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Growing Up With Bands

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"The problem isn't that I've changed/the problem is that you've stayed the same."                          -Taking Back Sunday, "Keep Going"   Most of the bands I like have been around since like the early/mid-2000's, some even earlier. One of my favorite bands, Green Day, started in 1987.    When a band has been around for 15+ years, things are bound to change. If a guy starts a band when he's 20, 15 years later, he's going to be 35. A whole lot of life can happen in that time. To illustrate this further, I'll use Hayley Williams from Paramore.   Hayley Williams and co. started Paramore when she was 15 years old, in 2004. She is now 35. Think about that. All this time she's spent being the lead singer of a band, she's reached and surpassed the ages of driving, drinking, running for political office, renting a car, etc., and now she's old enough to be the president. And if you think that's a lot, look at Billie
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Tours Through Discographies: Muse

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   My second favorite British band! And, much like my first, they like to sing about the apocalypse and government ills a lot. Maybe being in a British alt rock band gives you some kind of predisposition to wanting to write about that stuff. 1. Showbiz (1999)     This isn't really a bombastic debut album like The Killers' Hot Fuss or Bastille's Bad Blood, but it's not bad either. It's just pretty good. It's not Muse's best work, but they've done worse. As far as debut albums go, it does just fine. Some of the tracks here still hold up extremely well to their more recent music. TOP 3 TRACKS: "Sunburn", "Overdue", "Fillip" 2. Origin Of Symmetry (2001)      This album is a step up, not that Showbiz was bad. This one just shows Muse shaping into what they were going to become, the writing and the instrumentals all kicked way up into a pretty awesome album. The guitars in "Plug In Baby" are my favorite guita
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