#the irony of choking on a lifesaver

[snake-inmydaffodils]

Idk what these really are.. I just made em 🤷‍♀️❤️

[autisticsakuatsu]

it’s been said before and it will be said again but i neeeeeed sakuatsu to divorce with tongue. btw

[alltimesos]

Let's say you had to make a setlist for ATL, but it could only have 3 songs, which ones would it be and why? (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

What a fucking great question

A lot of thought went into this and I hope you enjoy

1.) Birthday- this was the very first song I ever heard from All Time Low. I was driving one night and was playing I believe Twenty One Pilots radio and this song came on shuffle. I am not kidding in the slightest when I say I went home and played this song over and over again. (Don’t even get me started on the music video) ultimately this song made me become a fan in the first place

2.) Stella - I saw All Time Low live 3 years ago and while they did play my favorite songs, I was upset they didn’t have this on the set list. I love to blare this song (although I’ll admit I’m not entirely sure on the meaning lol)

3.) The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver- another great song to blare and scream to. I feel like it’s self explanatory

4.) Remembering Sunday - I love this song a lot and want to hear it live

5.) Tidal Waves- this song got me through a lot in my life ❤️

So, there you have it! Of course I could make a list that’s 20+ songs long but we will stick to the 5 (I know it was supposed to be 3)

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

Hi there! Hope you're doing good!

For the music ask game, how about 15 20 and 30? :)

hihi!! i think i answered 20 already just now but thanks for the ask!!

heres the ask game if anyone wants it

15.) a song that is a cover by another artist

can i be super low key and say dodie's when it rains/its not living if its not with you? its just such a beautiful loop and i love it so much. i dont listen to her as much as i used to but her work is so beautiful. especially the Somewhere In The Crowd cover. which seems dumb bc ive never legitimatly finished la la land but anyway.

i do recommend that though. its on the spot idk. theres an 1 hr loop of it and its SUCH a good loop and i love it so much. considering i love both of those songs deeply. "when it rains" by paramore and "its not living (if its not with you)" by the 1975 its just really pretty. i love it. her voice. augh. i dont know if that counts as a cover-cover?? technically kinda but its whats coming to mind atm.

20.) a song that has many meaning to you

I already answered this one but it was either "The Irony Of Choking on A Lifesaver" by All Time Low or "Thanks To You" also by All Time Low. Just in the way that throughout the years the person itd been about has slowly shifted into about different people with different undertones and lyrical meanings yet the premise of them hurting and wronging me has relevantly remained. but in a totally pissed off "fuck you!" type of way. like as a way to say "look whos thriving after your bs lol"

30.) a song that reminds you of yourself

another waterparks mention bc theyre legitimatly my favorite band but um

"Royal" by waterparks <33. its like... when i was really questioning my identity and who i was i really was listening to that song. i just really feel like yeah the entire double dare album is so good... Royal feels the most like *me*

which- yeah seems goofy but Royal was legitimatly one of the choices for the middle names I was gonna pick. and it was gonna be after this song. thats how much i love it. just the lyrics. i feel them.

genuinely double dare is probably in my top 5 favorite albums and idk if thats weird but thats cool to me. it means a lot. its just a timeless vibe for me.

[somethingsgottasaveyou]

Don't panic for the album ask :D

Ohh thank you !

Favourite track: The Irony Of Choking On A Lifesaver With an honourable mention of So Long Soldier and For Baltimore

Least favourite track: it used to be Outlines but idk meanwhile I feel like it's To Live And Let Go

Send me an album and I'll tell you my favourite and least favourite track!

[dudewhoabides]

All Time Low - The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver

[dxsturbia]

He will do one of two things:

He will admit to everything,

Or he’ll say he’s just not the same and you’ll begin to wonder why you came

Immigrants, they get the job done

[looselipssinkships-x]

6.7km//4.16km in 34:48 rounded up to 35:00 (it's fucking cold and takes at least three tries to skip a song because my phone doesn't recognize my ice cold touch) ((8:24 mile time//7.1mph))

- snitches and talkers get stitches and walkers - fall out boy

- spotlight (oh nostalgia) - patrick stump

- explode - patrick stump

- the reckless and the brave - all time low

- sick in the city - daisy grenade

- alone together - fall out boy

- are you scared of me yet? - daisy grenade

- baby annihilation - fall out boy

- greed - patrick stump

- i miss having sex but at least i don't want to die - waterparks

- coast (it's gonna get better) - patrick stump

- (1:09 of) the irony of choking on a lifesaver - all time low

**this feels like a lot of songs but five are under three minutes and three more are under three and a half?

[danswank]

do it

thanks to my enablers. here is my official dream atl setlist* (*with the priority of maximizing alex’s dancing opportunities)

