5 Songs: P

Sleeping With Sirens - Postcards And Polaroids

Of Mice & Men - Product Of A Murderer

You Me At Six - Playing The Blame Game

Gorillaz - Punk

The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

Summery Tunes

Because it's summer, and I thought maybe you'd want some suggestions for happy songs to listen to while you lie in the grass and hold cats and drink beer and run screaming from the wasps. You know, barbecue-y, party-ish songs. Stuff to chill out to, while it's still safe to go outside.

MGMT - Electric Feel

Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Bob Marley - Is This Love

Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream

Otis Redding - Sitting On The Dock Of A Bay

My Chemical Romance - Summertime

Sleeping With Sirens - All My Heart

Panic! At The Disco - That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)

Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun

Flight Of The Conchords - Ladies Of The World

All Time Low - Six Feet Under The Stars (Acoustic)

Without A Face - Stung

5 Songs: L

Sleeping With Sirens - Let Love Bleed Red

The Go! Team - Ladyflash

Mini Viva - Left My Heart In Tokyo

You Me At Six - Liquid Confidence (Nothing To Lose)

My Chemical Romance - The Light Behind Your Eyes

Sleeping With Sirens feat. MGK - Alone

I'm not quite sure what I think about this one yet. What's your opinion?

5 Songs: A

I've decided, as a quick thing to fill time until I have enough spare time to write proper things for the blog again, I'm going to do this. Five songs for each letter of the alphabet. Today, obviously, is A.

Sleeping With Sirens - A Trophy Father's Trophy Son
It's, as is usual for SWS, one of those songs that you really want to sing along to, but can only do it justice if you can keep up with all the different parts of the chorus and Kellin's impressive vocal range.

The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
As with the rest of Hot Fuss, it's a beautiful song.

Fall Out Boy - America's Suitehearts
It's so over-the-top, but still manages to be quite clever about celebrity culture and somehow involves Patrick wearing a yellow top hat.

Deaf Havana - Anemophobia
I thought anemophobia would be something to do with blood (because in my head everything is to do with blood) because it sounds like anaemia, but I looked it up and apparently it's actually a phobia of wind. Technically, the song is actually a bit about wind.

My Chemical Romance - Ambulance
Off Conventional Weapons. It took me a while to let this one grow on me, because it sounds so different to their other stuff, and is terrifying when it randomly appears on shuffle, but I really like it now.

Fuck Off

a playlist for when you feel like slapping everybody who looks at you.

Leathermouth - 5th Period Massacre

Bring Me The Horizon - Antivist

Slipknot - Duality

The Blackout - Fashion Conscious Suicide

Sleeping With Sirens - With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear

My Chemical Romance - This Is How I Disappear

Of Mice & Men - I'm A Monster

Fall Out Boy - XO

You Me At Six feat. Oli Sykes - Bite My Tongue

(NEW SONG) Sleeping With Sirens - Low

It's a new track off Sleeping With Sirens! It's off their forthcoming album, Feel, which will be out on June 4th.

Songs For Monsters

I'm more of a fan of the bloodstained and macabre than religion, although I do love a good stained-glass window, and I appreciate the effort people put into worshipping their various deities. So anyway, as I'm not really a Jesus kind of girl, I'm having today as a second Halloween, and giving you some songs about the monsters out there.

Sleeping With Sirens - Dead Walker Texas Ranger
I really like how it starts of as some kind of gentle song, and then kicks in and it's all gruesome and frantic, and it sounds like running from zombies, even though there's still the kind of poppy 'ba ba ba' bits. It's the one song I could think of to actually put in this post at first, just because I really like it.

Falling In Reverse - I'm Not A Vampire
I am a little dubious about Falling In Reverse for a band, not least because they're so very scene that even I - and admittedly I probably shit purple glitter - find them a struggle at times. However, this song's so catchy I have never fully been able to get it out of my head.

