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(YES I KNOW IT'S OLD AS FUCK SUE ME. :P)

Okay, so. First, from a Hush Sound myspace bulletin:

Q: Tell us about your craziest touring experience.

GRETA: On the 2006 Panic Tour, we played the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach [JUNE 24TH]. After the show, most of the bands and crew walked a mile to the beach and, having not brought our swimsuits, decided to swim in underwear or totally nude. Bob and I opted to skinny dip and, at one point, he was trying to get back to the shore but the waves were crashing over him and he was gasping for breath. I yelled to him, 'Bob, are you going to live? As much as I want to help you, we are both naked so I can't.' (Would have been far too awkward). Thankfully, he survived in one glorious piece.

(Just a little note: AHAHAHAHAH GRETA/BOB SQUEEEEE!!! ^____^
Ahem. Moving on.)

THE NEXT DAY (or later that night), June 25th, Ryan Ross posts this journal entry:


6-25-06 01:21:28 PDT - (No Subject)

The moon bred new Atlantic life tonight.the salt burned you right out of my eyes.and secrets weÂ’re not proud of were taken with the tide. We were all newborns with blurred vision and no sense of direction.

Today I saw cancer, cigarettes and shortness of breath.
this is why I walk to the ocean.swim with jellyfish.I may never get this chance again.
this is why if you want to kiss you should kiss.
If you want to cry you should cry, and
if you want to live you should live.
You donÂ’t have to love me. You already did. At least enough to keep me smiling from South Carolina to Virginia.it's for lovers (orjustfriends)
This is why I do it.


RYAN ROSS YOU CANNOT DENY THE FACT THAT A) YOU'RE GAY B) YOU TOTALLY SCREWED BRENDON URIE IN THE SEA/ON THE SHORE C) YOU WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT LATER (see: 'Behind the sea' by Panic at the Disco) AND D) YOU ARE GAY. OHAI I ALREADY MENTIONED THAT. WELL FUCK YOU IT'S WORTH MENTIONING AGAIN. Just, guys. y/y/mfy?

Anyone who dares to tell me that 'Behind The Sea' isn't about this and/or blowjobs shall be bitten. :P

Däni. sanoo:
OMGGGGGGGGSH
but, i warn you, they're MAD AS RABBBITTTSSS !
Phrida sanoo:
AHAHAHAHHAHAHA
I bet they are!
...and AT IT LIKE RABBITS, TOO.
Däni. sanoo:
cause they have NINE IN THE AFTERNOON !
Phrida sanoo:
(I'm sorry, I kind of could not skip that pun : DDDDDDDDD)
Däni. sanoo:
and they think THE DAY CAN MEET THE NIGHT !
Phrida sanoo:
AHA! and they HAVE FRIENDS IN HOLY SPACES!
and they FOLK AROUND BEHIND THE SEA!
Däni. sanoo:
YEAH ! AND THE NORTHEN DOWNPOUR SENDS ITS LOVE !
Phrida sanoo:
WHOOPEE!
Däni. sanoo:
AND THE PIANO KNOWS SOMETHING, THEY DON'T !
i'm the piano.
Phrida sanoo:
ahah YES : DD
AND THE PIANO ALSO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE SEEING
Däni. sanoo:
O.o how's THAT possible?
Phrida sanoo:
...BECAUSE THE PIANO HAD THE WORLD, DUDE!
Däni. sanoo:
OMGGGGGGGGGG !
Phrida sanoo:
THAT'S how!
Däni. sanoo:
THEY'RE SO STARVING !
gotta buy food to them <3
Phrida sanoo:
OMG! The green gentleman has run off to get them food. <3
Däni. sanoo:
ZOMG
Phrida sanoo:
BUT THEY ARE STILL STARVING, BECAUSE THE GREEN GENTLEMAN GOT PAS DE CHEVAL-ED (IDK what that means, but it sounds cool) BY THE HANDSOME WOMAN!!
AND TAKEN AWAY TO THE MOUNTAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CABINS!
Däni. sanoo:
ZOMG ! WE'RE ALL GONNNNNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Phrida sanoo:
YEAH
COME BACK, GREEN GENTLEMAN!
Däni. sanoo:
ZOMG ! WE GOTTA HAVE HIM BACK !
Phrida sanoo:
YES!
Däni. sanoo:
I FOUND HIM !
LOOK ! ->

//*changes icon*//

Phrida sanoo:
:'''DDD
is that... PETE WENTZ there? : DDDDDDDDDDD
Däni. sanoo:
it's the green gentleman ! :'DDDD
yeah :'DDDDDD
it's THE GREEN GENTLEWENTZ !

