The Ataris Band • Page 20

Joining in on the Welcome the Night love by listening to it for the rest of the day.

 

It was. Way more cohesive, and didn’t have the three new songs they tacked on later.

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I still have it on a burned CD.

 

Will need to try that one.

 

Awhile back Kris put the WTN b-sides on Bandcamp and I picked them up. I need to try Frankenstein-ing together the original tracklist.

 

Yeah, what I have are these from that.

 

Man, that brings back memories. The alternate artwork and everything. Such an interesting chapter for the band. I adore WTN and the b-sides from those sessions too. Gonna jam it.

 

Seeing them live during this era was amazing too. I love how they reworked the old songs, and even just how they added a lot of cool guitar effects to them.

 

Might just be me but their run of peak albums feels a bit forgotten about to me at this point, or at least feels like it should be talked about more alongside some of the other big present day nostalgia bands of that time. There are songs on legit every album that are best of era level stuff.

 

Top 3 of the big 3!

BLUE SKIES:
1*15*96
San Dimas
Broken Promise Ring

END IS FOREVER:
Giving Up on Love
Summer Wind
Bad Case of Broken Heart

SO LONG ASTORIA:
So Long Astoria
In This Diary
Takeoffs and Landings

 

Add a 4th to each album or top 3 from Silver Turns To Rust and I'll make an Atari's 12 track greatest hits LP playlist lol.

 

4th tracks:

BLUE SKIES:
Your Boyfriend Sucks

END IS FOREVER:
Fast Times at Dropout High

SO LONG ASTORIA:
Looking Back on Today

 

For me on Astoria, Take out Takeoffs and put in The Hero Dies In This One.

 

ITS HAPPENING

 

BLUE SKIES
San Dimas
Your Boyfriend Sucks
Broken Promise Ring

END IS FOREVER
Summer Wind
IOU
Up Up Down Down

SO LONG ASTORIA
So Long Astoria
The Hero Dies
All You Can Ever Learn

WELCOME THE NIGHT (BONUS)
Connections
Whatever Lies Will Help You Rest
From the Last, Last Call.

I think there is a good EP within welcome the night, but too much slow filler.

 

No chance I'm getting hyped until we get a single and release date.

 

He just has to finish the lyrics and vocals, so we're on track for the 20th anniversary of Graveyard of the Atlantic's initial release date.

 

Going for another radio hit

 

kinda weird to shoot for another one of those classic rock covers, but whatever. just put a new album in our hands finally.

 

Boys of Summer of 69

 

goddamnit.

 

this is not what I want but by golly if it somehow works in Kris's favor and gets him enough momentum to just make more music more consistently, then I guess I'm here for it

 

can you imagine if the only Ataris songs that get played on the radio are "boys of summer" and "summer of 69"? haha ugh.

it would have been cooler to put out a 7" with a new recording of "boys of summer" on the A side and "summer of 69" on the B side.

 

Holy moly, does Kris have incredible pipes.

 

this rules what is up with the pessimism lol

 

it does sound great. but it just kinda feels like a "lets try and catch lightning in a bottle again." i'll take anything though from these guys since they're one of my fav bands.