So, as you saw the other day, I did my top ten books and I thought I'd make it into a little series so now I'm going to do my top 10 albums that kind of turned into 11 but oh well. SO, here we go!!
11) Hopes & Fears by Keane
Track List:
1) Somewhere Only We Know
2) Bend & Break
3) We May As Well Be Strangers
4) Everybody's Changing
5) Your Eyes Open
6) She Has No Time
7) Can't Stop Now
8) Sunshine
9) This Is The Last Time
10) On A Day Like Today
11) Untitled 1
12) Bedshaped
Now, this album was released way back when in 2004, holy crap, it's almost twelve years old. Anyway, this was the bands debut album and my mum went out and brought it straight away and played it on a loop so it was kind of drilled into me. One day, I was in the front room with her and we were listening to this and it was the first song (Somewhere Only We Know) and I was just so mesmerised and it was one of the first songs I remember falling for.
I feel as if Keane are one of those bands that people know their songs without realising who it's by. You might say that you don't know Somewhere Only We Know but if you listened to it, you'd know it straight away. They are THAT band. It happened the night I saw them, in the day we were listening to all of their albums and I'd forgotten Bend & Break was by them and it came on and I was like, oh my gosh this is by them!
Another song that really gets me on this album is We May As Well Be Strangers. It didn't when I first started listening to it but it does now that I'm older and done that whole relationship thing. I'm not going to go into details of that but if you listen to the song, you'll easily pick up the message behind it. It is a beautiful song, the actual music for it is beautiful, I think that's mainly what sparks the tears in the corners of my eyes. Also, She Has No Time, the music for it is so beautiful and it isn't a single from the album so people seem to ignore it which means it is seriously underrated. Honestly, it's a really powerful song and I can feel the emotional in Tom's vocals.
If you don't know this band, I honestly highly recommend going to look them up and listen to them. All of their albums are amazing but in my opinion, Hopes & Fears is the best but I think that's because of the memories attached to it.
Favourite songs: Somewhere Only We Know, Bedshaped, We May As Well Be Strangers and She Has No Time.
10) Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Track List:
1) Papercut
2) One Step Closer
3) With You
4) Points Of Authority
5) Crawling
6) Runaway
7) By Myself
8) In The End
9) A Place For My Head
10) Forgotten
11) Cure For The Itch
12) Pushing Me Away
So, this album is a little different from Hopes & Fears but it is again an important album to me. It was released in 2000 and my dad was and still is really into that kind of music so it's been around me my whole life, he raised me on bands like Linkin Park, Paramore, Foo Fighters, Green Day, but in about 2006, when I was almost eight, my dad sat me down and we listened to this album from start to finish without saying anything, we just listened and since that day, when one of us has had a bad day, we sit and listen to this album so that's why this is an important album to me.
My favourite songs on the album are Pushing Me Away and One Step Closer. In year ten, I listened to this album a lot, there were a lot of bad days and these two songs just seemed to stand out for me. One Step Closer described how I was feeling, the things people were saying to me, was taking me to the edge, my edge. So, when things started to get rough, I shut my eyes and played that song and made myself calm down a bit. Pushing Me Away is just a powerful song, it's a song that I like to belt out at the top of my lungs when I'm frustrated or sad. It's just a great song and I really like it.
In my opinion, this is definitely the best Linkin Park album. It's such a strong album and I don't see myself getting bored of it.
Favourite songs: Pushing Me Away, One Step Closer, In The End.
9) Brand New Eyes by Paramore
Track List:
1) Careful
2) Ignorance
3) Playing God
4) Brick By Boring Brick
5) Turn It Off
6) The Only Exception
7) Feeling Sorry
8) Looking Up
9) Where The Lines Overlap
10) Misguided Ghosts
11) All I Wanted
12) Decode
From the moment I was introduced to this band, I feel in love but that just grew and then grew a lot more when this album was released. To this day, I still think this is their best album and it's going to take a LOT to top it for me. I know all of the songs inside out and is another album that reminds me a lot of my dad as we spent many nights talking about how amazing this album is and he showed me the band in the first place.
When I first heard the album, The Only Exception was my favourite song but the more I listened to the album, I realised my favourite was All I Wanted, closely followed by Misguided Ghosts and this happened in the early hours of one morning when I was listening to the album, All I Wanted started playing and I just wanted to jump up and sing it as loud as possible but it being three in the morning made that impossible.
Again I feel like Paramore is one of those bands where people know more of their songs then they think they do. And, I really like all of their albums but this one is definitely my favourite as I just really like all of the songs on this album and I find that rare with me, there's normally a good one or two that I don't really get on with but that's different with this album and I think that's because all of the songs are different and sound different.
Favourite songs: All I Wanted, Misguided Ghosts, The Only Exception, Decode.
