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Monday, November 3, 2008

Brand New - The History

Posted by Jared Morris


Brand New is an alternative rock band based in the United States.  Brand New is from Long Island, New York.  It currently consists of lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist Jesse Lacey; guitarist Vincent Accardi; bass guitarist Garrett Tierney; and drummer Brian Lane.  The band was formed in 2000 in Merrick, New York and consists partly of former members of the band The Rookie Lot. 


The band has released three studio albums so far—Your Favorite Weapon (2001), Deja Entendu (2003), and The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006). On February 12, 2007, in an interview with BBC Manchester,
 Lacey stated that the band plans to release another album. On August 18, 2008 the band announced via a MySpace update that they are wrapping up their tour and plan to record new music in the fall.

Brand New has toured with many bands including Thrice, Crime In Stereo, Dashboard Confessional, and MewithoutYou.

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Your Favorite Weapon (2001)

Posted by Jared Morris

Your Favorite Weapon (2001) is the debut full-length album by Long Island-based band Brand New.

The album consists largely of power chord-heavy pop-punk songs, detailing the highs and lows of teenage relationships and experiences. It received mixed critical reviews and was widely received as a typical "emo" release for the time, albeit with slightly more intelligent lyrics than those of the band's contemporaries.

After signing a single album deal on Triple Crown Records, the band set to work on their debut, Your Favorite Weapon. The album was to be a mix of rerecorded songs from their demos as well as several new ones. The album was produced by Mike Sapone and was a moderate success. The record deal gave the band the opportunity to tour, both nationally and internationally, supporting bands like Taking Back Sunday, Less Than Jake, Glassjaw, Incubus and Finch.

The song title "Seventy Times 7" in Your Favorite Weapon comes from a verse in the Holy Bible - Matthew 18:22 - where Jesus tells Peter he must forgive his brother "seventy times seven times" - "Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how oft should I forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy times seven times.". The song is about a disagreement between Jesse Lacey and childhood friend John Nolan, then-guitarist in Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday later released "There's No 'I' in Team," which is their side of the story. Lacey and Nolan are now on good terms again and are well past the issue.

The album was released on October 9th, 2001.  The length is of the album is 41:27, and received 3 / 5 stars by allmusic.

Original release:

  • "The Shower Scene" – 2:24
  • "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" – 3:41
  • "Sudden Death in Carolina" – 3:01
  • "Mix Tape" – 3:57
  • "Failure by Design" – 3:15
  • "Last Chance to Lose Your Keys" – 3:25
  • "Logan to Government Center" – 3:02
  • "The No Seatbelt Song" – 4:29
  • "Seventy Times 7" – 3:32
  • "Secondary" – 3:01
  • "Magazines" – 2:50
  • "Soco Amaretto Lime" – 4:46
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Favorite_Weapon)


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Deja Entendu (2003)

Posted by Jared Morris

Deja Entendu is the second album from Long Island based band Brand New, released in 2003. The album contains slower, deeper songs than those on Your Favorite Weapon, with a more polished sound. The title is French, literally translating to "already heard," which is said to be at critics who claimed that the band sounded like every other group in the genre. Jesse Lacey got the name for the album while watching an episode of Jeopardy!. The band has stated that most of the songs were not demoed and were "rushed", and that eleven out of the twelve songs recorded for the album appeared on it - with only "Flying At Tree Level (Version 1.0)" left off, which later appeared on the Beer: The Movie soundtrack. "Play Crack the Sky", whose title refers to Lacey's friend yelling out "play Crack the Sky!" during another band's concert, was a late addition. The album debuted at number 63 on the Billboard 200.

Three singles were released from this album on Eat Sleep Records and Sorepoint Records. The first single released was "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows." Their second single from the album, "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades," is a shortened version of the common Latin phrase sic transit gloria mundi ("Thus passes the glory of the world") and is a reference to a line from the movie Rushmore. Both of these singles were top 40 hits within the UK, and their videos received relatively heavy rotation on MTV2 and Fuse TV. The band released a third single from this album, "I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light," (the title a reference to a line in the young adult book The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks) solely for radio play.

The album was released on June 17th, 2003.  The length is of the album is 48:47, and received 4 / 5 stars by allmusic.

Track listing:
  • "Tautou" – 1:42
  • "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" – 3:06
  • "I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light" – 3:57
  • "Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't" – 5:35
  • "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" – 4:01
  • "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot" – 4:39
  • "Jaws Theme Swimming" – 4:34
  • "Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis" – 5:19
  • "Guernica" – 3:23
  • "Good to Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have to Do Is Die" – 7:00
  • "Play Crack the Sky" – 5:27
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_Entendu)

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The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)

Posted by Jared Morris

The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is the third full length album by the alternative rock band Brand New, and their major label debut on Interscope Records.  The album debuted at number 31 on the Billboard 200, selling about 60,000 copies in its first week.  Two singles from the album were released — "Sowing Season" on November 21, 2006 and "Jesus Christ" on April 30, 2007.  The name of the album came from a conversation Jesse Lacey had with a friend regarding Daniel Johnston, a musician who suffers from bipolar disorder.

