New Albums: Green Day And Jonathan & Charlotte
New Albums: Green Day – Uno!
Freddie Matthews writes from London: It’s been three years in the making and Green Day are back with the first of 3 brand new studio albums. These 3 albums, Uno!, Dos! & Tre! will all be released within the next four months from the band who’ve been together for what seems to be forever. Now in their 40s, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirint and probably the man with the coolest name in the music business, Tre Cool (ok he’s 39) have been making music as Green Day since 1987.
Green Day have such a great track record. Eight albums and over 85 million record sales worldwide is very impressive by anyone’s standards. However it’s still their 3rd studio album ‘Dookie’ which leads their album sales. Sixteen million selling Dookie was the worldwide mainstream fan introduction to Green Day, mostly thanks to one of their most recognisable songs ever, released in 1994, called Basket Case. What a belting song it was.
The new Green Day album Uno! is another example of rapid rock. It’s cool, hard hitting, dirty and will appeal to all fans, from the kids just getting into the scene to long term fans who by now are probably in their late 30s if not older. It’s a welcome return to their roots. They’ve ditched the political leanings and messages, which in all honesty were complete musical bollocks, and returned to immaculate, pop rock with catchy hooks tighter than spandex trousers, guitar licks and drum fills and anthemic choruses to make you want to jump up and down like a lunatic.
If you have missed Green Day this is another must have album of 2012.
7.5/10
New Albums: Jonathan & Charlotte – Together
Britain’s Got Talent, are we sure about that? Operatic style singers Jonathan and Charlotte came second on last year’s BGT show and now, just in time for Christmas, it’s time for their debut album release.
You might remember at the first audition for the 18 year old singers, judge Simon Cowell blundered by suggesting they split up as a duo. He thought that Jonathan was a far stronger performer than his best friend Charlotte. Mr. Cowell has since apologised apparently.
Together is an album I’d give to someone I hate for Christmas, either that or to someone deaf. Like the product of so many other untalented artists, it’s an album entirely of cover versions sung in the classical style. If you would seriously like something classical for Christmas go out and buy something credible like Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti or Kiri Te Kanawa. Jonathan & Charlotte just have very basic operatic knowledge but even I know there are ‘far’ better recorded singers, with Best Of albums, available for your hard earned cash.
2/10
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Greenday must never be dissed.
Jonathan & Charlotte sounds like another excuse for a double barrel shotgun.
S.
Have you even listened to Jonathan and Charlottes album? I have and I think it’s wonderful, I’m just a nobody though so my opinion likely means nothing to you. I have however heard many comments from people in the opera community say that Jonathan and Charlotte are phenominally talented, and aside from talent are simply very sweet kids. Why would you say something so cruel about such a lovely couple of young people. They are all about what’s good in people and you seem to me to be all about what is not.
You ignorant jackass. Opinionated fool! Any dumb lump knows how great Pavarotti was, but he’s gone and thankfully his music live on. But if YOU were in fact schooled in the slightest regarding classical music and opera you’d at least recognize the remarkable talent of a 17 year old Jonathan Antoine, who will only become greater with age. The vocal quality and power at his age is damn close to any of great tenors many years his senior. And “Together” is not a Christmas album, moron. Released in time for the holidays does not make it a “holiday” CD… Your “review” only shows that you are an uninformed, mean spirited and insipid twit and I am sick of jerks like you and your vapid opinions and posts… in a time when there is sooooooo much
crap out there that dares to claim to be music, John and Charlotte are a breath of hope to this individual who HAS studied, performed and listened to all kinds of music for 50 years! We live in a cultural wasteland, new talent, true talent comes along once in a rare precious moment. Swine like you are not deserving of something like “Together”, stick with Britney or Beiber… how many sites did you have to go to before even finding the names of other established operatic singers- as I strongly suspect this is not a genre in which you are well versed. In short, keep your worthless opinions to your idiotic self!
At worse J&C may be a bit rough around the edges, but are diamonds in the rough. Lastly it is so easy to offer up useless critiques. Having worked as a professional musician and the TV and film business for 25 years, as well as being a published novelist and poet, I say to all “critics”, what is YOUR talent, what was the last think of
creative value you have created. FYI, sites like this don’t qualify! Why waste my time with some ignorant fool like you and your comments? Because I am sick and tired of
total fools and worthless opinions on people with more talent that you could ever hope to have!
The album sounds like a scratchy phonograph. Something is definitely not right here. The music seems clear but voices are terribly mixed.
Regarding Jonathan and Charlotte: whomever wrote this article could only wish to have what they have now and what’s in store for them in the future. They will surpass anything you will ever achieve. Wait and see “oh jealous one”.
You can’t even get their ages right. Charlotte was 16 for the BGT show and now both are 17.
Pretty pathetic. I suppose you think that to be a critic you must be critical of everything. Wrong. Critics are meant to sort out the good from the bad and it seems you couldn’t recognize good if you tripped over it.
Their audition has >25 million hits on just one link. How many does your pathetic blog have?
Hey look, another bully for Jonathan to deal with. How about listening to this album, this GOLD album, and learn about the emotion and power of the voice?
you sir have no clue what you are talking about.i feel sorry for people like you.both jonathan and charlotte stars will be burning bright long after you are forgotten.
I don’t even listen to opera and I Purchased it after seeing them on YouTube. It’s a breath of fresh air in a world of hate, anger and death. Why do people feel the need to hate things they don’t understand or are not use to. If you are a lover and not a fighter, you Won’t be disappointed in this album.
And to the person who wrote this article, I feel sorry for you and for anyone who ends up loving someone like you. Your heart is cold and hard.
I think Jonathan and Charlotte’s album is brilliant and a breath of fresh air in a music industry clogged up with talentless, vacuous hyped up nobodies. They are also very good people from what I have seen, and it’s the sort of album anyone of any age can enjoy. My kids love it, and if they grow up to be as nice as these two I would be very happy.
The reviewer who wrote this ‘critique’, seems not to have enjoyed the album, however a person with a hammer sees everything as a nail to be hit. This emetic attempt at a review says more about the reviewer than it does about the album-or the artists. Jonathan and Charlotte should go on to continued success, if there is any justice left in the world.
What an ignorant and churlish review of Jonathan and Charlotte. Rolando Villazon, the international tenor, having listened to Jonathan singing, described his voice as “astonishing” and said he was capabable of “performing with the best of the best”. I think I know whose assessment I consider the more authoritative. By the way, you mention Pavarotti – have you actually compared the two voices because to a dispassionate listener the similarities are remarkable?
Jonathan and Charlotte are amazing and extremely talented. I am from Texas and listen to country, pop and rock. When I saw them on BGT i thought wow they are amazing and I was hypnotized buy thier voices. I really like them and wish them the best.