#tell me i’m alive

[danswank]

no one gets to say i never went for it.

[snake-inmydaffodils]

This was too tumblr coded not to post.

[thisaintascenereviews]

All Time Low - Tell Me I’m Alive / The Forever Sessions, Vol 1

Out of all the pop-punk bands to pop up in the mid-00s, All Time Low is one of the few bands to have an everlasting career. These guys started off as a neon pop-punk band, but evolved into a pop-rock band in the late 00s and early 2010s, then to a more straightforward pop-punk band in the early 2010s, only to turn back into a pop-rock band by the decade’s end. Their last couple of albums have been really hard to read, because they’re seemingly at a crossroads in their career. They don’t know if they want to be a pop-rock band or a pop-punk band.

Personally, my favorite album of theirs is 2012’s Don’t Panic, although I’m sure many people would pick 2007’s debut, So Wrong, It’s Right, and that’s not a bad pick, either, considering it has their most iconic songs, but it’s an album that I think is rough in spots. Vocalist Alex Gaskarth doesn’t sound great on it, despite sounding just fine, but his voice wasn’t the powerhouse it eventually became, at least until the late 00s and early 2010s. The songwriting was still quite sharp, but it would get a lot better, both lyrically and musically speaking.

Hell, 2020’s Wake Up, Sunshine is a really solid pop-rock / pop-punk record that tried some new things, but also stayed true to their sound and felt like another return to form, even though Don’t Panic was their first return to form a decade earlier. 2023’s Tell Me I’m Alive is an album that I totally forgot about, both because I haven’t cared much about these guys in a long time, and because this album wasn’t received with open arms when it came out.

I didn’t see a lot of glowing praise for it, but I decided to go back and listen to it recently, because they just dropped a new album of some re-recorded hits, entitled The Forever Sessions, and it’s the first volume of these, but this first one has admittedly their biggest hits, and they’re from 2006 to 2009. I wanted to talk about both albums, albeit briefly, because these albums are interesting, although it’s not quite in the way they intended. Truthfully, Tell Me I’m Alive is a decent album, but it’s also nothing important or essential. You won’t get anything out of this, aside from some decent hooks and vocals, but that’s it. They really don’t know if they want to be a pop-punk or pop-rock band, and the album stays in that limbo, but it ends up not making much of an impression.

The Forever Sessions, however, is actually pretty good, despite being nothing amazing, but this is interesting, because there’s no doubt this was done to both capitalize on the emo nostalgia that’s been huge the last couple years, as well a a cash grab to fans that want to hear them perform these songs live, because they can have studio versions of these updated versions. On one hand, though, I think it’s cool to hear a new version of an old classic, because art is ever hanging and ever evolving, so there’s nothing wrong with a new interpretation of an old song or album, even when it’s clearly done for a profit.

The thing is, though, I also can’t deny when it works. They don’t do much with these songs, but if anything, they have a modern production sheen over them, so they sound better, and Gaskarth’s vocals sound a lot better. Despite their popularity kind of waning over the last decade, at least he sounds fantastic, both on here and Tell Me I’m Alive. As boring as that album is, his vocals are awesome, and you can’t deny that he’s grown into one of the vocalists in that scene. The songs stay relatively the same on The Forever Sessions, but it’s still cool hearing them in a new light, even if their new album really isn’t anything to write home about.

[thebowerypresents]

All Time Low – Music Hall of Williamsburg – August 20, 2024

Touring behind their ninth studio album, last year’s Tell Me I’m Alive, Baltimore’s All Time Low were back in NYC last night to fill a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg with their beloved melodic pop-punk.

Photos courtesy of Savannah Lauren | @savannahlaurenphoto

[internet-is-my-bitch]

Modern Love // All Time Low

absolutely obsessed with this verse

[stanacct]

idc “can we start this record over, can we paint with different colors, can we dig the garden up and start again” in lost along the way is a reference to painting flowers bye i am crying

[folklaurr]

Idk what I expected from Tell Me I’m Alive but it wasn’t 13 tracks of Alex being sad, horny, and high

[homealonejackskellington]

[0h-the-guilt]

Going to see my favorite band n

[tequila-daisies]

the new All Time Low album actually slaps

[skunkjagkh0e]

Tell Me I’m Alive is Wake Up Sunshine and Last Young Renegade’s first child

[danswank]

all time low — tell me i’m alive track by track

side a | side b

[spinningintheshadows]

I’m gonna be completely honest when I say Tell Me I’m Alive is my favorite All Time Low album even if my favorite All Time Low song isn’t on it (it’s not) but it’s my favorite album because it made me and my struggles for the last 15 years with my mental health feel seen. It’s my favorite album because listening to it for the first time made me feel like Alex Gaskarth looked at his fanbase and said “I see you, I hear you, and I get it.”

and I know that he isn’t going to see some random ass post on the hellsite but like. Thanks, Alex. Because it was the first time I’d felt seen, heard, or understood, about my mental health for a very long time.

[imactuallyagiraffe]

IM MESSY

IM WRECKLESS

I FUCK SHIT UP FOR BREKFAS

[internet-is-my-bitch]

kill ur vibe // all time low

[breathing-and-writing]

Coming from Alex ‘I say the word horny in this song and I don’t like it’ Gaskarth, now in 2023: I wrote a new song where I say the word masturbating :)