― The Reverend, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Roz, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Roz, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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― A B C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey is Cobra Starship any good, I liked the Snakes on a Plane song and now I find out that they are more than just a one off collaboration of emo superstars??
― A B C, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link
My The Used review went up.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
"Bert McCracken"? Seriously? That is either the best or worst name a rocker's ever had.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
i am obsessing over brand new god & the devil right now and have been for about two weeks — really hope it lasts. i saw them a week ago and their audience was 100% frat-types, and i got extremely sad.
more pop than emo, but the record from paramore thats coming out on atlantic could be my record of the summer. nothing but sugar. which i mean as a deep compliment.
like about 1/2 of the used, maybe? i love that it is a fuck-you to gerard way, and that pop music can now apparently sustain an album-length fuck-you to gerard way. i love that such a thing has been entered into the pop canon. "liar liar" has bad lyrics, but is a great song.
― smash your phonograph in half, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Fall Out Boy is the ONLY full-length I've bought so far this year, and I've yet to tire of it. I even bought the Kanye remix of "This Ain't A Scene" (Kanye steals the show on that one).
I chickened out of going to see them because it would've meant:
a) sitting through Cobra Starship & Gym Class Heroes,
&
b) quite possibly being the oldest person in the crowd, which would just bring back unpleasant memories of the Millencolin show I attended in '04. (Awesome set, but JEEZ, I felt like a "hip" high school English teacher.)
― Tantrum The Cat, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link
aren't they pretty bad live anyway, i seem to recall the couple times i caught them on snl or letterman or whatever they were like exceptionally shitty. eternal respekt for the spinny guitar move though. i could see it being a fun atmosphere/hilarious people watching though (although maybe the novelty of a crowd of 15 year old emos going nuts would only be good in theory/wear off after two songs (plus chester molester factor yeah (but maybe if the tickets were free)))
― A B C, Thursday, 31 May 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
also are there any my chemical romance bert mccracken dis tracks or is that beneath them? i'm glad to hear they had a falling out (haha any devolution of this post into that retardo gym class heroes song with all the emo namedrops is entirely unintentional) because 1) the used fucking sucks and 2) my god, lamer feud than scott storch/timbaland, a killers/bravery for a new day
― A B C, Thursday, 31 May 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link
a) From what I've seen of FOB on Youtube, they are WILDLY inconsistent live - Patrick Stump's voice can get really shakey (stagefright maybe?), and the guys insist on running around, jumping off the drum riser, etc, etc. Fun to watch, but of a bit of a dog's breakfast to listen to. When they stand relatively still and actually PLAY them damn songs, they're not half-bad.
b) I wasn't aware of any feud with the My Chems! (Also: I've really liked what I've heard of The Black Parade...)
― Tantrum The Cat, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
them damn songs
THE damn songs, etc...
― Tantrum The Cat, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
of the new fall of troy i am not so fond :(
― nervous, Thursday, 7 June 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Clothes Off!" > "Breakfast in America" >>>>>>> "Cupid's Chokehold" >>>>>>> "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", amirite?
― The Reverend, Friday, 8 June 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
You're missing one. "Friend Request" PWNs all of them.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 8 June 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I would assume that's Gym Class Heroes?
― The Reverend, Friday, 8 June 2007 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Mhmmm.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 8 June 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I need to go on an emo catchup binge. But I am listening to lots of awesome ironic rock-star rap right now, so emo will probably have to wait for the weekend.
― The Reverend, Friday, 8 June 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
when it came out (and to this day) im utterly in love with coheed & cambria's "the suffering" -- and have decided today is the day im ripping my brothers coheed collection and seeing how it all stands up. ill report back
― nervous, Friday, 8 June 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
it wasnt that great
― nervous, Saturday, 16 June 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
As much as I like "Clothes Off!", it feels like a total hedging of bets for GCH to release a second single in a row with Stumpy singing a familiar hook.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 16 June 2007 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Paramore - Misery Business
I like this. The singer sounds like she's going for the Patrick Stump cram-as-many-syllables-in-as-possible style of singing, but without Stumpsy's sense of melody, so it just kind of sounds like she's rapping a bit arrythmically. But that's fine by me. The guitars alternate between crunch and skitter. There's this nice, tense rising-guitar section after the bridge that's really satisfying. It could use more of a hook, but the guitar melody works well for that, even if the vocals don't. It may just be the emo-girl novelty (I'm surprised its taken this long!), but this is doing it for me this minute. Cute video too.
I should check if they've talked about this on teenpop.
― The Reverend, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
this band boys like girls is kinda terrible, but i'm intrigued by their name... for a while i just took it at faced value, but today it hit me that it might mean (emo) boys who look like girls. thoughts?
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
face value*
"The Great Escape" I can deal with, but it really doesn't do anything for me. Haven't heard anything else.
This is the only Paramore mention I can find in Teenpop:
First Paramore impression: This album (Riot) is really good! This year's Meg and Dia! Good singing, catchy melodies, nice guitar/drums, probably in my top 10 of the year to this point, but saying any more than that will require additional listens (haven't really paid attention to the lyrics, etc. at this point).
-- Greg Fanoe, Monday, July 2, 2007 6:30 AM (Monday, July 2, 2007 6:30 AM) Bookmark Link
Any idea who Meg & Dia are?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a bunch on Paramore from 2006. Meg & Dia's album from last year had a couple of great tracks, search "Indiana" and the single "Monster." This exchange came after a discussion of "shemo," basically meaning female confessional rock, not Flyleaf and Meg and Dia and Paramore. (Best shemo teenpop track ever is probably "Unforgiven" by Fefe Dobson.)
