Four Year Strong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esCjADNzOy8

This song is my wake up song at this moment. It is called “We All Float Down Here”. This song just jams that is all I can say about it. This is the Four Year Strong that we all know and love. This is off of their new album coming out, and it’s their self-titled album. This was a track that was released early. I loved it from the very first time I let it hit my eardrums. This reminds me of their earlier albums like “Rise or Die Trying” and “Enemy of the World”. These are the albums that got me hooked on Four Year Strong.

These guys have made up their own genre. If someone asked me, “What kind of music this is?” I would tell them I really don’t know it’s a mixture of hard rock, soft rock, electronic, pop punk, and some screaming. These guys are amazing on cd, and better on stage right in front of your face. I have seen them with my own two eyeballs. It was last year at Warped Tour, and they sounded perfect. They played all the jams, which are the songs that I listen to, but I like all of their songs.

This is one of those bands where I plug my IPod in my car, and let it shuffle through the 90 songs that I have downloaded. I have songs from five of their albums. This includes their demo cd’s, when they haven’t mastered their sounds and the way they play their songs now. I love singing, until my vocal chords give out, and get a raspy voice. This is one of the bands that do that to me.

When me and my friends get together to go disc golfing, or to party they know we are listening to at least five songs from Four Year Strong. The best time to listen to them is when we go disc. Listening to them while we are about to throw our drive, so we can jam out, get pumped, and get ready to flick that disc as far as possible. Even if I drive and shank it I’m not that upset, because I have awesome music filling my ears and air.

I remember blasting Four Year Strong, before I had practice or a baseball game. This is my favorite memory with these guys. They have been there in the best times of my life, and let me enjoy my car speakers. Here is another song that I love by them. “Maniac (R.O.D.)”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ryw4Yv_TE

A Day To Remember

This week’s blog is dedicated to my all-time favorite band of all, and that is A Day to Remember. These guys are just incredible. I haven’t listened to one of their songs, and disliked it. They are even great live. I have seen them live I believe four times, and I don’t want to drift away from them. They know how to get a crowd jumping off the ground, and they know how to soothe your soul with their slower songs.

The first concert I went to Chunk! No Captain Chunk, Of Mice & Men, and A Day to Remember headlining the tour. Man this concert was going to be off the chain. My friends and I had to go to Royal Oak, which is down by Detroit. We waited outside for close to an hour, and then we find out that they are searching people. I grabbed my “supplies” that I was sneaking in and threw it by my genitals. The guy searched me, and I got caught.

 

Okay actually I didn’t get caught, but I got in! “YES!” is all I could think while I was walking into the show. Since, it was in Detroit I think they were only really checking for was weapons of any sort. There were so many different kinds of people, but we all had one thing in common. That one thing was we were here for was the incredible live music.

The thing that sucked was that Of Mice & Men weren’t performing, because something happened with the singer not being able to perform. This local band performed first, and they were called Sycamore. They were pretty good I have never heard of them before this. Then, Chunk! No Captain Chunk performed, and they were amazing live. The singer was very good, and I would definitely watch them again.

After those two bands played it was A Day to Remembers time to step on stage. The lights went black, and then you hear guitar start. It was the riffs to their song “Violence”, and I was more hyped than ever. They came out with a bang and the crowd was singing, jumping, and shoving each other. Now, this is what a concert should be like. During one of their songs a guy in a banana suit came on stage. He had a blow up boat with a paddle, and was paddling over the crowd. Like he would if he were in water.

This concert couldn’t get any better I didn’t think. Well, of course, I was wrong and then the lead singer Jeremy McKinnon went into a blow up ball that go in water, so you can walk on water. Anyway, he was running around in the crowd singing while he was in the giant ball, just like a hamster would. I liked listening to them on my IPod, but they were way better to listen to live. Then, at the end of the concert they played “Downfall Of Us All”. At the end of the song confetti blew up in the air with toilet paper flying across the room. That topped it off for me, and made me decide to watch them, again.

