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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Records
Salesrank: 3288
Released: April 17, 2007 |
| Our Price: $5.31 |
| Used Price: $3.27 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Best Damn Thing Track Listing:
1. Girlfriend
2. I Can Do Better
3. Runaway
4. The Best Damn Thing
5. When You're Gone
6. Everything Back But You
7. Hot
8. Innocence
9. I Don't Have To Try
10. One Of Those Girls
11. Contagious
12. Keep Holding On
Editorial Review:
Limited Edition CD/DVD (NTSC/Region 0) pressing includes a bonus DVD plus five bonus audio tracks: 'Alone', 'I Will Be', 'I Can Do Better' (Acoustic Version), 'Girlfriend' (Mandarin Version) and 'Girlfriend' (Submarines Remix). The bonus DVD features four songs filmed live at the Orange Lounge ('Everything Back But You', 'Girlfriend', 'Hot' and ' When You're Gone') plus three music videos ('Girlfriend', 'When You're Gone' and 'Hot'. Sony/BMG. 2007.
Description of The Best Damn Thing:
The first clue to the sound of Avril Lavigne's third CD, The Best Damn Thing, comes in the form of her kickoff single, "Girlfriend," which is filled with singing, clapping, and cheerleader-style chanting. The song is quite a sonic contrast to her previous disc, Under My Skin, which was considered to be Lavigne's more mature follow-up to her 16 million-selling debut CD, Let Go. Like that debut, The Best Damn Thing will be largely and deeply embraced by teenage girls, and is packed with songs that will create enthusiastic sing-alongs in concert. There are a handful of numbers that will appeal to a wider audience; "Innocence" and disc closer "Keep Holding On" would both fit perfectly in a Gray's Anatomy episode, while the sultry message and solid harmonies in "Hot" will appease ears of many ages. Lavigne's husband, Sum 41 frontman Deryk Whibley makes an appearance as producer and instrumentalist on a handful of tracks; their union, however, seems to have bred more than love. "I Don't Have to Try" and "Everything Back But You" both have a frenetic pace and chorus that is so eerily Sum-like that if they weren't married, a copyright lawsuit might ensue. That aside, the record oscillates between lyrically acerbic fare ("One of Those Girls," "I Can Do Better") and fluffy sugar-pop melodies ("Contagious," "The Best Damn Thing") delivering far more spunk rock than punk rock. --Denise Sheppard
The Best Damn Thing Reviews:
This is NOT the explicit version 
2008-08-25 - Beware - Even though Amazon.com lists this CD as the EXPLICIT version, it is not!!! It is the very censored version. My first clue should have been the lack of the Parental Advisory label on the front of the CD. The UPC code matches what Amazon lists online for the EXPLICIT version. I purposely ordered the EXPLICIT version because the MP3 version is not available for download on Rhapsody or Yahoo Music. If I wanted the censored version, I would have saved myself a few dollars.
False Advertising.
this is a fun album 
2008-08-21 - this is such a fun album. most songs are perfect for the gym. people just like to label and put celebrities in a box and not let them change. this album is just different than her other albums. i see people bashing her as a fake poser,fake punk and that is so immature. you labeled her as one thing and then she evolves to a different artist and you feel like she is fake. wow people get a life!!!
Calm Down Guys, This is a Great Album 
2008-08-08 - I consider myself as someone who has a very fine taste in music. I play guitar, have played electric bass, my favorite bands are definitely not your pop collection: Sonata Arctica, Deicide, DragonForce, Rhapsody of Fire, Europe, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Kamelot.
As such, I feel this album deserves way more than 3 stars. Yes, the lyrics are cocky. Yes, this is NOT real punk. And yes, the music could have been a little more complex than a few power chords with an occasional arpeggio here and there.
But you forgot one thing: this is not Dream Theater, and nobody said it was. This music is meant for radio. You can't afford to have 7 minute songs in radio, although that would be nice. I mean, what's wrong with structured verses, or the simplicity of this music? As long as it sounds good(and it surely does), I don't have any problem with it whatsoever.
I feel here that what people have problem getting through are the obviously cocky lyrics. She thinks of herself as the most beautiful, intelligent and precious girl in the universe. I mean, so what? What the hell is wrong with being cocky? Is your self-esteem so low that a little blond girl talking she's "damn precious" annoys you?
If so, don't purchase this album. You'll want to throw it out of the window. If you, however, can release the judgment of the lyrics(which, by the way, are quite good) and enjoy the music, you definitely won't regret.
What happened!? 
2008-07-15 - Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Avril. But I heard 'Girlfriend' and I knew that something had gone terribly wrong. I loved 'Let Go' and 'Under My Skin.' It's hard to believe that these are all by the same artist. Complete trash. I hope she'll go back to her old 'style' in the next album. Her career will be a dead end if she continues to release 'music' like this. I don't know why most artists completely change their music by the third album. If you're having so much success with your style as it is, why would you change it? I want my money back.
Just wow.. such a disappointment. 
2008-06-24 - I don't know what happened to Avril over these last couple of years other than her marriage, but whatever happened turned her straight into an radio pop princess.
This album, sadly, has 11 ultimately forgettable tracks and 1 good one ("Innocence"). While I admit that the pop tracks are decent enough to be catchy and get me moving (hence 3 stars instead of less), fact of the matter is Avril is now making pretty princess egotistical pop music for the tweens and early teens out there; if it wasn't for the sheer amount of needless vulgarity in some of the tracks, this is the kind of album I'd see played on Disney Channel. Frankly, after several listens to this album, if I had a stepdaughter instead of a stepson, I wouldn't want her listening to this tripe, egotistical "I'm a princess and I get what I want because I'm a girl" music.
Every time I hear 'Girlfriend', 'The Best Damn Thing', and 'Hot' there are two things that pop into my mind: 1. "Hey Mickey, you're so fine.." and 2. I see that scene in the original 'Bring It On' where Kirsten Dunst is dancing around her bedroom listening to her soon to be boyfriend's song. That really shows Avril's new target audience. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's not what got Avril where she is. (For the record, Avril's NEVER been punk, and every time that label is applied to bands like Avril, I hear Sid Vicious turning just a little more in his grave.)
If there's any doubt that she's fully embraced the pop spectrum, just watch videos of the tour for this album. Fully choreographed dancers? Seriously?
So, thank you Avril, for making an album that will sit at the end of my case with Toni Basil and your fellow "pop-punk" friends Blink-182 where the CD will be ultimately forgotten. If this is the direction Avril intends on going, I'm glad it's sooner rather than later because now I know another artist to steer clear of.
