'Jamie All Over' is one of my favourite songs ever. In the times when we used to use MySpace, it was my profile song for longer than i can remember, and it's one of about five songs I desperatly want to hear live. 'A Lesson In Romantics', the album the song comes from, is one of my favourites too, it's pop punk at it's best. So i was pretty excited when i saw Mayday Parade's new album on spotify 'Anywhere But Here'.
The theme is the same, love, with the first track 'Kids In Love' setting this up, but the songs just aren't as good as previous albums & EP's. I was hoping for more epic tracks like 'Miserable at Best' and 'Three Cheers for Five Years' (Both tracks sound amazing when done in acoustic), but they just weren't there. The closest track that comes to this is the second to last track 'I swear this time I mean it', which is the only acoustic track on the album and sounds more like it could be on a previous album than any of the other songs. Maybe i'm boring for wanting more of the old stuff, but I think that's when Mayday Parade where best. Don't get me wrong, I've not started hating Pop-Punk since I saw All Time Low (see the previous blog), i thought Boys Like Girls new album was really good, and this album isn't bad, I just think some bands are getting lazy and need to go back to the style that made them popular in the first place.
If Mayday Parade tour the UK i'll definatly be there, but only to hear the older tracks, and to finally hear 'Jamie All Over' live.
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