Track List:
1) Weightless
2) Break Your Little Heart
3) Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)
4) Lost In Stereo
5) Stella
6) Sick Little Games
7) Hello Brooklyn
8) Walls
9) Too Much
10) Keep The Change, Ya Filthy Animal
11) The Party Song (The Walk Of Shame)
12) Therapy
This album is a masterpiece. From start to finish. It's a masterpiece. I honestly had a hard time putting it here at number eight but I had my reasons. Anyway, this album is wonderful. It has a load of different songs; silly ones like Damned If I Do Ya and emotional ones like Therapy so it has a song for whatever mood I'm in. If I'm listening to this album from start to finish; I'll be jamming out for the first few songs and then be in tears by the end but I love it. I love everything about this album, from the big pop-punk songs to the emotional ones. It's an album that helped me through some shit and this band brought me to some of my closest friends.
My favourite song from this album is Therapy and I know that's a really cliche answer but I have my reasons for it that I'm not ready to go into. I love the beautiful music behind it, the minor key that it's in honestly gives me goosebumps. Hearing it live is also a very special experience, I'm normally grabbing the closest person to me, sobbing but I love screaming the lyrics back to them and hearing everyone else around me doing it too.
I feel like All Time Low is one of those bands when even though you say you don't like them, there are songs by them that you love and seeing them live is always an amazing experience. And for first time listeners, Nothing Personal is the album that I'd recommend to everyone because I love it so much and I'm sure most Hustlers will agree with me that it's a great album and that they'd recommend it to others.
Favourite songs: Therapy, Break Your Little Heart, Sick Little Games, Stella.
7) Somewhere Somehow by We The Kings
Track List:
1) Queen Of Hearts
2) Find You There
3) I Feel Alive
4) I Like It
5) That Feeling
6) See You In My Dreams
7) Die Young, Live Forever
8) Pheonix Hearts
9) Any Other Way
10) Say It Now
11) Art Of War
12) Sad Song
So, We The Kings. Where to even start with this band, they will always be one of the best bands in my opinion and without them, I wouldn't be close to Shayla and she's one of the most important people in my life. When I first heard this album, it was at midnight the moment it came out and I listened to it from start to finish with all my lights off and it just all hit me how beautiful it was.
I finally saw We The Kings back in 2014 at Slam Dunk and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I honestly just love this band and Somewhere Somehow is such a good album, it starts off with Queen Of Hearts which is a really upbeat tune and ends with the more slow, beautifully heartbreaking Sad Song which honestly made me cry the first time I heard it. It also has really motivating songs such as Art Of War which to this day, I still want lyrics tattooed on me from and Any Other Way; both songs motivated me to carry on through the way at one stage. Some of the songs on the album, it took me a while to get into but I did and now I love every single song on there.
This is the album that also got my brother into We The Kings and I hope one day we can see them together.
Favourite songs: Art Of War, Any Other Way, Queen Of Hearts, Die Young Live Forever
6) Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World
Track List:
1) Bleed American
2) A Praise Chorus
3) The Middle
4) Your House
5) Sweetnes
6) Hear You Me
7) If You Don't, Don't
8) Get It Faster
9) Cautioners
10) The Authority Song
11) My Sundown
If you know me, you'll know that I love Jimmy Eat World with every single fibre of my being because I do. This is a band that I feel really brought me and my dad together musically and this album really has a special place in my heart when it comes to music. From start to finish, I adore it. Obviously, the main song on this album is The Middle and I know why, as well as it being probably the most popular Jimmy Eat World song, it's such a jam. The lyrics are actually meaningful and when I was going through my 'emo' phase when I was 13, it was a song that helped me out a lot and this album means a lot to my dad which means it means a lot to me.
A truly beautiful song on the album and I think underrated song on the album is Hear You Me. Honeslty, this is one of those songs that never fails to give me goosebumps every time I listen to it. It makes me cry and hearing it live was one of the best experiences of my life and I can't thank this band enough for what they've done. The whole album is full of great jams from Bleed American to The Middle to Sweetness then down to Hear You Me and My Sundown, I 10/10 recommend this album to anyone.
Favourite songs: The Authority Song, Hear You Me, My Sundown, The Middle.
5) Sounds Good Feels Good by 5 Seconds of Summer
Tracklist:
1) Money
2) She's Kinda Hot
3) Hey Everybody
4) Permanent Vacation
5) Jet Black Heart
6) Catch Fire
7) Safety Pin
8) Waste The Night
9) Vapor
10) Castaway
11) The Girl Who Cried Wolf
12) Broken Home
13) Fly Away
14) Invisible
15) Airplanes
16) San Francisco
17) Outta Space/Carry On
Now, I know that 5SOS are one of those bands that people seem to hate for no reason and honestly, the reasons they give are normally pathetic but I can honestly hand on my heart say that I love this band and Sounds Good Feels Good is one of the most amazing albums I've ever heard especially from such a young band. It starts off with the huge, major, upbeat song; Money and then makes it's way down to Outta Space/Carry On which is so beautiful and will never fail to make me cry.
