Remember to Live
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Remember to Live is an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by American rock band Flyleaf
Flyleaf
Flyleaf is an American alternative metal band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop and Christian metal genres. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005....

 and released after the tour supporting their previously released album Memento Mori
Memento Mori (Flyleaf album)
Memento Mori is the second studio album by American rock band Flyleaf, released through A&M/Octone Records on November 10, 2009. The title is a Latin phrase meaning "be mindful of death" or "remember you will die." Memento Mori debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200, selling 56,000 units in...

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The album consists of songs that fans have requested to be recorded for years, therefore the album was created especially for them. There are a few new songs the fans may have never heard and old ones reborn that fans will remember from when Flyleaf was first named "Passerby"..

Track listing

Track notes

  • "Believe In Dreams" and "Amy Says" are re-worked demos that were originally written in the mid-2000s, before the release of Flyleaf's debut album.
  • "Okay" was written in 2005 and often performed live before their song "Tina".
  • "Justice and Mercy" is a track from Much Like Falling EP
    Much Like Falling EP
    Much Like Falling is an EP by Flyleaf. This album was released digitally onto the iTunes store on October 30, 2007. It includes unreleased songs not featured on their self-titled album. This EP was released onto the iTunes store the same day as their re-release of their self-titled album, Flyleaf...

    . The "Violent Love Version" is a somewhat softer version.
  • "Dear My Closest Friend" is a song from Flyleaf's early days when they were called Passerby. It had never been released to the public.
  • Ben Moody, a guitarist for the band We Are The Fallen
    We Are the Fallen
    We Are the Fallen is an American gothic metal band consisting of former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson, Marty O'Brien and former Evanescence members Ben Moody, John LeCompt, and Rocky Gray. The band's name is an allusion to Evanescence's 2003 album, Fallen, which has resulted in criticism...

     and ex-guitarist/co-founder of Evanescence, remixed "Arise" for Flyleaf's EP.
  • The original version of "Arise" can be found on the band's album Memento Mori
    Memento Mori (Flyleaf album)
    Memento Mori is the second studio album by American rock band Flyleaf, released through A&M/Octone Records on November 10, 2009. The title is a Latin phrase meaning "be mindful of death" or "remember you will die." Memento Mori debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200, selling 56,000 units in...

    .


Chart performance

Chart (2010) Peak
position
US Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

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US Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Alternative Albums
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

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US Billboard Christian Albums 4
US Billboard Rock Albums 15

Band

  • Lacey Mosley
    Lacey Mosley
    Lacey Nicole Sturm is an American singer-songwriter from Arlington, Texas. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the alternative metal band Flyleaf....

     – Lead vocals
  • Sameer Bhattacharya – lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

  • Jared Hartmann – rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

  • James Culpepper – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , timpani
    Timpani
    Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...

    , and wind chimes
    Wind Chimes
    "Wind Chimes" is a song composed by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for the American rock band The Beach Boys. The original version of the song was written and recorded for the aborted 1966 album Smile. The band completely re-recorded the song for inclusion on their next album, Smiley Smile...

  • Pat Seals – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

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