ZOMGGG DÄNI IS A MAGICIAN!

AHAH guys my day was made of fail. (You are gonna LOL so bad when you read this, jsyk. :DD)

I was at work, taking care of the kid (feeding him ice cream, what!), sitting on a bench, when a 50+ drunkard in a too big wintercoat sat down beside me. I was all "...?", and the kid just munched on his icecream. (Ungrateful bastard. :P) Then the guy started blabbering, something about midsummer and drinking and stuff, and then I told him that I don't drink or smoke and he went all "...varmasti sulla on JOTAIN paheita! *wink wink*" and I was just EWWWWWWWWWWWW. :P and then he told me he thought single, teenage moms were 'really sexy', and that's when I decided to bolt. Like, FAST. :D
and, anyway, then I was with the kid and built a sandcastle and showed him boats and ducks and stuff, and then we were in the park and he was playing beside the carriage and I was sitting on a bench (again; benchs in general seem to be unlucky for me) when a 50+ crazy old lady glared down at me (and what's with all these old people stalking me anyway? :P) and went all "young lady, are you responsible for this kid?" (in Finnish, DUH) and pointed down at the kid. I just went "...um, yeah? *confused face*".
AND THEN! YOU GUYS! this crazy, nutters woman started yelling at me - all arms waving like windmills and red in the face - about how I am ruining my life and what an irresponsible girl I am and how I probably am sleeping around a lot and how I've destroyed my whole future and how could I allow myself to get knocked up at my age?, and what's with the youth these days anyway when they're all just at it like bunnies and that that's how tragic cases like me happen and can't I see what's gonna become of my future when I had a kid at sixteen, and how -
and she went on and on and on and on about it for about 7 minutes, and I was just totally fucking gobsmacked and couldn't even reply to her, I was so shocked. I mean, guys, WTF. WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF. :''''''D
so, after seven minutes of constant ranting, she finally had to break for air long enough for me to tell her that "um, excuse me, but I am just the kid's babysitter." and MAN, guys. you should have seen her face! LOL :DD (but, then of course I couldn't resist it, so I just went "and SO WHAT if the kid would have been mine?!" and she got so shocked she just spluttered and ran away. LOL.)
I mean, JESUS. *headdesk* :P
and then when we went for another walk down to the boats, the kid totally yelled "MUUUUM!" and I had to pick him up and hug him and stuff, and of course everyone around us thought he was mine. and four working guys (30+, and NO JENNY THEY WEREN'T FIT, THEY WERE UGLY. and NO THEY WEREN'T DRUNK EITHER, WHYDDYA THINK PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO BE DRUNK TO HIT ON ME?? :P) totally whistled after me when we left. *headdesk xEternity*

so, yeah. GOD HOW WACKO HAS THIS DAY BEEN. I give out a teenage mum-vibe. SHIT. : DDDD
(this is long as fuck. sue me. :P)

HOLY JESUS CANNOT BREATHE AHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH(...)AHAHHAHAHAH I CAN'T BREATHE : DDDDDDD

“Your name is Bob,” Frank repeated. That was so awesome.

“Yeah.” Bob looked sort of confused.

“And you’re secretly not mean at all,” Frank added, delighted.

Bob scratched his head. “I guess,” he said. “I don’t want to be mean or anything. People just kind of leave me alone.”

“That’s awesome,” Frank said. “I’m small, and no one leaves me alone ever. So I’m going to stick with you from now on.”

There were a bunch of ways Bob could have reacted to that. He could have yelled at Frank to leave him alone, or laughed at him, or punched him in the face. Frank was sort of prepared for any of those.

Instead, Bob looked mildly embarrassed and shrugged. “Okay,” he said. “I guess.”

Frank fell a little bit in love.

HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS?

(see earlier post)


DO YOU NOW? - 2:56 D.Poynter / H.Judd

- As this is a completely independent review and i can choose what i want to review, i will not reveal any lyrics or anything about this track at all, apart from 6 words and a rating:

SEXUALLY EXPLICIT.

SOUNDS LIKE THE KOOKS.