More female fronted emo over at clap clap, the band is Paramore. Maybe this should be called shemo, since emo has been tainted by a culture war and the girl groups do it better anyway.
-- nameom (nameom), Saturday, 29 July 2006 14:41 (11 months ago) Link
Yeah, it's the only emo I've ever liked aside from Fall Out Boy, and it's totally the female vocals doing it. And not just for ideological reasons! A male voice, even a high one, can really get lost in the murk that is emo music and so it all sounds sludgy and indistinct, but the female vocals come out so well that it makes everything a lot more poppy. Paramore could definitely be better, but I like the idea, and I really like the video. -- Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 29 July 2006 21:27 (11 months ago) Link
― dabug, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, "The Great Escape" ends up in my head a lot, and that's only off of incidental radio play. So they're probably doing something right.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
REVIVE! (for Nervous)
So, should I be checking out the Paramore album? I get a feeling I probably should be.
I keep hearing this emo cover of "Time After Time" on the radio. It's alright, but the problem with it is that if you're going to do the novelty genre cover of a well-known song, you should pick one that hasn't been used to that end before (early Lil Jon sighting alert!), and done better at that.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Here it is: Quietdrive, "Time After Time" (not the studio version, unfort.)
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i quite like the paramore album so far, ive only made it about halfway through due to constantly getting interrupted by other stuff but word from a buddy is its kind of frontloaded. still im digging it more than i thought i would have tho perhaps if id kept up with this thread i wouldnt have been so surprised.
also, does this thread extend to proggy-poppy-posthardcorey stuff? ive been listening to the first Sound of Animals Fighting (mems. circa survive, rx bandits, finch) record, digging it. tries too hard sometimes but hidden in proggy muck are some awesome pop songs
― nervous, Saturday, 22 September 2007 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
also, does this thread extend to proggy-poppy-posthardcorey stuff?
I posted about Enter Shikari upthread, so yeah. And this can extend to straight ahead pop-punk too.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 22 September 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i know you dont seem to be into them, but im quite underwhelmed by the new songs p!atd have been playing. looks like its shaping up to be an indie rock bummer of a sophomore record
― nervous, Saturday, 22 September 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm quite into them, although I've never gotten around to hearing their album. I'm mad I didn't see them when I had the chance. Sounds like they've had quite the ups and downs with the recording of the new one.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 22 September 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
thats such a totally excellent album, i cant believe you havent gotten to it! completely worth it. unfortunately ive heard they arent too great live, and i feel backed up by youtubes ive seen. apparently they threw away an entire albums worth of material before settling on the stuff theyve got going now?
― nervous, Sunday, 23 September 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Speaking of p!atd live, I saw some live footage of them on youtube, in particular the one where the lead singer gets hit in the face with a thrown bottle at Warped Tour or something. Anyway you could hear him singing 4 or 5 more words to the song after he was hit and doing nothing but bending down and clutching his face in pain. Does anyone know if the Panic! boys fake it live sometimes? Is this an inquiry I should further pursue on a fan board rather than here? Not that it really matters if they do, I'd probably dig them even more if it was true.
― DustinR, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
man it's weird that quietdrive is getting big. they've been around mpls for a awhile.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, guess it's less new than I thought it was. I suck.
― Sundar, Thursday, 5 February 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
It's pretty new AFAIK. I think it just came out last week?
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I totally don't suck!
― Sundar, Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
New Taking Back Sunday album coming out (at least acc. to AMP Magazine). It's called New Again. First single (I think), and they've got a new guitarist - Matthew Fazzi - and... it really doesn't sound anything like them :(
― Mordy, Monday, 9 March 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Blah. That'll teach me for posting a youtube link without confirming it's the right song first. It's here:
― Mordy, Monday, 9 March 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm excited for the new Taking Back Sunday, they always manage a couple of good songs per album. I'm listening to the Two Tongues again right now, growing on me with each listen. Bemis' contributions are certainly the better of the two, but I've always had a soft spot for Conley's whine - so this is a pretty good pairing to my ears.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
New Say Anything coming out (that first single is awesome IMHO), new Brand New coming out AND new Thrice coming out. It's like 2003 all over again!
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 August 2009 07:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Love the new Motion City Soundtrack. I was never really into them before, but something good happened when they signed to a major label. Much hookier.
― Mordy, Saturday, 16 January 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Btw, if no one noticed, I use this thread as a Rolling Emo Boys thread, not just for 2007.
― Mordy, Saturday, 16 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, the new Motion City Soundtrack is pretty damn good! Glad I gave it a chance. I never liked anything I've heard off the previous two albums, but I was a big fan of I Am the Movie. Still nothing as good as "The Future Freaks Me Out", but "Her Words Destroyed My Planet" does a good job trying. Not a big fan of "History Lesson" though, the Flogging Molly touch just does not work.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Just dug out Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are this week for the first time in several years. They were favorites of mine when I was getting over a breakup in 2002, and I'm really surprised at how well they've held up. Before I knew the word "emo", I just called them "whineyboy". I never really got into emo though, other than Thrice/Thursday-ish screamo stuff, which is in a different league altogether, perhaps. I might try to investigate stuff like Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack this week, just for kicks.
― ljagljana (kkvgz), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Also check out the new Gaslight Anthem + Against Me!. Good year for Warped Tour'ish bands.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
the soundguy at a recent show i went to was playing through being cool in between bands. i'm sure it was the delicate balance of nostalgia, booze, and weed, but "you vandal" was about the most perfect thing to my ears at that moment
― a rush of blood to my member (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link