#josh Ramsay

[microplasticsubmarine]

Marianas trench fans, we are having a moment right now I just know it

[idle-hands]

things in Haven that drive me fucking crazy /pos

that ✨gospel✨ harmony in I'm Not Getting Better

the ever after motif in Haven (nearly made me cry /srs)

the mpt iii callback in World's Collide

"sleepness nights to kill" GET THOSE LOW NOTES KING

the bridge in Remember Me By

MY FINALL !!! DENIALLL !!!!!

Fumbling hearts run into parts unknown !! <33

Van mention in Remember Me By ‼ Sat there like "I KNOW THAT ONE :point:"

Welcome to the edge 📣‼‼

[thehuntfortrencherlostmedia]

Never mind I take it all back, I GET IT NOW.

My hype levels are through the fucking roof.

[christinadrag0n]

🥀❤️Marianas Trench ❤️🥀

This might be my best drawing yet, and here I thought that I lost my magic… glad I still got it lol

I wanted to draw two versions of Josh Ramsay, the past and present. Hopefully I did him justice

[yoohyeon]

‘’𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞

𝙸 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚞𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐

𝙺𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚖𝚎, 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚠’’

Desperate Measures - Marianas Trench (2012)

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[livethrushit]

marianas trench / astoria

[amiiancasselmanyet]

I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE MY HEAD OVER MY HEELS

I DON'T WANNA WALK AWAY, BUT IT'S NOT FAIR TO LET YOU STAY

I'LL FALL APART BEYOND A KISS

A CASTAWAY UPON YOUR LIPS

ONLY THIS, ONLY THIS

[artemesianerdmom]

I got to see Marianas Trench in concert last Saturday at the Bluestone in Columbus, OH.

For anyone unfamiliar, the Bluestone is an old church that has been renovated into an event space.

Anyway:

At the end of “Here’s to the Zeroes,” Josh paused and made a remark about how it felt a little off repeating the phrase, “hallelujah up for ransom” in a church. He then threw his arms up over his head, ducked, and shrieked, “I didn’t mean it!”

My husband and I have been meme-ing on Josh Ramsay recoiling as though he was about to be struck by lightning (on the Force of Nature Tour, no less) ever since.

I didn’t take any videos, mostly because I was trying to just be present in the moment (this concert was a huge check on my personal bucket list as MT is my favorite band, hands-down). I did take a couple pictures at the very end, though!

[lightscamerabitchsmileee]

Vote for your fave, reblog & share your thoughts and list your other faves too even if it's not on my list I would love to hear it ❤️❤️

Check out my masterpost for the other artist/band polls 😊😊 thank you and have fun 😊😊

[jenniferhills]

HELLO

[1mnobodywhoareyou]

this song is going to make me cry holy shit

this album is everything

marianas trench deserves so much more love. josh ramsay is severely underappreciated.

[idle-hands]

shoving more mtrench art down your throats <3

[thehuntfortrencherlostmedia]

The Origins, Ramsay Fiction & The Confusing Mishmash of Everything Before Fix Me - A Marianas Trench Retrospective

Okay, so my post got likes, but I only got one actual response from anyone, agreeing with me on the fact they like things in chronological order. So, I guess it's time to talk about the bands early days, eh?

The truth of the matter is, the band as many know them started in late 2003 and early 2004. Anything before that gets placed in this weird murky middle section with a name change, members leaving, and also a complete and utter mess of when Ramsay Fiction came to an end and where Marianas Trench begins. We have located a demo disk from 2001 with the Marianas name on it, but we also don't have any dates as to when certain things were recorded or uploaded onto MP3.com.

Here's what we do know: Josh Ramsay, a teenager dealing with both an addiction to heroin and an eating disorder, loved music from a young age. His father owned a recording studio, and his mother was a vocal coach. Music was literally in his blood, but even though the two had connections into the industry and everything, he set out to make it into the business on his own. And he knew one thing for certain: He DID NOT want to be a solo act, he wanted to be in a band.

The issue for Josh was getting that band together. At first, it was him and his sister Sara (backup vocals), her then boyfriend and later husband Trevor Spilchen (on bass, even though he was a guitar player), Josh's friend Steve Marshall (on guitar and backup vocals, despite being a BASSIST), and a rotating list of drummers, eventually finding Ian Casselman in a series of classifieds in a newspaper late into the bands life. This lineup didn't last long, as once Sara became pregnant with her and Trevor's first kid, they stepped aside... leading to 2 new members joining: Josh's friend Matt Webb (originally a keyboardist), and Steve's pal Morgan Hempstead (the man who bestowed them the Marianas Trench name). It's tough to say who plays what on a lot of the Ramsay Fiction tracks that make up Cooler Than Me, as I think they come from two different recording sessions, if not more. Same goes for a lot of the self-titled EP work too, as we know at least two tracks from that era, an early recording of Fix Me, and a early recording of Skin & Bones, were both first made public to people in 2004... months after Steve and Morgan left, and Mike Ayley joined the group after getting to know everyone as Ian's roommate.

