New Found Glory - From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II (2007)

Another covers album! Yay!

The album features quite a few guest vocalists to help spread the fun, such as (but not limited to) the vocalists from Dashboard Confessional, Eisley, and Taking Back Sunday (whose vocalist I thought sounded like The Cure's Robert Smith with a bit of a cold) but perhaps the best feature on the entire album comes from Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump in "King of Wishful Thinking", where he and Jordan Pundik manage to harmonize and compliment each other quite well, with Jordan Pundik's vocal style being blunt and perfect (for the genre) as usual, and Patrick Stump's vocals being overdramatic and jazzy as usual. It sounds off on paper, but it's executed really well! You know what else was executed well? Well, not WHAT, but WHO: JOHNY WAYNE GACY! MOTHERFUCK THAT BASTARD!! But on the subject of songs on the album being executed well, their covers of "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer and "The Promise" by When in Rome may as well be the best covers on the whole damn album! Just as, if not even better than the originals, no matter how sacrelige that may be to say.

Another cool thing about the album is that I learned just how musically ignorant I am: I knew so many of the songs on this album, but not by name! "Iris" by the Goo-Goo Dolls? No fucking idea until this album confirmed it for me. "Stay (I Miss You)" by Lisa Loeb? Of course, but not by name! I guess that should either be an example of how under a rock I am, or perhaps a sign that maybe RADIO STATIONS SHOULD OCCASIONALLY FUCKING TELL YOU WHAT SONG IS PLAYING! Okay, maybe that's a bit too aggressive because I can't always pull up Shazam in time, but you know what? If you're a radio station (not that you WORK at a radio station, but you ARE an actual radio station) then FUCK YOU and how can you read? You're a building! Anyhow, overall, there's a few good covers on this album, but a fair bit of them don't do that much for me. I guess it falls victim to the same problem that first volume of this album series suffered: Sometimes you really can't dress up an "eh" song, no matter who's performing it. Definitely still an easy listen and not at all a hard album to get through, though! But WHEN are they going to cover The Dillinger Escape Plan?! Ah well, Jordan Pundik's still a cutie pie.

7/10
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