Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up

This Southern California band certainly has reason to be in good spirits lately. Its fidgety brand of ska-punk went kaput a few years ago, and while they watched several of their contemporaries rinse away, the members of Reel Big Fish inexplicably now find themselves on the same label as platinum pop stars Britney Spears and 'N Sync. Good for them. Cheer Up! is the kind of feisty, kinetic album that people stopped making years ago--"Ban the Tubetop" is pure Oingo Boingo frivolity, "What Are Friends For" revisits the tubular splendor of Fishbone, while "Good Thing" wouldn't sound entirely out of place on a vintage Elvis Costello disc. Not quite as knowingly hip as Sum 41, and clearly not as commercially savvy as No Doubt, Reel Big Fish occupy a precarious position, and they know it. The intro to "Where Have You Been?," the closest thing they have going to a Blink-182 song, features an answering-machine message left by a disgruntled record company employee begging for just one "modern rock" single. As if. --Aidin Vaziri Amazon.com

Cheer Up is amazing!

This is by far my favorite RBF album. it has a little bit of everything, and the Sublime cover of Boss DJ... so much better then jack johnsons version in my opinion. :) June 19, 2007

This is RBF's absolute best.

Buy it if you are a true RBF fan. The lyrics gripe about everyday problems with a optimistic sarcasm clung on to it. It does a great job blending fast and slow with hard and soft and has a variety of different songs. This is where most of their hits are at. Dig at it! January 5, 2007

GrEat! : )

Well i think im in love :P....i love his voice oh yeah its good music too May 16, 2006

Great! (for people who don't like RBF)

This is a great album for those of you that find rhyming strings of words like "dreaming", "breathing", "feeling" and "appealing" fun to listen to.
I absolutely love their older stuff, but am completely embarrased listening to Cheer Up. I cannot imagine how the same band that was able to come up with such fantastic, fun lyrics in their older material could not string together a decent song. Who really wants to listen to New York, New York? I kept waiting for the joke. There's got to be a gag.
Well the joke was paying good money for this album.
If you like clean, pop music, and are thrilled at Dr Suess level rhyming, this album is for you. I will be waiting for these guys to "grow" back into something that I can listen to... March 1, 2006

AMAZING

this is my first album i bought from RBF and i must say that it literally kicks ass. i can listen to this damn thing front to back, track to track. even songs like "New york, new york" are tolerable. the horns are awesome, the guitar rifts are bad-ass, and the lyrics are catchy! git it, the album is amazing!! January 21, 2006

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