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Be My Escape: Album List
Journeys into Pop Punk & Emo 1999 – 2009 Here you will find a selection of essays and reflections on the albums that made us who we are today. The Album List
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Fall Out Boy – From Under The Cork Tree
An utterly unavoidable album. From Under The Cork Tree remains one of the defining releases of the 00s. Accessible, poetic, poppy and witty. Respected by the underground and saturated in the Mainstream. Fall Out Boy cresting on their successful ambitions. Rounding off the sharper edges of the post-hardcore scene, blending it with pop-punk and mixing…
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Panic! at the Disco- A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
Now I’m of consenting ageTo be forgetting you in a cabaretSomewhere downtown where a burlesque queenMay even ask my nameAs she sheds her skin on stageI’m seated and sweating to a dance song on the club’s PAThe strip joint veteran sits two awaySmirking between dignified sips of his dignifiedPeach and lime daiquiri… A Fever You…
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Alkaline Trio – Crimson
There’s someone down below blowing you a kissThey watch from their windowsAs all arms fall to their sides, and all eyes fixOn the death of tomorrow Alkaline Trio’s Crimson is a portrait of a band in flux. But then, they’d always been in motion. From their hard-scrabble roots as bicycle messengers on Chigaco’s West Side,…
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Paramore – Riot
This is how we’ll dance whenWhen they try to take us downThis is how we’ll sing, ohThis is how we’ll stand whenWhen they burn our houses downThis is what we’ll be, oh, glory My time in the middle of the Pop Punk and Emo tornado was really only three full years, 2004, 2005, 2006. That…
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Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends
She said“Don’t, don’t let it go to your headBoys like you are a dime a dozenBoys like you are a dime a dozen” She said“You’re a touch overratedYou’re a lush and I hate itBut these grass stains on my kneesThey won’t mean a thing” Part of an elite club of albums on the cusp of…
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Dashboard Confessional – The Swiss Army Romance
On the way home this car hears my confessionsI think tonight I’ll take the long way MSN messenger was launched in 1999, developed by Microsoft as a way for internet users to chat with their friends. With the Internet still firmly in the Web 1.0 era, with browsers navigating between distinct websites, MSN was a…
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Fightstar – They Liked You Better When You Were Dead
Keep all the lights offAnd I’ll try to kill our past timeJust to find your heartPlease dont ignore meOr I’ll just fall asleepAnd wake up when you’re gone This is an EP which I regard as a classic of the Post-Hardcore genre, and one of the best English rock releases of the 00s. But Fightstar…
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Jimmy Eat World – Static Prevails / Clarity / Bleed American
Let’s disappearWe’ll take a trip of no return to outer spaceAnd swim in pools which keep us warmCleaned off the sand from off your feet We’ll dance off time to the songs we’ve never likedAnd sing off-key, thinking it sounds all right 1996’s Static Prevails is actually Jimmy Eat World’s second album- their limited-edition debut…
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My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
“Another contusion, my funeral jagHere’s my resignation, I’ll serve it in dragYou’ve got front row seats to the penitence ballWhen I grow up I want to be nothing at all” Very rarely do bands set out to make a classic album and succeed. My Chemical Romance wanted to make a modern capital-R Rock album which could stand aside…
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