I feel like no matter what people say, everyone's got a sense of enjoyment for emo music. How can you not like listening to some good emo?? Especially when you're having one of those days where you feel like you hate everyone for no reason at all. You can't deny it..we all have those days. So when I'm feeling blue (or just whenever) I listen to Bayside. They sing lyrics such as, "I'd grab your hair and I'd hack it off. And put it on display at the front of the yard on a stick that's decorated with a little pink bow and a sign that says her friends and family should have taught her more about love." Indeed those lyrics are a bit "harsh", who cares? It makes me giggle, and think about the people that I'd like to do that to.
Bayside is a four member rock band. Their genres are mostly defined as punk, emo, and alternative. They originated from Queens, New York in the winter of 2000 and signed with Dying Wish Records. From there they released their Long Stories Short EP and a split album with another band called Name Taken. In 2003 they joined a very large, very popular record label called Victory Records. Since then, they've released four albums. Their most popular being The Walking Wounded (2007), and their latest album is entitled Shudder (2008).
Tragically in October of 2005 (just after the first release with Victory Records, Sirens and Condolences) their drummer, John "Beatz" Holohan died in a car crash involving the entire band. When they were driving back from a show in Colorado the van tipped, causing everyone to be injured, and unfortunetely resulted in the death of Beatz. After this tragedy many bands referenced Beatz in their songs, including Bayside. They put out an acoustic album which featured old songs played acoustic, and some new ones as well. Off of that album the song Winter was devoted to Beatz.
Seeing as Bayside made a total of six amazing albums in the ten years that they've been together, and also experienced the death of Beatz, and still produce music; it shows that they're really in love with music and will make it no matter what. Despite sad lyrics, Bayside has the tendency to make all the songs sound upbeat and enjoyable. Part of the reason they're so darn talented. Bayside is my favorite emo band (really one of my favorite bands in general) because they're a group that produces good music, and it is obvious that they have serious talent.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
this shit is about having a good fucking time
Maybe Music Isn't Dead is the title of my blog for a very important reason. To me at least. Those are lyrics from a band Canadian band called Alexisonfire. That song is off of their sophomore album entitled, "Watch Out!". It features the kind of lyrics that you never forget. For example, "maybe music isn't dead" is from the song "Get Fighted". The song is all about the infiltration of the music industry, and how this type of music has mostly become about the fashion. Which is why I write this blog. It isn't about the clothes that you wear or the way you do your hair that defines what music you like. It is purely about the love for the music, and as Alexisonfire would put it, "This shit is about having a good fucking time."
People are way too focused on how they look these days. If you're a sports kid society tells you that you have to wear basketball shoes and nike shirts and if you're a scene kid society tells you to wear girl jeans and clothes from pacsun. This has been put in our faces so much that kids these days only care about the clothes, and not why they're wearing them. For example, I saw a girl the other day that I used to babysit wearing completely black with an Escape the Fate shirt. Her eyes were covered in black eye liner, and she looked at me and said, "Well sorry we have to go. We're going to A Devil Wears Prada concert tonight." Well I was completely fake to her and said have a good time, it should be sick. First of all. It is The Devil Wears Prada (I don't care if it is one word that throws the band off..she said it wrong) That girl probably doesn't know a single word they're singing, not a clue who the singer is, and doesn't know the names of the songs. It really bothered me because the 13 year old freshman was going to a hardcore show, because the clothes are cute, the boys are cute, the singer is cute. who gives a fuck. I'll go to a hardcore show in whatever I can find that is clean. I want to go because the band that I'm going to see makes good music, and I want to have "a good fucking time."
Who cares what you wear, how you look. Go to a concert because you love the music. Listen to music because you like what you hear.
It is all about the music kids. Its always about the music. NOT the fashion.