On January 24, 2006, nine demos recorded in preparation of the new album were leaked onto the Internet. All nine tracks were untitled and were of unknown origin. It was stated by an unknown source that these demos "probably won't be on Fight Off Your Demons", the then-rumored title for the new album based on the band's new website address. In the following months, with Brand New doing their first tour dates in over 18 months, a few songs from the demos were performed with a full band, some were fleshed out and had new lyrics. New songs had their debut as well during the summer tour dates. There was much speculation about the names of songs and the album name but very little solid information. Brand New began their first tour in years on June 20, 2006 at New Jersey's famous Starland Ballroom, where Lacey stated that the album had been finished the previous day.

The album cover is a picture from Nicholas Prior's "Age of Man" collection which the band saw at an art show and later used. Unusually, the outside of the cardboard case contains no song listings, and doesn't contain the name of the album or the band name anywhere but on the spine. The record company instead placed stickers on the plastic wrapping to indicate the name of the album and band, and on the UK version to indicate that it had the bonus track.  The album is dedicated to 15 people who died during the recording of the record, who are listed in the booklet: Robert Sherman, Red Lacey, Leo Lacey, Bill and Virginia Sherman, James McAuliffe, Rosemary Kancelerski, Frances Ambrosio, Manfred Cardone III, Sid Rosen, Seymour Lane, Michelle Lane, George Moe, Alexander Lambros, and Omar Ortega.

The album was released on November 20th, 2006.  The length is of the album is 54:51, and received 4.5 / 5 stars by allmusic.

Track listing:

All lyrics written by Jesse Lacey, except "Handcuffs", which was written by Vincent Accardi.
  • "Sowing Season"/"Sowing Season (Yeah)" – 4:30
  • "Millstone" – 4:16
  • "Jesus"/"Jesus Christ" – 5:18
  • "Degausser" – 5:32
  • "Limousine (MS Rebridge)"/"Limousine" – 7:42
  • "You Won't Know" – 5:42
  • "Welcome to Bangkok" – 3:05
  • "Not the Sun" – 3:09
  • "Luca" – 5:08
  • "--"/"Untitled" – 2:04
  • "The Archers Bows Have Broken"/"Archers" – 4:14
  • "Handcuffs" – 4:10
  • "Luca - Reprisal Version" – 4:02 (UK edition bonus track)
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_and_God_Are_Raging_Inside_Me)

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My favorite Quotes

Posted by Jared Morris

Jude law and a semester abroad
"No more songs about you
After this one, I am done
You are, you are, you're gone"

"Even if her plane crashes tonight
she'd still find some way to disappoint me
by not burning in the wreckage or
drowning at the bottom of the sea"
Mix Tape
"And I know that you're a sucker for anything acoustic.
But when I say let's keep in touch,
I really mean I wish that you'd grow up."
Seventy Times 7
"So, is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with.
Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish.
I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there's ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield."
Soco Amaretto Lime
"You're just jealous cause we're young and in love"
Magazines
"Come to me
the only brokenhearted loser you’ll ever need"
I will play my game beneath the spin light
"If looks could really kill, 
then my profession would be staring. "
Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
"I am heaven sent, 
don't you dare forget.
i am all you've ever wanted,
what all the other boys all promised."

"oh my tongue's the only muscle on my body
that works harder than my heart."
The boy who blocked his own shot
"I'm glad that you can forgive
I'm only hoping as time goes, you can forget. "

"You are the smell before rain
You are the blood in my veins."
Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis
"I will lie awake
Lie for fun and fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say"
Play crack the sky
"what they call love is a risk
cause you will always get hit out of nowhere
by some wave 
and end up on your own."
Millstone
"I used to know the name of every person I'd kissed.
Now I made this bed and I can't fall asleep in it."
Degausser
"Life is a test and I get bad marks
Now some saint got the job of writing down my sins
The storm is com
ing, the storm is coming in"
You Won't Know
"So they say,
They say in heaven
There's no husbands and wives
On the day that I show up
They'll be completely out
Of their forgiveness supplies"
Not the Sun
"Well don't be that note I can't hold
Well don't be that joke that I told and told 'til it got old
Don't be that hand 'round my throat so I can breath
Say you're my friend but why won't you be my family?"

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Best Youtube Vidoes

Posted by Jared Morris



This seriously has to be the best copy of Okay I believe you but my Tommy gun don't, that I have ever seen.

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