Dave Melillo

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Knights Of The Island Counter 00:00 Tools
All I Want for Christmas 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Me Babe 00:00 Tools
Vatican Roulette 00:00 Tools
Morris County Blues 00:00 Tools
This Is 2005 03:35 Tools
For The Sake Of Remembering 00:00 Tools
Wait for it 00:00 Tools
Excuses 00:00 Tools
Think Big 00:00 Tools
Read between the lines 00:00 Tools
Knights Of The Island Counter 128 00:00 Tools
The ties that bind 00:00 Tools
Blood 00:00 Tools
Thinking Of You 00:00 Tools
Sams Song pt. II 00:00 Tools
Better Man 00:00 Tools
Future Focused 00:00 Tools
Do You Believe 00:00 Tools
Role Player 00:00 Tools
Cut Me Loose 00:00 Tools
Chump 00:00 Tools
Give Me Something 00:00 Tools
Same Sad Song 00:00 Tools
Know It All 00:00 Tools
Time 00:00 Tools
All2U 00:00 Tools
Anthony's Song 00:00 Tools
Knights of the Island Counter (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
I Wonder If We Can Just Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Fake It 00:00 Tools
Last Love Song 00:00 Tools
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Hangin Around 00:00 Tools
17 Years 00:00 Tools
Changing of the Guard 00:00 Tools
Believer 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song Part II 00:00 Tools
Knights Of The Island Counter (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Kinghts Of The Island Counter 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song Pt. II 00:00 Tools
Swim (feat. Dave Melillo) 00:00 Tools
Drive (Incubus Cover) 00:00 Tools
David Melillo - Excuses 00:00 Tools
The Devil You Know 00:00 Tools
Thinking of You (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Make Up Song 00:00 Tools
Date Rape 00:00 Tools
Blood (Captain Midnite Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dancing In The Dark (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Ice Box (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Knights of 00:00 Tools
Down 00:00 Tools
Down (Jay Sean Cover) 00:00 Tools
One Time 00:00 Tools
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Oblivious 00:00 Tools
Wait For It (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Down (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Knight of the Island Counter 00:00 Tools
Angel Beats 00:00 Tools
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Remember to Breathe (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Eskimo Kisses 00:00 Tools
Baby (Cover) 00:00 Tools
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Money For Nothing 00:00 Tools
Connect The Dots 00:00 Tools
Knights of Island Counter 00:00 Tools
County Blues 00:00 Tools
Knights 00:00 Tools
Drive 00:00 Tools
Once Bitten (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Woulda Coulda (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Be Mine 00:00 Tools
Two Hearts 00:00 Tools
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Tech Support 00:00 Tools
Drive (Cover) 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Me Baby 00:00 Tools
David Melillo - This Is 2005 00:00 Tools
Insrumental (Жара) 00:00 Tools
Morris Cou 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew You Smoked 00:00 Tools
Forever 00:00 Tools
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it Ainb't Me Babe 00:00 Tools
Darker Than Black 00:00 Tools
The One 00:00 Tools
Moments Of Weakness 00:00 Tools
IceBox 00:00 Tools
Dancing In The Dark 00:00 Tools
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Don't Say It 00:00 Tools
IDGAF 00:00 Tools
For Real 00:00 Tools
This Isn't Love (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
For the Sake of Remembering [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
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Vatican Roulette [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
In Front Of My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Knights of the Island Counter [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
The Name Game 00:00 Tools
BE MINEmaybe 00:00 Tools
IN A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS 7.1 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Me Babe (Bob Dylan cover) 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Me Babe (Bob Dylan) 00:00 Tools
This Is 2005 [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Just A Couple Questions 00:00 Tools
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FORREAL7.15 00:00 Tools
Dave Melillo - All I Want For Christmas Is You 00:00 Tools
Knights Of The Island Counter (Video Version) 00:00 Tools
Read Between The Lines (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song Part II (demo) 00:00 Tools
EK7.15 00:00 Tools
REMEMBER YOUR NAME 7.14 00:00 Tools
Sexy Love 00:00 Tools
CHANEL NO. 1 7.14 00:00 Tools
SMOKED 7.15 00:00 Tools
What Goes Around... 00:00 Tools
Knights Of The Island Counter (Full Band) 00:00 Tools
One Time (Cover) 00:00 Tools
The Knights Of The Island Counter 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song Part 2 00:00 Tools
MIND7.15 00:00 Tools
This Isn't Love (Piano Verson) 00:00 Tools
JACW717 00:00 Tools
The Ties That Bind (Demo) 00:00 Tools
TWOHEARTS7.15 00:00 Tools
ANGEL BEATS 7.14 00:00 Tools
LIGHTS OUT 00:00 Tools
VSKY2 00:00 Tools
MUS TRA Mix 3 FINAL 00:00 Tools
Always Be My Baby (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Ice Box 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song (Live) 00:00 Tools
MY HRRT 00:00 Tools
Find Your Love 00:00 Tools
All I Want For Christmas - Dave Mellilo 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Home For Christmas 00:00 Tools
For The Sake Of Remebering 00:00 Tools
Morris County Blues [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Make Up Song (Final) 00:00 Tools
knights of the island counter [acoustic] 00:00 Tools
Kights Of The Island Counter 00:00 Tools
Remember To Breathe 00:00 Tools
MONEY FOR NOTHING 7.14 00:00 Tools
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Knights of the Islan 00:00 Tools
