2002 in music. • Page 6

I listened to Tell All Your Friends for the first time in full in a long long while this week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s 100% routed in nostalgia, but all enjoyment you get from music is subjective to some degree, so there’s no point trying to avoid that, and this hit the sweet spot for me.

 

I didn't get into the band until Louder Now so I am surprisingly with Pat on this one

 

I'm enjoying going back to all the music I listened to when I was 18, graduating HS and that first semester of College. What A time to be alive

 

TAYF is a great album of great music, nothing to do with nostalgia.

 

I listened to it (TAYF) start to finish a couple weeks ago. Total banger of an album. Still love it.

 

Yeah I won’t deny that their music is more fun than objectively exceptionally well crafted, but I find the first two albums do hold up from a quality standpoint for the most part. Nothing wrong with catchy singalongs and it is hard to deny the influence of TAYF specifically on an entire genre of music. Like with pop punk we can quibble with whether the music influenced by it has been great in itself, but this type of emo has had enough staying power than I think some credit is deserved.

Nostalgia may have played tiebreaker in sneaking it onto my list over something like Execution of All Things, but I can also separate my positive feelings on it from nostalgia - it’s music for teenagers maybe, but its best moments hit a sweet spot that I don’t think require having heard it as a teenager or twenty years ago. It sounds plenty modern and (most of) the songs are good.

 

Best one: Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

 

Checking out the Minus the Bear album now and this is not what I thought they sounded like at all. I'm really into this so far. These threads have been great so far for finding new stuff and rechecking out artists I had previously written off.

 

Then you will love the next Minus the Bear equally.

 

TBS, The Used, NFG, TSL were all things I listened to in the era but I just find it harder to go back to a lot of that stuff. NFG and TSL in particular with the nasal-like singing is really hard to take over the course of a whole album. I feel like TSL grew into a better and much more interesting band but they had this kinda twerpy pop-punk debut so they were never taken seriously and their younger fanbase also never gave the newer stuff a chance.

 

I am a little surprised at how little fanfare Say it Like You Mean It has received in this thread, at least when compared with how present other pop punk and emo stuff has been in the lists of the last few years. I think it's a pretty upper echelon pop punk album and, if anything, was under the impression I rate it a little lower than others (I prefer Based).

 

was very high on my list, but personally BOATS is the best album from them. SILYMI still a genre classic and always a good time

 

Its my favorite of theirs. Love BOATS too. Not the biggest fan of Direction but it has its moments as well.

 

1. Damien Rice - O
2. Counting Crows - Hard Candy
3. Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower

Excruciating cuts:
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
Original Cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More with Feeling
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Onelinedrawing - Visitor
Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle

Others I love:
Rush - Vapour Trail
Prince - One Nite Alone...
Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
Dashboard Confessional - MTV Unplugged
Beck - Sea Change
Warren Zevon - My Ride's Here
Phil Collins - Testify
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Roots - Phrenology
The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Kathleen Edwards - Failer
Boston - Corporate America
Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff

Good ones:
The Promise Ring - Wood/Water
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
Lucero - Tennessee
George Harrison - Brainwashed
The Early November - For All of This
Hot Water Music - Caution
Talib Kweli - Quality
Foo Fighters - One by One
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up on Me
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Sinch - Sinch
Disturbed - Believe
The Juliana Theory - Love
Sheryl Crow - C'mon C'mon
Audioslave - Audioslave
Ralph Stanley - Ralph Stanley
The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
Pedro the Lion - Control
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
Ronan Keating - Destination
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Nas - God's Son
Missy Elliott - Highly Refined Pirates
Dredg - El Cielo
Blindside - Silence
Lovers - Starlit Sunken Ship
Northstar - Is This Thing Loaded?
The Donnas - Spend the Night
Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody
Raycharles Lamontagne - One Lonesome Saddle
Phantom Planet - The Guest
Say Anything - Menorah/Majora EP
Tegan and Sara - If It Was You
Piebald - We Are the Only Friends We Have
Bic Runga - Beautiful Collision

Not a fan:
Korn - Untouchables
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3 Doors Down - Away from the Sun
Slowreader - Slowreader
Eminem - The Eminem Show

Targets for Listening:
The Anniversary - Your Majesty
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Citizen Cope - Citizen Cope
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
Kevin Devine - Circle Gets the Square
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Jason Mraz - Waiting for My Rocket to Come
Ellis Paul - The Speed of Trees
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
Darius Rucker - Back to Then
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Band of Bees - Sunshine Hit Me
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Doves - The Last Broadcast
The Hives - Your New Favorite Band
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Peter Wolf - Sleepless
Dixie Chicks - Home
Nelly - Nellyville
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late
Engine Down - Demure
Weezer - Maladroit
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Clipse - Lord Willin'
David Bowie - Heathens
Sigur Ros - ( )
Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
Cam'ron - Come Home With Me
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Finch - What It Is To Burn
Nada Surf - Let Go
Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
The Gloria Record - Start Here
Butch Walker – Left of Self-Centered
Ashanti - Ashanti
Avril Lavigne - Let Go

 

this is fun, haven't participated in one of these threads yet, but man this is gonna be impossible

1. taking back sunday – tell all your friends
2. thrice – illusion of safety
3. eminem – the eminem show

4. glassjaw – worship and tribute
5. coheed and cambria – second stage turbine blade
6. the used – s/t
7. the starting line – silymi
8. box car racer – box car racer
9. alexisonfire – s/t
10. against me! – reinventing axl rose

 

wait shit LIFTED came out that year, everything's fucked, i'm changing everything

1. bright eyes – lifted
2. taking back sunday – tell all your friends
3. thrice – the illusion of safety

 

Shit! I had Damien marked as ‘03 too! What the hell, iTunes!

Some albums here I’m surprised you haven’t heard/I haven’t made you listen to.

 

Hah which ones are at the top of that list?

I always had O as an ‘03 because of the slow rollout it had

 

that Damien Rice album was my ex's favorite, so I have heard it a million times. I used to think I didn't like it, but after a while removed I came back to it andit's actually pretty great

 

LMAO Damien Rice is going to come back and take the #1 spot now, watch. It's on my list to 'check out in full', but come to think I've it I'm sure I've heard it all the way through a bunch of times too, possibly without realizing it.

I don't DISLIKE him by any means, but he was always a fave of the 'artsy' kids in high school that thought they were WAY more profound than me and my "screamo" music. Dude has released 3 albums in 20 years, wild.

 

It's so damn good. I'd really love a new album from him.

 

I really will give it another chance - wasn't trying to be too snarky.

 

I get it, we all probably have certain thoughts about artists based on how we first came across them, I know I do. It's always cool when you end up really getting into something like that. Of course sometimes your initial thoughts hold and you just don't like it, haha.

 

Maroon 5 and Avril, just because those albums were so big for so long. And then Butch, obviously, since I thought I’d made you listen to all his stuff!

Think you’d love that Nada Surf album.

 

I totally missed the Buffy musical soundtrack, one of the best musicals! The soundtrack also has the Restless suite which is one of my favorite score pieces ever.