Leathermouth - This Song Is About Being Attacked By Monsters
It just sounds like bashing in the brains of some terrifying creature and then hiding in a house waiting for its friends to get you, even before you read the lyrics - "They're coming in through the windows, and breaking through all the boards I nailed up, they look like they've been through hell and back, and they've got one thing on their minds". I can get very deep about this song.

Of Mice And Men - I'm A Monster
It may be called 'I'm A Monster', but to me it sounds more like how when everyone else is the monster, and they just make you think you're worse than them, and how furious with yourself you can feel because of it.

Misfits - Astro Zombies
My Chem did an awesome cover of this, but I'm sticking the original in here because it's awesome too.

The Cramps - Human Fly
I love this song. It sounds so creepy and erm . . . fly-like. Plus there's the lyrics, which always make me laugh. "I am a human fly and I don't know why, I've got ninety six tears in ninety six eyes".

Songs For Dark Times

I wasn't really feeling like posting today. I just kind of wanted to tune everything out, turn the thoughts in my head into white noise and then just sleep for a few days, y'know? But the thing is that I committed myself to doing this properly, to show that I can keep doing it. It's also really not a good idea to just lie there thinking about how bad you feel, it's just a vicious cycle of self-hatred. So I thought; "why not do something productive with this? There's loads of people out there who feel like this, and we can maybe do a little bit to help them pass the time."
I will do this in the form of music. Music for when you feel like there's nothing there, or when you feel like everything's there and it's stampeding in through your eyes and ears and stabbing your brain and it's too much. Music to make you feel better, or at least to give you some respite from feeling at all, without resorting to unhealthy methods. Or at least, that's what I hope it'll do. It's going to start off pretty dark, anyway.
I'll give you fair warning; this is going to contain My Chemical Romance songs.

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
I don't know why I want to start with this one really. I suppose it just kind of sets the mood. Very gloomy, but also sparkly, which is good.

My Chemical Romance - I Never Told You What I Do For A Living
It's a song that I really under-appreciated for a while, because it's the very last song on the Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge album. But I really love it. It's just all this blood and anger, it's like a murderous rampage - and it's got awesome lyrics; "Another knife in my hands, a stain that never comes off the sheets, clean me off, I'm so dirty babe, it ain't the money and it sure as hell ain't just for the fame, it's for the bodies I claim and lose". Gerard's vocals are so distressed and raw on this, I just jf;lfja;ldjfa;ljfasdl

The Blackout - Hard Slammin'
I have this habit of skipping most of the songs on an album, so it took me ages before I found this one - I think it crept up on me while I was listening to my iPod one day. I am very glad that this happened, because this is an amazing song and really makes me wish I knew how to scream (pretty much all of Sean Smith's vocals make me wish I knew how to scream really, he's amazing at it). Plus I love the breakdown bit in the middle, with erm . . . with the screaming. Yeah.

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
Time for a little respite from the furious songs from before; a bit of time to get your breath back and just releeeaasseeee the tensssioonnnn. It's working on me, at least. This is a brilliant song, as all Gorillaz songs are (I have yet to meet a person who doesn't like Gorillaz). It's sort of a bit sad, but also really chilled and a little bit romantic, lyrics-wise. And also, you think that maybe the manatee is a metaphor for something in the lyrics, but then the video's like ". . . no, there's a big hill and it's got a fuckin' huge manatee on it".

Pierce The Veil - Hold On Till May (feat. Lindsey Stamey)
I have a lot of love for this song. It's pulled me back from some bad places on quite a lot of occasions, not only because it sounds so beautiful, but it actually means something. Vic's said in the past that it's about a friend of his who was neglected by her parents, so to see if they cared she used to do crazy stuff like climbing really high up trees to see how long it took them to notice she was gone, and it stayed with her for life. You may not have been neglected by your parents, but you can feel abandoned by a lot of different people. I like it because of the sort of dialogue part; "If I were you, I'd put that away - see you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be ok." "If you were me, you'd do the same. 'Cause I can't take any more, I'll draw the shades and close the door, everything's not alright, and I would rather . . .". It's not just doing the 'it gets better routine', it's speaking from the other side as well, the hurt and confused side.

