The Swellers Band • Page 2

God I miss them.

 

also Let Me In

 

Now heres the real question: is the debut album worth tracking down? I dont see it mentioned very often so I'd assume not.

 

Nada Suuuuuurf

 

Song makes a good case for my favorite Swellers chorus

 

exactly

 

Dirt is their best song

 

this band shouldve been the next big thing. Like, JEW levels big.

 

that song rules too

 

Band writes the best closers

 

very true

another thing i like in my favorite artists is for them to be dynamic. different styles and tempos and moods are always a big thing i look for when i discover artists. these guys had it in spades. they have some heavier tracks, some faster more aggressive cuts, slower ballads, pop rock jams, moodier tracks, its really nice and keeps the catalog fresh.

 

It's so cool to watch someone discover this band and so depressing that they had to call it quits.

 

is there a reason they had to split? or were they just ready to move on

 

I think it was a little bit of that and just general disinterest from fans. Like others have said, they should have been bigger but always seemed to be the opener, basically.

 

"Bottles" is one of their best songs. It's definitely more along the lines of skate punk

 

ill check it out then. hell, its only like 28 minutes or so.

 

I always saw them as ahead of their time. If they were a new band around 12/13, I could have seen the new generation of fans behind them. A world without the Swellers isn't one I'm a fan of.

 

If you're referring to My Everest as the debut, then yeah it's absolutely worth checking out. There's a line in a song on Ups that you might appreciate more because of it too haha.

As far as why they broke up, yeah they really could just never get to the next level. Sort of the definition of a "band's band". They were also signed to FBR during the peak of their career which they were pretty out of place on. Always getting really large exposure but just not to the right crowd. Toward the end of their career they had a shirt that said "Started From The Bottom (Still There)" and it made me

 

nah I was referring to End Of Discussion. My Everest is fucking rad, but EoD is a pretty solid punk album. Idk ive yet to find a Swellers song I dont at least like.

 

Here's a good read written by Jono Diener of the band in regards to them ending it all.

The Life and Death of a Mid-Level Band: The End of the Swellers - Noisey

 

its interesting that the above article refers to them as a "bands band", as was also said in this thread. I think thats such a fucking honor, even if it usually entails not much financial success. Reminds me of Thursday. While acclaimed and well respected, they never really hit the big times like they deserved.

 

I agree with you.

Instead of breaking up, I wish they just did stuff on their own time and still released stuff. Especially since the Diener bro's were the main songwriter's and Nick runs his own studio haha.

 

also, and idk who the chief melody maker is in this band, but fuck me they can write a hook like no other. But its not just cheap, empty calorie melodies either. Theyre fun to shout along to, but the lyrics are so damn good and well written that once you realize what youre singing it just kind of hits you like only few artists can.

 

oh god i miss this band fuck

ups & downsizing is my favorite song. i feel like this band and broadway calls and living with lions and a few others resided in a particular niche between the pop punk world and the punknews/orgcore world that partly prevented them from getting real traction in either and it sucks because they should have been huge

 

to bring back the discussion in the yellowcard thread from july,

ups and downsizing is a better album than any album by yellowcard, motion city soundtrack, or jimmy eat world






sans clarity