10/10



SEXUALLY EXPLICIT. WRITTEN BY H.JUDD AND D.POYNTER. LET ME BREATHE, PLEASE. JUST, LET ME BREATHE. I AM TOO YOUNG TO DIE. I AM TOO MUCH ENGULFED IN THE PUDD PUDD PUDD PUDD PUDD PUDD PUDD OVERLOAD TO DIE. BREATHE. BREATHE.

HARRY AND DOUGIE WROTE A 'SEXUALLY EXPLICIT' SONG TOGETHER.

BREATHE. BREATHING IS USEFUL. BREATHING IS IMPORTANT.

*keysmashes into all eternity*

CANNOT BREATHE CANNOT BREATHE AM FLAILING EMBARRASSINGLY MUCH. Massive joint freakout in mcfly_daily. YEAH.

HOW HOW HOW HOW CAN THEY MAKE US WAIT FOR IT SIX MORE WEEKS. I FEEL LIKE KICKING SOMEONE.

*flails embarrassingly much more*

YEZ, I AM SPAMMING MY OWN DIARY. SHUT UP. EMPHAZIS ON 'MY OWN', DUDE. :PP

All I can say is: fuck me.
OKAY, GUYS. Just read it, right? And THEN freak out over Dougie's solo (Blink182-style), Tom's solo, Danny's solo, and - here is the best part - HARRY'S DRUM SOLO. (Which proves "THAT HE IS ONE OF THE BEST DRUMMERS IN THE UK". YES, JUST YES, YOU GUYS, SO MUCH YES I CAN'T EVEN. OKAY.) And yeah, I had trouble breathing by then.

AND YES, HE SINGS LATER ON THE CD.

ARGH I'LL STFU, JUST READ IT?!

OH MY GOD I SO CANNOT CANNOT CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!11!!!ONEONE!!!!ELEVEN!!!!!!!!1!!!




EVERYBODY KNOWS - 5:02

"Don't expect results because the kids round here just don't give a ***"

- Everybody Knows is the perfect way to open the album... The track introduces us all to McFly v2.0. For years, i've been looking for something good to say about this band, and i think that, after 45 seconds.. this is the world-wide smash they've been waiting for. Demos of this track have been flying around for months and many critics (including myself), has heard it and thought, same old McFly. But with the real album version, this is definately a sign of good things to come.

10/10


ONE FOR THE RADIO - 3:11

"Don't pretend you hate us, then you sing our songs, coz we all look the same in the dark"

- This is the first release from the album, and you can really tell McFly are now an indie band. Yes, i said it. McFly are now an indie band, the same league as Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and Maximo Park. How have they turned indie? Well, they're pulling a fine indie trick. Release the worst song on the album.. Get people to love it, get it overplayed, then everyone will hate it. Kaisers did it with 'Ruby', Franz Ferdinand with 'Do You Want To?'. Yet, it's a good move. No matter how different people think this song sounds to the old stuff, it would not be out of place on third album; Motion In The Ocean.

5/10


CHOKE ON THE SUNSHINE - 3:42

"We know damn right that we should be hated, mis-intereptated, but do we actually give one? Go choke on the sunshine!"

- This is the summery song on the album, hence the '...Sunshine' title, and sees a mixture of Beach Boys surf rock and a darker side, more suited to Editors. Lead singer Danny Jones leads a chant of 'GO! CHOKE! GO! CHOKE!' more suited to a football crowd at the start of the song, but then can easily be edited out. Other than this, another stunner of a track from the lads.

8/10


LIES - 4:11

"You hate me, i love you, i don't smoke, but you do, so why should i disguise, myself behind your lies?"

- SOLO ALERT! Tom Fletcher takes over duties on this piano driven solo track. Despite what you'd think from the title and the key lyric, it's an upbeat track that sounds more like a ditty from the 1940s than anything McFly have ever recorded. This would be a perfect single choice for the boys, if only they'd all been involved in it. One of the best tracks on the album

9/10


FAIRYTALE NIGHTMARE - 4:56

"Nobody walked, and nobody dared talk, it's a minefield out there where you walk"

- This, ladies and gentlemen, is the SECOND best thing McFly have ever done (the best being the closing track, 'Lust In A Lonely City'). After the opening chords sounding like a dodgy 'Champagne Supernova', the song bursts into life, more along the lines of 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' by Green Day, or 'Fix You' from Coldplay's last album. This is definately single material, but do they want to risk one of their best tracks against commercial suicide? If McFly want to join the big boys, the answer's YES.

