paramore: paramore

Last Hope is a jam.

" if they can't get down/we don't need them around

Don't really get why the "Interlude" songs had to be labeled add such or why someone would think they were tacky or "youtube star". There have been plenty of albums that feature more raw, unrefined, or solo performances alongside the stuff thats been more worked up. It reminds me of Robbin' the Hood or something, although a very different album in allother respects.

― how's life, Friday, April 12, 2013 6:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, they're short 'solo' sounding tracks amid an album where every other track is a big lavish production of a full length song, and also seem to be kind of thematically linked, so it makes sense that they were labeled that way.

Yeah, I guess. I was expecting some like, bullshit skits or something.

bitties in the warped tour lounge

lol

OK, just finished this. On my ride in this morning, I got all wrapped up in the interludes, so when the buys dropped me off, I was listening to the beginning of Future, which reminded me a little ofv the mountain goats in terms of melody and phrasing. And I thought that was a great way to end the album, especially as I stepped or into the light spring rain down here in DC. But uh, I just picked up where I left off and what an ace fuckin coda! That threw me off a little. Have they ever taken it in that direction on any of their earlier releases? I was really only familiar with a few if their singles before this.

When the BUS dropped me off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaN_TPceHAU

"All I Wanted" was a pretty massive way to end Brand New Eyes if I recall.

Absolutely. When the band split I was geeky enough to look at the credits and see which tracks departed Farro was NOT involved in writing, hoping they'd keep up the quality after the bros left, and All I Wanted was one of them (Hayley+York).

evidence suggests york is the big failure fan among them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auKzbyefy0c

should credit this revelation to my friend swifty

I'm not a fan of Paramore, however...

DAT ASS!

cool insight

hahaha

um, what else does it say on that "parawhore" sign at the beginning?

'once a parawhore there's nothing more'

'Now' shines live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHfM-rR5iNw

god, the iphones in that first kimmel video

I'm not a fan of Paramore, however...

DAT ASS!

― Slash N Burn, Friday, April 12, 2013 6:06 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smh

Failure sighting, good work there by your friend. great album.

Can we talk more about how ridiculously huge the one two punch of "Grow Up" and "Daydreaming" is.

very cool record

love how the inner sleeve font used for their name looks like it might've been used in "90210."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/arts/music/hayley-williams-of-paramore-on-her-new-album.html?ref=music&_r=0

What do you listen to for inspiration?

I usually like a lot of older music. If I’m listening to a new hit band, it’s because of Taylor. I’m not really a Pitchfork [the music Web site] sort of gal. I was listening to the Shirelles and the Angels, who are my favorites, and even Blondie and the Ramones and that period of punk rock. They were writing pop songs, but they were played by punk bands. Every day in the car it was like, why can’t I play “Heart of Glass”? We finally wrote a song called “Daydreaming,” which is a total rip of “Dreaming” by Blondie, because I couldn’t think of a better title.

ken andrews of failure mixed the record. he's done an excellent job but it's also cool considering york's enthusiasm for the band. justin meldal-johnsen produced this record and is also in andrews' "digital noise academy" project.

#1 album in the UK this week.

Anyone else mishearing "sinking ship" as"chickenshit"?

Also "self-righteous prawns in a losing game."

Easy to overlook how perfectly executed is the fusion of standard "Decode" emototechnics with The Cure's "A Forest" on "Part II".

so nobody's complained about the post-rock bit at the end of 'future' that finishes the album; i agree. good ending!

This album has already become to 2013 what Red was to last year for me. Nothing makes me happier.

and emotechnics

Easy to overlook how perfectly executed is the fusion of standard "Decode" emototechnics with The Cure's "A Forest" on "Part II".

this is the best thing

Something that strikes me as very notable about both "Still Into You" and "Proof" is how they express uncomplicated joy in a relationship from a position of strength and independence (literally in the case of "Proof": "baby, if I'm half the man I say I am...") without coming across as hamfisted in the process.

In the first verse of "I'm Not One Of Those Crazy Girls", the way Hayley's voice is deliberately honeyed but you can hear some of the crazed disbelief sneak through when she sings "what do you mean I've got it backwards?" before the suffocating sweetness reasserts itself.

#1 in Amerikay this week!

wow. no idea they were big like that.
forced myself to support a scalper a couple hours ago. psyched to get a chance to see 'em @ the warfield in may

IT'S ON SPOTIFY

LET'S DO THIS

I've only been all the way through the album a few times, but my initial reaction is that this is just what I want from an American rock band in 2013. And I'm surprised, because I had listened to past Paramore stuff and was always bored. But obv they're a different band now.

Yeah, I've been listening to this a ton. It's a magnificent record. I've also gone back and listened to all the scattered older paramore tracks that I have and everything I've heard has been pretty unremarkable, barring misery business.

For the record (I had to go look them up) those other songs were Brick By Boring Brick, The Only Exception, and Decode.

"crushcrushcrush" is a favorite of mine. And "That's What You Get" has a magnificent riff/chorus clash.

Riot is a pretty great album, but Paramore is definitely better.

I like all of Brand New Eyes but especially:

- both choruses in "Ignorance"
- "I FEEL NO SYMPATHY"
- "I've got a feeling if I sang this loud enough, you would sing it back to me"
- every bit of "Misguided Ghosts"

Brand New Eyes is cool but so totally the weak link of the three

nah the first record is extremely indistinct toward the end. riot is pretty uneven too. should be also noted that hayley's kind of an awful lyricist until brand new eyes

well i said 'of the [last] three,' haven't heard the first one in full.