Calling You Video 2007 @ Itunes Music Store

For only $1.50 You can be the proud owner of the amazingly good 2007 Music Video Calling You that you can take with you where ever you go on your ipod so if you ever get lonley and have no one to call this just watch this video and youll be all cheered up. lol jk. so go buy it on itunes.

Original Foiled Track List (post release)

This list does not depict the final track list of foiled  

1. X amount of words
2. You make me smile
3. Overweight
4. Everlasting Friend
5. Been Down
6. Into the Ocean
7. I drilled a wire..
8. Congratulations
9. Let it Go
10. Hate Me
11. Sound of Pulling Heaven Down
12. What if we could
13. 18th Floor Balcony
14. She’s my ride Home
15. (ghost track) It’s Just Me

I also should add that i found out that before the album came out they released a version of hate me as a single which sounds different then the one on the album foiled and if you bought it on stores like itunes it included 10 second segmants of the songs congratulations and x amount of words “Living Just to Watch It All Go By” was the orignal title for the album

Message From Matt On Open Book

been a long time since ive been here so i wanna say thanks for everything in 07.you are incredible fans and last year was nothing less than amazing.
i know some people are wondering when were gonna tour again and i just want to ask for your patience….please keep in mind we have been touring almost constantly for a long time and this is the first break weve had in what feels like forever.we all have personal lives and families and if we didnt spend time with them ,well—-i know id just go nuts.ha.so hang in there and rest assured well be working on a new album soon and when the time is right…well head back out there.in the meantime -keep spreading the word and hopefully well have an even bigger tour next time
hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and heres to 2008 being full of beautiful things.to any of my friends in the blue october family that read this….a very beautiful thing in my personal life is due any day now;).ill be in touch.
much love,
matt

Blue October: Brain Scan & Heart Throb (old Article) dec 31, 2003

  

Wed. December 31.2003 12:00 AM EST

The Texas rockers are defined by passion. They talk drug addiction, fan devotion, and a love of violin.
 
by Gil Kaufman
 

Beware the Blue Meanies. That’s all Blue October singer Justin Furstenfeld can say about his Texas band’s notoriously rabid fans. Diss the group on their message boards and risk being flamed into oblivion. One listen to their second major label album History For Sale and you will understand the source of that passionate reaction.

Furstenfeld, a recovering addict who says he nearly did himself in with drugs by age 21, bursts with emotion on songs such as “Ugly Side,” which blends his inspirational recovery lyrics with flamenco guitar, a string arrangement and yearning vocals that recall early Dave Matthews. Furstenfeld sings “I only want you to see my favorite part of me/ And not my ugly side,” a duality theme that is repeated over the course of the album.“I’m a soft spoken guy, but there’s a side of me that a select few have seen and I’m sad they’ve seen it,” said Furstenfeld. “When I’m singing I have to get that side out, because I can’t do it in real life. You can’t stand up in a restaurant and go, ‘Ahhhhhhhh!’”Blue October, whose music blends industrial beats with classical arrangements and whisper-to-a-scream vocals, built their loyal audience on kitchen-sink tracks like “Razorblade,” a searing condemnation of religious hypocrisy that veers from hippie funk to industrial grind. One of the only rock outfits with a dedicated violin player (who wears glued-on devil horns during shows, no less) the band have gathered a cult of fellow misfits they happily embrace.

Strolling down a New York street, Furstenfeld told VH1 about the danger of going back to Texas with a violinist, and his confrontational tactics with hecklers. And talk about emotion: he almost burst into tears while describing the lengths two fans went in their devotion.

VH1: Whose idea was it to include a violin player in a rock band?

Justin Furstenfeld: I went to a performing arts high school and that’s where I met Ryan [Delahoussaye], who was studying violin and orchestra. I always thought violin was one of the most intimate and romantic instruments in the world. So, after high school we started Blue October and I’d write these sad songs and he would lace them with these amazing hooks. It just made total sense.

VH1: Are you in danger of getting your butt kicked in Texas for having a violin on stage?

