Time for...PARAMORE

Have your ever heard this name?, if not, I'm sure that at least, you have heard one of Paramore's songs.
Maybe it was one of those songs that no matter where or when you listen to it for the first time, later its impossible for you to forget it and get it out of your head, and you don't even know who the singer was!
 
Paramore's songs perfectly fit in this description... don't you think so?

Now that I have raised the interest and curiosity of those of you that still don't know this magic group...
What is Paramore?,  How can we describe it?.

 Paramore can be considered an alternative American rock band, integrated by Hayley Williams (voice), Zac Farro (battery), Josh Farro (guitar) and Taylor York (guitar).  It was formed in Franklin, Tennessee in 2004, so as we can see this pretty modern band has got to the top in only six years... How can be possible? I'm sure you will understand it in a second, just by listening one of their fantastic songs:
-Ignorance
-Misery Business
-Crush Crush Crush

The fact that the band was also nominated to the prizes Grammy, is something that don't surprise us at all.

 As a resume of their work, we can mention that in 2005 they edited his first album "All We Know Is Falling". As I have readed, "Instead of giving the debut album a major radio promotional push, Steve Robertson, (Paramore's A&R at Atlantic Records) believed the band should start slowly build through word of mouth. In his words, Robertson -wanted kids to discover the band without it being shoved down their throats-." Personally I think this is a very interesting point of view, and that Steve made the right decision. Nowadays is very common to promote new bands in such a way that almost force teenagers to became fans. Sometimes it seems like they don't have the opportunity to chose which group they want to follow and listen to, because the advartising and the promotion of a certain band becomes so strong that it not only make some lazy teenagers forgot about other interesting groups, but also appears to hypnotize them with all those announces on radio and television, pictures on the newspapers etc. I perfectly understand Steve Robertson, who just wanted the audience to admire Paramore because of how it sounds on stage, because of their lyrics meaning, and all those specific and original things of the real group. He doesn't wanted this band to succeed just because of a major radio promotional push, or a good and powerful advertising campaign giving an adorned and manipulated image of the band in order to make it more attractive. Of course, Steves Robertson's way of promoting the band was risked, but in my opinion the risk was worth it.

In 2007 they throw a second disc "Riot!" witch was rewarded with the Platinum disc in The United States and in the United Kingdom, and with the Gold in Ireland and also in New Zealand.
As a curiosity we can mention that the cover of the album has been compared with the one of the album "Rock Steady" of the ska punk band Not Doubt.

There were a lot of different opinions about this new album. Some of them were really good, such as the positive critics of Jason Lyman Grover of AllMusic. However, for others this album wasn't that well received.  For example, is the case of Gareth Dobson de Drowned in Sound, who just give four stars of ten to the album, almost saying that it was unbearable.

His third and last work, "Brand New Eyes" appeared on September 29, 2009 making debut in the number 2 of the Billboard 200 selling 175,000 copies during his first week.

I have always wonder the reason why they decided to call their last album "Brand New Eyes". Now I know the real reason. It is not something new to hear about internal problems in bands. In fact, I could say it is something quite normal. Hence, I was not impressed when I found out that after their success with "Riot!" the members of Paramore had some problems, and experimented a pretty difficult phase. After all, the members of the band have confessed that during this proccess they learned a lot, and all those fights and different points of view helped each of them to remember that the main reason why they were still together in a stage was to play music, which was a dream came true for all of them.

Finally they resolved their problems and they finished this album. Those fights happened to be a very useful tool to Hayley, who was inspired by them when writting the lirycs of "Brand new eyes". As we can see, this title have a clear meaning: It represent a new perspective and a different and better way of facing life among the members in the band.

Hope you enjoy this post and learn something about this music group

It might help you to think about the difficulties of a band

Nothing is as easy as it appears to be!

see you next week!

(the photos have been taken from: fannyshow.com, lacomunidad.elpais.com, planetamusika.com,

and   cutegirl456.blogspot.com).

Introduction to the 60’s and 70’s Rock & Roll Music

Introduction to the 60’s and 70’s rock & roll music

At the beginning of the 1960’s a strange musical phenomenon broke free in the world, this phenomenon was called Rock and Roll. Suddenly electric guitars started screaming around the world: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimmy Hendrix, The Doors, Led Zeppelin…All these amazing rock bands were formed during the 60’s and many kept rocking on during the 70’s and even the 80’s. In this in introduction, we’ll go back 50 years ago and see how Rock & Roll made its firsts steps in music History.

First of all we have to know that Rock and roll would have never born without people such as Muddy Watters or B.B King, that’s to say without Blues music. The King: Elvis Presley started rocking out with songs which were deeply rooted in the Blues ( Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock ) for many people is difficult to make a difference between blues songs and early rock and roll songs, and l have to admit that is difficult for me too, but that is because both were so similar. So if Rock and Roll was born with Elvis Presley during the mid or late 50’s why did l say it was at the early 60’s? Well the answer is easy: Rock and Roll was taken to another level, it crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the States and found a new hot spot in England, in Liverpool to be more precise. Yes l think the Beatles started a new kind of music, some call it pop music (because it began being popular very fast) but it don’t really like this term, as John Lennon was a huge fan of Elvis, the Beatles started playing rock and roll songs but singing in a kind of softer way mixing rock instruments with these new vocal melodies (listen to Love Me Do). Soon in England many other bands were formed, some following the Beatles’ same musical style (The Yardbirds : For Your Love) and others following the rock and blues American style such as the Rolling Stones. To me The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combine their new musical styles to the raise of musical business that was going on, to create Pop music, but pop music itself isn’t a real music style.

