As the popularity of emo and punk-pop plateaued, many bands had a lot to prove to stay in the game. As of 2003, Brand New had sidestepped any notion that they'd be stuck in the prototypical mold found on Your Favorite Weapon. Unlike their debut, Deja Entendu isn't all about bitter breakups and doesn't fall into a permanent punk-pop hole. Produced by Steven Haigler (Pixies, Quicksand), this sophomore effort finds Brand New maturing, reaching for textures and song structures instead of clichés. They still, however, alternate their full-on blasts with slower acoustic work, which doesn't hurt. Many antiromantic lyrics such as "my tongue is the only muscle on my body that works harder than my heart" saturate the disc, but there's still some resentment with downers such as "I hope you come down with something they can't diagnose and don't have a cure for." "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" is one of the stronger tracks and isn't so much a fresh entry as it is a rewrite of their semihit "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad." It's not quite déjŕ vu; it's just consistent.
My top songs of the day:"Me vs. Maradonna vs. Elvis" by Brand New"I'll Let You Live" by Taking Back Sunday"Four Winds" by Bright Eyes"Walking Is Still Honest" by Against Me!And I decided on the name of the album I will be releasing this year. "My Life As A Wish List." I really like that name.That's all I got for now. Laters.
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So I guess this is where I talk about the music I'm listening to?I recently went back in time about 4 years and discoverd a load of old mix cds from my youth, things like "Calafornia" the popular OC theme, but when it was used on that film Orange County with Colin Hanks, I own that film actually, I don't think I'd enjoy it too much these days. So with this discovery came a renewed love for a l...
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Mmmkay, maybe not EVER. But I think this is Brand New's best album. I cannot stop listening to it.Lyrics, vocals, energy, production, album art, everything.It's perfect.On a related note, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me FINALLY leaked a few days ago. It's definitely in my top 10 albums for 2006. Very dark and moody compared to their earlier work, but brilliant nonetheless. I'll c...
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Looks like Brand New got it wrong--Four months at sea.Four months of calm seasOnly to be pounded in the shallowsOff of the tip of Montauk Point.They call them rogues.They travel fast and alone,One hundred foot facesOf God's good ocean gone wrong"Rogue waves seldom, if ever, prowl close to land.":http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/science/11wave.html
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So tomorrow I see Brand New again. It'll be my fourth time seeing them, although I feel like the first time shouldn't count since A) I'd never heard them before, and B) I didn't particularly like them. I'm pretty excited, although I could care less about the new songs. Deja Entendu was such an important album to me, though...there are songs on there that bring tears to my eyes every time I hear...
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I know this isnt a new song or artist... but some songs never fade in defining a moment in time... this is my moment in time then and now..You are calm and reposed. Let your beauty unfold. Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones. Spring keeps you ever close. You are second hand smoke. You are so fragile and thin. Standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can. ...
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Here at such and such, we’re participating in something called Albums of the Decade Blog Tour, with ten blogs picking their favorite albums of the decade. Yesterday’s was Deckfight and tomorrow’s is Built On A Weak SpotI’ve decided to take our list in a little bit more personal direction, with a smaller list consisting [...]
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My top songs of the day:"Me vs. Maradonna vs. Elvis" by Brand New"I'll Let You Live" by Taking Back Sunday"Four Winds" by Bright Eyes"Walking Is Still Honest" by Against Me!And I decided on the name of the album I will be releasing this year. "My Life As A Wish List." I really like that name.That's all I got for now. Laters.
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we ended things last week. said he didn't like my family and didn't want to deal with it. and that he didnt want to have to act like a father figure to me, because i don't really have one. oh well. we're still cool. me, him, beth, and some others hung out this weekend. hopefully things will change. :)
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I find myself more attracted to music with mature content and lyrics rather than catchy pop crap such as Panic! At The Disco. I am blown away by the transformation of Brand New from a moderately pop catchy band with their first CD "Your Favorite Weapon" to an intensely lyrically heavy and dark mature band that rocks. I think the fact that the masses are less mature and gravitate to immature m...
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So I guess this is where I talk about the music I'm listening to?I recently went back in time about 4 years and discoverd a load of old mix cds from my youth, things like "Calafornia" the popular OC theme, but when it was used on that film Orange County with Colin Hanks, I own that film actually, I don't think I'd enjoy it too much these days. So with this discovery came a renewed love for a l...
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Looks like Brand New got it wrong--Four months at sea.Four months of calm seasOnly to be pounded in the shallowsOff of the tip of Montauk Point.They call them rogues.They travel fast and alone,One hundred foot facesOf God's good ocean gone wrong"Rogue waves seldom, if ever, prowl close to land.":http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/science/11wave.html
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So tomorrow I see Brand New again. It'll be my fourth time seeing them, although I feel like the first time shouldn't count since A) I'd never heard them before, and B) I didn't particularly like them. I'm pretty excited, although I could care less about the new songs. Deja Entendu was such an important album to me, though...there are songs on there that bring tears to my eyes every time I hear...
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Mmmkay, maybe not EVER. But I think this is Brand New's best album. I cannot stop listening to it.Lyrics, vocals, energy, production, album art, everything.It's perfect.On a related note, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me FINALLY leaked a few days ago. It's definitely in my top 10 albums for 2006. Very dark and moody compared to their earlier work, but brilliant nonetheless. I'll c...
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Ok I once believed myself to be a huge Brand New fan, but after buying their new album "The Devil and God are raging inside me" im very disappointed. All of the songs seem kind of...boring. Now don't get me wrong their previous albums were amazing. They never leave my car's cd holder. Like Deja Entendu, and Your Favorite Weapons, these albums are golden, but this new one...not so much. So someb...
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Being that the decade is almost drawing to a close, I’m refusing to write a top albums of the decade list simply due to the fact that I was just 12 years old once we started the new millennium. Safe to say my musical tastes have varied over the decade.I liked very few albums in [...]Related posts:Albums Of The Decade: The Futureheads S/T (2004) Some bands are plagued when they release a good...
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