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I just listened to Red Jumpsuit Aparatis or however the hell you spell it. Mostly because I have heard a lot of hype about how good they are lately, starting with the friend of a friend going to one of their shows in Florida or South Carolina or West Virgina or Ohio or on Peidmont street or wherever it was, thats not important. Anyway, since then I have heard a lot about them, but had never heard them, so I was intruiged. Like most times this happens though, I really dont go out of my way to listen to them, I actually almost dread it. I typically hate what becomes well known by society and people who (claim to) love this type of music. This includes bands such as Hawthorn Heights, new Taking Back Sunday, new Halifax, and so, so many others.
Back on subject, though, I finally decided to listen to them because somebody posted their album up on a music community that I take part in from time to time. So I figured, "why the hell not?" Well, once I heard them, I found out exactly why not. They are a scramble of knock off's all packed together into a number of aggravatingly terrible tracks that they call music. These few amazon.com previews of their so-called music was enough to turn me off to them for a lifetime.
For starters, I have always thought that it would be really cool if there was a band that was made up of members who all knew how to sing and play every instrument. A band in which one of the members might move from bass to electric guitar to keyboard to accoustic guitar to vocals to bass to drums throughout a single show. The Red Jumpsuit Aparatus is a prime example of why this is a bad idea. When this sort of thing is put into practice, where everyone takes part in vocals that is, there is no joining sound to connect each piece together. Every song has its own distinct sound vocally which is quite distracting and very much a bad thing, at least for these guys.
On top of that, all of the tracks sound like complete knock off's of a thousand different bands. We have everything from Hawthorn Heights random screaming for no reason what-so-ever to the sounds of the artists who play the song Swing Swing, whose name I cannot recall at the current moment. Its one thing for a band to sound similar in sound to another band, but it is a completely different thing for someone to be listening to one of your songs and want to suddenly belt out "swing swing swing from the tangles of..." because part of your song sounds so similar to an All-American Rejects song (yeah, I remembered it, arent you proud of me? Nice.) that they forget who they are really listening to.
Note to bands: Random screaming does not sound good AT ALL. It sounds fucking retarded, as a metter of fact. Dont do it if you want to go anywhere. On second though, apparently the rest of the fake music lovers out there happen to enjoy random screaming. Lines or words in all CAPS are screamo parts here, for example, to show how it makes no sense:
oh my god i think im falling FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR EEEEEEYYYYYYEEEEEEES BABY IM FALLING FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU and this morning dew leaves tear stains ON MY SLEEEEEEEEEVES
Its stupid. Seriously. Stop it. Please.
Yeah. What the fuck is that? There is no reason to scream there?
Back on subject, though, I finally decided to listen to them because somebody posted their album up on a music community that I take part in from time to time. So I figured, "why the hell not?" Well, once I heard them, I found out exactly why not. They are a scramble of knock off's all packed together into a number of aggravatingly terrible tracks that they call music. These few amazon.com previews of their so-called music was enough to turn me off to them for a lifetime.
For starters, I have always thought that it would be really cool if there was a band that was made up of members who all knew how to sing and play every instrument. A band in which one of the members might move from bass to electric guitar to keyboard to accoustic guitar to vocals to bass to drums throughout a single show. The Red Jumpsuit Aparatus is a prime example of why this is a bad idea. When this sort of thing is put into practice, where everyone takes part in vocals that is, there is no joining sound to connect each piece together. Every song has its own distinct sound vocally which is quite distracting and very much a bad thing, at least for these guys.
On top of that, all of the tracks sound like complete knock off's of a thousand different bands. We have everything from Hawthorn Heights random screaming for no reason what-so-ever to the sounds of the artists who play the song Swing Swing, whose name I cannot recall at the current moment. Its one thing for a band to sound similar in sound to another band, but it is a completely different thing for someone to be listening to one of your songs and want to suddenly belt out "swing swing swing from the tangles of..." because part of your song sounds so similar to an All-American Rejects song (yeah, I remembered it, arent you proud of me? Nice.) that they forget who they are really listening to.
Note to bands: Random screaming does not sound good AT ALL. It sounds fucking retarded, as a metter of fact. Dont do it if you want to go anywhere. On second though, apparently the rest of the fake music lovers out there happen to enjoy random screaming. Lines or words in all CAPS are screamo parts here, for example, to show how it makes no sense:
oh my god i think im falling FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR EEEEEEYYYYYYEEEEEEES BABY IM FALLING FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU and this morning dew leaves tear stains ON MY SLEEEEEEEEEVES
Its stupid. Seriously. Stop it. Please.
Yeah. What the fuck is that? There is no reason to scream there?