Of The Bands I've Seen So Far . . .

I have that problem that you get when you like so many bands that you can't possibly remember them all, and this is bad enough with the big popular bands that I like - the amount of times I've forgotten to mention Fall Out Boy on lists of my favourite bands, and they're like in the top five (My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, Fall Out Boy, Of Mice & Men, The Blackout).

But since I've started this blog, I've found a whole load of other, small bands that are just as awesome, and I really should listen to a lot more. Finding time is the problem. So here, I'm making time. I am in no way finished with looking at new bands (probably never will be), but of the bands I've seen so far, here is a list of my favourite song from each one - let this serve as a reminder for any of the rest of you who liked them but forgot to carry on listening as well . . . (coherency may vary as I've been living off a 95% chocolate diet for the past 48 hours)

Aspirations - Remember When
To be fair, there's not many songs to choose from for these guys at the moment, but this would probably still be my favourite song by them anyway. I like the screaming, it sounds like a mad person talking to themselves. I also thought that the line "no more hardship" was "no more horseshit".

Bring Home Ohio - The Way It Goes
Because of the awesome guitar at the start, obviously.

Cobalt And The Hired Guns -You Left Your Sweater
It's so happy and clappy, and heartwarming montage-y. It's so lovely, and let us hope it never gets ruined by being used in an iPod advert.

Liar Liar - High'N'Low
I really can't decide properly, because I am all over all of the songs on their He Said, She Said EP, but I'm picking this one because awesomeness and sing-a-long-ability.

Messenger Down - Die Sehnsucht
I don't know what my favourite MD song was before, but I love this one. It's all lonely and really shows off the singing.

Silver Story - My Empire
It's so quiet and chilled at the beginning, and then kicks in and it's all wow. I think I remember the last time I wrote about this one, and I said it sounds like the kind of song you'd use in a film for where they're being romantic in the rain.

Nobody Takes Vegas - Midnight In Nagoya
I like the beginning, how it builds up. It reminds me of those 20 minutes where I tried to play Mirror's Edge or whatever it's called, and I gave up cause I couldn't run across the tight rope fast enough.

Owls In The Attic - Big Fire
This one, yes. Yes yes yes. As usual, the contrast between clean vocals and screaming is really well done, and it sounds like a storm.

Look, A Band: Aspirations

Aspirations (Alex Ramos – vocals, Mark St. Pierre – vocals, Chaz Bentley – guitar, Dylan Bradberry – bass, Kyle Daniel – drums) are apparently a ‘melodic post-hardcore’ six-piece from Atlanta, Georgia. I have high hopes for this because, looking at my iTunes, despite the fact that I and, I think, a large amount of the general public aren’t entirely sure what post-hardcore is (“Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement” – Wikipedia), I have a lot of post-hardcore on my iPod.

There’s only one song on their facebook (and it’s the only one I can currently find elsewhere) – Restoration - but it’s a good song, I really like it. To me – and I know fuck all about the technical side of music – it at least sounds like they really know what they’re doing. Plus, there’s screaming, and I love screaming. I wish I could scream. The song reminds me of Of Mice And Men, We Came As Romans type stuff, and that’s generally not a bad thing, ‘cause OM&M are one of my favourite bands. I’ve already re-listened to this a few times while writing this post, and were I able to find any other songs, I would love to listen to them. I am all over this, I’ve got the new-band feeling. Excuse me while I abseil down into the fandom before the main crowd gets here.

Aaaaaaa this is awesome, I just wish I could find more songs, aside from the teaser for Remember When (that’s the most dramatic entrance of the word ‘ugh’ ever, I need someone to make a gif out of that).

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