The Rolling Stones

The Beatles

                                                                                        

But something else was up to change everything again: Psychedelic rock. Linked to the cultural and social context during the mid 60’s this new wave of rock opened the doors to many bands that already existed who started playing psychedelic music for example The Beatles with their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. But other new bands had born inside this wave: there were three different spots in the world of the psychedelic music. The first one was San Francisco with bands such as Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane in 1965, then Los Angeles with the Doors and finally London with Pink Floyd and their first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 1967. In addition psychedelic rock brought within new musical and sound effects: the Wah, The Fuzz box, all kind of delays, phaser, chorus….and artist like Jimi Hendrix didn’t hesitate to make use of them, actually he was one of the firsts to use the Wah pedal (Voodoo Child).  Then the psychedelic drugs such as LSD had a huge part of responsibility of this new musical genre, artist wrote songs about their experiences with those drugs, and as Tim Leary made the Acid test across the US, now musicians where promoters of the Psychedelic wave to… "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake.

Jimi Hendrix’s second album: Bold As Love, 1967

Then Rock kept on evolving and a new style came, it was the early ages of hard rock, indeed most of the greatest bands of hard rock or metal were formed during the late 60’s: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Mountain, and of course Led Zeppelin. All these new bands played blues or psychedelic rock and at the beginning of the 70’s started taking their music in a hard rock context. For example Led Zeppelin started playing, their first album: Led Zeppelin was manly a blues album but with some psychedelic influences: Dazed and Confused, Black Mountain Side and How Many More Times that the band considered as a psychedelic jazz song, then Communication Breakdown could be their first real hard rock song. And if some bands where evolving in the hard rock genre, others evolved into progressive rock such as Pink Floyd with their album The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973 which is the third best selling album of all the times.

Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of The Moon 1973

Led Zeppelin on stage 1974

      

To conclude, at the beginning of the 1960’s new musical genres have been surging, and have changed our culture in a radical way, all of nowadays bands are influenced by all those bands but, in my opinion, would never be as good as the classics. That’s why l think is important that people keep on listening to this “old stuff” they were the firsts to create a new kind of music style, and they will be remembered, they have to be remembered in the Rock and Roll History for ever. Since people still listening to the classics Rock and Roll will live…Forever. And will be there to bring this music closer to you thanks to this blog.

See You!

Talking about...Simple Plan!

Hi everyone!
My name is Bea, and I'm studying Advertising and Public relations in the Unav.
I'm one the three members of "All the music" blog, and I will be here publishing some interesting information about modern bands each week. We have decided to write about music, because is a common interest between us, and we think almost everybody loves listening to music from time to time. To make our posts more attractive we won't write just about an specific kind of music, but about very different styles.
 I hope you like our blog and find it interesting!

If you continue reading you will find out which is the first group I have chosen to write about...

Five guys, Too albums, Thousands of fans, Seven million copies sold all over the world. Famous and caching songs such as “I’m just a kid”, "I'd Do anything,"," "Perfect," and "Welcome to My Life." I'm sure that those of you reading our Post right now have heard about this famous and original group. I’m talking about…SIMPLE PLAN!

Welcome to Simple Plan music. Just turn the volume on, close your eyes, and listen, feel them… Experience what we like best about this cool group!

See the ripping guitars?

See the strong energy?

Feel the power that emerge from them?

Simple Plan has been running strong since forming eleven years ago, in 1999. At that time, I was just a kid…like they say in one of their famous songs…:

I woke up it was 7
I waited till 11
to figure out that no one would call
I think I got a lot of friends but I don't hear from them
What's another night all alone?
When your spending everyday on your own
And here it goes

[Chorus:]
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me
Tonight...

And maybe when the night is dead, I'll crawl into my bed
Staring at these 4 walls again
I'll try to think about the last time, I had a good time
Everyone's got somewhere to go
And they're going to leave me here on my own and here it goes

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me

What the hell is wrong with me?
Don't fit in with anybody
How did this happen to me?
Wide awake I'm bored and I can't fall asleep
And every night is the worst night ever

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world.

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me tonight

I'm all alone tonight
Nobody cares tonight
Cause I'm just a kid tonight…

For me, this song is actually as powerful in its expression of distress of the teenager as it is infectious in his sound. I have always loved this song, although the lyrics are not very happy. But when I was a kid, I used to listen to it and repeat it several times, loving the rhythm, without understanding a single word about what they were saying…I just used to concentrate on moving my head rapidly, feeling the guitars deep inside!