1. birthday (duh)

2. sleeping in (i don’t even really love this song live but alex DOES shake his hips a lot and so it stays)

3. clumsy (i mean… do you even follow this blog. i would pay for a show where i just go, watch him play clumsy and shimmy and leave)

4. last young renegade (he did some really hilarious signature miming during this on fall tour last year and i loved it i also just love this song)

5. stella (there is a good amount of dancing involved but i also love the ‘ha ha ha’ and ‘boTTLES brEaAaAkin’)

6. pma (i love when he adds little things to the background vocals, and once again there’s a lot of miming that happens in this song)

7. dancing with a wolf (underrated. i love the sass. also great opportunity for alex to be on his knees)

8. dirty laundry (this is a staple. it is so sexy. this one time alex tugged at his shirt and i’ve never been the same.)

9. life of the party (i have a tag that is ‘lotp is dirty laundry’s hot older brother’ and i was right for that)

10. once in a lifetime (i mean. the dance moves he created for this. it’s going to be tragic if this song stays dead. it was so good to us.)

11. the irony of choking on a lifesaver (along the same lines of dwaw i just love the sass that this song exudes. i love the STD2 version where he goes ‘ohhhhh shit’.)

12. lost in stereo (i know this is an unpopular one but there’s an occasional shimmy he does so it has to stay. it was also fun when jack would fuck with rian during this song last year)

13. monsters (the rap, the dance moves, alex on his knees. it’s a good one.)

14. dear maria (because guitar toss. and his vocal runs.)

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

tagged by @ragnarokhound <3

name: kai (yes im a trans man named kai, its a good name, okay?)

pronouns: he/they

where do you call home: eh the general answer is west of england, midlands and up. theres a sentimental answer but its a pretty small area so im not gonna potentially dox myself in a tag game dhdjsjs

favourite animal: walrus all the way, baby! although my url is actually unrelated to my love of walruses. theyre just the best animals, theyre big old chunky boys with two big front teeth that can grow to over 3ft in length. when on land, they huddle together in cuddle piles. AND mama walruses can use their flippers to pick up their babies and cuddle them to their chest; tell me thats not the cutest thing youve heard today.

cereal of choice: im not really a cereal person or like a breakfast person at all, but if im having it, golden nuggets or nothin'

visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner: ...all of them? idk, it depends on what im learning. auditory probably less so than the others just because my auditory processing isnt just trash, its trash the binmen wont take.

first pet: my parents had four cats before they had me and my brother so i guess them? they were thomas, alfred, cally and misty. my uncle, who incidentally doesnt believe in seatbelts, named alfred.

favourite scent:

no but seriously i have a very strong scent of smell which is part of why im such a picky eater like im yet to meet a food that smelt bad and tasted good, but i just,,,, dont have a favourite scent?

my brother gave me a lynx body spray of his he didnt want pretty soon after i came out the third time, as trans this time, and its definitely a he got the spirit moment so i guess that.

do you believe in astrology: nah, its not my thing really. all the more to you if its yours as long as you dont try to ascribe my behaviour to me being a taurus, thats the mental illness or the autism or the adhd or the neurological disorder thats pushing my eyes out of my skull very slowly.

how many playlists on spotify/apple music: 28 which is more than i thought i had. right now, theres only like 3 im cycling through named dead reckoning, the old swan, and dutch angle / danish pastry.

sharpies or highlighters: yeah so like, we could never afford sharpies in my house so its highlighters my default. sharpies are like mega expensive in the uk and by mega expensive, i mean unaffordable for a child of a working class single parent.

songs that make you cry: hmm. thats kinda difficult because whether i cry depends almost entirely on my mood. if i had to name some, i guess id go with:

a little fall of rain, turning and empty chairs at empty tables from the london cast recording of les mis (its vital to specify this, okay?); george blagdens secret? recording of drink with me; breathe from in the heights; flowers, doubt comes in, promises, gone im gone, and we raise our cups from hadestown (are you sensing a theme yet?); unruly heart from the prom; here i go again specifically from the rock of ages musical (and NOT the tom cruise movie, i saw this musical live and i cried); i know where ive been by queen latifah, and also from pretty much any hairspray cast recording; if i met myself again, ugly in this ugly world and hes my boy from everybodys talking about jaime and i have sobbed at all three of these songs.

and finally: grandmas song, deep into the ground, he could be a star and once we were kids from billy elliot, and yes i cry at most of act 2, i was raised working class in a working class area that was once revered for its industry and has since been forgotten and left to drown in poverty, how am i meant to not cry at it?

