Riot - Paramore

Advantages: An excellent album from a powerful female fronted band.
Disadvantages: Not a fan of female vocals? Stay well away.

2004 was the year that Paramore formed, the year later they released their début album 'All We Know Is Falling' through Fueled By Ramen records, and then their second album 'Riot!' appeared on the scene in 2007. 'Riot!' was recorded in New Jersey with the producer David Bendeth, an eleven track offering of utmost excellence. Paramore have come a long way as a band in their few years and this has to be seen as in no small part down to their gifted ...
...of power and emotion in her voice, she conveys these qualities with great eloquence when she sings making Paramore a true force to be reckoned with. The album begins with 'For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic', a great title for a track; that's for sure. It starts the album brilliantly, kicks it off with real heartfelt vigour and always it goes down well with me. Right from the opening guitar riff you know that this one is going to be something ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent songcraft, some emo classics.
Disadvantages: Not for haters of 'emo', some over familiar standards.

Paramore are a band who are there to be knocked down. Signed to Pete Wentz's label Decaydance, a part of Fueled By Ramen, who are responsible for throwing out a large number of emo bands dominating the independent and mainstream charts at the moment, for example Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy. Paramore are also essentially an emo band in the meaning of the word, creating loud, powerful pop-punk music for the charts and fans of pop music. Yet ...
...full of horrendously catchy tunes, and have an excellent, charismatic frontwoman in the form of 17/18 year old Hayley Williams. She provides a strong, confident voice to make the songs reach higher levels which puts them ahead of a lot of their peers, and have overcome obstacles that have caused other emo bands to stumble. And so the album begins. Starting with 'For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic', a typical emo song title. The song begins loud, ... Read review

Advantages: Everything about it to be honest.
Disadvantages: Not much really.

I've been quite a big fan of paramore for well over a year, before the whole supposed 'emo' craze was about and personally they're more rock/pop than 'emo'. I think that they should be encouraged as a rock band especially as there are not enough female singers around in that genre of music. Just because hayley's a girl and tends to write more meaningful songs doesn't necessarily mean they should be classed as that. Anyway! Now thats off my chest... ...
...all we know is falling, they also had some outstanding and to this day amazing song's but there were a few too many weak links. In Riot, for me, there is only one weak link which is a pretty damn good achievment for a teenage rock band. ( More on that later) -The album opens with 'For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optomistic'. When I listened to the whole album for the first time, this was my favourite. It shows off Hayley's voice amazingly and has a ... Read review

Advantages: great album
Disadvantages: none

Paramore Riot Released 2007 For a pessimist im pretty optimistic 03:48 This has a consistent amazing beat and an awesome rhythm and the vocals are absolutely mind-blowing. Lyrics are great to sing along to so easy to memorize it took me two listens of the song to remember them. That's what you get 3:40 Again amazing vocals and lyrics Hayley Williams (vocalist) has to be the best female singer by FAR! I've also been told this band are good ...
...is the thing that makes this song what it is because if you take the beat away this song would be crap. Hallelujah 03:23 This Track has a brilliant rhythm and tempo. Vocals again are brilliant and consistent great choice of lyrics. Easy to memorize. The vocals are slow(ish) which makes the song even greater. Misery business 03:31 This song starts off with violins and then the guitar takes over carrying on the violin rhythm is sounds amazing! ... Read review

Advantages: great new sound, great to dance to.
Disadvantages: too little from the boys

I got this album after listening to misery business and loving what i heard. It has lots of different elements that work well together. The band have finally found their niche for their album. Their last album was too mixed and i found myself getting bored very easily. On this album there are 11 very powerful songs. For a pessimist I'm pretty optimistic opens the album to loud funky guitars that don't sound pessimistic at all. That's what you get ...
...between the head and the heart and what happens when the heart wins. Hallelujah is a quite slow song but still full of screechy guitars and loud drums. The band is a christian band and this song is full of religious imagery such as doves and eternity. Misery business is a punky jumpy song that you just want to dance to. It is about a battle between the popular and not so popular people for the perfect guy. When it rains is a slow ballad which ... Read review