- Keep Me On Your Side
Infobox Album | Name = Keep Me On Your Side
Type =Album
Artist =Goodnight Nurse
Released =April 7 2008
Recorded = August, 2007 Melbourne, Australia
Producer = Lindsay Gravina cite web|url=http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/36948/keep_me_on_your_side.html |title=Keep Me On Your Side|publisher=Amplifier|accessdate=2008-04-22]
Genre =Pop punk cite web|url=http://www.jetmag.co.nz/Music/Bands/GoodnightNurse/tabid/334/Default.aspx |title="Band Interview" - Genre|publisher=Jet Mag|accessdate=2007-11-22]Alternative rock
Length =
Label = Warner (Aus & NZ)
Reviews =
*Stuff.co.nz Rating|3|5 [http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4479656a20855.html link]
Last album = "Always and Never "
(2006)
This album = "Keep Me On Your Side"
(2008)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = Keep Me On Your Side
Type = studio
single 1 = The Night
single 1 date = February 4, 2008
single 2 = I Need This
single 2 date = May 5, 2008"Keep Me On Your Side" is the second
studio album byNew Zealand pop-punk bandGoodnight Nurse , released onApril 7 ,2008 . The album was the follow up to their chart topping debut album, "Always and Never ". It peaked at #5 in New Zealand'sRIANZ chart,cite web|url=http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?key=87177&cat=a |title="Keep Me On Your Side" - Chart|publisher=Australian Charts|accessdate=2008-04-22] and #1 in theiTunes album chart. [ [http://chaos.com/product/keep_me_on_your_side_2215767_226508.html Keep Me On Your Side] Chaos.com. Retrieved on: 2008-07-31.]The album has produced two singles to date, and released a third. "The Night" was released in
Australia andNew Zealand onFebruary 4 2008 , with a music video for the song released onFebruary 24 2008 . The second single from the album was "I Need This", it released onMay 5 ,2008 . [cite web|url=http://www.accessallareas.net.au/music_news/EkEEFyFFEkWmWEeAXl.php|title=The Getaway Plan announce new dates and national supports confirmed!|accessdate=2008-06-10] The third single "Serpent Queen Pt. 2" was released on 'free-to-download' on New Zealand's iTunes, which has accelerated the album's success.Production
The album was recorded in
Melbourne, Australia around August 2007. It was produced by Lindsay Gravina, well known for his work with bands such asThe Living End ,Shihad andThirsty Merc . A total of 40 songs were originally demoed by the group, with only 12 making it into the final cut to be recorded for the album. "Keep Me On Your Side" was mastered in New York by respectedrecording engineer Ted Jensen , who is best known for his work withNorah Jones ' 2003Grammy award winning album "Come Away with Me ",Simple Plan and is also signed up to doMetallica 's upcoming 9th studio album.cite web|url=http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/36948/keep_me_on_your_side.html |title=Keep Me On Your Side|publisher=Amplifier|accessdate=2008-04-22]Reception
"Keep Me On Your Side" gained fairly positive reviews, though did not achieve the critical acclaim of its predecessor "
Always and Never ". Reviewer Chris Schulz gave the album a 3 out of 5 star rating for national news websiteStuff.co.nz . Complimenting a variety of aspects of the album, including lead single "The Night" - stating it "has a danceable stomp reminiscent of Bloc Party's Flux". He also went on to give mention to the "hard-hitting anthem" "Drift Away", saying it is sure to become a "live favourite". Compliments were also cited for the "serious" side of the album, as "Hard to Watch You Go" gained praise with its "real conviction" as "they come across like latter-day Blink 182". Schulz goes on to say the album is "let down by a couple of tracks that sound like Goodnight Nurse are fighting for inclusion on the next soundtrack for Grey's Anatomy - "Lay With Me" and "I Need This" especially." Overall they were seen as "aiming admirably high on an impressive second effort".cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4479656a20855.html |title=Keep Me On Your Side - Goodnight Nurse|publisher=Stuff.co.nz |accessdate=2008-04-22]Music News website
The Edge FM rated the new album as the "best work from Goodnight Nurse so far", saying it was "so different... from their previous album" and how it is "amazing and exciting". Also they went on to say it was full of "pretty much mind-blowing songs", with "other fantastic singles to come" after "The Night".cite web|url=http://www.theedge.co.nz/EdgeMusic/FeaturedArtists/FeatArtistGoodnightNurse/tabid/293/Default.aspx |title=Goodnight Nurse...|publisher=The Edge FM |accessdate=2008-04-22] A review also posted on the site labelled the second album from GNN as "catchy" and of a "high standard". Stating "the album opens with dark but catchy "Serpent Queen Part 2"" and that it doesn't slow down from there as "it's an album that starts awesome and finishes just as strong".cite web|url=http://www.theedge.co.nz/EdgeMusic/FeaturedArtists/FeatArtistGoodnightNurse/tabid/293/articleID/924/cat/148/Default.aspx |title=GNN - 'Keep Me On Your Side'|publisher=The Edge FM |accessdate=2008-04-22]Track listing
# "Serpent Queen Pt. 2" - 2:53
# "The Night" - 3:06
# "Details" - 2:59
# "Hard to Watch You Go" - 3:40
# "Lay With Me" - 3:03
# "I Need This" - 3:33
# "Jesse" - 3:23
# "Drift Away" - 2:59
# "This is it" - 3:13
# "Drown" - 3:06
# "Say Your Goodbyes" - 2:56
# "Take it All" - 2:53
# "Take Me Away" - 3:26 (iTunes bonus track)Charts
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