Album Review: New Found Glory - 'From The Screen To Your Stereo Part II'

1 October 2007 | 6:56 pm | Staff Writer
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Some bands are hailed as visionaries.

They’re credited with changing music as we know it and every music

critic worth their salt will claim that said band will forever

be remembered. New Found Glory is not one of those bands and

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Rolling Stone will never give them a 5 star rating… and that’s just

the way NFG would want it. They’ve always been about having a good

time and writing music which is fun for themselves and their audience,

and that is why this record is so fucking good. 


“From The Screen To Your Stereo

Part II” is – funnily enough – the second time NFG have bastardized

songs from classic (or maybe not so classic depending on your taste)

films. 


Now let’s be honest. If you

didn’t like New Found Glory before this record then your opinion probably

isn’t changing anytime soon, but for the thousands of die hards out there then this will be the soundtrack

to your summer. 


“Kiss Me” is the first track

on offer, and it’s every bit as cheesy as I hoped it would be. Nasal

vocals, double time verses and pogo choruses all put in an appearance

and it sounds great, not to mention the fact that the song itself is

lifted from “She’s All That” featuring the always hot Rachel Leigh

Cook. 


The guest list for this record

reads like the honour roll at the pop punk version of Harvard. Sherri

from Eisley trades vocals with Jordan on “It Ain’t Me Babe” and

Chris Carrabba stops crying long enough to lend his pipes to “The

Promise” (Napoleon Dynamite fans will dig this one).  


Lisa Loeb sang “Stay (I Missed

You)” on the soundtrack to the cult teen film Reality Bites and I

can only assume she needs the cash because she’s on the NFG version

as well, although I must admit, she sounds pretty good! 


Remember that horrible song from

Romeo & Juliet? Yep, NFG have covered that as well but with a little

help from Taking Back Sunday’s Adam Lazzara it sounds half decent.

“Iris” is probably the only real let down on the record as it doesn’t

really deviate from the original, but all is not lost because “Don’t

You (Forget About Me)” is one of the best covers I’ve heard in a

long time. Who would’ve thought Emilio Estevez and the rest of The

Breakfast Club would be down with gang vocals! 


My favourite track on the record

goes to “Head Over Heels”. The song was fucking great to begin with

(go check out Tears For Fears kids, your parents probably own a record

or two) and I think NFG have done a great job with it. The guitars give

it a real kick and the added effects make it sound massive!


Covers albums aren’t everyone’s

cup of tea but 80’s film nuts and New Found Glory fans are going to

love this!


  1. Kiss Me
  2. It Ain’t Me Babe
  3. The Promise
  4. The King Of Wishful

    Thinking

  5. Stay (I Missed You)
  6. Love Fool
  7. Iris
  8. Don’t You (Forget

    About Me)