Furstenfeld: Not really, though the other night we were playing with the All-American Rejects and people were pointing at us and laughing. But after the first song they were like, “Oh, maybe we should shut up.” Another night on that tour, one kid kept calling us sell-outs and pop stars, but by the end of one song he was totally singing along. I called him out and said, “You’re flipping me off and throwing water bottles and then you’re singing along?” The whole audience was like, “Whoa!” Our stage show is thought provoking and shocking, so though “Calling You” is a nice ballad, when we bust into “Razorblade” it scares some of the younger kids.

VH1: What’s the worst reaction you’ve ever gotten from an audience?

Furstenfeld: Lubbock, Texas a few years ago. I wear a bit of eyeliner on stage because I watched Michael Stipe do it and this big cowboy up front said, “You queer, what are you doing! I’ll show you what people in Texas do to people like you.” So, I started blowing him kisses, which made him even madder.

VH1: Name another rock band that smoked on stage with a violin?

Furstenfeld: Um … I can’t. Ryan’s definitely a weirdo. He wears horns glued to his head and he had a dragon tattooed on his back. People expect to see him in a tuxedo or something, I guess.

VH1: What’s the craziest thing a fan has ever done for you?

Furstenfeld: I have this song called “For My Brother” thanking my brother for being there for me. These two brothers came up to us at a show once and one of them had been having problems and was looking for an easy way out. He said he heard our song and it was so powerful he changed his mind. They took off their shirts and they had these huge tattoos on their backs that said “For My Brother.” Here are these two 40-year-old men bawling and thanking us for saving their lives. That’s when it hits you that it’s not about money or women or drugs.

VH1: Ever had a stalker?

Furstenfeld: I rarely go on the Web site because I find out more things about myself than even I know. There are things people know about me that … I wouldn’t call it stalker stuff, just people who really, really, really connect with my lyrics.

VH1: How does one decide to go from string arrangements to flamenco guitar on a song like “Ugly Side?”

Furstenfeld: We put things in songs that sound like that emotion. That’s a very smooth song, but it’s also very honest about opening up to new people. That flamenco flare lets you know the pretty side and the harder stuff is the ugly side.

VH1: How’d you come up with the name Blue October?

Furstenfeld: We were doing a lot of drugs and bad things because we thought that’s what music was all about. My heroes were people like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith, and they’re all gone from suicide or drugs. As I abused drugs I realized they were driving me nuts. I was doing crazy drugs when I was 21, and in October of that year I realized I had to clean myself up and do something positive. That’s when our lives changed.

VH1: Who is “Chameleon Boy” and why is he such a mess?

Furstenfeld: That’s a rough song. I was invited to the funeral of one of my oldest drug buddies who had overdosed. One of my songs came on in the church and I guess it was one of his favorites. I didn’t know that until then and it was a defining moment in my life. I was like, “Dude, look at him!” I was doing horrible things in a relationship with someone who had no idea I was doing drugs. I was always changing my shape around her. She’d be asleep and I’d be in other room doing drugs. She was like, “Why don’t you ever come home? Why don’t you spend time with me? Because I’m an addict!” That went on for three years and it destroyed that trust.

VH1: What’s with the brain scan on the back of the album?

Furstenfeld: That’s what drugs will do to your brain. The red is active blue is not active. At ten years old that kid is active - at 26, not so active. It’s not my brain, though. Hopefully I stopped soon enough that I still have some purple.

VH1: Fill in the blanks: “Blue October are one part (blank) and one part (blank).

Furstenfeld: One part manic, one part bi-polar.

Bipolar Bop (old Article) Feb 21 , 2002

Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld rides the aftershocks of a busted record deal

By John Nova Lomax 

Published: February 21, 2002

Within seconds of your meeting Blue October’s singer-songwriter-guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, he acts as if he’s known you forever. Anyone familiar with his music will tell you he’s an open book, or as some, including Furstenfeld, would say: an open wound.

•  Justin Furstenfeld doesn’t know what to tell suicidal fans who don’t have health insurance and don’t believe in medication. Do you?