Teenage Dream 00:00 Tools
DJ Got Us Falling in Love 00:00 Tools
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L.O.V.E. 00:00 Tools
Nights of the Island Counter 00:00 Tools
Tt Ain't Me Babe 00:00 Tools
Ice Box Cover 00:00 Tools
Excuses (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Wait for It (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Need A Girl 00:00 Tools
Knights of the Island Counter [demo] 00:00 Tools
Knights On The Island Counter 00:00 Tools
Morris 00:00 Tools
Dave Melillo - Morris County Blues 00:00 Tools
Sam's Song (demo) 00:00 Tools
Dave Melillo - Sam's Song 00:00 Tools
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Sam's Song II 00:00 Tools
Do You Believe? 00:00 Tools
Find Your Love (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Wait For It (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
There Goes My Baby (Cover) 00:00 Tools
Morris County Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
What Goes Around... (Cover) 00:00 Tools
This Is 2005 (Live) 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Me Babe (Cover) [Live] 00:00 Tools
Knights of the Round Table 00:00 Tools
Knights of the Island Counter ACOUSTIC 00:00 Tools
Mad World/What Goes Around...Comes Around (Orlando Live) 00:00 Tools
Read Between The Line 00:00 Tools
Knights Of The Island Counter Demo 00:00 Tools
Always Be My Baby 00:00 Tools
Days Like These 00:00 Tools
Dave Mellilo - All I Want For Christmas 00:00 Tools
Knights Of The Counter Island 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus is Coming To Town 00:00 Tools
It Ain't me Babe (cover) 00:00 Tools
My Priorities 00:00 Tools
All I Want for Christmas [Album Version]/Album Version 00:00 Tools
Isnt It Obvious 00:00 Tools
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Updated August 19th, 2009 Dave Melillo has recently left Cute Is What We Aim For. and has posted this statement: At the beginning of July Mikey, Jeff, some family friends, and I sat down with Shaant. We told him the things he needed to change as far as attitude and demeanor goes. I want to make it known that I shut him out of my life after that. He needed to be on his own if he was going to do anything positive for himself. There was not a visible change in his attitude or work ethic when I got back to Buffalo, so I decided to live my own life. He looks like a typical teenager, but there is nothing typical about Dave Melillo. At 20, he is a gifted singer/songwriter, a road-tested club veteran and the latest addition to the Drive-Thru Records roster. Could he someday stand alongside the next generation of rock ‘n' roll prophets? Nobody knows yet, but with the release of his new Drive-Thru EP Talk Is Cheap, all bets are off and all eyes are on the kid from Celebration, FL. Celebration is a town located perilously close to Disneyworld. But living near such toxic superficiality has had an upside: Dave Melillo is as genuine as they come, writing deeply felt and unflinchingly honest songs. Produced by James Wisner (Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory), Talk Is Cheap reflects a turbulent period in Dave's life. The tracks vary, from the touching sentiment of "Sam's Song" to the surprising sophistication of "For the Sake of Remembering" and “Vatican Roulette.” “Morris County Blues” evokes memories of Dave's early years growing up in New Jersey, while the expansive “Knights of the Island Counter” fully captures the redemptive spirit of youth. “I've always been about getting the feeling down,” he says. “People realize when you're bullshitting and when you're telling the truth.” He grew up in New Jersey in a house filled with song. “All my life, I had music around me,” he recalls. “My mom played piano and was a big fan of Billy Joel. My parents used to have Meat Loaf playing in the car. So I always had eclectic tastes.” Dave's parents encouraged him to explore music, and as a young kid, he gained stage experience performing in local musicals. But moving from Jersey to Florida proved a watershed experience, and he began taking songwriting seriously. Dave found he did not need to look far for inspiration or incentive. “I've always been disconnected,” he says. “I wasn't into stuff the other kids were into. It was more of trying to see where I fit in, observing the trends around me and seeing how I felt about how everyone acted, I don't have the patience for superficiality.” Once he started performing locally and recording demos, Dave drew attention. He and Drive-Thru co-presidents Stefanie Reines and Richard Reines had been in talks for months prior to Dave's first visit to the label's L.A. offices in late 2004. Dave gave an impromptu performance for the staff, after which the Reinses announced that they would like to sign him. Dave was subsequently courted by several major labels after his single “Wait For It” appeared on the Drive-Thru Records/PureVolume compilation “Bands You Love, Have Heard Of, And Should Know,” but he chose to sign with Drive-Thru anyway. Says Dave, "The majors don't have the family feel that Drive-Thru does. Richard and Stefanie were the only people whose philosophy was right." Talk Is Cheap is a prelude of sorts. Distributed exclusively via download at MTVu, it is a teaser to the full-length CD Dave is now writing, apparently all the time. “I couldn't stop writing even if I wanted to,” he says. “When I wake up, I have an idea I have to put down. I have so many voice messages of myself singing tunes I came up with. It's a habit.” Even before the release of the EP, Dave has been busy touring, including several dates with Drive-Thru labelmates HelloGoodbye. He'll also perform a showcase at South By Southwest 2006. Cool gigs for sure, but for Dave Melillo, it's all part of the plan to share his great gifts with the world. “I just put my music out there,” he says confidently. “This is verbatim from my life.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.