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Album: The Pretty Reckless - 'Going to Hell'
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Originally posted by DayFusion
Agree. Good taste.
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Slay mama
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Originally posted by HausOfGerard
Going to Hell > Heaven Knows > Kill Me
I hope there are more songs like the ones on Light Me Up though.
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Me too!
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Member Since: 8/2/2012
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Originally posted by tEA$E
Same here! I originally thought Going to Hell (song) was too anti Christ for me and it is lol, but I enjoy it now and don't think to much about the lyrics.
And YAS, HK slays careers.
The trinity from Light Me Up is clearly
Just Tonighy, Light Me Up and Nothing Left to Lose
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Flawless Trinity though Light Me Up is one of my least favorites from the album I still enjoy it
Mine would have to be: Nothing Left To Lose, Goin Down, Zombie
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Originally posted by tEA$E
I haven't heard that yet! Mainly because I wanna purchase it lol
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Oh child you need to cave and listen already
But props to you for staying strong
It is a good song but it really is just a better version of Kill Me pretty much
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Originally posted by Gavin.
Flawless Trinity though Light Me Up is one of my least favorites from the album I still enjoy it
Mine would have to be: Nothing Left To Lose, Goin Down, Zombie
Oh child you need to cave and listen already
But props to you for staying strong
It is a good song but it really is just a better version of Kill Me pretty much
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Miss Nothing, My Medicine etc all slay too!
And I know I wanna listen but I'll survive!
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Ugh I'm so happy a lot of you are fans of them here.
I'm so excited for this album. And their new logo (the arrow cross) is so flawless. I got the bundle with the cd, vinyl, and shirt
Trinity of Light Me Up: Just Tonight, Miss Nothing, Goin' Down
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Originally posted by jagger88788
Ugh I'm so happy a lot of you are fans of them here.
I'm so excited for this album. And their new logo (the arrow cross) is so flawless. I got the bundle with the cd, vinyl, and shirt
Trinity of Light Me Up: Just Tonight, Miss Nothing, Goin' Down
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I know! It's so refreshing to take a break from all my pop roots and listen to some rock
I'm gonna order today! Does it ship internationally?
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Member Since: 8/6/2012
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the titles seems interesting. i just hope this record is as good or better than light me up. ugh i love Taylor's voice. very curious to hear "house on the hill" or something like that
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Originally posted by mypaintoyou
the titles seems interesting. i just hope this record is as good or better than light me up. ugh i love Taylor's voice. very curious to hear "house on the hill" or something like that
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It's def going to be darker! And yep that one looks interesting
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The tracklisting, as it sits on my Ipod, is as follows:
Going to Hell 4:38
Heaven Knows 3:44
House on a Hill 4:44 (my personal favorite)
Sweet Things 5:04
Dear Sister 0:56
Absolution 4:34
Blame Me 4:27
Why’d You Bring a Shotgun to the Party? 3:20
Follow Me Down 4:41
Burn 1:48
****ed Up World 4:16
Waiting For a Friend 3:12
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Originally posted by mypaintoyou
The tracklisting, as it sits on my Ipod, is as follows:
Going to Hell 4:38
Heaven Knows 3:44
House on a Hill 4:44 (my personal favorite)
Sweet Things 5:04
Dear Sister 0:56
Absolution 4:34
Blame Me 4:27
Why’d You Bring a Shotgun to the Party? 3:20
Follow Me Down 4:41
Burn 1:48
****ed Up World 4:16
Waiting For a Friend 3:12
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Wait? You have it
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Originally posted by mypaintoyou
The tracklisting, as it sits on my Ipod, is as follows:
Going to Hell 4:38
Heaven Knows 3:44
House on a Hill 4:44 (my personal favorite)
Sweet Things 5:04
Dear Sister 0:56
Absolution 4:34
Blame Me 4:27
Why’d You Bring a Shotgun to the Party? 3:20
Follow Me Down 4:41
Burn 1:48
****ed Up World 4:16
Waiting For a Friend 3:12
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Isn't that from the review? Or do you actually have it on your iPod? Lol
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If Miss Nothing isn't in your Light Me Up trinity
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Originally posted by TheGreatMrY
If Miss Nothing isn't in your Light Me Up trinity
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It's great obviously and is a favorite but it doesn't "speak to me" ( ) the way the 3 in my trinity do
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it's from the review i wish i had it
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Miss Nothing is great, but not as great as LMU, JT & NLTL
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Originally posted by mypaintoyou
The tracklisting, as it sits on my Ipod, is as follows:
Going to Hell 4:38
Heaven Knows 3:44
House on a Hill 4:44 (my personal favorite)
Sweet Things 5:04
Dear Sister 0:56
Absolution 4:34
Blame Me 4:27
Why’d You Bring a Shotgun to the Party? 3:20
Follow Me Down 4:41
Burn 1:48
****ed Up World 4:16
Waiting For a Friend 3:12
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Sis we're all dying for that track-by-track review
Edit: Oh
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Originally posted by mypaintoyou
it's from the review i wish i had it
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Oh, I was about to have to have a little chat with you via PM
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I agree LMU and JT are flawless. Miss Nothing was the first song I fell in love with by them so it holds a special place in my black heart.
