Renown for their assaultive sonics, Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit finds Good Riddance huddling ever closer to the melodic punk sound they've been moving towards over the few preceding years. While the arrival of new drummer Dave Wagenschutz, with his varied rhythms and adept tempo changes, helps bolster the band's confidence to pursue new musical directions, Symptoms is Good Riddance's most eclectic to date. Of course, it's still a punk album, but the group now run the full gamut of sub   [ read more ]

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?Decades after the music's inception, politically and socially conscious punk rockers are still figuring out ingenious ways to cram words like salience and sycophant into overdriven three-chord anthems. Good Riddance lead man Russ Rankin adds to this lofty tradition throughout Bound by Ties of Blood and Affection, the strident Santa Cruz punk unit's sixth full-length for Fat Wreck Chords. There's No 'I' in Team seems to be the emotional heart of the album. We foster the illusion of a democratic archetype,    [ read more ]

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?Renown for their assaultive sonics, Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit finds Good Riddance huddling ever closer to the melodic punk sound they've been moving towards over the few preceding years. While the arrival of new drummer Dave Wagenschutz, with his varied rhythms and adept tempo changes, helps bolster the band's confidence to pursue new musical directions, Symptoms is Good Riddance's most eclectic to date. Of course, it's still a punk album, but the group now run the full gamut of subgenres, from speedc   [ read more ]

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?Good Riddance certainly hasn't softened on their third album. If anything, they play harder, louder and faster -- the tunes detonate, one after another, like a volley of mortar fire. Still, the band know how to incorporate pure pop sweetness into their relentless assault without ever coming close to cheesiness; rather, the broken-heart sentiments of songs like Jeannie and Not With Him are made more poignant by their gruff delivery. There are some worn out chord progressions (the riff to Salt has been hear   [ read more ]

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?For God and Country is quite a mature and focused debut, thanks largely to the leadership of singer Russ Rankin, whose deep personal convictions give the band an intelligently idealistic variation on SoCal punk, which tended to be prankish and silly in the 1990s (when most bands were trying to copy NOFX). And, unlike many punk bands with a message, Good Riddance consistently avoid the clichT of bellowing hollow antiestablishment mantras with no real meaning or thought behind them; songs like Flies First C   [ read more ]

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?My Republic may be Good Riddance's seventh proper album to date, but instead of sounding tired and played out, it finds the band as fierce and commanding as it was at number one. With Sean Sellers back behind the drums after a seven-year absence, Good Riddance return to one of their oldest lineups -- rounded out by Russ Rankin, Chuck Platt, and Luke Pabich -- and their furious SoCal hardcore continues to be tempered by a greater sense of melody. For every breakneck, hard-hitting track like Out of Mind, To   [ read more ]

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?Operation Phoenix doesn't deviate much from Good Riddance's established pattern of stinging melodic punk and raging socially conscious lyrics, but it's a fine, well-executed take on that formula that ranks with the best of their work.? ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

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?The only real stumble on Good Riddance's live farewell album Remain in Memory comes at the beginning with audio from the concert's opening. It consists of a number of politically charged quotes from a variety of sources, but while the sound bites are significant to the show's audience, their effect is greatly diminished without visuals or other context. This could be detrimental for those who are not familiar with Good Riddance or their philosophy, but it becomes a non-issue as soon as the music starts. D   [ read more ]

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Operation Phoenix doesn't deviate much from Good Riddance's established pattern of stinging melodic punk and raging socially conscious lyrics, but it's a fine, well-executed take on that formula that ranks with the best of their work. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

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For the last five years, Good Riddance has been putting out angry, aggressive, Cali-style hardcore music on Fat Wreck Chords. This year they were seen at summer's "punk" version of Lollapalooza, the Warped Tour 2000. All things considered, I'd say they were doing pretty well for a bunch of surfers! Yet on their latest EP, recorded by the notorious Bill Stevenson (Descendents, All) at the Blasting Room, Good Riddance don't do much more than show that they are still angry, and that    [ read more ]

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Good Riddance certainly hasn't softened on their third album. If anything, they play harder, louder and faster -- the tunes detonate, one after another, like a volley of mortar fire. Still, the band know how to incorporate pure pop sweetness into their relentless assault without ever coming close to cheesiness; rather, the broken-heart sentiments of songs like "Jeannie" and "Not With Him" are made more poignant by their gruff delivery. There are some worn out chord progressions (the riff to {&"S   [ read more ]

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On Good Riddance's second album, the band have improved their songwriting chops considerably, finally bringing the music up to the level of Russ Rankin's always powerful lyrics, which often take shots at the government, conformity, and the American dream with deadly accuracy. Tracks like "Steps" and "Up & Away" (and many others) are even catchy, despite their deeply serious messages. The Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion is SoCal hardcore for the thinking punk, but the music is good   [ read more ]

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