paramore: paramore

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.

kind of like i brought you my bullets it sounds like a very young band trying to make an album out of every song they've written so far

"All I Wanted Is You" is still my fav Paramore song

Oh yeah totally "All I Wanted" also!

DAYDREAMING

all the time

I hope MikoMcha has reconsidered his take on this album.

it's just a spark, but it's enough, to keep me going

gotta let it happen

gotta let it happen

gotta let it happen

and when it's dark out, no one's around, it keeps glowin'

which doesn't even capture the full magic of that line, which is in the chorus-line multitracked defiance of "AHH-AHH and when it's dark OUT" like she's snarling at the naysayer in her own head.

I'm still trying, the No Doubt thing was the lead single. Best Coast on the interludes. Was also thinking of Karen O moments and Blondie so it was interested to see Haley namecheck them in interviews. There is a lot more stylistic variety than previous Paramore records, I guess I'm still getting accustomed to it.

but it will happen

gotta let it happen

gotta let it happen gotta let it happen

it's just a spark, but it's enough

to keep me goin

and when it's dark out, no one's around, it keeps glowin

like she's snarling at the naysayer in her own head.

^^^