All Time Low

Melly Jelly:

I feel like I'm really going to like Dirty Work. I like the new direction they're going in musically. When I listen to songs, it's more about the overall feeling than specifically lyrics or beats. The songs we've heard thus far haven't given us a full view of the musical/ lyrical/ productional value of the album. They've always been pop-ish, so I don't know why people are surprised they're going for the same vibe. Not every song is going to be this prophetic teenage anthem on being yourself or something sappy like that. They're a band that likes to have fun. So I'm happy with them if they decide to write about parties, because that's what they live. Then again, we can't count on all of the songs to be like this. They're exploring a new direction and I'm all for it.

I see a lot of you on this forum have kind of fallen out of love. And I get that. We all grow up and change our tastes. I'm not too naive to think I won't too fall out of love with All Time Low some day. But I feel as if we look to highly upon them and hold them up to the standard of PUOSU (which half of it was about sex and parties anyway). I think of this album as a new step. They're older and their tastes are older, just like ours. I'm sure I will love these new songs as much as I love the older ones, each for their own reason. (I listen to I Feel Like Dancin when I'm sad and want to cheer up as I would Weightless or The Party Scene. When I want inspiration, I listen to Lullabies or Therapy or Jasey Rae or Hometown Heroes.) I love All Time Low and I know that I will at least always respect them forever. I wish that this forum could go back to being excited for the band and upcoming tours, songs, videos, etc. =)
I just went to the Dirty Work tour last week, and it was by far the best concert I've ever been to. They're still the same four boys that love the stage that I've seen time and time before.

I don't know about you, but to me music is all about feelings. It's the way that the songs, the lyrics, the melody makes me feel that's important.

I don't really care what the lyrics are about as long as they speak to me.

ATL used to have this. They used to have songs that made you happy, sad, angry, upset, whatever. It doesn't matter what emotion, but at least they made you feel something with their songs. The lyrics weren't as obvious as they are now, you had to think for a bit to understand what Alex was really saying (in most of the older stuff) and he had a way with words that I found truly amazing.

Fast forward to NP and suddenly they lost all of that. I don't care that the songs are about partying, girls and living the rockstar dream. What I care about and what makes me upset and frustrated is that suddenly the songs have no depth to them. It's all so shallow. It's like turning on the radio, all those songs that just pass you by without grasping your attention, yeah, that's what ATL has become.

I'm not saying they have to be all dark and emotional but I want them to be real. Poppin' Champagne and The Beach aren't "deep" tracks but they make you happy. They make you wanna get up and dance and be as crazy as you like.

I don't expect them to not have matured since TPS and PUOSU and I don't expect them to go backwards in their music career. However, I do wish that Alex would take a look at what he's written and ask himself, "is this really from my heart?" 'cause tbh, it doesn't feel like it is.

The video for I feel like dancin' is so so funny!! They really are just making fun of the music industry

Even if you don't like the song I'd recommend watching it just to see the guys act out Katy Perry's California Girls vidio and Lady Gaga!

Dirty Work leaked. What does everyone think about it?

The Marty Parade:

I don't know about you, but to me music is all about feelings. It's the way that the songs, the lyrics, the melody makes me feel that's important.

I don't really care what the lyrics are about as long as they speak to me.

ATL used to have this. They used to have songs that made you happy, sad, angry, upset, whatever. It doesn't matter what emotion, but at least they made you feel something with their songs. The lyrics weren't as obvious as they are now, you had to think for a bit to understand what Alex was really saying (in most of the older stuff) and he had a way with words that I found truly amazing.

Fast forward to NP and suddenly they lost all of that. I don't care that the songs are about partying, girls and living the rockstar dream. What I care about and what makes me upset and frustrated is that suddenly the songs have no depth to them. It's all so shallow. It's like turning on the radio, all those songs that just pass you by without grasping your attention, yeah, that's what ATL has become.

I'm not saying they have to be all dark and emotional but I want them to be real. Poppin' Champagne and The Beach aren't "deep" tracks but they make you happy. They make you wanna get up and dance and be as crazy as you like.

I don't expect them to not have matured since TPS and PUOSU and I don't expect them to go backwards in their music career. However, I do wish that Alex would take a look at what he's written and ask himself, "is this really from my heart?" 'cause tbh, it doesn't feel like it is.

I completely understand what you're saying. But since I posted last, I've actually heard Dirty Work, and there is nothing to worry about. This album hits all of the right notes, for me at least, on emotion and feeling. I think the first single and Time Bomb scared us a little, but they are by far not the best songs on the album.

My favorites are Paper Moon, Return The Favor, Heroes, Guts, Daydream Away, That Girl, and Forget about it. I can't choose from the rest which I like the least because I honestly like them all from a musical standpoint. =)

midnight lover.:

Dirty Work leaked. What does everyone think about it?

Haven't heard it yet.

double.

I don't really know what to think... I'm kind of torn right now
Okay I only heard the album to today so I haven't have time to really get into the songs yet, but so far I'm not so disappointed as I thought I would be. When I first heard I feel like dancin I hated it, but has grown on me. It's definitely different from there earlier stuff but it's not awful. They've matured, musically and as for the lyrics and like The Marty Parade said I would have liked more depth to the songs because it's what's make you stop and really pay attention to the song and not just zap onto the next one. If it got depth and speaks to you you won't get tired of it either no matter how many times you've heard it. There are All Time Low songs that I can listen to time after time without growing tired, but it's too soon to say now if there are any of those songs on this album, I'll just have to try and play them over and over and see where I stand then :P But I've already grown tired of I feel like dancin so....