One of the reasons I love this album is that I believe from about Vapor, it tells a story and then at the end, Carry On, is there to tell us that it doesn't have to end badly, that we can get through anything and everything and that they'll be there for us and our friends and family we surround ourselves with will be there for us too. That's the first impression I got from this album and I sobbed my heart out the first time I listened to it through. From Money to emotional songs like Broken Home and Invisible. I believe this album was written completely for the fans and it's just so beautiful, I'd like to thank 5SOS for making this album as I love it and some of the songs contine to help me step through life more than people will ever know.
The first single from the album; She's Kinda Hot was a title that left me unsure and I think many people had that impression but it started this whole movement of The New Broken Scene which is a place where them and us connect by music and it's a place where we can all feel safe and happy, that they're for us and it comes across in the song. "We're alright though."
Favourite songs: Waste The Night, Vapor, Castaway.
4) Nothing To Lose by Emblem3
Tracklist:
1) Just For One Day
2) Spaghetti
3) XO
4) Chloe (You're The One I Want)
5) Girl Next Door
6) Nothing To Lose
7) I Love LA
8) Sunset Blvd
9) 3000 Miles
10) Teenage Kings
11) One Day
12) Reason (Live)
13) Jaiden (Live)
Emblem3 are a band that probably have a bad name somewhere for being a boyband that arised from The X Factor (USA) but I don't care. I love this band so freaking much. They've taught me how to smile, how to keep fighting, how to be who I want to be and not who others want me to be and for that, I am truly thankful. And to be honest, they have a song called Chloe and I'm called Chloe sooooooooo.....
Anyway, this is just such a feel good album, I watched The X Factor USA from 2010 - 2012 because they showed it over here in the UK and I remember Emblem3 being on it and I absolutely just fell in love with them from their very first audition where they came out and sang Sunset Blvd which to this day, is still one of my favourites by them. The whole album just has this really great beach, summer vibe and I'm absolutely in love with it, no matter what mood I'm in, I can stick this album on and have a good sing and a good dance to it.
There are some emotional ballads on here too like 3000 Miles and Jaiden which I love both of. 3000 Miles is a song I'd absolutely love to hear live and I honestly cannot wait until they finally tour here and hopefully play it as well as Chloe because I need to be able to scream that song back at them at least once in my life. I don't know what it is about this band, they just honestly make me smile so much, they make all of my rainy days into sunny ones and I'll never be able to thank them enough for what they do for me.
Favourite songs: Spaghetti, Just For One Day, Girl Next Door, Chloe, 3000 Miles.
3) Meet The Vamps/Wake Up by The Vamps.
Meet The Vamps tracklist:
1) WildHeart
2) Last Night
3) Somebody To You
4) Can We Dance
5) Girls On TV
6) Risk It All
7) Oh Cecelia (You're Breaking My Heart)
8) Another World
9) Move My Way
10) Shout About It
11) High Hopes
12) She Was The One
13) Dangerous
14) Lovestruck
15) Smile
16) On The Foor
17) Golden
18) Fall
Wake Up tracklist:
1) Wake Up
2) Rest Your Love
3) Volcano
4) Million Words
5) Windmills
6) I Found A Girl
7) Be With You
8) Burn
9) Cheater
10) Stolen Moments
11) Boy Without A Car
12) Held By Me
13) Halfway There
14) Runaway
15) Worry
16) Coming Home
17) Peace Of Mind
18) Written Off
Now, the reason that these two are together is that I honestly can't choose between the two of them. The Vamps are my favourite band in the whole entire world, they're the band that make me smile, they're the band that brought me loads of friends, they taught me how to be more confident, how to be happy and they honestly saved my life. There will never be a day where I'm not thanking this band for everything they've done for me, from writing music that has honestly touched me to bringing me a load of amazing friends that I adore. I know this isn't talking about the albums but it makes me really emotional truly thinking about the amount of stuff this band has truly done for me, I wouldn't be the person I am today without them coming into my life. Without finding James' covers back in 2010, to seeing them headline on their second world tour, I can't comprehend just how much I love them.
Meet The Vamps, their first studio album is more of a summer vibe kind of album. It has hits like Can We Dance and Somebody To You on it and then it's slowed down for ballads such as Lovestruck and Risk It All. I love this album from start to finish and yes sometimes I get frustrated by having to hear Can We Dance over and over again or Wildheart but secretly, I have a lot of love for them. From watching them having to teach us all the words to Cecelia to now bringing New Hoep Club under their wing for them to shout it out to the crowd on the Wake Up tour. I'm so proud of this band and they've come a long way from covers on YouTube and I adore this album, it immediately picks up my mood and it's definitely one of my go to albums when it comes to putting something on to listen to.
