Definitely nothing to be ashamed of there - no one I hung out with at the time heard of them until early 2004-ish. And really, I didn't actually care/believe the hype until I saw the insane crowd that they drew at the side stage Warped Tour 04.
Take This to Your Grave is pretty bad imo. Does nothing for me outside of Grand Theft Autumn and chicago. The next one tho.........
when I did get my hands on TTTYG, I played the shit out of it....hell 19 years later I'm still playing that album at least once a week. Cannot believe this album will be 20 years old next year. I want a fucking tour damn it!
Same. We must be around the same age. I started college fall of '03. I dont think i've gone a week since that fall without listening to TTTYG. That fall of '03 i dont think i went more than a day.
I think it was late 2004 when they started being played on MTV is when I was like "whooooo is thisss?!?!" and immediately fell in love with Wentz
I like Crazy In Love, not just because it gives me the excuse to post this great old track it sampled.
1. Cursive - The Ugly Organ 2. Jay Z - The Black Album 3. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium 4. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance 5. Thursday - War All the Time
Listening to the crowing right now, Coheed might be the weirdest/most unexpectedly successful band of my entire life to this point haha. I don't want to say it doesn't hold up but I definitely feel like you might have had to be there, at least as far as picturing what my thoughts would be discovering them in 2022
1. Blink-182 - untitled 2. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism 3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief 4. The Postal Service - Give Up 5. Muse - Absolution
while I completely agree with you, I just don't understand how you can say things like this but go hog wild against Tell All Your Friends
1. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance 2. Mew - Frengers 3. Linkin Park - Meteora Shouts out to Thursday, Radiohead, coheed, postal service, deftones, linkin park
1. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism 2. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance 3. Linkin Park - Meteora The first two are all timers. 3 not as into it now but it does hold up. When I found it however, game changer.
1. Macho Man Randy Savage - Be a Man 2. Jealous Sound - Kill them with Kindness 3. Mad Caddies - Just One More Honorable Mention None More Black - File Under Black Less than Jake - Anthem Rx Bandits - The Resignation Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Num The Lawrence Arms - Greatest Story Strike Anywhere - Exit English
I could probably have put the Biffy album in my other mentions but it's been ages since I listened to it. Liberate The Illiterate was always my favourite.
1. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site 3. Something Corporate - North Excruciating cuts: Brand New - Deja Entendu Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave Mandy Moore - Coverage The Postal Service - Give Up Warren Zevon - The Wind Eve 6 - It's All in Your Head Others I love: The Early November - The Room's Too Cold Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place Seal - IV The Format - Interventions and Lullabies Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree A.F.I. - Sing the Sorrow Thursday - War All the Time Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Rob Dougan - Furious Angels Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper The Black Keys - Thickfreakness Dangermouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life Dave Matthews - Some Devil Good ones: John Mayer - Heavier Things Motion City Soundtrack - I Am the Movie The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance Limbeck - Hi, Everything's Great The New Amsterdams - Worse for the Wear Blink 182 - Blink 182 Stars - Heart Finger Eleven - Finger Eleven Metallica - St. Anger Snow Patrol - Final Straw Jessica Andrews - Now Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - Jalopy Go Far Evanescence - Fallen Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside Jay-Z - The Black Album Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below Sevendust - Seasons Deftones - Deftones Anberlin - Blueprints for the Black Market Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation Dan Fogelberg - Full Circle Saves the Day - In Reverie Rufio - MCMLXXXV Iron and Wine - The Sea and the Rhythm EP Armor for Sleep - Dream to Make Believe Amy Winehouse - Frank Me'shell Ndegocello - Comfort Woman The White Stripes - Elephant Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar