Album Review
Goodbye Jersey - Entertain Me!Goodbye Jersey – Entertain Me!

Punk rockers Goodbye Jersey certainly have Entertained Me; their debut album is a great delight for the old ears with their sound that is like a combination of Blink 182 crossed with The Offspring sprinkled over with ka elements. The best part about half of their songs is that they’re quite short so they don’t have change to get stale or repetitive. Also this genre is completely dominated with American bands and these guys are bloody German! You would never think these guys were from Germany listening to their music.

It is a bit bad how the singers are almost exactly the same as Blink 182’s to be honest because it’s extremely similar; however their stuffs a bit heavier to be fair and the fact they’ve got the ska infusion gives them a little bit of individuality. They seem to alternate on the album, they’ve structured the track list to go punk song followed by a ska song followed by a punk song and so forth throughout the entire album.

The songs are extremely well structured; it’s a very different approach to punk rock, especially with bands like New Found Glory, Greenday and A Day to Remember about these days. The only thing keeping me from giving them a top review is that vocal problem, its just not original and it keeps popping up in my mind whilst I’m listening to it.

The best songs, well the ones in my opinion and that I’d recommend are “Angels and Western Waves”, “Minutes Like Bombs”, “The Living Dead” and the only German song from the album “Zombie Shuffle”. All 4 of these songs would give you a sense of exactly how well structured and different each of their songs are which is impressive seeing as a lot of punk rock gets stale these days.

4/5

Review by James Webb
 Band Members
Die Vorboten - Band
Kay
Billy
Rob
Ulf
Pedi
 Track Listing
1. Angels & Western Waves
2. Minutes like Bombs
3. Mike
4. 14 Years
5. Backbite
6. Why Desperate?
7. Doin’ Fine
8. Cassandra
9. Here We Go
10. Go On
11. Kill Your TV
12. Zombie Shuffle
13. The Living Dead
14. Radio Sux
15. Wasteland
 Band Related Links
Goodbye Jersey Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?