Music - Lifehouse #27: We'll know 'Who we are' on June 19th

Alessia20 · 05-05-2007, 03:09 AM

Welcome to the Lifehouse Appreciation Thread. Come and join us in discussion about a band that has a lyrical genius for a lead singer/songwriter and an incredible drummer.

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The old thread: Lifehouse #26: We are Somewhere In Between albums!

If you want your name added to the list, let me know and I will add it.

Alessia20 · 05-05-2007, 03:17 AM

I hope everything is alright and I didn´t mess it up

goodnightboy · 05-05-2007, 03:54 AM

Oh no, it's just fine

yay new thread!

WildB · 05-05-2007, 04:50 AM

Sweet a new thread already. I had not realized we were due for one.

Great title!!

Is it June 26th yet?

XtremeChiq · 05-05-2007, 12:26 PM

Thanks for the new thread!

June 26th seems soo long from now.

Alessia20 · 05-06-2007, 01:49 AM

June 26th is really far from now and I don´t know if or when the album comes out here. I know I´ll go crazy

It´s Lifehouse. I´ll find a way

XtremeChiq · 05-06-2007, 05:04 PM

Hm, can you buy things off iTunes there?

goodnightboy · 05-06-2007, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WildB (View Post)

Is it June 26th yet?

Not as far as I know

Alessia, you won't be able to buy the CD?

There's always iTunes... but there's nothing like holding the real CD in your hands.

Alessia20 · 05-07-2007, 10:16 AM

I don´t even know what iTunes is

I´m going to get on the nerves of my stepdad and his best friend they´ll find it somewhere in the internet. But I hope I will get it over ebay cause sometimes there those guys who haven´t used the cds. They only have 100 of them and sell them over ebay.

goodnightboy · 05-07-2007, 10:21 AM

iTunes, you don't know it?

Here you go. I think you'll download it and then it's like a programme where you buy music from... I'm not sure, we don't have an iTunes store here (although I use iTunes for my iPod). I think someone here'll explain it to you better.

I'm quite sure they'll have Who We Are on iTunes though. It's a major record release. Although yes, you could try eBay as well. It just won't be as fast

XtremeChiq · 05-07-2007, 04:13 PM

As of right now, all released Lifehouse CD's are available on iTunes, so I don't see a reason why this new one wouldn't be. You can find almost all popular CD's on iTunes. goodnightboy explained it correctly. Basically, what it is, is this program where you start an account (either with credit card or with a gift card) and you can purchase music from the program. You can search for bands and download either songs or CD (99 cents per song). Also, with some small bands, you can only buy thier music through iTunes (not in stores) I personally don't use iTunes Store that often because it takes forever to download a song (my internet connection is really bad, so it breaks halfway through a download). If there's one song I want, I'll use it, but I go to stores for CDs.

And I think this really only applies to me and WildB, cause we're the only people in the states, but, from their myspace:

Quote:

First Time

Lifehouse's first single, "First Time" has been officially added to radio stations across the country today! Get up and call your local station to request!

And this picture was posted on my local radio station's website, but I haven't seen it anywhere else:

Personally, I like the one where they're all smiling better

WildB · 05-07-2007, 04:23 PM

Cool, but unfortunately I cannot stand listening to the pop stations in my city as most of the music they play sucks.

XtremeChiq · 05-07-2007, 07:05 PM

Haha, I know. I was driving today, and I wanted to listen to the radio in case it went on, but I hated the songs they were playing.

Lifehouse changed the layout to their official page. There's also a new bio about Lifehouse. It's really interesting and mentions some new songs (I'll bold them)

Quote:

With Who We Are, their fourth Geffen album in seven years, Lifehouse, all still in their mid-20s, are really starting to enjoy the fruits of their success and have some fun. Their multi-platinum 2000 debut, No Name Face, produced “Hanging by a Moment,” a #1 alternative hit which crossed over to become Top 40’s Most Played Song, while 2005’s self-titled platinum effort yielded “You and Me,” a giant hit ballad that set a record by spending more than 60 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, Lifehouse are not just the sum of their considerable accomplishments.

On Who We Are, singer-songwriter Jason Wade—along with drummer Rick Woolstenhulme and bassist Bryce Soderberg—gets back to the basics of what made him first form the band while still a teenager in suburban California.

Says Jason: “We just love making music and feel really lucky to be able to continue doing it.”

Producing themselves for the first time with Jude Cole, who also co-wrote several of the new songs, that joy comes across unfettered on the rocking twang of the lead single, “First Time,” already climbing the Hot A/C and Top 40 charts, a fond look back at the butterflies and excitement of the initial rush of romance.

“It just felt urgent, like a first kiss, a first love,” says Jason. “Like the first time you realize there’s more to that relationship than you thought. I had to dig a little for that one, but I find myself at a place where I can write stuff that’s a little deeper than your average love song in terms of emotion.”