But my favorite and what I feel has a little of their old vibe to them are Heroes and Paper moon :)

Personally, I love almost all of the songs. Yes, some of them are very different from all of their other songs. But I think they are a good representation of how All Time Low has grown and yes, changed. There is always one, two or maybe three songs on any CD that I don't quite care for, but truthfully, I like all of these. I like some more than others, that's a given, but overall, I like the CD as a whole.
I like their older stuff as much as everyone else, but you can't knock their newer songs just 'cause they're a bit different. Everyone should listen closely, because if you do, you'll hear the depth of the lyrics in some if not most songs. Song meaning is 100% perception. Alex's lyrics can mean something totally different to each person listening, at it is probably not the same as what they mean to him as the writer.

Absolute favorites: Just The Way I'm Not, Guts, and Daydream Away.

I love the new album.
I just now bought it off of I-Tunes. I felt bad because I didn't even realize it was coming out today.
I was kind of worried, but they never seem to disappoint me with anything.

I'm kinda disappointed on how the CD turned out but not that surprised. The lyrics aren't super meaningful like they have been but the music is catchy so there's one positive.

Their new album was just okay for me, I've been on an All Time Low binge though which always seems to happen when a new album comes out.

I watched Straight to DVD today and looked for myself in the crowd

I think they'll always be my favorite band, I just adore them far too much.

SEEING THEM TOMORROW
(if i clean my room today that is)

Hope they don't play too many songs off the new record. Listening to it for the first time now.

EDIT: Great show. Bitches didn't play coffee shop though although I made the whole crowd chant it a couple of times

Really intimate, the stage was only about one meter away and while they only had 45 minutes, they were the last band at the festival so they basically told security to fuck off and kept playing until they were done.

They had some girl up on the stage 'cause she had a sign saying "Alex, gimme my first kiss" or something like that. Alex wouldn't though, lol. He had this guy from the crowd come up on stage instead and give the girl her first kiss. Kinda lame, I think Alex should have kissed her. Just a light peck, no biggy but nah, he wouldn't. Jack wanted to get up a girl, lol but obviously that didn't happen.

One thing that surprised me was that while I'd been looking forward to it, I wasn't all crazy when they started playing. It was more like "oh, it's my friends up there". It was so weird 'cause I was just chilling and it wasn't like they were my favorite band at all. Just a couple of friends who happened to play that night. Odd, but I guess it happens when you've seen them five times.

No Coffee Shop that's one of my favourite songs by them!! Especially live!

Ya when you've seen them a few times and met them too. The excitement wears off! You don't act all crazy. I think it's better. You enjoy the show way more

I've seen them only once live.. They've been in my country only once :( I'm hoping they would come here again some day..
Coffee Shop is one of my faves live too!!

Does anybody have a link where I can download STD free? I had it downloaded to my computer but then my computer crashed before I had a chance to watch it.

If you have uTorrent, you can download a torrent from ThePirateBay, probably. It normally has just about everything.
It actually had a leaked form of Dirty Work a week before its release (I got impatient and had no money, okay? I do plan on buying it later in the year, though...).

Saw them again a couple of days ago. It was at a festival and they played the biggest stage so far in Sweden. Still cool. No coffee shop though, starting to get pissed off!

Met them after the show. (Basically we hung around the backstage area for aaaaages until they saw us, lol).

Rian just said hi and how are you and lalala. Jack cracked some jokes and stayed for quite a while. But Zack stayed with us the longest. Think we talked for about 30 minutes or more. It was awesome. The conversation went really deep and it amazed me how personal he is. I figured that much when I saw them a couple of years ago and he started talking about his grandpa and stuff but this time he basically just talked about EVERYTHING.

He showed us a picture of his girlfriend-to-be and it was really cute. He also answered a fan-mail on FB, a girl asking a favour for her friend and he added her as a friend and told her that he'd do his best. It was great to see what a caring and down-to-earth guy he really is. Probably one of the best conversations I've ever had a with a "famous" person.

At first it was just me Zack and two of my friends. Then it started to get really crowded and apparently you could notice his discomfort. I didn't though 'cause we just kept talking and even though several fans were screaming "ZACK ZACK ZACK!" he basically just ignored them and kept talking to me. It was really sweet.

Alex just hung out for like 2 seconds until Matt dragged him into the bus. Said hi to Matt and just chilled for a minute. Gaskarth gave me a flower, it was cute. It was weird though 'cause a second before he gave me the flower he was like "that's rude! don't say that to me" 'cause I said "come, sit your ass down!". Guess he realized I was joking though.

It was great. We talked for a bit with their busdriver as well. He looks like Gordon Ramsay! In case anyone wanted to know. He was an awesome guy. Oh! And before we met Rian, this crew guy (can't remember his name) came up to us and gave us Alex's guitar picks! It was aweeeesome.

Also, we talked to their truck driver for the night. Best guy I've ever met. He was in his 60s and talked to us for hours, shared cigarettes with us and basically told us his life-story. Great night!

I'm going to see them in like, 5 days, and I'm really super excited.

I mean, I saw them before in Portland, but now I'm going down to New Hampshire to see them (in a standing room, too, which will be AWESOME.) I'm leaving at like, 9 in the morning so I can wait around and maybe meet them by the busses.

And of course, I'm going with the lovely Xanny, as per usual.

seeing them on Saturday; I can't wait. 6th time seeing them x)

If I heard Circles live then I could die happy<3