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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: RCA
Salesrank: 2756
Released: April 17, 2007 |
| Our Price: $3.51 |
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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. 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:
Good album 
2009-09-12 - My favorite album because more punky than most Avril albums, although there are still a couple nice ballads. Many songs and guitar rifts definitely influenced by her husband (from Sum 41) and other songs sound like blink 182 (one song's drum beat, guitar and melody sounds just like Blink 182).
Sad but true.... Lavigne sold out. 
2009-08-06 - This won't take me long. Avril Lavigne's two previous albums had been somehow great and catchy in her own terms and somehow (I must repeat that word) I though I was listening to the next Alanis Morrissette but of course... I was wrong. I like Avril Lavigne and I think she is a talented little girl that was on her way to come up with her best album ever. "The best damn thing" carries in its name the first mistake conceived. Lavigne tries to sell the idea that this album is the best she has done and she might've said that when it was to be released but honestly this record is far from being mentioned that way or even to be remembered in a near future. The main problem that I must point out from this album is that Lavigne took "the easy road" to come up with it. As a fan i never understood how she was able to come up with a song like "Take me away" (Under my skin-2004) which I found interesting (musically speaking) or the songs "Nobody's home" (Under my skin-2008) and "Mobile" (Let go-2002) that were pretty great when now on this record we find songs like "Girlfriend" (her worst song so far... bad idea to be chosen as a first single), "The best damn thing" (kind of embarrasing lyrics) and "Everything back but you (mmmm... it seems that Lavigne wants to be Green Day here but instead she sounded like Blink-182).
I just hope that Avril Lavigne finds herself again to come up with an album that reflects her talent.
Avril Lavigne is one of the great young artists.
2009-04-24 - I like Avril Lavigne because she has her own sound and writes her own material. Her voice is distinctive, and she's not out there copying everyone else in order to go along for the ride. She's unique and original. It's nice to see young artists attempting to keep rock music alive in an era of hip-hop and rap. I have all her CD's, and will be a fan for life.
The best damn album! 
2009-04-06 - This is the way punk is supposed to be: In your face, aggressive and catchy! Garbage like the Sex Pistols and Ramones are for old farts with no taste in music. Check out this killer album if you want to get on with your rebellious side. Avril is the definition of punk! Other old people like Patti Smith were just wannabes.
She's the best damn thing
2009-03-26 - I loved the first two albums, but when I initially listened to this album, I was a little disappointed. But the more I listened, the more I liked it. It's definately a different style from her other albums, and initially it seems just plain hyper, but after you get used to it, it's refreshinly upbeat.