In fact, for the longest time, a lot of the Ramsay Fiction stuff was lost media, songs that nobody outside of a rare few had ever heard. As of April 1st this year, this is no longer the case, and all the songs have been found and preserved (yes, even PMS... despite it being taken off Youtube, has been saved.)

To talk about these songs is hard. There's definitely a lot of emotion and pain in these tracks, and the overall sound is very 90's, going for more of heavy grunge and alternate rock sound, very reminiscent of Matthew Goode. But you can also hear those other elements creep in from other acts Josh has referenced time and time throughout in small snippets. The biggest thing holding a lot of these songs back is a mix of production (which is still insanely impressive for the time period and the fact it was done by a teen no less), and lyrical ckunkiness, making them semi hard to decipher.

What do I mean by this? Take track 1, the one everyone knows: Primetime. The song's verses speak about how something is this, but the person is the opposite... bu we don't get a clear picture of who the person is.. only that supposedly a hit of heroin will make everything feel better. It's odd that this is the song that's somehow lasted the test of time out of all these tracks. But hey, it did lead to a great callback on End of An Era.

Track 2, Shiny Like Dirt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG-OoIsFbow), is truly a song where Josh took a ton of ideas he had for songs, and threw it against the wall to see if it would stick. And... it does stick, but also doesn't? The chorus is super catchy, basically admitting he's a confusing person, and that nothing he does makes sense... and yet, despite it all, he still has fears of the unknown. The "coming up for air" bridge is probably my favourite part, but it's definitely an earworm I return to occasionally. I've also linked it in case you've yet to hear it.

Track 3: Shallow. The song we've known about for the longest time, the one the fandom cherished like a baby... and honestly, it's probably my least favourite? I've tried to decipher the lyrics on this one for ages, but I can't come up with anything concrete. I do think the song has a good tone, and the guitar solo is totally awesome. In fact, there's a lot of great guitar and bass work throughout a lot of these songs. But there's something missing for me on this one.

Track 4: Playing Dead. This seems to be the earliest recorded song of this bunch, going off Josh's voice here. And honestly, I think it's the closest tonally to a current day Marianas Trench song. There's a bit of a swing sound going on in the drums, the harmonies.... and it's an interesting number overall. Also, it's our clearest sampling of Steve's voice, and just how close it is to Matt's vocals xD... it seems to be a simple love song about a girl and how he's open to roleplaying almost anything with her, using "playing dead" as his main metaphor. It's the black sheep of the CD, but a good one.

Track 5: Hideous. Here we go... the first track Josh ever wrote about his bulimia and depression... and how it was eating him from the inside... and how he was asking for help, even though he wasn't fully ready to accept it at the time. The beginning parts are very slow, and methodical.... only for the song to pick up energy in it's second half and become truly one of the standouts on this album.

Track 6: PMS. Okay... so... this one is tough to talk about. We knew for years it was supposedly very comedic in nature and that it was also politically incorrect, but that was it. For those of you who still have not heard it, there's a copy of it in this Discord server in the links and archive section: https://discord.gg/d5M3xVN9

As for the song itself, I personally really love it. It's a song about Josh being petty to a girl and truthfully telling her off. It's definitely of its time period, but in the best way possible. And once again, the guitar work here is SO GOOD. If you can stomach a song that truly is a time capsule and understand that Josh would never write anything as juvenile today, give it a listen.

Track 7: Don't Touch Me. The song that holds a special place in my heart... as I was the one to LOCATE IT after 18 years in the massive pile of MP3.com links that were given to the Internet Archive in 2021. And it's a ballad all about Josh dealing with both the arguments and turmoil he would feel when coming down from getting high. Truthfully, this might be the most emotional song of this batch, and one that definitely sticks its landing.

So, my overall thoughts here are to give these songs a listen, and understand them for what they are: the start of a musical prodigy finding his footing and his sense of style while getting clean and hoping somebody, anybody, would give him a chance. While the tone might not have influenced Josh’s style fully going forward, there are elements from these songs that were taken and repurposed into later Trench tracks.

Luckily, and also sadly... Jonathan Simkin & Chad Kroeger gave him that chance. And thus, we got ourselves a self titled EP... and a full title debut. But that'll be next time.

[christinadrag0n]

💙 Celebrity Status 💙

Wanted to draw some fanart of Marianas Trench

Had been a fan since I was 10 years old. I remember the times when their music would play on the radio and TV, now l'm 24 years old... time flies 🤣

I posted this on Instagram the other day and they actually liked it! Even if it’s a simple like, I’m happy 😭💜✨

[yoohyeon]

“𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕, 𝙸 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍

𝚐𝚘 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚝

𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏

𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚝”

Marianas Trench - Haven’t had enough (2011)

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[livethrushit]

josh singing in the audience made my fucking night