Broadway Calls' second album, Good Views, Bad News, is the subject of this review. It is their second full length outing. They are a pop punk band, signed by Billie Joe Armstrong. It will be available on CD/Vinyl and digital formats with an extra bonus track on the vinyl. If this all sounds very processed and dull, then good. It’s supposed to be.Everything is a question of taste, obviously. And it doesn’t help that I come at writing this from an extremely biased viewpoint, having very little time for this particular type of music. Nevertheless, the reason I’ve opened this by trying to tell you as much as I know about the band, and not the songs themselves, is because there is very, very little to say. The fact is, I’ve listened to Good Views, Bad News only the once, and could still draw you a very accurate diagram as to what they are all about.It’s processed. It’s packaged. The drum sound, vocals, and guitar lines are straight off any recent Green Day record. Green Day, to their credit, scored success from using the three, sometimes four chord bash along formula only by maximising its potential, occasionally with something unforgettable. The music is so, so simple, that with each song it really is a case of needing to do that.So, is there a 'Basket Case' on here? No. That is literally all you need to know, because Broadway Calls have in my humble opinion abused a stereotypical formula to such a degree that leaves no room for comment.The first ten songs are all at the same BPM, alot of them start on the same chord, they have the same sort of “drums stop-singer continues-drums and guitars hammer out phrases-then carry on” breaks. And just incase you thought they’d left anything out, in come the WHHHOOOOOAAAAOOOOHHHAAAAOOOOHHHH’s. WWWHHHOOOAAAHHH. All over the bloody shop. This means the lyrics are nothing to write home about either.To put it into context, it’s the sort of thing you’d expect to hear as someone aping that genre. A piss take. It’s fair to say they are probably very tight live, and the musicianship is pretty decent, rock solid drums and chugging guitars doing a job. It’s just a job you will never, ever remember.To review an albums worth of material of this type is therefore almost pointless. They could get by by releasing some of these cuts as cheery singles. 'Wake Up Call' would, for example, be okay in isolation. The only song that displays any real change or disparity is 'At The End', which by default makes it one of the more effective items on display. In a nutshell ”“ being shorty, snappy, punky, nothing wrong with that at all. Learning from and trading off genres is absolutely fine and natural as well. But copying it by every single letter, number and apostrophe? Not today, thankyou. 29%Broadway Calls on Myspace