tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44834929889328459262023-11-15T06:00:27.571-08:00Nervous WreckNervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-22368381163157505522009-01-19T08:26:00.000-08:002009-01-19T08:28:02.266-08:00Which came first, the music or the misery?<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cusuario%5CCONFIG%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">That's crazy, man. I'm at dawn, listening <b>The Music Or The Misery</b> until I get an earache.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Although <b><i>Take This To Your Grave</i></b> was remarkable, and sometimes was very difficult to decide which CD is the best, the songs of <b><i>From Under The Cork Tree </i></b>are out of the ordinary. And I could say that's the <u>Best Decade's CD</u>, without excessiveness, if wasn't <b><i>Take Off Your Pants And Jacket</i></b> (Blink 182, 2001).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But that's not the question. I tried to explain why <b><i>FUTCT </i></b>is so amazing, and I think I failed, because I've got no comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I already saw some people saying that we were used to "choruses with four tones", and that's <b><i>FAD </i></b>is an evolution in the instrumental aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I particularly don't use to give opinion about things I don't understand. But, even if the choruses of <b><i>FUTCT </i></b>are primitive in the instrumental aspect, I think they have a good harmony. I learned by heart all the lyrics of <b><i>FUTCT </i></b>and all I can say about the lyrics is… I use to cry listening songs like <i>Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year</i>, <i>XO </i>and <i>Of all the gin joints in all of the world</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It shows the Vulnerable Wentz. All his worst phases and nightmares. The love, the suicide, the horrible things he dreamed when he was a child (did you read <i>The boy with the thorn in his side</i>? Someday I'll make a post about it). And, in the same time, audacious lyrics like <i>The Music Or The Misery </i>(in practice, the bonus tracks are songs of the CD anyway).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">You can say that's depressing, but the poets use to say that the misery is prettier than the happiness. And, to a writer like him, that's true. I love the lyrics of the most of songs in <b><i>TTTYG</i></b>, some lyrics of the newer cds, and the lyric of <i>Honorable Mention </i>(the only noteworthy song in <b><i>EOWYG</i></b>, if you wanna know what I think). But the lyrics in <b><i>From Under The Cork Tree </i></b>are matchless. They are every cliché, but they are simply the bests.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Well, I've got my earache.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But it's worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-40409470768631156772009-01-12T07:57:00.000-08:002009-01-12T07:58:05.854-08:0050 songs you should listen.1. streets – avengered sevenfold,<br />2. good vibrations – a lot like eskimos,<br />3. your time has come – audioslave,<br />4. call to arms – angels & airwaves<br />5. why don't I miss you? – bowling for soup,<br />6. stay together for the kids – blink 182,<br />7. violet hill – coldplay,<br />8. don't stop dancing – creed,<br />9. feels like tonight – daughtry,<br />10. my darling amnesia – faster than fashion,<br />11. miracle – foo fighters,<br />12. to die like mouchette – funeral for a friend,<br />13. san simeon – goldfinger,<br />14. dance floor anthem – good charlotte,<br />15. when I come around – green day,<br />16. candles – hey monday,<br />17. word up – korn,<br />18. suddenly I see – kt tunstall,<br />19. last train home – lostprophets,<br />20. the unforgiven 2 – metallica,<br />21. how to call a bluff – my favorite highway,<br />22. make your move – new found glory,<br />23. next contestant – nickelback,<br />24. behind the sea – panic! at the disco,<br />25. let me take you there – plain white T's,<br />26. little death – plus-44<br />27. end up like this – son of dork,<br />28. daddy's little defect – sugarcult,<br />29. aerials – system of a down,<br />30. the fantasy – 30 seconds to mars,<br />31. here by me – 3 doors down,<br />32. the way that you are – the classic crime,<br />33. another heart calls – the all-american rejects,<br />34. after the last midtown show – the academy is…,<br />35. high school – the friday night boys,<br />36. (can't get my) head around you – the offspring,<br />37. always attract – you me at six,<br />38. tell that mick he just made my list of things to do today – fall out boy,<br />39. saturday – fall out boy,<br />40. it's hard to say "I do" when I don't – fall out boy,<br />41. XO – fall out boy,<br />42. of all the gin joints in all of the world – fall out boy,<br />43. sophomore slump or comeback of the year – fall out boy,<br />44. champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends – fall out boy,<br />45. G.I.N.A.S.F.S. – fall out boy,<br />46. hum hallelujah – fall out boy,<br />47. the saint patron of liars and fakes – fall out boy,<br />48. reinventing the wheel to run myself over – fall out boy,<br />49. I slept with someone in fall out boy and all I got was this stupid song written about myself – fall out boy,<br />50. disloyal order of water buffaloes – fall out boy<br /><br /><br />I know it's totally out of the subject, but… that's the hint.Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-25239216846919589992009-01-05T09:56:00.001-08:002009-01-05T09:56:46.111-08:00Craziness Shared<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cusario%5CCONFIG%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">Oh hell, yes, I'm a nervous wreck. Oh hell, yes, the drugs just make me reset…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Think of all the lyrics of the new CD that have something related to drugs. But not only drugs – the lyrics are about all the kinds of craziness we can share with someone.