It really is. There are quite a few songs with names in the title. I was looking through the catalog tonight and notice it.
Seconding Scott Farcas, but also want to throw some love at "How's My Driving, Doug Hastings?" I also have a soft spot for "Jay Frenzal."
That would be my second choice. Those two songs close out that album perfectly. I'm gonna throw out "Just Like Frank" as a favorite as well.
5 State Drive, in my opinion is one of the more underrated songs of theirs. I love that song, but I feel like it never gets talked about.
Love that song! Roger's bass lines are always super cool, but it's great to hear them front and center like the intro to this song.
Such a good bass line. I love how much he adds to songs with his bass playing. So much more than just rhythm.
I'm bored. Here's a list of my favorite songs that don't get talked about much from each album: Pezcore: Big, Boomtown Losing Streak: 107, Ask the Magic Ball Hello Rockview: Five State Drive, Great American Sharpshooter Bourders: Bad Scene and a Basement Show, 1989 Anthem: Short Fuse Burning In With the Out Crowd: Landmines and Landslides, Hopeless Case GNV FLA: Abandon Ship, The Space they Can't Touch Greetings and Salutations: Younger Lungs, Finer Points and Forgiveness See the Light: American Idle, Sunstroke
It's cool to see other LTJ agree with me on Five State Drive. I almost didn't make that post about it, but it's clear other people dig that song.
I was watching the Hello Rockview show on YouTube and Chris made a comment about how it was not a very good song or something. I was really surprised.
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I've always liked this song, but seeing them play it live a few years ago made me fall in love with it - it's one of my favorites on Rockview, now.
The three Saint November variants started shipping out already. Not sure about the other two. I'm guessing the one that LTJ had in their webstore prob won't ship until they're back from tour.
So I saw them (for the second time) last night! Openers: Kenneths were a really fun 90s Green Day throwback. Lead singer did the last song in the crowd. Will definitely keep an eye out for them. Trash Boat were pretty fun, their album sounds like it will be better than their EPs, but they mostly stuck to the latter for the evening. Got the crowd moving a bit towards the end which was great to see. The setlist was pretty similar to what I saw last time (I can't remember if they played Five State Drive and Dopeman last time I saw them, not helped by the fact that setlist.fm is wrong), but Ghosts of Me and You was popular and Overrated went down really well. They also played Scott Farcas! The band were hilarious all night ("Who bought our last album?" "Who illegally downloaded our last album?" "Who doesn't care about any of our music past Hello Rockview?") and there were surprisingly high production values for such a small tour. And the room was basically packed, too. Also, this time, someone didn't jump down from the balcony and force everyone to wait half an hour while the venue investigated...