songs that make you happy: hmm again. throw the entirety of the first mamma mia soundtrack onto the list. then welcome to paradise & coming clean by green day (when i was a very depressed teenager, listening to green day always made me feel better, both about the world and about myself); the irony of choking of a lifesaver by all time low because its moms favourite song of theirs and weve gone to see them live five times together; merry christmas maggie thatcher from billy elliot because fuck that bitch; legend of coco chanel from everybodys talking about jaime; sexy from the mean girls musical; do it for your lover by manel navarro; strangers & i dont want to talk about me by stereo jane (the strangers music video is so fucking bisexual yall); king of my heart by sub-radio; ghost ship of cannibal rats by billy talent; carpe diem by joker out; who the hell is edgar by teya and salena; let me entertain you by robbie williams because i sang it in karaoke as a 7 year old who did not know the words and then proceeded to get obsessed with robbie fucking williams for a while; slipping away by materia; and 68 guns by the alarm which is a funny little one because it reminds me of my dad but i still enjoy the song and ive made a conscious choice not to limit my music taste just because some asshole whos not even a good hobby ghost hunter likes it too, you know?

do you write/draw/create: all three! granted i havent done much of the first two in a while, but on my defense, losing 7-8 months worth of your memories kind of fucks you up and its oddly time consuming. also developing fainting attacks and spending a week in hospital while they fail to figure out whats wrong with you other than weirdly low blood pressure does not help. but i do have a drawing planned out to do and while i went a little too much detail on one small detail (i will justify it as soon as i actually finish it), im going to finish it. i also do origami pretty often as well as baking, and i am currently building a wooden replica of the titanic AND LISTEN, i started before the titan submersible stuff happened and i havent touched it yet because it just feels weird to, you know? also, i didnt even want to do the titanic, but like, good luck finding any starter kits that arent a) titanic and b) upwards of a £100. i would love to do a ss malolo or a mts stockholm but that aint happening and while i might be able to find an ss normandy or ss united states, im not gonna be able to afford. its titanic or bust which sucks.

tagging but no pressure: @bottlesandbarricades @vaellusvitutus @rad-roach

[lesbitchin]

sorry in advance for how many times im asking you to click the button but 69

the irony of choking on a lifesaver - all time low

“you're the snake hidden in my daffodils when i'm picking flowers / that's just my luck these days / why can't you just be happy for me?”

[mimez-meme]

Zashi definitely listens to The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver by All Time Low. idk it makes sense to me.

YEAH THATS A GOOD ONE

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

For the music ask.

20: A song that has many meanings to you

22: A song that moves you forward

I liked these ones.

Also I interpreted number 22, as if it were like the opposite of number 19, “A song that makes you think about life”

hiii!!! sorry. just getting back to this now lol. i dunno which ive answered yet but thanks for the ask!!

heres the ask game if you want it

20.) "The Irony Of Choking on A Lifesaver" by All Time Low. Its like this thing haunting me when I'm trying to be myself. Choking me at the stake. I remember blasting this song in my room when I was a teen because I was so fucking mad at my dad. As the years have gone on its been about different people who have treated me like shit. The forms change but the meaning remains in hindsight.

(honorable mention is "Thanks To You" also by All Time Low. I couldnt choose between them but The Irony Of has genuinely really been in my rotation for years. Still is now. Both of those are sick and are sort of parallels of the same feeling.)

22.) oh, definitely "I'll Always Be Around" by Waterparks. They're my favorite band of all time, and I feel like that song is just really comforting in a way thats sort of reassurance in the fact that everything is gonna turn out alright. 'The world may go to shit but at least you have me, and to me, you're enough as you are.' Like wherever you may go, I'll follow because you're the other side of my coin. And that person? That's music for me. music is that other person. I mean, it was always there for me when I needed it most, the way i needed it most. Of course yeah ive considered it when talking about a crush, but genuinely, if my life had an end credits theme or anything that sums up me as a whole... That's the song. that's the song that serves me and drives me forward. It's that.

[thisaintascenereviews]

All Time Low - Don’t Panic (Twelfth Anniversary Retrospective)

Thanks to pop-punk being mainstream again, it must be awesome to be All Time Low right now, because the royalties and the revenue they’re getting from “Dear Maria” must be immense. Not that they were struggling before, but they must be doing even better now. That song in particular is one of the handful that’s been blowing up on TikTok over the last year or so, now that the emo revival is in full swing. I just talked about their most recent album, 2023’s Tell Me I’m Alive, and their recently-released re-recorded album, The Forever Sessions, but I wanted to talk about their 2012 album, Don’t Panic.

