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Riot!

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Ah, youth: the exuberance, the energy, the blistering highs and bottomless depths. It’s an ideal breeding ground for true rock & roll belief. Hence, the youngsters of Paramore unearth geysers of loud, sugary angst on Riot!, their major label debut and follow-up to 2005’s All We Know Is Falling. Small-town musicians who have played together for years, Paramore boasts the appeal of an emo-pop blast developed out of savvy songwriting and musicianship. The sweet spot the band hits--somewhere between Avril Lavigne and All-American Rejects--comes naturally. Lead singer Hayley Williams, barely 18, has big-time vocal depth and genuine charisma besides, and while her singing can sound a little contrived, she delivers with such end-of-the-world conviction that it’s an easy flaw to forgive. Bright and catchy melodies abound, but songs like "Misery Business" and "Miracle" also feature razor-sharp cadences and ultra-clean transitions. Too clean, actually. The production is crystal clear, which accentuates the stumbles (mostly on the ballads) and robs these whippersnappers of the messy highs they surely achieve playing live. But some things can’t be entirely glossed over, and while the more aged among us will sip our Scotch and make fun of their adolescent shenanigans, we’ll also be surreptitiously listening on our iPods after we put the kids to bed. --Matthew Cooke

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Rating:
Date: 2008-07-07
HOT
All I can say is this CD is Hot, I've been looking for this CD. Amazon had it for me and delivered it promptly, I'm very pleased with my order and will order again in the future.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-16
An insult to good music everywhere.
Paramore, led by Haley Williams, is an awful punk band. I believe that their singing is an example of how music has gone down the drain today. I am only a teenager, yet I can see how this garbage exemplifies the "norm" for today's music. Please don't buy this CD. Listen to some decent music.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-15
They Were Born For This
This CD is crammed with ultra-catchy, fast-paced and angsty post-punk pop rock. The boys play tight and charismatic lead singer Hayley Williams sings them just right. Though the whole album is terrific fun, my favorite tracks include "For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic", "Hallelujah", "Misery Business" and "crushcrushcrush". Paramore slows the pace of the album once, right where it's needed for the listener to catch their breath with the excellent piano-led power ballad "We Are Broken". They end the disc singing 'we were born for this' and I couldn't agree more.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-06
3-1/2 stars -- Not bad, but...
It's nice to be on the product page of a pop punk album without seeing a whole bunch of one-star reviews from heavy metal fans. Anyway, I originally ignored Paramore after hearing "Misery Business" (sorry; I never liked that song). But I became interested after hearing "Crushcrushcrush", so I then decided to pick up their second album, Riot!

First off, I have to say that although I do think Paramore is a solid band, I don't think they're worth ALL the hype. I think the reason why they're so popular is that a lot of freshman college guys look at lead singer Hayley Williams and are like, "Whoa, what's-her-name is HOT!" Anyway, the best songs on the album are near the end: "Fences", the mellow "We Are Broken", and possibly "Born for This". There are also a few songs that I can do without, like the off-key "Hallelujah"; and sorry, but "That's What You Get" feels like a 13-year-old wrote it. And the obligatory end-of-album acoustic-version-of-the-first-single neither helps nor hurts the album.

Riot is far from being a bad album, but let's be honest: if it weren't for the presence of Hayley, I could easily say that Paramore aren't much different from any other emo band out there. Ah well; the album is still sure to rock a keg party.

Anthony Rupert