Where:

Fitzgerald’s, 2706 White Oak Drive

Details:

Saturday, February 23; 713-862-3838

Subject(s): Blue October with House of Moist and Deep Ella

At Cafe Brasil over granitas (”liquid crack rock,” Furstenfeld calls them), the singer tells the story of how his band’s fast train to national stardom has temporarily derailed. (Appropriately enough for an interview with the leader of a band named Blue October, Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” is playing in the background.)

It was the classic tale. Band meets label, Universal in this case. Band loses label. Whether or not this band will get a label again is very much up in the air.

“We got dropped,” the 26 year-old Furstenfeld says matter-of-factly. “I laugh about it. We put our album out, worked our asses off on it. I don’t think Universal knew what we were all about.”

To be fair to Universal, what do you do with a band like Blue October? It’s hard to find the right fit in today’s corporate radio wasteland for a rock-based band with lyrics that redefine angst and a violin as the lead instrument. Universal thought the solution was to dumb it down.

“Universal decided to put ‘Breakfast After Ten’ out as a single, and I was like, ‘What? That’s like the worst song I’ve ever written,’ ” recounts Furstenfeld. “They said, ‘Everyone loves it.’ I said, ‘Why, dude? I hate singing it.’ Every night I’m making the set list and our road manager comes up to me and says, ‘You have “Breakfast After Ten” on there, right?’ I would say no. He says, ‘You better put it on there.’ Arrrrgh! What’s the point of doing art if you can’t do it the way you want to do it?”

Universal also wanted the band to tone down the drama and length of its concerts. Then of course there was the problem of the band’s inimitability. “They said, ‘You’re a Texas band. You can’t have a violin in a Texas band.’ ” Furstenfeld literally snarls his response: “Then why’d you fucking sign me? That’s our lead instrument!”

Disappointed by the band’s subplatinum sales, the label muckety-mucks decided they had made a mistake. The band they’d been praising to the heavens a few months before suddenly became, as Furstenfeld characterizes the criticism, “overdramatic and way too me-me-me.” At the time, he was willing to listen, but not anymore. “I said, ‘That’s so true, I’m being overdramatic.’ But then I get home and open stacks of letters from people that say, ‘I’m so glad you’re open and honest about that stuff, because it really has done something for me to know that even though you’re in a band, it’s okay to say you’re not the most confident person in the world…’ So then I stop and think: Universal’s about money, not about art.”

Furstenfeld loves fan feedback, to a point, usually determined by whether or not he has his meds. The singer suffers from depressive and social anxiety disorders and describes his unmedicated self as “Brian Wilson on crack.” On a recent tour, disaster loomed when he lost his prescribed Paxil and other drugs. “We leave for our tour, and I’m so happy because I’ve got my beautiful soul mate at home, and I’ve got my dog, and I’m so happy, and I get on the van, and we’re traveling.”

Two shows in, the pills are gone. “Next show’s a little bit stranger,” he says, getting more and more agitated remembering the disaster. “Show after that’s real fuckin’ strange. Towards the middle of the tour, I’m just freakin’ out. I don’t want to go on stage. I’ve got the worst stage fright. I’m coming straight off the stage to the van, hiding in the back, going to the hotel, sleeping, locking my doors, checking out the windows for people that are knocking and going, ‘Let me tell you a story about my life.’ I was freaking out and getting so frustrated that I can’t just do or be without these little bitty pills. Towards the end of the tour I was seeing things, hearing things. I finally get home and my girlfriend opens the door and she can totally tell and she just says, ‘Come in, come in.’ And as soon as she shuts that door, I don’t go outside for another week.”

The singer says he doesn’t understand this part of himself. “I can only write about it,” he says. “I can’t talk about it. It’s so… hard…it’s so frustrating to be so together getting on the bus and then one day to be like, ‘What the fuck is going on here?’ And then dealing with that, and having these people come up to you going, ‘Man, your music is wonderful, your music is wonderful,’ and it’s just faces coming at you and you’re thinking, ‘God, I really hate myself right now; how can you tell me I’m wonderful?’ I just want to explode. It’s insane. It gets so insane. The only comfort is coming home and having your girlfriend just go, ‘Here, come in.’ It’s just so frustrating. But that’s what Blue October’s about. I’ve just got to stop and know that the downs are okay. Go to your down spot, but just write about it.”

