Fat Wreck Chords
2006
My Republic
About This Album
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," "Torches and Tragedies," and the Pennywise-esque "Up to You," there's the NOFX charm of "Shame," the SoCal skatepunk chorus of "Darkest Days," or the sweet-edged love of "Boise." With George W. Bush still contentedly residing in the White House, lead ranter Rankin unsurprisingly wastes little time in spouting his frustrations, not only at the President's questionable leadership and decisions ("All the lies that you propagate/You've raped the charm from the Lone Star State"), but also the apathetic attitude of his fellow Americans ("Too many sterile homes without a thing to say/A generation losing innocence this way").
Track List (try tracks 1,2,4,5 and 6)

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