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Originally posted by jagger88788
Sis we're all dying for that track-by-track review
Edit: Oh
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Here's the review:
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I’ve heard many musicians say that you have your entire life to write your first album and only a few months to record a sophomore release. So many artists slip out of sight after their debut album and fall prey to the sophomore curse. Not so with the release of Going to Hell.
“Rock & roll needs to make a resurgence,” Taylor Momsen, founder of The Pretty Reckless, recently told Rolling Stone. Momsen is speaking on her belief that the genre has slipped from the mainstream ears, and she’s right. The genre isn’t like it was 10 years ago.
“It needs to come back in a big way and take over again.”
While no stranger to the spotlight, Momsen’s band only recently broke onto the scene with their 2010 debut Light Me Up. The band toured world wide over the past few years and shared the stage with accomplished acts such as Evanescence and Marilyn Manson. It was Momsen’s stage presence that proved the band had the staying power of the veteran rockers like those they’d opened for while on tour.
Momsen says she’s fully prepared to hold up her end of the bargain though. “We’re really trying to come to something unique and different,” she tells Rolling Stone of Going to Hell, the band’s forthcoming second album, due out in early 2014 on Razor and Tie.
The recording process of Going to Hell did have a major set back though. While in the recording process, Hurricane Sandy tore through Hoboken, New Jersey and ravaged Water Music Studios. The storm destroyed the majority of the band’s gear and many of the band’s demos and near-final versions of recordings for Going to Hell.
“We had to rebuild,” Momsen recalled to Rolling Stone. The band did eventually return to Water Music and put the final touches on Going to Hell in July of 2013. I have a sense that having to rebuild for Sandy’s devastation is part of the reason why Going to Hell sounds the way it does. The album is full of crashing guitars, thundering drums and orchestrated vocal choirs. Momsen’s vocal control has evolved to a higher level. The 20 year old has gained a mastery over her voice that most musicians will never attain. She can go from a sultry whimper to a guttural growl in the span of a single chorus. You can hear the pain and determination in her voice all throughout the album. Going to Hell has it’s dark moments though. Momsen also explores themes such as nihilism, anger, disaffection, love, misanthropy and religious psychosis during the album’s emotional journey.
Going to Hell is full of bi-polar emotional peaks and valleys. Anger and frustration can be heard clearly in tracks like ****ed Up World, Heaven Knows and Going to Hell. The sense of yearning for acceptance is focused on in Absolution and House on a Hill. While on the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, the quiet desperation of wanting to be loved and knowing that that love, be in from family or friends or a lover, can easily break you down are expressed by Momsen in Blame Me, Dear Sister and Waiting For a Friend.
Sweet Things finds Momsen harmonizing with her male counterpart and alternating between verses and choruses. During one of Sweet Things’ final verses, Momsen starts out with a sultry whimper and ends the verse in a gutter growl, “Where ya going? I wasn’t through. I wanna have my way with you,” before reigning in her ethereal voice.
The Pretty Reckless have broken the sophomore curse and continue to evolve musically. I’m a big fan of making playlists from what tracks bands play live. The story told during a live show easily transfers over to the studio recordings. The tracks off of Going to Hell mesh perfectly with those off the band’s debut album. While a similar formula seems to have been used for the writing of the band’s sophomore full length release, Going to Hell is a totally new animal and will without a doubt set the pace for the band’s future releases.
The tracklisting, as it sits on my Ipod, is as follows:
Going to Hell 4:38
Heaven Knows 3:44
House on a Hill 4:44 (my personal favorite)
Sweet Things 5:04
Dear Sister 0:56
Absolution 4:34
Blame Me 4:27
Why’d You Bring a Shotgun to the Party? 3:20
Follow Me Down 4:41
Burn 1:48
****ed Up World 4:16
Waiting For a Friend 3:12
The streaming audio and download of the album I’d gotten place Follow Me Down is different spots. On the streaming version, it’s the first track. On the download, it’s track 9. Either way the album as a whole is brilliantly produced. Do yourself a favor and don’t cherry pick this one off of iTunes. Buy the entire album!
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I thought you all had read it
http://revenantmedia.com/2014/01/19/...going-to-hell/
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Originally posted by Gavin.
Oh, I was about to have to have a little chat with you via PM
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