This song is my favorite song by them it’s called “The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle”. I don’t hold the copyright for this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MujfQqLIg

The Used-"A Box Full of Sharp Objects"

This song is definitely one of my all-time favorites. My older brother showed me this song, and this band in general. It all started when I was in the seventh grade. This year was when I had received my first IPod. I got it as a present for my birthday. It was a silver, small square, 3^rd generation IPod nano. This music player was my favorite thing in the world. The best part about this IPod is that I still own it, and listen to the songs on there from time to time. I had fallen in love with The Used sound, and the way they express their emotion in their lyrics. This band is where I got hooked on this genre of music, and heavier influences. They have the songs that you can listen to everyday like “Taste of Ink”, soft lovey dovey songs like “Earthquake”, and heavier songs as in “A Box Full of Sharp Objects”.

I used to put this song on repeat, and listened to it every single day. It made my heart race, and get me moving. I guess you can say that I love it when I have an adrenaline rush, because songs like these make me lose it and go crazy. When I was alone, or in my room, I would turn this song on and blast it. I would jump around in my room singing, and trying to scream like Bert McCracken (the lead singer). My dream was to go see these guys live in concert, but I heard that Bert had to get vocal surgery, because of him screaming so much. I also heard that he would puke a little bit after songs, from screaming so much. Eventually, I looked up some videos on YouTube and there was Bert puking after a song he sang.

Every time I hear the classic The Used songs, I always think of going to Pinconning Middle School/ High School. I remember that no one that I was friends with even knew who The Used was, but that changed when we started hanging out more. They were my favorite band at this time of my life. I was always listening to music, especially when I would work out for football. I would try to stay as pumped up as possible, and keep me going while lifting. If someone would have pulled my ear buds out of my ear, and listened to my music The Used was playing almost every time. Bert’s screams were so intense to my ears that I would get chills listening to it. This song brings back great memories, and I hope who ever reads this likes this song, also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYwD63p3E4

Why I Chose This Topic

The reason I chose this topic is, because my life is revolved around me listening to music. If there is a moment I can listen to music I turn it on, and it's turned up loud. Since elementary school, when I had a CD player I loved listening to music. I used to listen to the same CD over and over. Then, in middle school I had received my first IPod. This is when I really started listening to music into depth. I was listening to bands that my older brother was listening to, and I loved the way it sounded. It inspired me to start going online to YouTube, and looking up songs I knew. After, I would look and see the similar songs that they had on the side of the page, and this is how I was discovering more and better music. I started out listening to alternative music, and then I started getting into the harder music that got me pumped up. This was great for me, because I played football, basketball, and baseball. Before every game or practice, I would listen to the songs that had my blood pumping, and got me moving.

  When I wake up for work or school, early in the morning, I like to put my music on while I'm getting ready. The music soothes my grouchy mood in the mornings, and lets me carry on with the rest of my day in peace, by waking me up with what I want to hear. I mostly listen to pop punk music, hard rock, and scream-o. I have songs to listen to when I'm having an average day, or when I'm jamming out, and want something more heavily. When I hang-out with friends, I'm the guy that is always playing the music, and if I'm not I'm telling my friends what songs to play. I'm in such a better mood when I'm listening to music. Going to work sucks, but it makes it that much better, when I can listen to my music, and do my own thing.

Music puts me in my own little world. The best atmosphere I have ever been is at concerts. I have been to at least six or seven concerts, and this includes two years of going to warped tour. Every concert I have gone to has had the best energy. Everybody at the concert is there for the same reason I am; that is to listen to great live music and sing along while jamming out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=557mc5ICVv8

Here is a link to one of my favorite songs, and bands, at this moment. I hope you like it. This is Beartooth with their song called "The Lines". I don't hold the copyrights for this song, the record label "Red Bull Records" and "Beartooth" own this song.