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It looks as if <i>Disloyal order of water buffaloes </i>concerns about a guy that lost all his aims, and now he is seeing the doctor to "detox just to retox", detoxify just to re-intoxicate himself again.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">I don't care</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> is a song with a happier lyric, evidently about friends for interest; something similar to <i>Our lawyer made us change the title of this song so we wouldn't get sued</i>, although a little disastrous.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">She's my Winona</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> is just a little reflection about things like greed, glory, get old and experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">America's Suitehearts </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">come back to the drugs, in "I don't know much about classic cars, but I got a lot of friends stuck on classic coke". I really think this is the more meaningful song. Friends – an analogy to <i>27</i>, "I got a lot of friends who are stars but some are just black holes" –, drugs – twice related to <i>27</i>, "Doing lines of dust and sweat of the last night stage" – and, concerning about the title of the song, they created a new word, provably an irony to "sweetheart". "America's Sweethearts" would be the ones who America loves. But "America's Suitehearts" is a title that criticizes how people are full of ephemeral loves. How our heart looks like a suite, each night we put a different one there.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This song proofs that, in despite of everybody says that Fall Out Boy surrendered to the <span style="color: red;">Cheap Fashion</span>, they still criticize people who follow it, and people who make the love be just a moment – or just like a night in a suite.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It still concerns about the guy self-centered, "why won't the world revolve around me?". Practically Pete's auto-biography.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Headfirst slide into Cooperstown on a bed bet </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">is about other kind of craziness. The unconditional love and the way how a bad luck girl can choose the wrong guy to marry, and find the true love in a crazy way, with an affair because her husband doesn't care about her.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">The (shipped) gold standard</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> is related to love and to change; we can always change and "get out now", if we're following our dreams and wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">(Coffee's for closers) </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">gave me the idea of disbelieve in everybody and everything, but a big wish to change the things, break the habits and the standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">What a catch, Donnie</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, one of my favorites, reminds me of all the pain expressed in the songs of <b>TTTYG </b>and <b>FUTCT</b>. But it's not a painful song, just nostalgia and melancholy. And that's another kinda craziness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">27 </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">gives almost the same idea of <i>America's Suitehearts</i>, but also approaches the theme nostalgia ("I can remember the good old days"). And, in the opposite of <i>America's Suitehearts</i>, this song shows the wish to consume drugs to sustain an image of I'm-so-cool ("Doing lines of dust and sweat of the last night stage, <u>just to feel like you</u>). And, I supposed, a little of sex "My body is an orphanage, we take everyone in", but this phrase has lots of meanings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">My impression about <i>Tiffany Blews </i>is that is a song of a divorcee couple that uses to annoy each other and are still resentful. I know it looks stupid, but is all I can imagine about this song. Nothing about drugs, or treason, or nostalgia. Just the craziness of two lovers, separated for any silly reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">w.a.m.s. </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">is loving and challenger. Maybe it's the bigger love song of this CD, but also so irreverent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">20 dollar nose bleed </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">is a name severely related to drugs. Something like "pay 20 dollars and your nose will bleed with the drugs you bought". And all the lyric only can make us supposed that everybody is stoned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">West coast smoker </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">clearly concerns about the drugs, and the thoughts it brings. Irreverence, disrespect for the rules and religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">All ours feelings are a kind of folie a deux, and this CD, though is not the best, is a kind of evolution in the human aspect. We don't have the better beats, but we have a big reflection, and it makes me love this CD almost like my favorites.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Or was that just craziness I'm trying to share with you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-7549696549410642502008-12-30T07:53:00.000-08:002008-12-30T07:57:18.190-08:00Why so amazing?<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMINI%7E1%5CCONFIG%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:"Arial Unicode MS"; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Have you ever wondered why most of people prefer <b>from under the cork tree</b>?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">People often say: "I knew FOB when I heard <i>dance dance</i> in the radio".<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">That's just one of the points. This was their more successful single ever – a well-done video, an infectious refrain and an extraordinary lyric.