Furstenfeld realizes that he’s fair game for fans who are as damaged as he is. He knows that writing personal songs about his agony can have repercussions in other people far beyond his control. But all the same, he says he has a real hard time taking compliments. “I had this one lady come up to me the other night and she said, ‘Your music touches me so much.’ I say thanks. And then she says, ‘I’m thinking of blowing my brains out.’ I didn’t know what to say. I told her to see somebody. She said she didn’t have health insurance. I said, ‘Well, then you need to save up and see somebody.’ Then she says, ‘I don’t believe in medication,’ like I was supposed to give her some answers. What do you tell somebody like that? But then I can’t really blame ‘em, because I sit here and put out this material that says the same thing, and I love talking to people about that, but it’s like…Where:Fitzgerald’s, 2706 White Oak Drive

Details:

Saturday, February 23; 713-862-3838

Subject(s): Blue October with House of Moist and Deep Ella

“I don’t know how to take care of myself,” he says finally. “And I’ve got people asking me for advice. It’s the blind leading the blind.”

While Furstenfeld may still be in the dark personally, he can see rays of light streaming through the rubble of the Universal cave-in. After some initial vertigo, the band is reveling in its newly restored artistic freedom. It has just completed a five-song EP, bluntly titled A Demo, that it plans to shop to labels. The band is forgoing the usual hype (bios, critics’ blurbs, session info) and hoping the music will speak for itself. “Forget the whole trying to get them to know about you,” says Furstenfeld. “Just put it out with a 52-font Demo on the cover. If they like it, they like it, and if they don’t, you’re just barking up the wrong tree. Whether we pick up a label with it or not, I don’t care because I know it’s some of the best material that I could put my name on.”

So Furstenfeld isn’t playing the “we don’t need a label” game. He’s just looking for one that will dance to his self-described “bipolar rock” tunes. There will be no more compromises, he says. Not to the cocaine problem he battled in his teens and early twenties, nor to anything or anyone else.

“Nothing can be your first priority except your goals,” he says.

Spring out your winter Passion and buy Argue with a Tree

Got some extra Cash on your hands then head on over to the officail site and go to there store and buy the argue with a tree cd/dvd combo for $30.00  www.blueoctober.com

History Of Songs From Foiled -(Keiv Posted on officail message Board)

You Make Me Smile - written by Matt and Justin in 1999 and was played at several Blue October concerts from 2000 to 2002. During 2003 and 2004 while Matt was not in the band, they never played the song. Justin and Matt played an acoustic version at one of Matt’s shows in San Marcos in Summer 2005, and Blue October has played the song at nearly every show from 2005 to 2007.

She’s My Ride Home - made its live debut in early 2004 and was played at several shows through the spring of 2004. It originally had different lyrics. An early version of the song appears in the soundcheck section of the Argue With a Tree DVD. 

Into the Ocean - was not played at a live show until the Foiled shows in February 2006 and has been played at nearly every show since then. The music for the song is similiar to the music used for the 5591 song “Next Message” which was played at a show on December 7, 2002. What if We Could - Played at 5591 shows in 2002 and 2004. It has been played both acoustically and also as an electronica song. It was a slow quiet song that had a much different sound than the hard rocking Foiled version.

Hate Me - written in early 2005, it made it’s live debut September 18, 2005 at the Hurricane Benefit show in Dallas and has been played at every show since.

Let it Go - played at a few shows towards the end of the History for Sale tour in late 2004. Wasn’t played again until March 2007 (although it was played at some soundchecks early in the Foiled tour) and was played regularly until the end of the Foiled tour.

Congratulations - played at a few shows in late 2004 along with Let it Go. It originally had slightly different lyrics. Has not been played live since 2004.

Overweight - made its live debut at the 5591 show in August 2004 as a spoken word poem. Wasn’t played by the full band until Spring 2006.

X Amount of Words - was played at 5591 shows in 2002. Was played at nearly every show on the Foiled tour.

Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek - made its live debut at the 5591 show in August 2004 as a spoken word poem. Wasn’t played by the full band until the Foiled tour and was played at most shows in 2006 and 2007.

