New Found Glory - New Found Glory

Includes the Bonus Track "so Many Ways" and the Enhanced Video of "Hit Or Miss". Album Details

best of all time

I seriously hate you if you don't like this cd. if you don't like this cd, you don't like music. This is NFG's best CD (yes, better than Sticks and Stones, Catalyst and Coming Home, which are all good). Every song is friggon awesome. May 11, 2008

One of the best in this genre

What else needs said? NFG has been around for quite a while now,
and this is probably their best CD, great song structure and riffs,
lyrics most people can relate to. I listen to a lot of really heavy
music but I can appreciate stuff like this.
March 29, 2008

Roller coaster of high-enery pop-punk drama

Now that I have every New Found Glory album except Noting Gold Can Stay, it really is extraordinary to go back to the very beginning. It's not that these guys are any better or any worse or any more than somewhat different, but everything they've done is just plain fun to listen to. At the time this CD came out, they were still sitting contently on the throne of stardom. And because they were so well-known in the pop-punk scene, it makes sense that the albums they did during that time would be essential for anyone into the genre.

With a crunching intro, "Better Off Dead", and slick follow-up "Dressed To Kill", from the first few chords listeners know they're in for a treat. Granted, dedicated fans also know what to expect: up-tempo, energetic tunes about all those girls with whom contact and chemistry has been lost. They've more or less kept that equation the whole time they've been together--because it works.

While I haven't heard their very first CD, I have heard the original "Hit Or Miss". And you know what? The second one, found here, is better. Lead singer Jordan Pundik, with his unique high and piping voice, has grown a lot and no longer sounds like a struggling child on this track. Plus the instrumentation is less grainy. The band also sounds great as a whole on "All About Her", which I think is very underrated by fans considering its pulsing, nervous kind of appeal. Another noteworthy track is "Boy Crazy", the brattiness of which I absolutely love. As a student constantly surrounded by the preppy boy-crazy girls Pundik is singing about, this is spot-on and hilarious.

It's not perfect, mainly because of a few plain lyrics in "Vegas" and the fact that the whole thing is way too short (both the songs individually and as an album), and this isn't the greatest CD that these guys have made. Nonetheless, it's close, and it's above all a great journey through the fun and frantic spirit of a great band that you won't want to skip out on. October 2, 2007

Nfg's Best

This is probably their best album.

and to the guy a few guys below me, who claims My chem romance, and the used is good music, go get a life

my chem sucks so bad live...their horrible, he is gay...and can't sing...not a good combo. he wears makeup...thats emo to me, so yea shut up

the used "used" to be good, now their "used" up, like their new stuff like "i caught fire" sucks balls

anyway, back to nfg...this cd is great, and has some of my favorite nfg songs, like "Dressed to Kill" and "Hit or Miss"

go buy it if you like new age punk, the closest present day band to punk, besides blink, who are no longer around (besides the fact that the two bands were friends) January 30, 2006

One of the giants in pop punk

Pop-punk. It is the unfortunate voice of a generation, and viciously scorned by the old punks. For good reason I guess. Pop punk went from being just an offshoot of punk with more hooks to becoming a new outlet for the newly emerging emo generation to become a part of bands. Most of it is unfortunate. Some bands, however, embrace their music as simply pop-punk and don't hope to be anything else. One such band is New Found Glory. I do have one thing to say to you old punks, though. Your music was amazing. I am right there with you. But for young kids with no exposure to it, this kind of stuff is a great building block for better music. Just be happy pop punk bands are stealing some of the spotlight from boy bands, pop princesses, and rappers.

New Found Glory put out this followup to their debut, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and they got everything they messed up on that album right on this one. Sure, many people hate singer Jordan Pundik's high pitched nasally voice, but i got past that quickly. Right from the start this album is great

Better Off Dead and Dressed to Kill are two hook filled songs that are great to sing along to and drive in the summer with. Vague, I know, but I think we all know what kind of song I am talking to. Sincerely Me is actually the song that made me like them. It is so catchy and it drilled through my brain and stayed there for days. Hit or Miss is their big song off of this album. It is kind of famous. And for good reason. One of the better crafted pop songs on the album, it is catchy, slightly anthemic, and all around fun.

Second to Last is one of my least favorite songs on the album. It strays from what they do best, and that is something a band should never do. The next four songs are similar sounding and with the exception of the playfully vicious Sucker, quite unexceptional. Boy Crazy, however, is my favorite song on the album. A big "Screw you" to boy crazy girls, this song is often witty and well written. Good song. All About Her is a good song, but another low point to the album. The closer, Ballad for the Lost Romantics, is a slower, and emotional song that is something of a shout out to their friends and their reluctance for fame to come.

Overall, not a musically groundbreaking album, but its fun and pretty decent for a pop punk band. Recommended as THE album to get for those curious about this band. It is their best. It isn't too ear gratingly irritating as their debut, it isn't as polished as Sticks and Stones, and isn't calling for retirement as Catalyst is. Go for it! December 22, 2005

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