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Face it - most of your favorite bands are past it. If you're looking for one that isn't, it's time for The Public Good. The main songwriters have been making music together before the internet and after the iPod, and their skills are on display on this excellent debut.

If you're a fan of intelligent power pop rock & roll, this band is for you. The Jam, The Replacements, Big Star, and all your favorite bands were under-appreciated in their own time. Don't make the same mistake again!

Highlights include "2008 Girl," and "Baby, Baby, Baby." There's humor, intellect, and quality riffs, hooks and harmonies all on display in each song. Anyone who's spent the dominant part of the afternoon stuck in traffic will appreciate the angst and agitation of "at the end of the day," the record's closer. Pick one song to start - but you're going to want the whole disc.

Pete Townshend once wrote "The Good's Gone." But Pete hasn't heard The Public Good. Yet.

The Public Good has done the world a service with their earnest debut effort. The irreverence of Jarvis Cocker and the self-deprecation of Paul Westerberg, combined with smart lyrics, energetic guitar riffs and the occasional "sha-la-la" make for a unique collection of songs that each stand alone on their respective merits, but work together as a cohesive album that keeps getting better on each successive listen.

"Baby, Baby, Baby" starts it off with a misfit's lament about his marital bliss being turned on its head by the arrival of a baby boy. "No Heaven" will remind some of a nice mix of The Fray and Franz Ferdinand. The amusingly melancholy "If I Still Had Hair" takes us from frustrated guitar licks to the tender moment where the singer tells his ex that "I get up early to write and I think about you." The arc closes achingly gently with "at the end of the day" - when "everyone's at their worst". Any regular commuter will share the angst, but happily can fill those hours on the road by playing "No. 1" all over again.

Highly recommended.

These guys have put out an amazing debut. The songwriting is strong, rocking, funny, sad. And the music is accessible and catchy but doesn't sound like any other band in particular. The first song, Baby Baby Baby, has a new father narrator who sneaks off to "titty bars." The last song, At the End of the Day, has a singer sitting in traffic quietly missing his family. And in between, the gamut of real-life.
A great disc.

The Public Good has done the world a service with their earnest debut effort. The irreverence of Jarvis Cocker and the self-deprecation of Paul Westerberg, combined with smart lyrics, energetic guitar riffs and the occasional "sha-la-la" make for a unique collection of songs that each stand alone on their respective merits, but work together as a cohesive album that keeps getting better on each successive listen.

"Baby, Baby, Baby" starts it off with a misfit's lament about his marital bliss being turned on its head by the arrival of a baby boy. "No Heaven" will remind some of a nice mix of The Fray and Franz Ferdinand. The amusingly melancholy "If I Still Had Hair" takes us from frustrated guitar licks to the tender moment where the singer tells his ex that "I get up early to write and I think about you." The arc closes achingly gently with "at the end of the day" - when "everyone's at their worst". Any regular commuter will share the angst, but happily can fill those hours on the road by playing "No. 1" all over again.

Highly recommended.