My introduction to them was through 2007’s So Wrong, It’s Right, and truth be told, it’s a good album, but it’s not perfect. It’s aged relatively well, but frontman Alex Gaskarth doesn’t sound too great. I always thought they were more of a singles band, although I enjoy that album just fine. It showed they were talented songwriters with a penchant for good hooks, but I fell out of favor with them for a few years, at least until Don’t Panic came out. I was just getting into pop-punk properly at the time, and that album came out at the right time, although it’s a record that I’ve admittedly forgotten about with time. I’ve been wanting to revisit it for a long time, and I’ve been listening to a lot of pop-punk lately, so I thought I’d give this a spin, just to see if it’s held up over the last decade, especially compared to other albums from the same era that surprisingly hold up very well.

I’m happy to report that it certainly does, and in fact, this is my favorite All Time Low record. I haven’t kept up with them in years, but like I said, I went back and listened to Tell Me I’m Alive recently. I did really like 2020’s Wake Up, Sunshine, but Don’t Panic really encapsulates what this band is about, and how well they can sound when they go back to basics, especially five years after their debut. If anything, Don’t Panic sounds like an updated and refined version of their debut. There are a lot of things to love here, and truthfully, I think this is a very underrated pop-punk album.

The biggest improvement is Alex Gaskarth; he went from being a C-tier singer in the neon pop-punk scene of the late 00s and early 2010s to being one of the genre’s best. Hell, on their newer material, he sounds wonderful, but he sounds great on this album, too. He has more control, range, and a less nasally tone that he had on their debut that I didn’t hate but it can get old after awhile. His vocals are fantastic here, and a lot of this works so well because of that, which make the hooks really stick. An album’s hooks are only so good as their singer, and they’re amazing here.

The instrumentation is quite good, too; the album is really toying the line between pop-rock and pop-punk, and most songs fall somewhere in between, but a handful of songs fall between one or the other. “So Long, Soldier” is a straightforward pop-punk song, whereas a song like “The Irony Of Choking On A Lifesaver” is a pop-rock cut. A lot of songs are right in the middle, such as “Somewhere In Neverland,” which is probably my favorite cut on the album, or the Patrick Stump penned “Outlines,” which has his fingerprints all over it (and this was the closest we got to Fall Out Boy in that year).

The lyrics are admittedly the weakest part of this album, but I’m gonna be real - I’ve never been that into All Time Low’s lyrics. Their debut is not exactly rife with genius lyricism, and while this isn’t, either, it’s still pretty good. “Somewhere In Neverland” is a poignant track about Peter Pan and the themes of growing old, and a few tracks deal with long distance relationships, but it never gets existential or anything out of the ordinary for pop-punk albums, especially of that time. They’re not anything spectacular, but they’re good for what they are.

Don’t Panic is my favorite All Time Low record, and it’s the best marriage between their pop-rock and pop-punk sounds. They’re more grown up here, and they had a second wind with this, especially after their last couple of albums before this one being on a major label. They went back to Hopeless for this one, and they were on Hopeless for a long time after, but this is the best combination of their early work and a newfound sense of energy and maturity that they didn’t have before and that they wouldn’t really get again. Wake Up, Sunshine comes quite close, but this is the better album, hands down. It’s one of my favorite albums of the 2010s, especially one of my favorite pop-punk albums from that time.

[fillthedarkvoid]

Uhhhhh.... the irony of choking on a lifesaver- all time low?

Hey you know that song that goes na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

What’s the first song that just came to your mind?

[breserker]

as i slowly make my way through albums i've been enjoying all time low's don't panic and it's very 2012 apocalypse visual aesthetic, but there are songs on that album that do something that i really really like that's been hitting really well

'the reckless and the brave' introduces its chorus with the line "i don't think i wanna be saved" and sometime halfway through teh song it flips to "i don't think i'll ever be saved" with some punchy drums really hitting the "ever" part. the slight difference of syllable/time to say the phrase makes it more frantic in a way and just. firstly "i don't think i wanna be saved" is immensely empowering to me, and "i don't think i'll ever be saved" is a similar fear at the same time. love that.

and then in "to live and let go" it starts with "why should i waste it all wasted on you" which by the end of the song turns into "why did i waste it all wasted on you", which is not a revolutionary turnaround but when this song comes after the bitter breakup "the irony of choking on a lifesaver" song and my extremely grown appreciation for BITTER (but put together) breakup songs like gives you hell by all american rejects and the aforementioned lifesaver song, i just appreciate it a lot. i should, when going back to their earlier albums, see if they do this more there too? I've definitely noticed it the most with Don't Panic and i think it really works, also, keeping 2012 in mind too. iunno. music good.