Terminal. Joy Electric inspired me to start making music way back in the day. I just love that there were all these punk and emo bands doing their thing and Ronnie was just like "I'm gonna make some weird synthesizer music instead."
Bleach Astronomy and Again for the First Time are two all time favorite albums of mine. I have a framed autographed poster of theirs on my bedroom wall that my wife got in college.
love love love terminal. Talked to Chad Johnson who a&r’d them and he said the issue with the album was their was no singles
Side Walk Slam and Brothers Martin. Yeah, the White Songbook and Tick Tock Treasuring are two of my favorites of all time. Love everything after White Songbook. His stuff as Said Fantasy is also excellent. Yeah, I love that he was the odd man on the label writing about fairies and gumdrops on a label of punk bands.
Waking Ashland, Dead Poetic, Ivoryline, Secret & Whisper, The Send, As Cities Burn, Blindside, Corey Crowder, Emery, Project 86, Search the City, States, Mae, etc Some dead, some active, some on other labels
Search the City's A Fire So Big.. was my favorite album for like a year and I saw Secret & Whisper play at a small grange hall once and they absolutely slayed
waking Ashland was soooooooo underrated. That first ivory line album I jammed so much. Same with the first as cities burn. The singer TJ was my mortgage broker when I bought my house
Silence might still be my favorite album ever because of how much it meant to me at that time. I enjoy what they did after that much more than what they did before tbh, but yeah, great band
The Blindside discussion is giving me life. I love AABF but it's not quite as consistent as Silence for me. Those two albums are definitely their peak though IMO (although I'd put WSHWW right up there as well)