Paramore Band • Page 63

yeah it was a crucial album for me even though i think they've bested it multiple times now. i was already curious about them from seeing the "emergency" video on fuse all the time and riot arrived in my life at the exact right time

 

Music anniversaries freak me out more than anything when it comes to my impending demise. I still can’t believe Anberlin put out their “final” album almost six years ago... That terrifies me.

 

Wow yeah I can't believe it's been that long already, freaky. I was 14 at the time.

I remember discovering them through their CrushCrushCrush video on Fuse and falling in love with it. Also remember being dragged into Hollister by my friends at the mall back then and finding "For a Pessimist..." on their little touch screen player and it making my time in there a little more tolerable. And having a blast watching them play Riot with Dear and the Headlights and JEW. Great memories.

 

Absolutely iconic artwork too. The while vibe of the record really. You'd have at least a few people in every school trying to look like the band in the Misery Business video.

 

If you ignore the... bad... lyrics of Misery Business this album still really holds up.

For A Pessimist, That’s What You Get, Hallelujah, When It Rains, Let The Flames Begin are all still amongst my favourite songs of theirs.

 

This brings back memories! I think it was the first time i ever had the “shit, this band is really going to explode’ feeling.

I got into Paramore just before Riot came out. I went to see them play a club capacity venue the month before Riot was released. I remember there being a q around the venue at 1pm, maybe 200+ people. I think it was perhaps the one and only time I went to a gig early to try and meet a band (the shame!). We saw the amount of folk there and went ‘fuck it’ and went and looked in stores / food/ cinema. I was a bit gutted, but also now had 7+ hours to kill before the gig. We walked into a Topman (clothing store), and low and behold, the full band were in there. I couldnt believe it. I play drums and was buzzing to speak to zac. It was also pretty weird, we were both roughly about 15/16 at the time. I’m still in high school... and he is touring the world.

I think just through the gig, you could feel the buzz of a band everyone knew they were lucky to get a ticket for the gig. I just don’t think anyone anticipated the meteoric rise of the band from that album releasing the month later.

 

Randomly seeing the music video for MizBiz on MTV2 right before the album release literally changed my life. I was having such a hard time in my life and this band really gave me the hope to soldier on. I'll never forget the first time I saw them in '08 with Jimmy Eat World. I cannot believe it's been 13 years.

 

Riot! is still my favorite Paramore album, tbh. (Though, I like Petals for Armor a whole lot more.) Hard to believe it’s that old.

The music video for “That’s What You Get” reminds me of the end of high school & beginning of college in all the right ways. The friendships & music of that time.

 

This is still a top tier pop punk album for me. Misery Business was a game-changing song for me. I fully understand the decision to not play it anymore given the lyrics are dicey and have not aged well, but man, that chorus is huuuuuuge.

 

For a Pessimist is still one of their best songs imo

 

I wonder if she’d ever consider just putting out a new version of Misery Business with different lyrics. Everything else about the song is just so insanely catchy and cool.

 

thank you

 

So my Facebook memories just showed me quoting Where The Lines Overlap on my status a literal decade ago and now I'm feeling old

 

Hey random question for y'all because I can't find the answer from Google

Anyone know who the male singer is who is riffing with Hayley at the end of Ain't It Fun?? He echoes Hayley's "to your mama" part at one point. Was that just a random choir singer who got more of a solo than the rest of the choir?

 

I remember reading somewhere that it was Justin Meldal-Johnsen, but I can't confirm it.

 

definitely have always believed that the singers on that song are a choir they got for it

 

Hayley's top 5 p'more songs.

And follow up

 

Yeah her Twitter is a gold mine today. She's on great form.

 

Damn, I dont use twitter much so I've been missing out

 

Tell me how is by far Paramore's best song imo

 

shes always right idk how she does it

 

Told You So, Pool, and Rose Colored Boy would be in my top 5 also. Probably would round it out with Proof and Turn It Off, though Future (live) is an extremely compelling argument

 

The love for Future gives me so much LIFE

 

Future is a banger. Ditto Fast in My Car.