YELLOWCARD NUMBER ONE?, BAND ESCHEWS INTERNAL DEMOCRACY

Yellowcard is up against a Grammy Nominee compilation, another NOW hits collection, Il Divo and P.O.D.’s Testify to see who will have the highest debut. Insiders give the band’s Lights And Sounds the edge, but results won’t be in until Wednesday.

Yellowcard drummer Longineu Parsons revealed that for Lights And Sounds the band depended on the songwriting of singer/guitarist Ryan Key and bassist/keyboardist Pete Mosely, rather than a collective band effort. Parsons said that was a good thing.

“We had taken some time off to regain our thoughts and to get ourselves back on track elsewhere as well as being in the band. Ryan and Pete went to New York and started running over songs, started writing songs, and getting the melodies and that sort of thing together, and I went out there and listened to it, it was a lot easier for me to listen to it than being in a band room together at once trying to listen to everybody’s opinion at one…like, Ryan will have a melody, but then somebody may not like the way the melody goes at this point, and the next thing you know you’re all going around in circles.”

Yellowcard is hoping for big things for Lights And Sounds considering what its predecessor achieved. The band’s last effort, Ocean Avenue, sold 2.5 million albums worldwide.