[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERXrG-JY1U]
I knew when I heard this song that it had a very familiar sound to it. After watching the video and doing a little research, I now know why. The song was co-written by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy fame. You can catch glimpses of him, Pete Wentz (also of FOB fame), and members of Panic! at the Disco in the official video posted above. Brendon Urie (Panic!) and Stump both can be heard on the recording, too.
There tends to be a lot of what I'll call extreme harmonies in this pop-punk style of music. Stump himself can be heard on the majority of FOB tracks singing the lead and also singing overdubbed harmonies with himself. I use the word extreme, because the parts usually include a lower octave doubling of the lead or a crazy falsetto part above it. It's not your traditional three, four or even five part harmony, and when it is, it's mixed differently. It's used more for effect more than anything else, like a sample would be. This song is a little different. You can actually hear at least three parts (including the lead), and they're pretty traditional parts. They fit over the music really well, and they make it stand out from other, similar groups.
Like other bands I've posted about from this genre, the group got its start while the members were still in high school. Alexander DeLeon and Cash Colligan recorded demos together and put them on their MySpace page. The fact that they were using MySpace dates this pretty well, I guess, but that was all going down in 2004. It was a short time later that the band had the chance to give a demo to Spencer Smith and Jon Walker of Panic!, who, within a couple years, helped The Cab get signed to Decaydence Records.
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