Cheer Up

Reel Big Fish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 25, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mojo / Jive
• ASIN: B000068QVK
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Thing

2. Somebody Loved Me

3. Ban The Tube Top

4. Cheer Up

5. Where Have You Been?

6. Suckers

7. What Are Friends For

8. A Little Doubt Goes A Long Way

9. Dateless Loser

10. Valerie

11. Rock 'N' Roll is Bitchin'

12. New York, New York

13. Sayonara Senorita

14. Boss DJ

15. Brand New Hero

16. Drunk Again

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Come all ye Skankers....SELLOUT!, December 30, 2002

By 

Dan (Kelso, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cheer Up (Audio CD)

Reel Big Fish have gotten alot of slack through their carrer for being sellouts, not being punk enough, and now with their latest release, not being ska enough. Come on...get over it. Reel Big Fish have consistantly produced quality songs with awesome lyrics. This CD is a bit of a departure from their previous material, but it's a step in the right direction. Plus, this album isn't really THAT much different than their previous releases. Reel Big Fish have never been against going big. (You thought they were joking in their song "Sellout"?)

I thought it was pretty funny when one of the reviewers said something like, 'They need to stop growing and just stay true to their roots'. Listen to their other albums and then listen to this one. They've really grown, matured, and still produced an album with awesome catchy, happy songs.

This is a perfect cd for those rainy days when everything is gray. It is impossible to stay sad and depressed after listening to the first song, "Good thing". Download it and see what I mean. The harmonies are great, the horns are loud and happy, and Aarons voice is as clear and awesome as it always has been. Aarons lyrics are still as good as they've ever been. I can't really see many down sides to this album. There are a couple weaker songs near the end of the album, but even those are listenable. While New York New York isn't my favorite on the CD it's pretty amazing. They did it with drums a bass guitar and about 15 vocals. It's pretty good. Give this one a chance!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent Reel Big Fish Album, October 6, 2004

By 

Matthew K. Minerd "The Coding Catholic" (Herdon, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cheer Up (Audio CD)

I must say that Cheer Up is quite a change from Reel Big Fish's previous albums. However, this is just a permutation of the genre that is known as ska-punk. There is indeed a new character taken on in these tracks. However, to the core, with the exception of Good Thing, the lyrics are purely Reel Big Fish material.

There is absolutely no reason to be angered at Aaron and crew for "selling out". The dynamic abilities of this band are expressed in the fact that they can incorporate elements of ska into a slightly different version of ska-punk. It would appear that some people would rather have them just play Sellout, Beer, and She Has a Girlfriend Now, remaining developmentally stagnant. Instead, they should want to experience this new view of quite possibly the best ska-punk band of the 1990s/2000s.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good music comes first, type of music comes second, July 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Cheer Up (Audio CD)

Technically this new offering of Reel Big Fish is more poppy than their first to major CDs. You know what? Who cares? This is good music, Good Thing rocks, A Little Doubt is sweet (it's also the new song they added to their greatest hits album that was released only in the UK), Sayonara Senorita and Brand New Hero are great driving songs (as were Why Do They Rock So Hard and Turn the Radio Off). RBF still has horns, they still have biting lyrics, and they still kick... well, it's been what- four years since their last album? I hope they've changed in four years, I know I've changed since their last album came out. This CD just rocks, good music all around, there's not a bad song on it, listen all the way through it, it's just good, plain and simple.