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Moreover, the guys were in the apogee. They were too pretty, too young – they're still so – and their previous album was unique, heavy and sentimental; and it also brought a positive expectative to fans. They weren't so amateurs, but in same time they were new faces. That's the shocking, man.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It was not only full of several influences, but also full of impacting songs, with impacting lyrics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And it's not just because this CD has nineteen tracks. The bonus tracks are good, but <b>FUTCT </b>is not so amazing because of them. That's so mixed-up. The guys made-up and signed their style with this CD, and is so hard to us accept that they are the same guys who made <b>IOH</b>, the same guys who made <b>FAD</b>. <i>Baby, seasons change but people don't</i>. They're older, they're different. And, even if hidden, they still keep some elements of the FOB we know that will never change. It's a relief know that they're still the band who made us fall in love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Oh yeah, you said "I was fan before to this success!".<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I wasn't, because I was too young when they launched the first CD.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And I honestly don't know if somebody can love a band with a CD like <b>EOWYG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I hear people say that <b>IOH</b> is terrible, but I really prefer infinitely <b>infinity on high</b> than <b>evening out with your girlfriend</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">So let's stop this idle talk and comment some songs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Look at <i>of all the gin joints in all of the world</i>. Heavy and sentimental. Just like <i>tell that Mick he just made my list of things to do today</i>. This song made me get familiar. It's so good to see a band hit in the choice of its style in a CD, and keep this style in the next one, but adding new elements. That's exactly what is <b>from under the cork tree</b>. A pleasure mixture of the best elements of <b>take this to your grave</b> with another new elements, creating a superb album.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Now look at <i>7 minutes in Heaven</i> – a new style that pleased us all. This song is just the opposite of <i>XO</i>, <i>I've got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth </i>and other sentimental songs like them. You can't call them emo, and you can't call them punk. They're just FOB.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">You're not punk and I'm telling everyone!</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-47914218224480904652008-12-30T07:52:00.000-08:002008-12-30T07:53:32.228-08:00Live in Orlando – a great show!<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMINI%7E1%5CCONFIG%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:"Arial Unicode MS"; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 135135232 16 0 262144 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Yesterday I had the opportunity of downloading and watching a show live in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Orlando</st1:place></st1:city> – I know this ain't so recent, and most of people already watched it. It's almost the same songs of the CD/DVD <b>Live in Phoenix</b>, but I absolutely loved it! It proofs that each show is single.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Maybe I just loved it 'cause Joe, my favorite guy, appears more than the usually. All the time I see myself sighing for him and telling to somebody how beautiful is his voice. If I had one wish for the guys, I'd ask: Patrick, let Joe sing a song by himself. He wouldn't disappoint us.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Oh yeah, I'm a lover.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Well, if you didn't see this show, that's the hint. Just loved <b><i>nobody puts baby in the corner </i></b>in the acoustic version! It was very funny to see Andy in this song.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-57949873557632605882008-12-22T08:01:00.000-08:002008-12-22T08:02:32.182-08:00Folie a Deux: What rules and what sucks.<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cusuario%5CCONFIG%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; 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mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Positive aspects:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- happier songs,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- great lyrics,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- a good job of Andy in the drums,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- cool backing vocals of Patrick.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Negative aspects:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- ridiculous cover,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- songs very experimental,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- few mixture of styles,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">- a lot of repetition of the choruses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483492988932845926.post-41262183517685273632008-12-22T07:43:00.000-08:002008-12-22T07:45:42.722-08:00What they look, how they look, and why they look like this.