Third Eye Blind - Out of the Vein Story of the Year - Page Avenue Spitalfield - Remember Right Now Elliott - Song in the Air Al Green - I Can't Stop Annie Lennox - Bare Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys Josh Rouse - 1972 Saosin - Translating the Name EP Silverstein - When Broken Is Easily Fixed Mae - Destination: Beautiful Fairweather - Lusitania The Early November - Acoustic EP King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader Hoobastank - The Reason Brandi Carlile - We're Growing Up Not a fan: Dream Theater - Train of Thought Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire EP Rainer Maria - Long Knives Drawn Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company Acceptance - Black Lines to Battlefields EP Stereomud - Every Given Moment Staind - 14 Shades of Grey Unjust - Glow Targets for Listening: A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Alien Ant Farm - TruANT Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire Azure Ray - Hold on Love Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun Cold - Year of the Spider Kevin Devine - Make the Clocks Move Everclear - Slow Motion Daydream Every Time I Die - Hot Damn! Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire Gatsbys American Dream - Ribbons and Sugar The Jealous Sound - Kill Them with Kindness Kids in the Way - Safe from the Losing Fight Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers Park - It Won't Snow Where You're Going Josh Ritter - Hello Starling The Rocket Summer - Calendar Days The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' Calexico - Feast of Wire The Darkness - Permission to Land Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner The Thrills - So Much for the City Rufus Wainwright - Want One The Strokes - Room on Fire The Wrens - The Meadowlands Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day Cave In - Antenna Nada Surf - Let Go Rise Against - Revolutions per Minute The Shins - Chutes too Narrow M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts Bear vs. Shark - Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands... Cursive - The Ugly Organ Mew - Frengers Linkin Park - Meteora The Movielife - 40 Hour Train Back To Penn Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
1. Dashboard Confessional – A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar 2. Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism 3. John Mayer – Heavier Things A Mark, A Mission is, for me, the peak Dashboard album. Maintains a lot of the intimacy and angsty charm of the early records while blowing the songs up into massive, epic rock songs. “Hands Down,” “Bend and Not Break,” and “Several Ways to Die Trying” are all, imo, very near the top of the GOAT emo songs list. Also, shouts to the most Herculian high note in emo history at the end of “Several Ways.” Similarly, Transatlanticism pairs Ben Gibbard’s unique authorial voice with melodies and arrangements that make his songs about heartbreak and distance and coming-of-age sound like blockbuster films. That middle run of “Tiny Vessels,” “Transatlanticism,” and “Passenger Seat” is visceral, moving stuff, and capping the album with “A Lack of Color,” one of the most gutting breakup songs of all time, is just the cherry on top. Heavier Things is the first CD I ever bought with my own money is might be, because of that, the album I’ve heard most in my life. I spent the entire fall of 2003 listening to this album 1-3 times per day. Mayer eventually transcended this brand of clean-cut teen pop, and some of the songs on this album have aged oddly (“Daughters,” especially, is a little tough from the vantage point of 2022), but Heavier Things also has some of his sharpest hooks (“Bigger Than My Body”), a pantheon breakup song (“Split Screen Sadness”), and his best album closer (“Wheel”). Tough cuts: Third Eye Blind – Out of the Vein: Never got the credit it deserved, but it’s stacked with incredible hooks and sneakily devastating lyrics about the dissolution of Stephan Jenkins’ relationship with Charlize Theron. “Blinded,” ins particular, is so incredibly catchy and so utterly crushing. Something Corporate – North: The first Andrew McMahon album I ever heard, and one I prize very fondly as a result. A true classic of teen angst, with some of the most evocative piano work of Andrew’s career. See “As You Sleep.” Snow Patrol – Final Straw: I associate this one more with 2004, since that’s when it got a U.S. release and when things really started happening for them. “Run” is one of the songs that really kick-started my obsession with music. Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue: The sound of summer. A lot of pop-punk albums capture a piece of summer. Ocean Avenue captures the whole damn thing. “Back Home” is one of the five greatest “night before summer ends” songs of all time. Sister Hazel – Chasing Daylight: Speaking of summer soundtracks, this is this first album I recall describing that way. Radiant, hook-filled roots-pop anthems like “Your Mistake,” “Come Around,” and “Effortlessly,” plus some all-timer yearning-for-what’s-gone ballads (“Best I’ll Ever Be” is a song I’ll always adore) make this one a nostalgic gut punch for me. I also really love: Guster – Keep It Together: After years of making music together, Guster finally made some hits. “Amsterdam” is a minor, mostly forgotten radio jam, but damn is it infectious. The album has a bunch of those (“Careful,” “Homecoming Queen,” “Keep It Together”), as well as a centerpiece ballad with one of the best crescendo payoffs I’ve ever heard (“Come Downstairs and Say Hello”). Matt Nathanson – Beneath These Fireworks: Matt was always talented, but his albums before this one sound rough and low budget. Here, he finally got the money to make an album worthy of his songwriting skill. His greatest accomplishments are still a few years off, but there are some truly wonderful breakup songs on here, particularly “Curve of the Earth,” “Bent,” and “I Saw.” Michelle Branch – Hotel Paper: Not quite as stacked with hits as The Spirit Room, but equally great. “Breathe” is one of my favorite running songs. Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown: Bought this album in the summer of 2004 and played the hell out of it. Still takes me back to that era. These guys had a knack for writing massive, massive rock songs (“Meant to Live,” “Dare You to Move,” “This Is Your Life”) and really lovely ballads (“On Fire,” “24”). Vertical Horizon – Go: Everything You Want tends to be the only Vertical Horizon record that anyone talks about, since it generated the hits. But I prefer this one. Just really tight pop-rock songwriting, including an absolutely dynamite A side. Honorables: The Postal Service – Give Up: Ben Gibbard really had a dynamite year, didn’t he? Will Hoge – Blackbird on a Lonely Wire: Hoge levels up on this one, with some terrific roots rock songs like “Secondhand Heart” and “Better Off Now That You’re Gone” that would have been hits in the ‘90s. Wheat – Per second, Per Second, Per Second…Every Second: Big, yearning alt-rock, with the year’s most infectious should-have-been-smash, “I Met a Girl.” The Ataris – So Long, Astoria: Surprised this one hasn’t gotten more shouts in here. A wistful pop-punk classic that predicts a lot of the outright nostalgia that bands like The Wonder Years and The Menzingers would build their brands on. Some genre all-timers here, especially “In This Diary,” the title track, and “Looking Back on Today.” Blink-182 – Untitled: Some extra maturity does Blink a favor, imbuing songs like “Always,” “I Miss You,” and “I’m Lost without You” with extra sweep and urgency without toppling into AVA levels of ridiculousness. Copeland – Beneath Medicine Trees: Played through this one a few weeks ago for the first time in ages; it holds up! “California,” especially, is one of the genre’s oft-forgotten classics. The Format – Interventions & Lullabies: Goddamn, “The First Single” should have been a MASSIVE hit. Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers: Funny, quirky, catchy, and heartfelt. “Stacy’s Mom” remains a cartoonish jam, an “All Kinds of Time” is a songwriting master class. Gavin DeGraw – Chariot: I loved this album back in the day. A lot of it doesn’t hold up all that well, but the huge singles (“I Don’t Want to Be,” “Chariot”) are nice little slices of nostalgia, and DeGraw definitely had a knack for the piano ballad (“More Than Anyone,” “Belief”). Howie Day – Stop All the World Now: Everyone knows “Collide,” which is a pretty prime bit of early 2000s radio rock balladry. But I like the parts of the album where Day (who has some Bono in his voice) goes for big widescreen arena rock dramatics (“Come Lay Down”). Jason Mraz – Waiting for My Rocket to Come: I can’t believe they let him name his album that. Mraz would eventually lose me entirely, but he’s an undeniable talent with a terrific voice, showcased here on songs like “You and I Both” and “Absolutely Zero.” Jesse Malin – The Fine Art of Self-Destruction: “Brooklyn,” from this album, is one of the era’s lost classics. Give it a listen. Matthew Ryan – Regret Over the Wires: “Return to Me,” the opening track from this album, is legitimately one of my favorite songs ever.