To continue with the introduction of this group, I want to present a little bit the five members of the band:

The first one is David Desrosiers, bass, backing vocals.

-His complete name is David Philippe Desrosiers,

-He was born on August 29, 1980 in Stept Iles, Quebeq, Canada.

-He is known by nicknames: Dave and Ritalin.

-Before working with Simple Plan he was employed at McDonald's.

-He has declared to have taken influences of bands such as Good Charlotte, Pope Roach, between others.


Sebastian Lefebvre is 2 ª guitar of the Canadian band.

-He is described as the shiest member of the band.

-Before being in the band he was employed as doorman at his former institute.

-Before entering the group, he was in a band called "We'd eat her".

-He is the youngest member of Simple Plan.


Pierre Burier: Vocalist of the Canadian band.

-The song "Save You" from the qualified album “Simple Plan " is about his brother Jay, who suffered from Lymphoma’s cancer in 2007. This was very difficult for Pierre, who finally over came the situation.


Chuck Comeau: In Simple Plan, Comeau, with Bouvier's help, is the principal writter of the songs.

-Sometimes it is identified as "the" writer of the band since he writes the majority of the letters, the concepts, and writes the scripts for the musical videos of Simple Plan.


Jeff:  He has declared to have received influences of bands as U2, Guns and Roses, Pink Floyd, Kiss, The Beatles, Jimmy Eat World, Blink 182, Def Leppard, Good Charlotte, Hendrix, Mest, Marvelous 3, Goldfinger, Bad Religion, Face to Face, MxPx, Green Day, between others.

-Nowadays he is married and has two children.

These five members of the band had been trying to figure out their new album. Change, of course, comes with an amount of apprehension, and the band recognized the fact they felt a little bit afraid when they began to explore this new territory.

Simple Plan started working on the new album in 2006.
The five members accept that at first, they were scared, and they didn’t wanted to mess with something that they had already worked on, and that they were sure fans would love. That was just too easy for them, as we can imagine they wanted something different, they were looking for a challenge, and they got it.

At the beginning, they weren’t sure about what they were really doing, and working on. As we can see in some interviews, articles etc, they used to make some confessions like this one: "we didn't know if we were on the right track with something cool or if we were just losing our minds."

In my opinion, they had finally created something really good and interesting, by following their feelings and desires, and forgetting about other influences and opinions. It is often said that, “all the great records come from some kind of risk.” And I think this can be really a good example.

I supposed every single fan of simple plan is happy about this new album. In my opinion, for a fan, if it’s a real one, the new style of the record is not that important. What is important for those who like their music, is to just to have the opportunity to own a new and fresh CD, have it in our bedroom, and be able to listen those new and powerful songs whenever we want.

Hope you enjoy the first post of our blog, and Simple Plan as well! see you next week!

welcome!!!!!

Hi! I´m Arantxa and I´m going to be one of the authors of this blog which is gonna talk about MUSIC, different kinds of music because my partners and I are really different one of each other but in spite of this we have that passion in common, we love listen to music.

For my first post, I´ve chosen an special group for me: Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I would not like to start to  talk about them without having had introduce my self before.

As I´ve already said I´m Arantxa Rodriguez and I am 18. I´m from Pamplona and few weeks ago I started to study advertising here, in UNAV.

During the past, I did other kinds blogs, but they were quite different to this one cause I used to write in spanish and this is gonna be written in english and the other ones where very very simple with an academical purpose.

Anyway, I start. Red Hot Chili Pepper has been my election. And you could wonder why?who are them? Very simple, they have a personal style, they are not an image of other groups, but upside-down, you may think that you do not know them, but I swear you that if I play you songs as "by the way" or "hey oh, snow" you would say “it is true, I know that song!”

So if you have been one of those ones that here is a bit of history for you:

It is an American rock band created in Los Angeles in 1983. the memebers of this goup are Anthony Kiedis (vocals), Michael "Flea" Balzary (bass), Chad Smith (drums), and Josh Klinghoffer (guitar). Their musical style is a fusion of traditional funk mixed with other musiacl styles including hip hop, punk rock, and psychedelic rock.
on its origins the group featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons. Slovak, however, died beacause of a heroin overdose in 1988, and that ended in Irons' left.they were replaced by Dead Kennedys as the drummer andJohn Frusciante on the guitar.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik was the most significant record for them; having sold overr fifteen million copies, it gave the group's initial mainstream commercial success and international fame. In 2006, the group recorded the album Stadium Arcadium, giving them their first American number one album and reaching the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.


one of their songs for I feel a special fodness is Californication. For me it is special not as much for its rhythm, but for the letter. They sing about the deterioration of our society, how the world is becoming very superficial and plastic, much like California. Red Hot Chili Peppers were grown up in Hollywood and they are quite familiar with the quinky nature of life its life.
and for me see it not only in the USA, but also in here, spain, every developed country...

But as they best videoclip I could choose Dani California, where they appear performig different mithic music groups as nirvana or The Beatles.

I  hope you liked the post and you´ll come back next week!!!
see you!!

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