SBM+College Assignment=?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:32 am
I'm a college freshman this year and for my Rhetoric class I had to do a paper. The professor asked what 5 texts we would put in our backpacks to save and keep with us for the rest of forever. 5 texts that are either the most influential or most memorable to you personally. She considers any work of art to be text, as long as it speaks to us. That includes movies, music, etc. Pretty much anything you can analyze. I picked SBM as one of my five. Here's what I wrote:
Screaming Bloody Murder is the 5th studio album released by Canadian based rock band Sum 41. The band, made up of Deryck Whibley (lead singer, rhythm guitar), Steve Jocz (drums), Jason “Cone” McCaslin (bass) and Tom Thacker (lead guitar), released the album in March of 2011.
I still remember the night I finally came in possession of Sum 41's newest album. It was past midnight and I was still up on my computer waiting for the album to leak online. It was a few days before the actual release day in North America, but it had already been released in Japan. On a large Sum 41 fan-site named theresnosolution.com, there was a member from Japan. He was going to buy the album from his local store and then post it online for all of us. Most of us were dying for an early listen. Finally, it happened. It was like a virtual party on that website. The moderators were forwarding the link to the album to everyone that had been waiting for it. I was probably one of the first fifty people to download it. I had never been so excited about new music.
That is why Screaming Bloody Murder will forever be in my backpack. It was the first record I had ever anticipated with such enthusiasm. Sum 41 is the band that got me into music. Before I followed Sum 41, I was just a casual music fan. I first heard their album Underclass Hero during my freshman year. I was a cyber school student, lonely and distracted, but when I found Underclass Hero and Sum 41, I found something to hold on to. I learned about all the band members and all their albums. I memorized their entire history. They became an essential part of my everyday life as I played that CD over and over. The only reason I didn't select that album to go in my backpack is because I wasn't there for the build-up. I became a hardcore fan after Underclass Hero was already out. I had nothing to anticipate at the time. Until they announced that they were making a new album. I remember when they first announced the title. I remember when I heard the first song, “Skumfuk” which was unofficially released much earlier than the rest of the album. I also remember the disappointments. Screaming Bloody Murder was delayed multiple times and it was four years after Underclass Hero until it was finally released. But I kept waiting. When I heard all of Screaming Bloody Murder for the first time, it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard. Punctuated by the emotional and eclectic eleven minute epic “A Dark Road Out Of Hell”, Screaming Bloody Murder succeeded in taking me on a journey. Just as life isn't about just one moment or memory, but a collection of them; Screaming Bloody Murder isn't just about one song. It's about a journey and about finding yourself along the way. As the album approaches its close with the song “Back Where I Belong”, I heard the same drum beat that began the album in the song “Reason to Believe”. As a somewhat lonely high school student, I heard this and realized that it was speaking to me. That someday I would find where I belonged. What mattered now was the journey. Screaming Bloody Murder will always stay with me. After the anticipation. The patiently impatient waiting. The final payoff. It meant something to me, more so than music ever had before. I grew up waiting for that album and I want to grow old listening to it.
Thought you guys might enjoy! Thanks to anyone that took the time to read!
Screaming Bloody Murder is the 5th studio album released by Canadian based rock band Sum 41. The band, made up of Deryck Whibley (lead singer, rhythm guitar), Steve Jocz (drums), Jason “Cone” McCaslin (bass) and Tom Thacker (lead guitar), released the album in March of 2011.
I still remember the night I finally came in possession of Sum 41's newest album. It was past midnight and I was still up on my computer waiting for the album to leak online. It was a few days before the actual release day in North America, but it had already been released in Japan. On a large Sum 41 fan-site named theresnosolution.com, there was a member from Japan. He was going to buy the album from his local store and then post it online for all of us. Most of us were dying for an early listen. Finally, it happened. It was like a virtual party on that website. The moderators were forwarding the link to the album to everyone that had been waiting for it. I was probably one of the first fifty people to download it. I had never been so excited about new music.
That is why Screaming Bloody Murder will forever be in my backpack. It was the first record I had ever anticipated with such enthusiasm. Sum 41 is the band that got me into music. Before I followed Sum 41, I was just a casual music fan. I first heard their album Underclass Hero during my freshman year. I was a cyber school student, lonely and distracted, but when I found Underclass Hero and Sum 41, I found something to hold on to. I learned about all the band members and all their albums. I memorized their entire history. They became an essential part of my everyday life as I played that CD over and over. The only reason I didn't select that album to go in my backpack is because I wasn't there for the build-up. I became a hardcore fan after Underclass Hero was already out. I had nothing to anticipate at the time. Until they announced that they were making a new album. I remember when they first announced the title. I remember when I heard the first song, “Skumfuk” which was unofficially released much earlier than the rest of the album. I also remember the disappointments. Screaming Bloody Murder was delayed multiple times and it was four years after Underclass Hero until it was finally released. But I kept waiting. When I heard all of Screaming Bloody Murder for the first time, it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard. Punctuated by the emotional and eclectic eleven minute epic “A Dark Road Out Of Hell”, Screaming Bloody Murder succeeded in taking me on a journey. Just as life isn't about just one moment or memory, but a collection of them; Screaming Bloody Murder isn't just about one song. It's about a journey and about finding yourself along the way. As the album approaches its close with the song “Back Where I Belong”, I heard the same drum beat that began the album in the song “Reason to Believe”. As a somewhat lonely high school student, I heard this and realized that it was speaking to me. That someday I would find where I belonged. What mattered now was the journey. Screaming Bloody Murder will always stay with me. After the anticipation. The patiently impatient waiting. The final payoff. It meant something to me, more so than music ever had before. I grew up waiting for that album and I want to grow old listening to it.
Thought you guys might enjoy! Thanks to anyone that took the time to read!