Little Things at Battery Studios Change Seasons and Thank You Mom were mixed by Tom Lord Alge at South Beach Studios in Miami Florida Vlado Meller mastered all of the tracks except for Little Things at Sony Music Studios in New York City Little Things was mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City 14 Musically the album has been described as pop punk 17 18 drawing comparisons to Green Day Smash Mouth 19 Eve 6 and Lit 20 All of the songs on Good Charlotte were written by the Madden brothers Josh Ian wrote additional lyrics for Seasons and Let Me Go 14 Throughout the release are references to religion and God who the group go as far to give acknowledgement to in the album s booklet 19 Little Things makes reference to the Madden brothers upbringing with their parents One of the lines mentions their father abandoning them which made Joel Madden uncomfortable Benji Madden reasoned it worked within the context of the song Waldorfworldwide is about the brothers ambition and frustration according to Joel Madden it was written when they had no money 2 According to Martin The Motivation Proclamation talks about breaking out of a cycle if you re depressed on something getting over it and going on 21 Joel Madden wrote Festival Song which is about attending HFStival a festival he grew up with 22 The album s hidden track Thank You Mom is a tribute to the brothers mother who raised them after their father left reminiscing on childhood memories 23 Release editGood Charlotte was released on September 26 2000 24 through Epic and Daylight Records 14 The Japanese edition included The Click a cover of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark s If You Leave and a live acoustic version of The Motivation Proclamation as bonus tracks 25 Sales of the album did not meet the label s expectations and the group were nearly dropped from Epic 26 In October and November 2000 the group embarked on a US tour with Fenix TX 27 and another with MxPx that lasted until the end of the year 28 Also in November 2000 a music video for Little Things began receiving airplay on MTV 2 The video was filmed in Canada and was directed by Nigel Dick 29 It depicts the band as troublemakers in high school Joel Madden breaks into the principal s office and talks into a microphone 30 addressing Waldorf High School 2 The principal finds out and is angry with the band He follows the microphone cable into the gym to find out who is causing trouble The group are shown walking down a halfway and performing on a golf cart Singer Mandy Moore who appears as Madden s girlfriend in the video is then seen 31 The clip ends with an impromptu concert in the gym 32 In December Good Charlotte appeared at HFSmas the winter edition of HFStival 33 On March 1 2001 Little Things was released as a single in Australia 34 The CD version includes The Click and Thank You Mom as extra tracks 35 Despite the lack of success of Little Things Epic allowed the band to make a video for The Motivation Proclamation 36 The video was directed by Marc Webb 29 it depicts the band members lying on the ground waking up one by one and beginning to playing together Scenes from Undergrads are shown being played on a television 37 Between March and May 2001 the group supported MxPx on their headlining US tour 38 In April the video for The Motivation Proclamation received airplay on video outlets 8 While on the MxPx tour Good Charlotte was consistently selling 3 000 copies per week As a result the group wanted to make a live music video 39 At the end of May the group performed at HFStival During their set a music video for Festival Song was filmed 22 it was directed by Webb 29 The video is a mini documentary about the day 40 Members of Mest New Found Glory and Linkin Park appear in the video 41 Sometime afterwards Escolopio left the group to join his brother s band Wakefield 42 He was replaced by Nate Foutz of Vroom who left the group after six weeks because Vroom signed a major label deal 43 Two days before the band went on tour 44 Dusty Bill was hired to play drums 42 The band gave him a copy of Good Charlotte and the following day began practicing with him 44 Between June and August 2001 Good Charlotte appeared on the Warped Tour 45 Between tour performances the group performed at Y100 FEZtival 46 On August 6 2001 The Motivation Proclamation was released as a single 47 Following this the band supported Blink 182 on their US tour before embarking on a tour of Australia in October 48 The group closed the year with a US headlining tour called the Uniting the States Tour with support from Mest the Movielife and Midtown 49 50 In 2002 Festival Song was released as a single 51 In September 2004 the album was reissued as a two CD package with The Young and the Hopeless 2002 52 It was reissued again in January 2010 in a box set alongside The Young and the Hopeless The Chronicles of Life and Death 2004 and Good Morning Revival 2007 53 Reception editProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Entertainment WeeklyA 54 