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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Going Home | | 1:36 | | 2 | | Spokesman | | 2:32 | | 3 | | Open Your Eyes | | 2:47 | | 4 | | Decision | | 2:51 | | 5 | | Dad | | 2:59 | | 6 | | Tell Me | | 2:14 | | 7 | | Liar | | 0:19 |
See more tracks| 8 | | January | | 3:43 | | 9 | | Happy | | 2:42 | | 10 | | Woodchuck | | 0:50 | | 11 | | It's Your Life | | 2:24 | | 12 | | Spank Bank | | 1:20 | | 13 | | Youth | | 2:29 | | 14 | | Radio | | 3:24 | | 15 | | FTN | | 1:57 |
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Review
Pop-punk bands have become as inescapable as snowboarders in a Mountain Dew ad, and Goldfinger don't do much to distinguish themselves from the pack on their fourth album, Open Your Eyes. Growing pains are evident as singer John Feldman trades one set of overused devices (exuberant she-done-me-wrong songs) for another (earnest wake-up-call songs). He proselytizes about his vegan lifestyle on the title track, gets self-righteous taking on easy targets such as Ted Nugent and Jennifer Lopez in "FTN" and moans about MTV in "Spokesman" ("What… Read More happened to integrity!"). He even gets creeped out by a strip club on "Spank Bank" (take that, Blink-182!). The quartet slams out brisk, anonymous melodies, notable more for their brevity ("Liar" is all of nineteen seconds) than for their inventiveness. Feldman finally flashes a little humor on a hidden track, a homoerotic fantasy about Wayne Gretzky. But it's a little too late for surprises. GREG KOT
(RS 899/900 - July 4, 2002)
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