“The World is Black” by Good Charlotte

"The World Is Black" turns up on The Chronicles of Life and Death, Good Charlotte's third album, which landed in 2004 after the band had spent two years on the road behind The Young and the Hopeless. Benji and Joel Madden wrote it between the two of them, as they did more than half the record, and the band takes the arranging credit.

This is Eric Valentine's show behind the glass: he produced the album at Barefoot Studios in Hollywood between March and June 2004, and on this track he engineered and mixed as well. The record leaned darker, and critics split on it, some praising the playing and the gloom while others found the lyrics shallow. The title alone tells you which side of that mood this one lives on.

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