Melodic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 18 Critical reception edit AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann said The beats come fast and furious the simple guitar chords noisily fill the middle range and the vocals are sung with snotty belligerence 19 He also said the lyrics touch upon standard issue stuff with the only oddity being an occasionally expressed religious interest 19 Chart Attack wrote that the group sounds so much like a cross between Eve 6 and Lit that it s frightening 20 The website said Good Charlotte is energized with angsty teenage punk and though the lyrics are cynical the music is peppy and autobiographical 20 David Hiltbrand of Entertainment Weekly said crosscurrents of anger and optimism appear throughout the album 54 and that the band has an astringent punk style combined with crafty pop underpinnings 54 Melodic writer Johan Wippsson praised Gilmore s very nice production and called the record a very nice punk pop album with no really bad song 18 His only complaint was the lyrics which he found to be a little bit to sic teenaged at times 18 Steve Schwadron of Ink 19 wrote that the lyrics seemed very simplistic and the music isn t much more complicated and apart from being good party music he does not get much out of Good Charlotte 55 The Morning Call reviewer Joe Warminsky said the group spares nothing in its effort to join its contemporaries of lame pop rock bands that populate non hip hop radio 56 He said the album wears thin quickly and that most of the songs are just plain shameless 56 Commercial performance and legacy edit Good Charlotte charted at number one on the Catalog Albums chart 57 number 13 on the Heatseekers Albums chart 58 and number 185 on the Billboard 200 59 It also reached number 12 in New Zealand 60 and number 194 in the UK 61 It was later certified silver in the UK 62 and gold in the US 63 Little Things charted in the US at number 23 on both the Mainstream Top 40 64 and Alternative Songs charts 65 The album charted in Australia at number 61 66 The Motivation Proclamation charted in Australia at number 67 67 Two tracks were remixed for inclusion on the band s Greatest Remixes 2008 compilation Waldorfworldwide retitled Los Angeles World Wide by JNR SNCHZ and Little Things by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy 68 Little Things The Motivation Proclamation and Festival Song were included on the band s Greatest Hits 2010 compilation 69 Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 46 on their list of the 50 Greatest Pop Punk Albums 70 In 2016 Benji Madden said of the album We were young and excited kids who were full of dreams and still trying to figure out our musical identity 71 Later that year Joel Madden said W e didn t over think the pre chorus we didn t think how we could make the bridge bigger we wrote the songs until they were done It s more raw the hope the vibe and the spirit of that hopefulness has returned to the music 72 Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive has expressed admiration for the album 73 Track listing editAll songs written by Benji and Joel Madden Additional lyrics on Let Me Go and Seasons by Josh Ian 14 No TitleLength1 Little Things 3 232 Waldorfworldwide 3 213 The Motivation Proclamation 3 364 East Coast Anthem 2 275 Festival Song 3 006 Complicated 2 497 Seasons 3 158 I Don t Wanna Stop 2 419 I Heard You 2 4310 Walk By 2 4211 Let Me Go 3 0112 Screamer 3 3613 Change includes hidden track Thank You Mom 8 38Total length 45 12 Japanese bonus tracksNo TitleLength14 The Click 3 3315 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark cover 2 4516 The Motivation Proclamation live acoustic version 3 42Total length 51 39Personnel editPersonnel per booklet 14 Good Charlotte Joel Madden lead vocals Benji Madden guitars backing vocals Billy Martin guitars additional vocals track 1 Paul Thomas bass guitar additional vocals track 1 Aaron Escolopio drums percussion additional vocals track 1 Additional musicians Jimi HaHa additional vocals track 3 Production Don Gilmore producer recording engineer mixing except tracks 7 and 13 Tom Lord Alge mixing tracks 7 and 13 Bob Jackson assistant engineer John Ewing Jr additional engineer Pro Tools Matt Griffen assistant Paul Oliveira assistant Pete Novack assistant Mauricio Iragorri assistant Vlado Meller mastering except track 1 Ted Jensen mastering track 1 Kid Vicious art concept Frank Harkins art direction Julian Peploe art direction Maja Blazejewska design Topper cover tattoo Rafael Fuchs photographyCharts and certifications editWeekly charts edit Chart 2000 2002 Peakposition Australian Albums ARIA 74 85 New Zealand Albums RMNZ 60 12 UK Albums OCC 61 194 US Billboard 200 59 185 US Top Catalog Albums Billboard 57 1 US Heatseekers Albums Billboard 58 13 Year end charts edit Chart 2002 Position Canadian Alternative Albums Nielsen SoundScan 75 185 Certifications edit Region Certification Certified units sales United Kingdom BPI 62 Silver 60 000 United States 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