Solid hot take. Goodness and home flip flop for me all the time. I think they are both really special in different ways.
let's do this more scientifically Finch – What It Is to Burn (2002) Home Grown – 3 Song Sampler (2002) Home Grown – Kings of Pop (2002) The Starting Line – 3 Song Sampler (2002) The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It (2002) Allister – Last Stop Suburbia (2002) The Early November – For All of This EP (2002) The Early November – The Acoustic EP (2003) Steel Train – For You My Dear EP (2003) Inadvertently, there were two releases with the release number 37: Various Artists – Drive-Thru 2002 Summer Invasion Compilation (2002) The Movielife – Forty Hour Train Back to Penn (2003) Senses Fail – From the Depths of Dreams EP (2003) Rx Bandits – The Resignation (2003) The Starting Line – The Make Yourself at Home EP (2003) Various Artists – Drive-Thru Invasion Tour Compilation (2003) The Early November – The Room's Too Cold (2003) Hidden in Plain View – Hidden in Plain View EP (2003) Steel Train – 1969 EP (2003) Jenoah – Morning Is When Jenoah Wakes Up EP (2004) Hellogoodbye – Hellogoodbye EP (2004) New Found Glory – Catalyst (2004) I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business – I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business (2004) Home Grown – When It All Comes Down EP (2004) An Angle – And Take It with a Grain of Salt (2004) Various Artists – Happy Holidays from Drive-Thru Records (2004) i only see one band at that time i'd put better than INGO
I mean, doesn't that prove my point? That album is better than the majority of those releases, but those are not bad releases. Starting Line, Early November, HIPV, I Can Make a Mess, Day at the Fair (came out a year later) all have releases that rival it.
TEN is solid, TSL has one record that is much better than INGO, but everything else i don't think is very good as a whole
IM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THINGS FEEL SO WRONG WHEN THEY FELT SO RIGHT THEY FELT SO RIGHT FOUR YEARS AGOOOO SO PLEASE DONT GO AWAYYYY I WANT THIS FEELING TO STAY WITH ME FOREVERRRRR
First, Direction is not a very good album imo. Rarely listen to it. Second, I find it hard to believe that you can enjoy INGO but not enjoy the bands listed above as they're basically the same exact style of music. Unless it's some clout thing that you're doing where you dismiss things that you enjoyed when you were younger or something, in which case you should think INGO sucks too