So good it’s badass

My first songs from All Time Low were from their Put Up Or Shut Up EP. I loved Jasey Rae and Coffeeshop Soundtrack from the get-go. This was during the time that my interest in punk music was renewed.

When I first listened to So Wrong It’s Right, I glossed over most of the first half of the album, not finding anything really unique or as epic as I felt the PUOSU EP was musically. But when I got to the latter half of the songs, the melodies started to stick. My habit when it comes to listening to a new album is to listen through the entire thing over and over again during a commut going to the office and then later, retrace which songs had left an impression in my mind’s ear. It was the latter half that had that effect on me. Songs like Dear Maria, Count Me In, Come One. Come All and most especially Remembering Sunday.

I honestly, honestly believe Remembering Sunday was what made this album a hit for me. Because of the anticipation for the song to come up in the playlist, I was able to tolerate the common sound of the first few songs and enjoy completely the music of the latter half, and then completely enjoy Remembering Sunday from the first second it plays till the last part. The major bonus to this track was Juliet Simms. Originally, I thought the female singing in the song was Haley from Paramore only to discover that it was Juliet Simms from Automatic Loveletter. They sounded quite the same. That does not deduct the fact the Juliet’s voice added a whole new dimension to the song and I loved her part on the latter half of the song.

I’m not coming back, (forgive me)
I’ve done something so terrible
I’m terrified to speak, (I’m not calling, I’m not calling)
But you’d expect that from me
I’m mixed up, I’ll be blunt;

Now the rain is just (you’re driving me crazy, I’m)

Washing you out of my hair and out of my mind

Keeping an eye on the world,

So many thousands of feet off the ground

I’m over you now

I’m at home in the clouds
Towering over your head

Lovely lyric! Wikipedia lists several more songs that were exclusive in iTunes and international releases. I would like to hunt for these exclusives and see if they are worth keeping.

But one thing’s for sure: I will be looking forward to All Time Low’s next album. They say Mark Hoppus, ex-bassist for Blink-182 did a collab with them in one of the songs.

1. “This Is How We Do” – 2:29
2. “Let It Roll” – 3:00
3. “Six Feet Under the Stars” – 3:36
4. “Holly (Would You Turn Me On?)” – 3:52
5. “The Beach” – 3:01
6. “Dear Maria, Count Me In” – 3:02
7. “Shameless” – 3:41
8. “Remembering Sunday”– 4:16
9. “Vegas” – 2:49
10. “Stay Awake (Dreams Only Last for a Night)” – 3:34
11. “Come One, Come All” – 3:32
12. “Poppin’ Champagne” – 3:19

2008 Champions

Sweeping round two, the semis AND the finals = PRICELESS.

Remixes are like wine: older is better

Mae stands for Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience. They are not a Christian band although all their members are Christian. But I could not care less about that because Christian band or not, I love listening to this band’s music.

Destination: B-Sides is a compilation of remixes, live versions and acoustic version of their songs from Destination: Beautiful. The first two songs from this EP/compilation that I was exposed to was their acoustic version for Sun and a wonderful slow piano version of Giving It Away. It was only this year that I was able to finally complete the entire B-Sides album.

1. “This Time is the Last Time (Wave Remix)” – 3:25
2. “Suspension” – 3:50
3. “Sun (Acoustic)” – 5:22
4. “Tisbury Lane” – 5:45
5. “Awakening” – 4:16
6. “Futuro (Live)” – 3:11
7. “Sun (Live)” – 7:30
8. “This Time Is the Last Time (Live)” – 5:23
9. “Giving It Away (Acoustic)” – 5:20
10. “Goodbye, Goodnight (S.M. Remix)” – 4:31
11. “Going to School” – 3:42

Mae was one of the few bands that caught my ear back in 2005 and got me completely hooked that I would always tell my friends about them and have them listen to a couple of songs, after which, my friends would get hooked and start looking for their albums as well. But B-Sides was the album that really left a mark on me mainly because of Giving It Away. I just love the vocals and the simplicity of the piano accompanying the vocalist.

Now that I have the complete set of songs, Suspension is the next song that has got me raving about this album simply because of the melody and what the lyric talks about. It talks about that feeling when you are so much in love or you want a person so much that you feel that you cannot go anywhere but where he or she is. Suspension is an emotional high both in the audio experience and what the lyric tries to convey.

This is definitely an album worth listening to.