<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It's not like I hate Pete. I had a period where I just read about him, just talk about him, just take pictures of him. He's a good boy, and he looks handsome – girls just get crazy. He's the soul of the band, even if his voice is not, exactly, the prettier I ever heard. And just a soul can't do anything. A soul needs a body, and the three guys could constitute a body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But this ain't so simple. Pete loves the spotlights, the interviews, the photos, the fame. And, though his jokes between songs in shows are very good, he gets all the sights and all the spotlights, always letting Andy and Joe in the shadows. Patrick also gets the attentions. But Patrick is the vocalist, man! He NEEDS to get the holophotes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I must confess I hear some bands I only know the name of the singer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Pete is the composer – a thing he does very well –, the baser, the backing singer and the spokesman in the band. He just could let Andrew and Joseph get a little of space.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Don't you know who are Andrew and Joseph? Do you think I'm talking about the wrong band?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Nice to meet you, Andrew John Hurley plays the drums since 2003, and Joseph Mark Trohman, the co-founder of the band with Peter, plays guitar and does some backing vocals when Pete let him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It's hard to see these two guys like they were just co-operating to the success of a band that looks that is composed of just two guys.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">They don't know Peter. They think he play guitar, that "Pete" is his true name, they don't know the name of his son, don't know the name of the other guys of the band. Don't know nothing, but that the name of the songs are giant and that Pete is gorgeous. It's not only about him. It's about the girls and boys that put him in eternal glory.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Andy and Joe are always the dislocate guys. I really think they are the greatest guys in the band – musically, and humanly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The last time I heard news about them was in a article in <b>Alternative Press</b>, where Andy talked about his house in Milwaukee, and where Joe said he felt like it wasn't the band he dedicated his life on.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">"It's hard to hear, Joe and Andy are just along for the ride"</span></i></b><span style="" lang="EN-US">, he declared. Patrick argued that all the guys, in some moment, have ever felt like this.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Maybe it's true. Patrick was a cute child when he became the singer. Pete was as busy as a bee trying to suicide. Andy was the new guy when they were already a band.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But this tension is not something new. And it seems never ends to Joseph and Andrew.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We can notice it by the clips – Pete and Patrick are always starring. We can notice it by the last songs – I can't hear anything similar to the musical influences of Joe and Andy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">FOB is an experimental band. They begun in a split CD with <b>Project Rocket</b>, with cute songs, like <b><i>"it's not side effect of the cocaine I am thinking it must be love"</i></b>. In the same year they launched the CD <b>evening out with your girlfriend</b>, something we can call pop punk.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As the CD wasn't a hit, they changed a lot the style in its successor, <b>take this to your grave</b>. Emo style worked, and the guys reached the fame.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">After a positive result with this style, they kept some aspects of the songs of <b>TTTYG </b>and mixed this up with hardest songs. From this mixture, rises <b>from under the cork tree</b>, with nineteen tracks, between them the great hit <b><i>dance dance</i></b>. It's a big jump in the history of the band, and the guys become the bigger emo band of USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But this all fades with <b>infinity on high</b>, bringing tracks with a style absolutely different from the band the fans once knew. The salvation was the impact that the single, <b><i>this ain't a scene it's an arms race</i></b>, caused in the fans.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The CD mixed up tracks with new influences, and tracks that pleased the fans, for being similar to <b>FUTCT</b>'s songs. So, it was the salvation, although most of fans considers this the worst CD.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">After two years, the guys announce a new CD. The name, the cover and the style is different from all – what proofs how experimental is the band.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It's not like <b>folie a deux</b>, launched in December 16, is a horrible CD. But the track they chose to single was a bad idea – <b><i>I don't care</i></b> is, safely, the worst song of CD. Although the clip is very good, it doesn't work too much to conquer the fans and convince them to buy the CD – it's not the blame of internet, for publishing the songs some days before to the launch.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The CD sins for the single and for the backing vocals – Patrick Stump does most of them. At once, the songs in the shows won't be so good.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But the best part of the CD is the way how they mix up all the things we ever heard in FOB with a dancing beat. If you ask me to compare <b>FAD </b>with some CD, I'd say that it's similar to <b>a fever you can't sweat out</b> <i>(panic! at the disco)</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What's not too bad… but let's hope the next CD of FOB will be a revolution, like <b>Pretty. Odd.</b>, the successor of <b>a fever you can't sweat out</b>, was.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And even if this CD is not like the FOB I know and love, I liked it. And a lot of people liked too. And a lot of people hated. We can't always please both sides.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> Nervous Wreckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14420161003758881702noreply@blogger.com0