AR: You Me At Six - Hold Me Down

First impressions on first listen:
I don't like it at all.
I like 'The Consequence' and fell in love with that when I first heard it back in November.
As for the rest of the album, fuck, all he does is complain. I'm currently on track 9 out of 12 and quite frankly, I'm not sure I can take much more. There are no happy songs that I can put on a party mix or anything.
I think it sounds a lot like new Paramore stuff which isn't good because I hate everything Paramore have done since their first album.
At the moment, I don't think this cd was worth the £9.99 I forked out for it.

Album artwork:
Don't like it. Nuff said. It's boring.
Something that I've noticed, the sleeve says that Aled Phillips (KIGH) features on track 11 but he actually features on track 10...

After a few listens:
I must admit that I like the album overall a lot more now that I've heard it a few times and got used to some of the songs. I'm not going to do a long and boring track-by-track review but I'll touch on a few of the songs.
Basically, this album annoys me because he just keeps banging on about how his girlfriend cheated on him and after the first couple of songs I only wish she hadn't of cheated on him because then he wouldn't have written this dreadful album. I mean serious, he complains in every single song. For me the stand out tracks are 'Underdog' and 'The Consequence' but that's only because they are the songs that sound the most like stuff on their debut album. I also quite like 'playing the blame game', 'hard to swallow' and 'safer to hate her' although Josh has miraculously regained this American twang on his voice which I find annoying. And something I really didn't like was that 'contagious chemistry' could easily have been the standout track on this record HOWEVER the entire song is ruined by the "you bitch" at the end. Very disappointing.

Comparison:
What I liked about You Me At Six and their debut album, Take off your colours, was that it had a more fun feel to it for example tracks like 'Gossip' and this second album is just totally different. Although, when saying this I do take into account that some of the songs on TOYC were written when the band members were 15-16 years old but that's what I prefer. For God's sake Josh Franceschi, stop complaining about your girlfriend and get over it.

Best track: The consequence.
Worst track: Liquid confidence.
Rating (average rating of all album tracks): 3/5

[Rock Sound: 8/10][Kerrang!: 4/5]

01 TV Review Post That No One Can Think Of A Name That Isn't Lame For

I don't know how long these will last but we might as well give it a go.

Celebrity Big Brother.

This will be the first and last time I will watch an episode of this series although it did appear to look quite good seeing as it's the last series etc so they've just chucked all the money they could find at it. Probably the best thing about it is the house which is amazing but scared the hell out of me. Seriously, basing the kitchen on an autopsy room? I can't deal. I don't really have much to say about anyone who's gone in there. I think the final will be between Lady Sovereign, Vinnie Jones and Basshunter. I am backing any sort of campaign to get Sisqo's thong song to number one. I met Dane Bowers once, we were gonna buy his apartment, he used to live in Purley. Finally, I can not believe they all fitted in that mini...
No more Big Brother talk until the launch night of the normal one in Summer.

90210.

This programme neither is interesting nor does it make any sense whatsoever.
I still stand by my view that 90210 is the worst programme I have ever seen.

8 Out Of 10 Cats.

Probably, no, definitely the best thing about Big Brother is that 8 out of 10 Cats comes back!
I love this programme, I love Jimmy Carr and Sean Lock however, I do not find Jason Manford at all laugh out loud funny. He needs to get out. Other than that it was good this week. Although I was disappointed that Shappi Khorsandi didn't talk as much as I wanted her to.

Heroes.

ZOMG! I was so excited for this despite not remembering anything that happened at the end of the last series and I have to say I was very disappointed. The only thing that you actually needed to recall from the last series was that Sylar morphed into Nathan Patrelli and Parkman erased Sylar's memory to make him believe that he was Nathan. In short, the two episodes I watched were possibly the most boring episodes of Heroes I have ever seen. I hope that it can only get better from here. Although something that I did like was that Claire is trying to carry on her life as normal by going to college which actually made the programme seem a little bit more realistic. Other than that, it really wasn't worth it.

I'd like to mention that I have watched more tv than this but these are like the new series that I thought were worth writing about.
Next week will include (hopefully): Glee, Come dine with me, CSI:NY

Got Some Tunes [January]

Hello two zero one zero.

The playlist above features all songs on this post. You Me At Six and Delphic have disabled embedding their videos. Follow the url (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9CE794DE85085946) to watch the playlist on youtube where you can view all of the videos.

You Me At Six: Underdog
This is the first single to be released from their new album 'Hold Me Down'. I must admit that I didn't like it at all at first and I thought 'The consequence' was much better but 'Underdog' has grown on me. I think it's only the chorus that I don't like but the song's got a pretty good message if you ask me.