Sound of Pulling Heaven Down - performed a cappella throughout 2004 and 2005 as a tag to Come in Closer and was included in the Argue With a Tree album. Was played at most shows in 2006 and 2007.

Everlasting Friend - played at 5591 shows in 2002. Was played at many shows early in the Foiled tour but was played less towards the end of the tour.

18th Floor Balcony - played at shows in 2003 and 2004 and 2005. The balcony it was written about is in Kansas City. Played at almost every Foiled show.

It’s Just Me - never played at a Blue October show. The recording on the album (please correct me if I’m wrong as I don’t quite remember) was recorded in a lounge in Las Vegas in 2005.

Remember that Foiled was recorded in Summer 2005 and was supposed to be released in October 2005. Blue October played a tour in Fall 2005 in which they debuted Hate Me, and brought back You Make Me Smile, and also played 18th Floor Balcony and the short version of Sound of Pulling Heaven Down.

Even in early 2006 the release of the album was delayed again but the band already started their tour in February 2006 and started playing Into the Ocean, the full version of Sound of Pulling Heaven Down, and I Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek, and Everlasting Friend.

In March 2006 VH1 posted all the songs from Foiled on their website so even before the album was out, most fans had already heard the songs.

As the Foiled tour went into Full Swing, they started playing more songs from the album. The new version of She’s My Ride Home wasn’t played at a show until Summer of 2006, and Let it Go wasn’t played live until the show in Austin in March 2007 which was recorded for the Treat Your Baby Well live CD. Congratulations hasn’t been played live since 2004.

Calling You On Moonlight on CBS @ 9:00

NEW UPDATE : i read on the officail board that it wasnt on last nights The epidsode so hopefull its on nextweeks maybe they got the wrong air date  

I didnt Catch it on tv tonight cause by the time i checked the site it was past 9 lol if any on did get a chance to see it on cbs what happend while the song was going on. any way im glad to see that calling you seems to be getting alot of promotion between radio , music video (Vh1)(keep voteing) and tv shows like the episode of moonlight tonigt adn a month or two ago calling you was on a show called Life Is Wild On CW so lets keep calling you in the charts by requesting it on the radio and voteing on VH1

 To Vote on XM Radios 20 on 20

http://www.xmradio.com/programming/20on20_vote.jsp

To Vote On Vh1

http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_20_countdown/vote.jhtml

Check This Out

Someone has written a story or script about justin furstenfelds life through the meaning of his songs or somthing its hard to explain just read it.  its not true but its well written (my opinion) justin made remarks on the official board that this may have copy right infringement but its worth checking into. After thinking long and hard i changed my mind the story isnt all that good in relation to the songs and some of them in story are taken from a total and misconceptional meaning I Think if justin want to make a movie of his life he would do a way better job if he wrote it himself. That being said i don’t think this should be made into a real movie it doesn’t even sound like Justin but maybe that’s because i don’t know him in his personal life and it not even close to his life and the songs that he wrote were inspired by several events in his life not just one girl like the author portrays x as singing songs to him its confusing of course maybe i got this wrong i haven’t read the whole thing. again as i said before i think justin would do a way better job as hes the person who lived through it all so if he wants a movie done on his life i think he should write it or at least have collaboration with the writer.  That being said i dont think this should be in a movie. From what i know and read i would give this story a 4 out of 10

http://www.thehiddenstory.com/

Updates That I’ll Be Working on (Jan 08)(Feb 08)(Mar 08)

Pages ill be working on (will be crossed out when finished)

• 5591 (add more) 
• Blue october
• a + machines
• Justin Furstenfeld
• maybe start somthing from the activitie page
• more info for “The Last Wish” Page
• Tracking down 5591 show setlists
• adding more song lryics - the rooftop sessions
• Get more setlists - Blue October , Last wish , 5591 , a(+) Machines
• News on the band
• Updates and add more info to all pages (if i find out anything)
• Add more Song quotes to the blue october age and 5591 page
•  Start somthing from the activities Page
• Singles Page
• add more news articles invovleing The Last Wish
• Add history of the albums seperate or maybe on 1 page