The approach was also pretty fresh. The band didn’t record demos before entering the recording studio. Wade brought in a skeleton of a song and the group worked on it as a unit. “Nobody really knew what they would be playing,” explains Woolstenhulme, the musical purist of the group. “We just cut it, listened to it and realized it was pretty electric…the kind of song where you just turn up the radio.”

Known for his brooding lyrics of teenage angst resulting from his parents’ divorce and his own poor relationship with his father, Wade explores more diverse songwriting topics this time around, putting himself into other characters in songs like “The Joke,” with its syncopated world beat, inspired by a newspaper article detailing the story of a British boy who hung himself after being bullied by schoolmates. Jason puts himself into the subject’s shoes, with lyrics that could be right out of a suicide note: “When you find me in the morning/Hanging on a warning.”

The wrenching ballad “Broken,” with a chorus that recalls the Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” came out of a trip Wade took to Nashville to visit a dear friend waiting on a kidney transplant, as once again he identifies in first person: “I’m falling apart/I’m barely breathing/With a broken heart/That’s still beating/In my pain/There is healing/In your name/I find meaning/So I’m holding on/Barely holding on to you.”

Lifehouse’s love of British rock comes across in the avant-Europop of “Make Me Over” with its ethereal opening and falsetto vocals (Wade: “Sometimes you’ll do anything to be in love, even becoming someone else”), while the stark, Plastic Ono Band strains of “Learn You Inside Out” is one of the rare songs Wade penned on piano.

“I wrote it really quick,” he recalls. “We decided just to freestyle. It was one of those moments when we really grew as a band, being able to reach each other and know where we’re going.”

“This record came very naturally,” agrees Bryce, the newest member of Lifehouse, who cut his teeth on tour before entering the studio with his bandmates. “On the road, we’d throw a song out during sound check and it just flowed together. There was a great deal of spontaneity involved. We were into similar influences. It felt like we were on the same page musically.”

“We’re closer as a band than ever,” nods Rick.

The raw energy of “Disarray” deals with Wade growing up in a strictly religious family, where questioning wasn’t allowed. “Angels, demons,” he says. “We all fight them both, and anyone who pretends they don’t is not someone I want to hang out with.”

In fact, the group was liberated by being left alone to create without outside interference or pressure.

“This time around it was about not having any preconceived notions,” confesses Jason. “It was about letting the tape machine roll and getting the music down spontaneously. I’m at a place where it doesn’t matter to me what other people think. I’m comfortable being myself. I’m writing from an honest place, not thinking about who’s going to hear it, what they’re going to think or how they’re going to interpret it. The lyrics can’t be contrived. They have to hit you right in the heart.”

One song that does just that is the album finale, “Storm,” which Wade wrote at 16 “when I was going through hard times,” and was included on the band’s first indie record, 1,000 copies of which were pressed back when they were called Bliss. The original version has been circulated over the Internet by the group’s fans and was even licensed by the television show So You Think You Can Dance. Wade decided to re-record the song when he realized how much it meant to people.

“That was fun to record because of its starkness,” says Jason. “We love the idea of the title, surrounded by negative space, like the a cappella beginning. Because when you’re lost in confusion, no matter how much is going on around you, you’re still alone.”

With all their radio airplay, multi-platinum sales and awards, Lifehouse are still intent on raising the bar, which makes Who We Are a revelation both musically and lyrically.

“It’s stripped down, very raw, the way we are live,” says Bryce. “We discovered along the way that less is more.”

“Since Bryce joined, this really has grown into a unit with its own personality and style,” concludes Jason. “We established camaraderie on the road and gelled as a unit. This record defines ‘Who We Are,’ which is why that’s the title. The sound fits where we’re at right now.”

With Who We Are, Lifehouse are free to be exactly who they are…a rock band with a gift for melodies and lyrics that touch people.

That just got me 1232x more excited for the new album!!

WildB · 05-07-2007, 07:46 PM

You and me both. I am super excited to hear all these songs now too. Gosh it sounds awesome. Is it June 26th yet?

I can't wait.

goodnightboy · 05-08-2007, 11:41 AM

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“That was fun to record because of its starkness,” says Jason. “We love the idea of the title, surrounded by negative space, like the a cappella beginning. Because when you’re lost in confusion, no matter how much is going on around you, you’re still alone.”

Thank you Jason - this is exactly why so many fans revere 'Storm'. Don't destroy it by adding more. Please.

But I must say I can't wait for the new album, and I really mean it. Who We Are sounds so different, with so much more experimentation and growth and it just sounds like songs with so much potential, really. (And I respect bands for experimenting and going out of their comfort zone). Besides, just think - the title reflects the growth and maturation of Lifehouse as people and as a band, finding themselves (which is the vibe I get from the interview). I really can't wait, it sounds ****ing amazing in a nutshell.

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