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'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
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.
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.
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.
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.