#SONG ON A CLEAR DAY WINDOWS#

You might see вЂWe Are BrokenвЂ™ or вЂAnklebitersвЂ™ are pretty low down on the list, but that doesnвЂ™t mean I dislike either song. The important thing to remember before you cast your eyes on this list (and potentially get angry with where certain songs are ranked) is that there is not one Paramore song I dislike. The Paramore journey has had several decadeвЂ™s worth of incident, drama, and pop punk glory packed into it, so I thought it was time to take a look back and really analyse where I stand. TheyвЂ™ve had a different line-up for every album released thus far, members have left and returned, and the group have endured at least two hiatuses (that we know of). WeвЂ™ve experienced the chaos of adolescence, the gradual loss of youth and innocence, and the crushing mundanity of adult life, and weвЂ™ve experienced it together.ДЄcross their 18 years, the trio вЂ“ currently вЂ“ have released five albums (with a sixth on the way very soon), five EPs, two live albums, and twenty-three singles. The Paramore of today are not the Paramore of my youth, but thatвЂ™s a good thing: when it comes to those of us who are approaching (or have hit) our 30s, Paramore have grown up and changed alongside us. And in 2017, I was ready to embrace the latest left turn: After Laughter. Of course, I eventually got over myself and embraced the bandвЂ™s growth. Everything was changing, gosh darn it, and not for the better! Like many Paramore fans, I had a bit of an identity crisis after the Farro brothers left in 2010, then another panic in the run-up to, and immediate aftermath of, the release of the bandвЂ™s self-titled album in 2013. I bought their albums and T-shirts, I saw them live in concert in December 2009 (Manchester Arena, supported by You Me at Six), and, along with my friends, listened religiously to those first three albums.

What started on that summer morning has continued to the present day. He stopped the conversation we were having, which was probably about Mock the Week compilations, to send me a song called вЂFor a Pessimist, IвЂ™m Pretty OptimisticвЂ™ by a band named Paramore.

#SONG ON A CLEAR DAY WINDOWS#

IвЂ™d recently made a new group of friends after struggling to do so in the first couple of years of high school, and I was chatting to one of them on Windows Live Messenger (ahh, beautiful, horrible memories). Like all of us, I guess, I was just figuring things out. I was into my music, but I didnвЂ™t really know where to discover it outside of top 40 radio stations.

I lived, and attended school, in Stockport, a town seven miles from Manchester, where nothing really happened. I was pretty nerdy, definitely more insecure about myself than I was letting on, and sort of lacking an identity. Formed in Franklin, Tennessee in 2004, Paramore entered my life during the summer of 2008.

Song on a clear day