10/10

NEW CONNECTION - 3:04

"She ran away screaming for a new connection, coz everything had left her feeling down and desperate"

- A strange psychadelic track, with odd strums of an electric guitar, backed by drummer Harry Judd's constant beat, is possibly the STRANGEST thing McFly have ever done. Especially when bassist Dougie Poynter takes over vocal duties to reveal a post-Blink182 style yelp, which helps contrast this track to 'The Adventure' by Angels and Airwaves. Possible single, just for the sheer strangeness of it.

8/10


DON'T WANT YOUR HISTORY - 1:41

- Harry Judd FINALLY takes centre stage. After three albums, he's finally got his own track! But, to the disappointment of thousands of teenage girls, there's no singing from the drumming heart-throb. Just a solo effort on the drums that proves that he is one of the UK's best drummers. It leads nicely into the next track; Worn Out Smiles.

6/10



WORN OUT SMILES - 5:03

"Your worn out smiles, won't ruin me this time"

- After solo efforts from every other member of the band, the only most likely to go solo officially, Danny Jones, pops up with this. A minute of guitar crashing, ear deafening drumming and screams of 'NOT THIS TIME' fades out to a breezy Bruce Springsteen-like rock epic, in which Danny sings about life on the road, giving up nights out with the boys for 'bedtime glories' and the amount of fake people in the music industry. When the music fades at the end, Tom Fletcher is heard whispering 'Silence Is A Scary Sound'.. A nod to an old fan's favourite.

9/10

THE HEART NEVER LIES - 4:23

"We are the lovers, i hope you believe me"

- When i saw this on the tracklisting, i was honestly disappointed. I thought they were milking this track for all it's worth, and making the whole point of a Greatest Hits single worthless. However, i was shocked to hear a completely different recording. Opening with heavy drumming and a guitar solo Jimi Hendrix would be proud of, i knew this wasn't the track that lost out to a number one to Leona Lewis and Take That. This was McFly, putting right everything that was wrong with that single. Maybe if this version was released, it would've knocked the competition out of the water. Maybe McFly could turn even more indie and re-release it? I think so.

10/10


DO YOU NOW? - 2:56

- As this is a completely independent review and i can choose what i want to review, i will not reveal any lyrics or anything about this track at all, apart from 6 words and a rating:

SEXUALLY EXPLICIT.

SOUNDS LIKE THE KOOKS.

10/10


THIS IS A THREAT, NOT A PROMISE - 3:41

"Sometimes life gets hard, i want to throw it all away, but tomorrow reminds me of what i've lost and convinces me to say"

- Finally, a straight forward McFly song. If this sounds like anything they've done before, it's 'All About You'. This is simply an acoustic filler, loosening everyone up for the final track.

7/10


LUST IN A LONELY CITY - 6:38 (13:42)

"I fell for lust in a lonely city, where the ponds they shimmer and the girls are pretty"

- This track simply takes my breath away.

- Recently described by the band themselves as an 'epic', they were not lying. This is something Coldplay would be proud of. It's the best thing McFly have EVER done, and has to be a 'new direction'. This is their 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Don't Look Back In Anger' and 'Creep' all wrapped up into one. The whole band sing a verse or two each, yes, the whole band. Even Harry gets his tongue out for this one, singing the ironic line; 'Finally out of the shade, you've waited for this, 5 years and 4 days.' It was hard to pick a key lyric in this track as you can tell each and every line means so much to the band.

- 4 minutes after the end of this track, there's a strange buzzing noise, followed by a large belch (probably from joker Dougie Poynter), and then a acapella chant of 'I, Look Into The Sky'.. teasing the fans once more of the track 'Silence Is A Scary Sound'. The rest of the three minutes that this album plays for is full of random screams and chants that McFly fans are probably more familiar to than me... they include: 'Blood, Sweat, Tears, Four More Years!', 'We're The Young, We're Alright!', then a recorded version of the boys chanting 'We Don't Care', from 'One For The Radio'.

11/10


All in all, this is finally the real McFly.

Whether it's because they've left their record label, or whether they just dare to now, this is finally the album that will send them into outer space. A definate number one across the world, and a definate 'must-have' in the record collection, next to 'Definately Maybe', 'The Joshua Tree' and 'American Idiot'