This is a guest post by Chase Clymer from our favorite easycore band CITY LIGHTS. You can follow him on Twitter @chaseclymer and all spelling/grammar errors are his (don’t blame him, he grew up in the ghetto [srs]) – Sgt D
Being in a band that only Sergeant D and like 8 other people like makes it pretty hard for me to live off the fat ass royalty checks I definitely do not get. Seriously, you spend more money being in a touring band than you make from a touring band unless your like headlining something sweet. I’ll probably write a post about that sometime for you turds. Anyways, to make money I do a lot of freelance design and photo work to support my early onset alcoholism and addiction to fast food. Today I got an email to design the tour poster for some Canadian scene champions that like to fist pump and not give a fuck and I accepted the gig. On this tour was some band I’d never heard of until today. They go by the moniker “SKIP THE FOREPLAY“.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I was in for a treat. First of all their logo looked like a sweet Hit The Lights rip off so I was like, tight, something pop punk. I’ll probably like this. Lemme put this on my Spotify device and hear da jams.
This girl loves Skip The Foreplay so much she fingerblasted herself all over their album cover.
I click on their most recent release ‘Nightlife’ because I hate demos. They annoy me and I wanted to hear something polished. I also skip the intro song becauses lets face it, all intro songs are stupid and the same. LETS BUILD UP HYPE FOR THE NEXT SONG WHICH IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE.
The first song I ever listened to by these Canadian music defilers was entitled ‘DJ’. It starts out with some BA guitar riffage that isn’t pop punk but I’m intrigued so I continue listening. It all went downhill from there. These Canucks incorporate pretty much everything I hate about scene music into album so if they have a sophomore effort I’ll probably swallow some bleach or sumthin.
Overall it’s not for me, but I can see why kids love this stuff. It talks about sex, drugs, and alcohol and every 16 year old thinks sneaking their one of their moms menthols is hardcore and makes them awesome. Top that off with a smirnoff ice and they are totally the coolest kid on the block.
I didn’t hate it all though. The guitars were super sweet at parts, especially the 80s gnar metal bullshit they threw in randomly. Whoever produced this album had some skill too. He made them sound like Akon and shit when they wanted to get all club jammy. Whoever plays their iPod live must have some skill.
Final Thoughts: I’m pretty much just jelly their on warped tour and Epitaph Records and I’m not. They must be doing something right. I’ll talk to my band about adding in rap/rock parts and autotune.
Excuse me, sir! I would like you to know that I am NOT fecal matter!
LMAO, was thinking this too.
Let’s get riled on the internet! WE’LL SHOW HIM!!!
someone should tell reddit and teach him a lesson.
this city is sweet but I couldnt get into the album
did you do the cover for in it to win it and who is that kid ?
pls respond
This here. The album is solid but doesn’t nearly live up to the hype generated from This City. Pretty much a Grade A party anthem.
i did the cover photography and editing, shawnyouwillhate did the layout
and the little kid is my nephew
The Duder signing at 1:35 plays bass in Blessed By a Broken Hart.
Not even surprised after reading they were from Canada and thinking they sounded exactly like BBABH.
Their manager/producer is the old drummer of bbabh, who also wrote most of bbabh’s songs up until the current album. So that explains most of the similarity
“Whoever plays their iPod live must have some skill.”
BOOOOOM
Saw them live at Warped, their iPod guy had a legit DJ setup, but I still think there was an iPod somewhere cause he didn’t look like he was doing too much aside from some fist pumps and trying to get the 25 people (srs) watching them hype. They put on a good show though. Props to their guitar player for playing with a broken leg. Homeboy sat in a chair off to the side just shredding the whole time.
This post ruled, but why did you post it under your moniker? Just curious
I forgot to make a username for Chase, my bad :(
the bleached blonde dude rapping is like when your teachers in high school had to do some shitty skit and started rapping.
CANADUH WHITE RAPERS CANT BE STOPPPED!
THIS. Perfect description, even covers the try-hard pimp outfit and hand gestures. LOL@ the kid fist slamming behind him during the rapdown ‘dis shit is so meaningful’.
HOW DID THEY NO I WAS IN MTL?
City Lights new album PARTY LIKE A DUMPSTER produced entirely by Big Chocolate and 2Stax. EasyDubCore.
Party album of the decade.
this is the new sound of destruction
is it doe
OH SHIT !!! is that the dude from Despised Icon on vocals at 1:09 !?!
Yes– sad that they stooped to including IMN-bait in their video, but I guess I can’t blame them- even IMNs are better than nothing. Wait… not so sure about that…
i couldn’t make it that far into the video on my own. but ye its alex :(
the healing process and ills of modern man/10 tho
“the healing process and ills of modern man/10 tho” Fuck, glad i’m not the only one.
Him being in this video made me a little sad inside though. IMN is like a disease I think. I can’t just stop, I just stopped being a fggt about it.
Saw these bros at warped. Moshed hard the whole time
Could’ve sworn there was a post about this previously…
U r stuck in a dystopian nightmare post loop…
dude i know that feel. not with this post, but there’s been a couple of times where i read a post and swear that i read the exact same post a few days ago. kinda creepy.
Déjẚ poo (feeling of recurring shitty-ness).
There WAS a post about this previously. How the standards of this fine publication have slipped.
Worth it for dat comedy gold at 1:21 doe. The first time i saw this I rewatched that 10+ times and lol’d irl. This would be the funniest scenecore parody ever, if it wasn’t srs.
> one person posts about something
> nobody else can ever post about that thing again
makes sense.
love city lights to death (saw em in CT a few weeks ago teehee) but the fucking attack attack singer is on the debut. criticism of any scene of any sort is nu11 & v01D
chase dont do that 2 urself
in it to win it’s intro song very much has the ability <3
I’ve seen City lights play the same venue that I saw Skip The Foreplay at
The differences
City Lights – maybe 30 people, playing on the floor, and was kinda boring, and a COMPLETE sausage fest with like 2 dude’s ugly girlfriends.
Skip the Foreplay- at least 100 people, no one knew who they were, and they got the whole place jumping, and the energy was incredible. tons of sluts bumpin an grinding that turned into moshing and a p big pit. oh an they actually played on the stage…
im a sucker for scene music doe an pop punk is prolly the gayest thing since m3tal
“pop punk is prolly the gayest thing since m3tal”
YES