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| Artist : plain white t's |
| Album : stop-RE-ISSUE |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Source : CD (LP) |
| Label : Fearless records |
| Year : 2007 |
| Genre : Rock |
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| Rip date : 2007-10-20 |
| Store date : 2007-00-00 |
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| Encoder : LAME |
| Size : 94 megs |
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| 1. stop 3:49 |
| 2. please dont do this 3:00 |
| 3. what if 2:51 |
| 4. fireworks 3:25 |
| 5. leavin 3:45 |
| 6. shine 5:19 |
| 7. your fault 3:48 |
| 8. happy someday 3:20 |
| 9. a lonely september 4:26 |
| 10. cant turn away 4:30 |
| 11. penny (perfect for you) 3:19 |
| 12. radios in heaven 5:23 |
| 13. cinderella story (demo) 3:36 |
| 14. bruises (demo) 3:04 |
| 15. lets pretend (demo) 4:32 |
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| 58:07 |
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| "Tonight I'll get up on the stage and all my problems seem to go |
| away/Tonight I'll get up in those lights and I will sing my best for you |
| tonight," proclaims Plain White T's frontman Tom Higgenson on "Sing My |
| Best," from the album All That We Needed. |
| |
| It's not uncommon for musicians to experience a cathartic release |
| onstage. But for singer Higgenson, the rush of performance is |
| particularly acute. "Being up there, connecting with the fans, there's |
| nothing like it," he insists. |
| |
| This intense feeling may explain why the Plain White T's are on the road |
| nine months out of the year, plying their hook-laden alt pop to a |
| devout, ever-expanding fan base. |
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| During their frequent cross-country jaunts, the T's have shared stages |
| with such bands as Jimmy Eat World, Sugarcult, Saves the Day, Motion |
| City Soundtrack and Simple Plan, and played at the Bamboozle and on the |
| Vans Warped Tour. |
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| The band began in a suburban Chicago basement in 1997. Higgenson and |
| co-founder/high-school pal Dave Tirio fooled around playing cover songs |
| before the former began experimenting with songwriting. Previously a |
| drummer, Higgenson switched to guitar and stepped into the lead-vocalist |
| spot; Tirio, meanwhile, anchored the songs on rhythm guitar. |
| |
| In the eight years since, other band members have come and gone. Still, |
| the singer couldn't be happier with the band's current players. In |
| addition to Higgenson and Tirio, the T's now feature Tim Lopez on guitar |
| and vocals, Mike Retondo on bass and vocals and De'Mar Hamilton on |
| drums. "This line-up clicks on so many levels," Higgenson marvels. "It |
| finally feels right. It finally feels like we're a band." |
| |
| Higgenson's newfound confidence is evident on All That We Needed, the |
| band's sophomore release. From the percussive fury that kicks off the |
| record's title track to the deft acoustic strumming on "Hey There |
| Delilah," the album's fleet 40 minutes are packed with energy, melody |
| and purpose. |
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| For this album, the T's had the luxury of recording in a proper studio |
| (North Hollywood?s Hard Drive) with a producer, Ariel Rechtshaid (The |
| Hippos, We Are Scientists). This was quite a departure from the "hectic |
| and random process" Higgenson remembers as the recording of the debut |
| T's effort, Stop, in a friend's basement. "We love that record but we |
| had no idea what we were doing," he confesses. "It was awesome just |
| being in a real studio with a real producer this time. The whole process |
| was incredible." |
| |
| The expanded sonic possibilities didn't change the band's crunchy |
| coating/creamy center approach to pop-rock, however. Nor did a big |
| studio dampen the emotional urgency of their songs. |
| |
| Thematically, Needed deals with breakups ("Anything," "Take Me Away"), |
| longing ("Last Call," "Hey There Delilah") and the loneliness of life on |
| the road ("Sing My Best"). But for Higgenson, what underlies the entire |
| disc is a sense of freedom born of unity. |
| |
| "The song "All That We Needed" is about this guy/girl situation," the |
| frontman admits. "But it also seemed like a perfect album title because |
| of all the changes we've gone through since Stop, especially in terms of |
| our line-up. It's as though this was all that we needed: these new guys |
| and a whole change in attitude. As much as it sucked when a guy would |
| quit, we rose to the challenge and just got better." |
| |
| Higgenson describes "Breakdown," a tale of growing up without love and |
| its consequences, as a wakeup call. "I've seen a suicide "he couldn't |
| figure it out/He blamed himself because they couldn't get along/I've |
| seen his parents' eyes trying to figure it out/Where did our baby go and |
| what went wrong," he sings. It seems perfectly appropriate that the T's |
| were asked to join the 2005's Take Action Tour, which promotes awareness |
| for various causes including suicide prevention and treatment for mental |
| illness. |
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| Sentiments such as these have clearly struck a chord with the band's |
| audience, which has swelled in the past few years as the T's have gone |
| from modest Chicago-area gi |
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