My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
Skip this one if you're still a bit sore. I am, too, but I think what we need to remember here is that, like they said, the message of the band lives on. They saved your lives before, and they can do it again. Just listen to the message in the songs. That's why I love this one. It's not cheerful, by any means, it's written from inside a very dark place. But it's still defiant. It's that feeling of down-but-not-out, that as hurt and dark and shitty as you may feel, it's not over and you will go out kicking and screaming if you have to.

Suicide Silence - You Only Live Once
THIS IS THE TRUE FUCKING MEANING OF YOLO.
Get back into fighting mode, thrash about to this, it's amazing and it makes me swear very loudly. Despite what you might think because of your preconcieved notions about bands with names like 'Suicide Silence', this is actually a pretty motivational song - "Live life hard, you only get one shot, so shoot!" - with the most amazing start I have ever heard in my life. Plus, there is the message of the singer, the late legend Mitch Lucker himself; "Keep listening to music, 'cause it gets you through everything, I promise". So there you go. You only live once, so just go fucking nuts.

Sleeping With Sirens - Do It Now, Remember It Later
It's a nice happy/angry song (I like angry songs) about doing . . . whatever you want, screw the consequences and screw the opinions of others, because you should do what makes you happy, regardless of what other people think is cool (unless you're hurting someone without their prior consent or taking advantage of someone). Get up and dance and sing, bitches.

My Chemical Romance - Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back
I Don't Even Care It's My Blog And If I Want To Post Loads Of MCR I Can (Stop Typing With Your Arse Because I Don't Care About Your Shitty Opinions). That's Fall Out Boy's next song, and I co-wrote it. Anyway, I love this one because it's all rock'n'roll and shouty and get-out-of-my-way-I've-got-a-laser-gun-and-I'm-wearing-rainbow-pants. See what an improvement it's made? An hour ago I was seeing in black and white, except mostly black.

So that's my attempt to try and make you feel better if you're feeling low. It's worked on me, definitely. It might not make you feel on top of the world, but I hope it at least gives you a short rest from the inside of your head.

The Best Of All The Harlem Shakes

I only knew what a Harlem Shake was a few days ago. You Me At Six did one and it was awesome.
THE BEST HARLEM SHAKE IN THE WORLD
(I can't get it to show up as a proper video grrrr)
Now, I think you may have noticed by now that I'm a bit of a fangirl. So, can you perhaps imagine what I did when I saw that.
It's got Pierce The Veil. It's got Of Mice And Men. It's got Sleeping With Sirens. It's got All Time Low. It's got horse masks. It's got weird dancing and Vic pretending to get off with himself and Tony and Alan guitaring and Austin thrashing about and just
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FEELS
I LOVE BANDS
I LOVE THOSE BANDS
THEY DID A DANCE
I LOVE THEM
BANDS
ALWAYS
BANDS
I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I REALLY JUST BANDS I NEED BANDS
THANK YOU SOUNDWAVE
THIS IS WHY FESTIVALS HAPPEN

(I am very professional please pay me to write this kind of stuff more often)

I Need To Go To Reading And Leeds . . . And Maybe Also Slamdunk

LOOK AT THE LINE-UP THIS YEAR FOR R&L. LOOK AT IT.

THATS THE NEW STUFF. LET ME LIST EVERY BAND AND ARTIST FOR YOU BECAUSE I LIKE LISTS.

Biffy Clyro, System Of A Down, Fall Out Boy, Foals, Jake Bugg, Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, Eminem, Alt-J, Sub Focus

various others that either haven't been announced/I can't find.

BUT LOOK. FALL OUT BOY. FFKRJGLJRLKGMFDLK. AFDdfgjslgkwerg;lkg Just Fall Out Boy would be enough but there's others, there's BMTH, there's SOAD, there's Eminem (although I don't massively like his newer stuff).

