Riot!
I’m a huge fan of Fueled By Ramen, which is the record label behind Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco and also Paramore. It seems that all the artists they welcome into the FBR family is my new favorite band.
Paramore’s new album RIOT! has been in heavy rotation with me since I got it. There’s just something about the band I really love and the new CD lives up to my expectations. The first three songs “For A Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic”, “That’s What You Get” and as seen below “Hallelujah” are definitely some of the best to be found on the album. But also “Misery Business” (which is the first single) and particularly “Born For This” (the final song on the album, even though I liked the demo better) are highlights.
The members of the band are all very young. The lead singer Hayley Williams (who has an absolutely amazing voice) is just 18 and the rest of the members are between the ages of 17 and 22. That alone makes this album quite a feat in my opinion.
Hallelujah by Paramore from “RIOT!”:
Here’s a complete tracklist:
1. For A Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic
2. That’s What You Get
3. Hallelujah
4. Misery Business
5. When It Rains
6. Let The Flames Begin
7. Miracle
8. crushcrushcrush
9. We Are Broken
10. Fences
11. Born For This
Infinity On High
[rating:4.5]
I consider myself a relatively new Fall Out Boy fan, as it’s not that many months ago I got into From Under The Cork Tree, their previous album. But I must say that this album is absolutely fantastic! With songs like “This Ain’t A Scene…” (first single) and “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” Fall Out Boy really deliver and I’ve been listening to the album on repeat just like they command you to at the end of the album: “Now, press repeat”. And I did. Over and over again - and I can’t stop smiling, it’s really good. I just wish they would do a concert in Denmark. :-(
1. Thriller
2. The Take Over, The Breaks Over
3. This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race
4. I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)
5. Hum Hallelujah
6. Golden
7. Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
8. Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?
9. The (After) Life Of The Party
10. The Carpal Tunnel Of Love
11. Bang The Doldrums
12. Fame < Infamy
13. You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave
14. I’ve Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers
Bold = better.
UPDATE: Oh, they ARE coming to Denmark. On March 21. I’m gonna go with my girlfriend, can’t wait. :-)
MacWorld 2007
Just spent the last two hours watching Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone. I’ll buy one in the blink of an eye, that’s for sure.
2007, Welcome!
This is the first post of the new year and I’m hoping this year will be just as good, if not better than 2006 both in terms of what’s going on in my life, but definitely also blogging. I had a blast last night with my girlfriend and a few friends. We ate some delicious food, drank a bit (yup - I was drunk!), played some party games and so on. All in all a very nice way to start 2007. :-)
Rebuild Of Evangelion
I’m a bit behind posting some stuff to the site. Mainly because I just started going to a new school (more on that soon) so I’ve been feeling a bit lazy. Anyway, that’s not what I wanted to talk about right now. So many emotions went through me when I heard that Neon Genesis Evangelion was making its return after more than a decade. Then I found out that the one and only Hideaki Anno will be the director and immediately felt more comfortable. I’m not the kind of guy, who thinks that something new added to a classic like Evangelion, will end up destroying my perfect image of my beloved show. If it sucks, then it sucks. It’s as simple as that. I’m a ridiculously huge fan of Evangelion and nothing, NOTHING I tell you, can ever mess with that. It’ll always be my favorite.
“Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban” as the film series will be called will consist of 4 parts.
Here’s a translation of (some of it anyway) the article on Evangelion in the September NewType magazine:
The scenario of the 1st part will be written by Hideaki Anno with storyboard by Shinji Higuchi. Key points of a supposed interview which may or may not appear in the forthcoming edition of Newtype attributed to Toshimichi Ohtsuki of King Records have also been circulating. According to that information:
-The content is quite different though the time base of the story is the same as the original TV series.
- It will be a remake, however, it is not a re-creation but a “new work”.
- The approach will be different than what Tomino-san did with the Gundam Z New Translation films, there will apparantly be a large amount of new material.
- Even if the TV series has not be seen, the viewer will be able to enjoy it. Though the content becomes easy, it is not redundant to those already familiar with the series.
- The technique that purposely scatters difficult words and phrases will not be used any longer.
- As an antithesis to current animation industry segments. It is an attitude on the production side to pull the act in the age that started from Eva
The first movie will be released in theaters in Japan in 2007.
All in all from what I can understand, it will be easier to understand, which I guess… WILL take some of the fun out of it. I don’t like it when all the answers are given to you. That’s what makes Evangelion SO fun to watch: you discover something new every time; a new angle to the overall meaning of what’s going on. Oh yeah, and still can’t freaking wait for the live action version. Still can’t believe that WETA (Lord of the Rings, King Kong) will be working on it.
