THE NEARLY DEADS Nurturing New Found Glory (Zombie Music Review)

Dear NEARLY DEAD in NashVegas,

You had me at "ZOMBIE MUSIC VIDEO"

I got a mouth full of words but nothing to say...



I don't usually answer personal ads but your overt attention-grabbing use of succulent meta sauce really peaked my perception.

While my personal preference of living dead are vampires roaming the shadows of a New Years Day, I really appreciate your understanding of marketing in the new paradigm.

With the current craze of zombies festering in mainstream culture as they gingerly stumble slowly through TV shows like AMC's The Walking Dead & MTV's Death Valley and in movies like Zombieland and Dawn of the Dead, there's never been a better time than now to tag the title of your song with Zombie Music Video...especially since Google owns You Tube which populates the first page of every search result.

Besides that, having a bunch of your friends dress up like zombies is a hella good time and you should be shouting it out loud like Gene Simmons in a Dr. Pepper Cherry Cola commercial.

I really like your taut manicured sound. Your self-titled THE NEARLY DEADS Ep is thick as a brick lifehouse.

On songs like "Reasons," "Special" and "Thanks For Nothing," Steve Tobi (guitar), Cory Walen (drums), Brandon Barnes (Guitar), Kevin Koelsch (Bass) deftly construct the melodic tension that's sprung to eternal life by the powerful vocal embrace of Theresa Jeane.

TJ, she's a keeper. Her rhinoceros thesaurus must be filled to the brim with a piping hot cornucopia of onomatopoeia.

If it's me you're after, well, how about a STRAIGHT ANSWER

Ok, ok. I admit it. The zombies seduced me like cotton candy in sugarland but it was a descending piano melody saturated with reverb that sealed the deal...that and the random use of grease in your "Fact & Friction" video:

And now I finally have the perfect cure for my longing for more early era Paramore.

Intended or not, the epic opening drum/guitar build-up of "The Perfect Cure" reminds me of the opening of Paramore "Born For This" off of The Final Riot! (Live).

"Chi-CA-GO!!!"

The densely packed urgency of TPC would nuzzle up nicely with "Emergency" and "Let This Go" off of Paramore All We Know Is Falling.

Here's my prediction. I believe what's in front of me...

Which is a monster mutha sukka success story waiting for its next chapter to be swiftly written. How big? Monster massive? Rockstar Large?

THE MOOSE IS LOOSE. IT'S A GARGANTUAN GODZILLA GORILLA!

In fact, so immensely disproportionately HUGE that a camera frame can't even capture its absolute LARGENESS, it's infinite GROWTH.

To put it into search terms amidst a paragraph of carefully chosen meta tags, I would say that The Nearly Deads sound like Taylor Swift fronting Paramore (it would be Taylor & Taylor y'all!) or Avril Lavigne as the mutha fu*kin princess of We Are The In Crowd or Gwen Stefani riding shotgun (No Doubt!) in the Smashing Pumpkins or Jennifer Nettles commandeering The Cab or Hayley Williams singing for Foo Fighters...a great way to get Dave Grohl back on drums...which would be total Nirvana!

We don't have all day and we don't have all year so I wanted to cut to the Sprint cup chase and let you know that the random explicit use of preemptive searchable strikes would continue to propagate. And that we have some curious george common ground.

I like The Nearly Deads. You like The Nearly Deads.

I want to go to Warped tour this summer.

You want to play Warped tour this summer.

Kevin Lyman, O Brother Where Art Thou?

You have a desire to be Fueled By Ramen and since I'm not even able to afford sleeves, I often find myself fueled by ramen.

Being sleeveless is strangely contagious, isn't it?

You like drinking beer. Ditto.

I like your sense of humor. You like your sense of humor.

You like the Material Girl. I like a material girl. She's my Madonna...my Lucky Star. Her name is Britney Spears. She's a real Femme Fatale. (gratuitous inclusion for maximum new found glory on search results)



I, too, am getting better at being faster...especially at getting to the point.

Which is to never look back and don't tempt tomorrow.

Just throw it all away and cut the ties to allow for Nothing But A Good Time.

In the meantime, hope you'll be mine until you make it to the big time.

Yours truly,

Sleeveless in Seattle

PS, call me any time, my number is 555-DIME

THE NEARLY DEADS
TOUR DATES
01/20/12 - Nashville, TN @ Revolver
01/27/12 - Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Casino
01/30/12 - Tampa, FL @ Palma Ceia
03/08/12 - Nashville, TN @ The Rutledge
03/18/12 - Indianapolis, IN @ Melody Inn Tavern
03/22/12 - Toronto, CAN @ Canadian Music Fest

There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

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