THEN LOOK AT SLAMDUNK 2013

All Time Low, Four Year Strong, The Early November, The Skints, The Wonder Years, Streetlight Manifesto, Pierce The Veil, Polar Bear Club, Woe Is Me, Sense Fail, Fireworks, The Story So Far, Memphis May Fire, Sleeping With Sirens, Andrew McMahon, Mallory Knox, The Summer Set, MC Lars, Man Overboard, Deaf Havana, We Are The Ocean, King Prawn, Allister, Transit, Me Vs Hero, The Word Alive, Our Last Night, Jonny Craig, Handguns, Hands Like Houses.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ME SEEING PTV TOO MUCH, AND THE ONLY OTHER SWS GIG I KNOW OF IS ALREADY BLOODY SOLD OUT.

I was originally wary of festivals, because I didn't like live music or fields. I'm still not a massive fan of fields, but there are now band that I like enough that I would go without washing properly for. I am quite willing to go and do the festival thing, especially since everyone keeps going 'oh my god you're young this is the time to do it it's the time to go running round in the mud in your vest and knickers' and all that. I may get Alix to go with me, if she can, because she likes all this musical stuff.

I have been to one festival. Fuji Rock Festival 2010. I have the t-shirt and towel to prove it. It was pretty awesome, and the first time I saw Muse and The Cribs live. The downside was that it was in the mountains of Naeba. In Japan. The Japanese are very friendly, but when you're 14 and it's raining so hard your shoes grip more to the ground than your feet (the amount of times I had to go back for my shoes 'cause they'd come off is ridiculous) and the only person you can actually hold a conversation with is your mum, who appears to have caught the Black Death from a really inflamed insect bite . . . kind of dampens your mood a bit. It's time, though, to try again with people who are much less friendly and organised, in a country with even worse weather.

But there's Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens and Fall Out Boy and Deaf Havana and All Time Low and Bring Me The Horizon

Do you get this

I NeED TO GO TO ONE OR BOTH.

Hello.

So this blog is essentially a sort of project. I've been told that apparently I need to know more about handling social media, which is partly being corrected by this blog, and partly by my twitter, although twitter's not a preferred platform of mine because of the bastard 140 character limit.
The idea of this was to pick a subject and blog about it. One subject that I have a lot to say about is music. I am all over music, all over it like a powerful moss.

This, however, is a little introduction to me; the person behind the blog.
My name's Izzy, I'm currently 17 and I live in the north of England. I have various interests, including foreign languages - I'm studying German and Spanish at AS level (*coughshowoffcough*); reading, especially fiction and especially stuff where everyone dies very painfully; writing, of a similar nature to the stuff I like to read, but lacking in skill and plot; drawing with varying degrees of success (I draw a lot of band fan art, which may end up on here because it's kind of relevant); and, most pertinently to this blog, music. I'm learning guitar verrrry verrrrrry slowly, but I am progressing. I have, however, sworn never to take part in guitar douchery (loudly proclaiming that you can play guitar while in a public place and proceeding to play Wonderwall to the swoons of adoring girls completely lacking in musical knowledge).

I like a lot of bands. I mean a lot. There's so many bands that I like now that it takes me a couple of days to remember them all because I'll forget about six of them each time. Also, when I say 'I like bands', that's a bit of an understatement as well; I get so excited about some bands that I listen to that I have been driven to tears in the past. Just so you know what kind of blog you're getting into, and because I love lists, below is an actual list of the bands that I love the most.

My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, Fall Out Boy, Sleeping With Sirens, Of Mice And Men, Panic! At The Disco, Without A Face, Rise Against, You Me At Six, Blink 182, Green Day, The Blackout, Cancer Bats, Slipknot, The Cure, The Smiths, The Cribs, Leathermouth . . . I am now panicking slightly because I know I've forgotten some of them and I can't remember which ones. Just so you know, my absolute favourites are My Chemical Romance and Pierce The Veil. I will actually eat your face off you while you're still alive for the opportunity to meet them (that may quite accurately sum up my blog title).

This blog will be about a range of things within the world of music. Songs and albums I like, why I like them, new bands and artists I'm listening to, issues within the world of music and such - anything that I believe is relevant and I can be bothered to write.

So yes, there you have it. That is me and my introduction post. Goodbye.