I present
Paramore, my latest musical discovery (or at least, the one that no one else pointed me towards...). Previously dicussed by Tone Box "here":http://mog.com/Tone_Box/blog_post/2974, I actually caught wind of this pop rock band as I was browsing through CDs at the mall. The music store (I honestly don't remember which one) had their own closed circuit TV playing music videos and interviews and the video for
Emergency came on. The video was pretty well done and the song rocked!I decided to mosey on over the Rock section and see if they actually carried the CD. To my luck they did. I listened to samples of all their tracks and decided that this one was worth getting (not at that store, mind you - mall retail is far too expensive!).When I sat down to listen to the whole production, I was not disappointed! This band plain rocks. You can also tell that they probably put on a good live show, because the music has that "jump around to the beat of the crowd" energy to it. You can feel the potential, but the one down side to the album is the production. You can almost hear the sound engineer pleading for more and more compression on the instrumental tracks during the recording session. As I've written "before":http://mog.com/Torch/blog_post/18061, I am not a fan of this...Despite that short-coming, I recommend the following if you are looking for some samples:"I've seen love die way too many times when it deserved to be alive (deserved to be alive) I've seen you cry way too many times when you deserve to be alive, alive So you give up every chance you get just to feel new again I think we have an emergency I think we have an emergency" - from
Emergency, Track 3"Now that I'm losing hope And theres nothing else to show For all of the days that were spent carrying away from hope Somethings I'll never know And I had to let them go I'm sitting all alone Feeling empty I can feel the pressure..." - from
Pressure, Track 2"Please speak softly or they will hear us and they'll find out why we don't trust them Speak up dear 'cause I cannot hear you I need to know why we don't trust them Explain to me this conspiracy against me, yeah And tell me how I lost my power, oh yeah" - from
Conspiracy, Track 8 Unfortunately, they are not touring at the moment. However, I plan to monitor for shows at their "website":http://www.paramore.net/ and grab tickets to the closest venue I can find. I hold high expectations for their live show.If you're looking for a new chick-fronted pop/rock band, I highly recommend. Enjoy!
--Torch
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