Wake Up, their second studio album I just love it. I know the sound is different from Meet The Vamps but I don't care, I still love it. From the first time I heard Wake Up, I knew that I would love this album and it really didn't disappoint me. From screaming out Wake Up, to making fools of ourselves rapping to Volcano to crying through things like Worry and Stolen Moment, this album is a masterpiece to me. My favourite song is definitely Runaway, when I was listening to the album; it was just that song. As soon as I heard it, I knew that was the one and lately, I've found a whole love for Peace Of Mind, hearing that song immediately just makes me smile and puts me in a good mood. I am looking forward to the future and to album three and another tour.
Favourite Songs: Last Night, Risk It All, Lovestruck, Dangerous, Runaway, Worry, Written Off, Peace Of Mind, Be With You, Burn.
2) Handwritten by Shawn Mendes
Tracklist:
1) Life Of The Party
2) Stitches
3) Never Be Alone
4) Kid In Love
5) I Don't Even Know Your Name
6) Something Big
7) Strings
8) Aftertaste
9) Air
10) Crazy
11) A Little Too Much
12) This Is What It Takes
13) Bring It Back
14) Imagination
15) The Weight
I don't even know where to start. Shawn Mendes, such a joy to this world. I remember watching one of his vines for the first time to him doing Cecelia with The Vamps to Magcon to Handwritten, I'm so proud of every single thing that he's done and I think he's such a good role model for this generation, he's so hard working and look at all he's achieved and at only seventeen. I have a very personal reason as to what Shawn Mendes did for me that only Dani and Amy know but I do love him to pieces and again, I'd like to thank him for everything he's done for me and for writing Handwritten because it's such a beautiful album.
When people think of Shawn, they probably immediately go to Stitches as it's the biggest song and it's an amazing song but honestly, I go to Never Be Alone, to this day, that song still makes me curl up in a fetal position and sob (I dread to think what it'll be like when I actually see it live next week) and Aftertaste as I just love that song. I love the whole album, from Life Of The Party to The Weight I could happily listen to it over and over again without getting board of it. I think it's amazing how most of it is him and his guitar, creating a beautiful acoustic vibe that gives me shivers because his voice is just so beautiful and I'm so proud of every single thing that he's achieved. His vocals are just so raw and full of a beautiful emotion that really comes through when he sings.
Favourite songs: Never Be Alone, Kid In Love, Aftertaste, Stitches
1) Radio:ACTIVE by McFly
Tracklist:
1) Lies
2) One For The Radio
3) Everybody Knows
4) Do Ya
5) Falling In Love
6) POV
7) Corrupted
8) Smile
9) The End
10) Going Through The Motions
11) Down Goes Another One
12) Only The Strong Survive
13) The Last Song
Here we are, my favourite album ever made. Radio: ACTIVE by McFly. McFly have been in my life for a very, very long time and this album since it came out has been my favourite album in the world. I would happily listen to this album for the rest of my life if I had to choose only one album to listen to; it would be this one. From start to finish it's just brilliant and I can't wait to hear the full album in it's entirety when I see them in June as I think it'll just be magical. From Lies to The Last Song, it's just a great album.
Lies is a really good song to start the album with, a song that you can just belt out the lyrics to when you're extremely pissed off at the world around you. The Last Song is a really good song to finish the album with because well, it's called The Last Song but it's another song that you can really belt the lyrics out to and just cry to when you need to. Massive hits like One For The Radio and Do Ya are also on this album, great songs to sing to and dance around to and then there are some really powerful ballads like POV, Falling In Love, The End and Down Goes Another One. McFly are one of the most musically talented bands out there, from the guitars to the bass to the drums to the out of this world vocals and even down to the amazing stage presence. This band is amazing.
When I'm sad, I can put on Smile and well smile or Down Goes Another One when I'm really pissed off at someone and need to just shout out a song or The End when I need to have a really good cry, I can just curl up in a ball and put this song on and cry to it. Every single song on this album holds a really special meaning or memory to me and it's an album that I will never get board of and I'd honestly just like to thank McFly for writing it. I can't explain how much I really love this album and why, I just really do and I'd 10000000000000000000/10 recommend going ahead and listening to this album even if you're not a huge fan of McFly.
Favourite Songs: Lies, Down Goes Another One, The End, Falling In Love, POV, Corrupted.
So, there we go. My top ten albums that's actually eleven albums. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you find a new album that you love from the list!!
Until next time,
Onwards and upwars,
Chloe x
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