Marianas Trench - Say Anything
ARTIST.....: Marianas Trench
TITLE......: Say Anything
LABEL......: 604 Records
URL........: www.marianastrench.net
RIP DATE...: Aug-12-2006
STORE DATE.: 000-00-0000
GENRE......: Rock
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 16,9 MB
Track Listing:
01 - say anything (video version) 03:52
02 - shake tramp 03:34
03 - feeling small 03:37
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11:03 min
Release Notes:
Alright. So with this cd/ep has the video for "Say Anything" and
track 1 is the same song that is used for the video which is
different than the explicit album version and was labeled as such
on this rip. Enjoy!
Vancouver quartet that combine the insane vocal arrangements of
Jellyfish, the alt/rock quitar driven attack of the Foo Fighers,
the aesthetics of the Beach Boys, and the angst filled emotional
lyricism of Jimmy Eat World.
Marianas Trench
Josh Ramsay - Guitar and Vocals
Ian Casselman - Drums and Vocals
Matt Webb - Guitar and Vocals
Michael Ayley - Bass and Vocals
Drinking deep from what front man and founder Josh Ramsay jokingly
refers to as the goblet of rock Marianas Trench delivers guitar
anthems that kick loud and hard. Soaring in and around the
guitar/bass/drum fury are four highly trained singers with the
skill to break into a cappella flights of harmony. The result: A
novel mix of brash and innocent, yearning melodicism and over-the
-top rock dynamics.
Fix Me, Marianas Trenchs full-length 604 Records debut, documents
a hugely ambitious Vancouver quartet that has been relentlessly
writing, fine-tuning and performing since the turn of the decade.
We are ready to take over the world and save the universe from
evil, says, Ramsay only half kidding. We are persistent little
bastards. We want to be doing 250 shows a year. We will eat Kraft
Dinner every night. We are prepared to do whatever it takes.
The albums 11 songs cram in more hooks and ideas than the pop
medium can typically absorb. The Dave Genn (MGB, 54.40) produced
sound is raw and alive, marked by Ramsays wounded howl, the rhythm
sections lockstep surge and one flaming guitar riff after the
next. As for the tightly arranged tag-team vocals, theyre the real
deal, free from any post-production tweaking and a highlight of
the live show.
Marianas Trench comes by its hybrid rock/vocal sound honestly.
There was never a point where I thought, Okay, lets stick this
together with that, explains Ramsay. I grew up amidst a crazy
amount of music. Most people are influenced by their favorites,
and mine just happen to be from radically different sides of the
spectrum.
Ramsays dad, Miles, once owned Little Mountain Sound, the
Vancouver recording studio that in its 1980s prime hosted
Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and AC/DC. (I can remember guys like Steven
Tyler and Tommy Lee walking around, but I was a little young to be
telling Tyler, Dude, that was a wicked vocal.) His mother, Corlynn
Hanney, is a vocal teacher whose career was highlighted by two
years of touring and recording with Leonard Cohen. My parents were
into the Beach Boys and anything else that had a lot of singing.
Eventually I discovered Green Day, Foo Fighters, shit like that.
But I never lost interest in all those cool vocal bands like
Jellyfish.
Ramsay racked up his first solo gig in a coffeehouse at 14. Seated
beside him in the high school band was Matt Webb, a multi-
instrumentalist who switched to guitar when he joined Marianas
Trench in 2001. Both were also tenors in the school choir. Back
home, Ramsay was learning to engineer his own songs, building
teenage symphonies with the same 16-track Neve console Bryan Adams
and Jim Vallance had used to write Kids Wanna Rock and Summer of
69.
Over the years Ramsay has reigned in his hyperactive creative
imagination. The learning curve was mastered with input from a
string of producers. John Webster (Tom Cochrane) handled early
demos. And once Marianas Trench was signed to 604, Warne Livesey
(Matthew Good Band, Midnight Oil), Brad McGivern (Bif Naked,
Lillix) and the Nickelback combo of Chad Kroeger and Joey Moi
helped refine the material further.
It was Dave Genn, however, who got the call to co-produce Fix Me
with the band. Genn was awesome, says Webb of the Vancouver-based
musician and producer. Ive respected and looked up to that guy for
a lot of reasons. And he just came in and did his magic.
Live, Ramsay and Webb trade guitar leads while the rhythm section
of Ian Casselman and Mike Ayley keeps the sound powering forward.
The gig is youve got to be able to play, says Webb, but youve also
got to sing. For a lark during concerts, theyve been known to
croon a cappella versions of Good Vibrations and Billy Joels And
So It Goes.
Cocky and confident in the knowledge that Marianas Trench has
worked supremely hard to get to this point, Ramsay says the band
intends to break fast from the starting gate once Fix Me hits the
street. Weve been waiting a long time for this moment, and we
intend to bust our balls to make it happen. What can I say, 100
million fans won't be wrong.
www.marianastrench.net
http://www.myspace.com/marianastrench