People are way too focused on how they look these days. If you're a sports kid society tells you that you have to wear basketball shoes and nike shirts and if you're a scene kid society tells you to wear girl jeans and clothes from pacsun. This has been put in our faces so much that kids these days only care about the clothes, and not why they're wearing them. For example, I saw a girl the other day that I used to babysit wearing completely black with an Escape the Fate shirt. Her eyes were covered in black eye liner, and she looked at me and said, "Well sorry we have to go. We're going to A Devil Wears Prada concert tonight." Well I was completely fake to her and said have a good time, it should be sick. First of all. It is The Devil Wears Prada (I don't care if it is one word that throws the band off..she said it wrong) That girl probably doesn't know a single word they're singing, not a clue who the singer is, and doesn't know the names of the songs. It really bothered me because the 13 year old freshman was going to a hardcore show, because the clothes are cute, the boys are cute, the singer is cute. who gives a fuck. I'll go to a hardcore show in whatever I can find that is clean. I want to go because the band that I'm going to see makes good music, and I want to have "a good fucking time."
Who cares what you wear, how you look. Go to a concert because you love the music. Listen to music because you like what you hear.
It is all about the music kids. Its always about the music. NOT the fashion.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
this is the reason...
So this is my first post on here, and I hope it is sufficient. I started a blog on my myspace about two months ago, but recently started writing about things that I wanted a lot of people to see. This post is copied from an old one, but changed up a tad.
When I was a freshman in high school something hit me. An urge to listen to music that not everyone listened to. Stuff that you really had to search for in order to listen to it. That's when myspace music became my best friend. Through myspace music I learned about bands like anberlin, the almost, saosin, motion city soundtrack, etc. Since then I continue to listen to all that music, but including other genres as well. I've started listening to more and more hardcore bands. Bands like chiodos, a day to remember, the devil wears prada, stick to your guns, emmure, etc. I've relied on myspace music for so long, and to this day I continue to search for new music. For a while this is all I would do. Search, search, and search for new bands to listen to...but I've gotten terribly bored with the "hardcore" bands that I keep coming across. Hardcore now is mostly remixed techno beats with lots of screaming and the same high pitch voice that sings the chorus. Don't get me wrong...I listen to it too. I really like we came as romans, i see stars, and attack attack! But they're all the same.
So lately when going online to find new things to listen to, I aim for different alternative bands. Brand new is possibly my favorite band of all time. They're lyrics are nothing like I've ever heard before. It is something so original that I believe no one can be compared to them. Although I'd like to hear more things like brand new, I know I never will. So I've looked through their top friends and the bands that they've toured with to see who I may like. I've come across manchester orchestra, the features, passion pit, city and colour, and la dispute.
These bands don't sound the same by any means and it is a shame that they're not the focus of rock, alternative, and hardcore music these days. Instead of the same old band that is in every issue of AP Magazine. I recommend the listed bands to everyone. They all have a different sound and are beautiful in their own way.
When I was a freshman in high school something hit me. An urge to listen to music that not everyone listened to. Stuff that you really had to search for in order to listen to it. That's when myspace music became my best friend. Through myspace music I learned about bands like anberlin, the almost, saosin, motion city soundtrack, etc. Since then I continue to listen to all that music, but including other genres as well. I've started listening to more and more hardcore bands. Bands like chiodos, a day to remember, the devil wears prada, stick to your guns, emmure, etc. I've relied on myspace music for so long, and to this day I continue to search for new music. For a while this is all I would do. Search, search, and search for new bands to listen to...but I've gotten terribly bored with the "hardcore" bands that I keep coming across. Hardcore now is mostly remixed techno beats with lots of screaming and the same high pitch voice that sings the chorus. Don't get me wrong...I listen to it too. I really like we came as romans, i see stars, and attack attack! But they're all the same.
So lately when going online to find new things to listen to, I aim for different alternative bands. Brand new is possibly my favorite band of all time. They're lyrics are nothing like I've ever heard before. It is something so original that I believe no one can be compared to them. Although I'd like to hear more things like brand new, I know I never will. So I've looked through their top friends and the bands that they've toured with to see who I may like. I've come across manchester orchestra, the features, passion pit, city and colour, and la dispute.
These bands don't sound the same by any means and it is a shame that they're not the focus of rock, alternative, and hardcore music these days. Instead of the same old band that is in every issue of AP Magazine. I recommend the listed bands to everyone. They all have a different sound and are beautiful in their own way.
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