Young Guns: Winter kiss
OMG I LOVE YOUNG GUNS. This is such a tune. The chorus has a proper hook and Gustav Wood's voice is like phwwoaarrr. This single is also gonna be released for free, winner!

Sub Focus: Could this be real
This is the first Sub Focus song that I've heard with vocals on and it does not dissapoint at all. A really good dance record in my opinion.

Drake: Forever (feat. Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Eminem)
OMG I LOVE THIS SONG. I'm not too familiar with Drake's work but I've heard a bit of his stuff. What I like about him especially in this song is that he sings the chorus as well as rapping one of the verses. Although it does annoy me slightly that he's brought in all this big name artists, can hip hop artists not just release a good song on their own for once?

DJ Earworm: United State of Pop 2009 (Blame it on the pop)
THE MOST AMAZING MASHUP I HAVE EVER HEARD. DJ Earworm has taken the top 25 billboard hits of 2009 and made a four and a half minute mashup. Just listening to it I can't imagine how long that took him and the video is just a total other level.

Delphic: Doubt
Hello just another band on the synth indie rock bandwagon, it's a shame this song's catchy! Not sure they'll last more than this one song though...

Marina & The Diamonds: Hollywood
I have before compared Marina & the Diamonds to a poor man's Florence & the Machine (I mean, it all starts with the name right) but I am now starting to regret that statement as I believe her songs have started to improve slightly. This song is cathcy, although it does have a rather odd video, but with lyrics like "Oh my god, you look just like Shakira, No no you're Catherine Zeta, Actually my name's Marina" she's destined to win over some haters.

Miike Snow: Silvia
I personally think anything made by Miike Snow is beautiful and this song is definitely no different. Fearne Cotton (who I would quite like to hit over the head with a frying pan) said that this song makes her cry; I don't think it's that deep but it's somewhere on that track.

2010 Update - Things Are Changing.

Right, so, as we all know (all being about three people), no one reads this blog.
SO, I'm gonna mix things up a bit because we all know that it's metter to bix things up.
From the start of 2010 this blog will become solely for reviews.


"Got some tunes" will stay for a monthly dose of new songs, although the name might change. I will link a youtube playlist to the "got some tunes" post every month featuring all the songs, might get rid of the ilike playlist seeing as it isn't compatible with most web browsers =/

I will attempt to do a weekly television review. I waste so many hours in front of the telebox it'd be stupid to waste it. This will probably happen every sunday afternoon and I'll give links to iplayer and stuff so that it can easily be watched.

Thanks to Sharon, I now have spotify. This means I can review full length albums, check me ouuutt.

Oh and more of those video analysis things to come, they were well fun xD


I think that's it.
Blog title will be changing as well, but the url will stay the same (Y)
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VA: Justin Bieber - One Time

VA = Video Analysis.
I just can't help myself =)

For anyone reading this who doesn't know who Justin Bieber is, he's a fifteen year old from Canada, made videos on youtube, got signed by Usher. Here's his video for "One time":


First thing is first, yes he is cute, but no I so totally wouldn't. (Surprising huh?)
Gosh there's gonna be trouble when his voice breaks =/

• Right so JB starts off in Usher's house playing some xbox with his mate, Brian, as you do! I one, wonder if that is Usher's house, two, does Usher have an xbox and three, is Brian an actual friend of JB's?
• "That was not luck, that was skills." Yeah I'm sure it was, shame we can't see what you're actually playing though.
• Check out how spaced out Brian looks when JB's chatting with Usher. Made me laugh so hard xD
• Who in their right mind would let two fifteen year olds have a party in their massivvvee house?
  
• I quite like how JB only send a text to Kelsey yet some girl and her friend and some randoms on the street all get a text about this party. Brian must have been busy sending out those invites!
• Hey, this party looks like fun, but woah wait, where's Brian? Oh no don't worry it's fine, just saw him looking bored in the background.
• A positive comment, he has a nice watch.
• He keeps telling me that he's going to tell me one time, but I'm not quite sure what he's going to tell me. And he has definitely told me more than once that he's going to tell me.
  
• Right so this girl he's all over. Surely she's at least three years older than him and presonally, I don't think she's that much of a looker but you know, each to their own and all that.
• "Oh shit, I have to go." Are the actual words I read off her lips. He looks proper gutted when all he gets is a kiss on the cheek xD
• Haven't seen Brian in a while though... I wonder where he's got to =/
• Oh hey Usher, he doesn't seem to mind a hundred or so teenagers round his house. PARTY AT USHERS (Y).
• Oh shit, I just watched the video again and his friend isn't called Brian at all... he's called Ryan. Sorry buddy!
  

I liked doing this.
More of these to come methinks.
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