Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to be amazed by the four gentlemen of a band called Boyce Avenue, a band introduced to me by my cousin to whom I am forever indebted for this amazing discovery. The members of the band are Alejandro, Daniel, Fabian (the three Manzano brothers) and Stephen Hatker. And hey, they're all quite cute. Alejandro has the smoothest, sexiest voice ever. At the moment, I'm learning guitar but sucking at it quite royally and I wish that one day I'll be able to play their harmonious melodies as weel as they do.
What captivates me about them is their unique take/covers of very popular, mainstream songs. Here is the first one I'd like to show you. It's Good Riddance (done first by Green Day):
Amazing, right?
Closer (originally by Neyo):
Omarion and Timbaland's "Ice Box" (possibly my favourite):
Probably my second favourite - Forever, a song by Chris Brown that is over-played on the radio and now re-done by Boyce Avenue so that you'll never want to stop playing it.
The newer, better version of Neyo's "Because of You"
Other successes include:
My only criticism of them is that they re-did "Iris", a song which has already been done a million times over by Ronan Keating, even Avril Lavigne and others. Their version is still really good but this is like cover overkill. I don't think anything will ever be better than the Goo Goo Doll's original. With all Boyce Avenue's covers, in most cases they're better than the original but all the others are never worse than them (with the exception of "Iris" and possibly "Viva la Vida" because it sounds ordinary and neither song can ever have a cover as good as it). Their own stuff (i.e. stuff written and/or performed by Boyce Avenue) is really good as well.
Subscribe to their channel on YouTube anyway.
Hey, happy new year.
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Cool band, CLB. It's just the right level of noise for my hungover head. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the geeeeetaar lessons :o)
Very cool band indeed! Happy New Year Dear!
wow, fridgey band u got there
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