Apologies for hijacking the Glassjaw thread! Let’s talk Saves the Day. Best song, worst song, cringiest lyric, why it’s weird that Chris Conley isn’t 17 anymore etc
Through Being Cool > Stay What You Are > Can’t Slow Down > Daybreak > Sound the Alarm > Saves the Day > Under the Boards > In Reverie
I seriously love it and rank it higher than the rest of their (patchy) output. I remember when it came out and everyone (well, my other 16 y o friends) was all “STD aren’t pop punk anymore, the chords are all weird and they think they’re the Beatles now, eww” and I just instantly loved it as a departure from SWYA
Loads of the pop punk/emo bands of the time went through a Beatles discovery phase, eg The Get Up Kids with On a Wire, and they basically all sucked. I love the song anywhere with you (oooo) though
So many STD lyrics are super cringeworthy though, eg Cars and Calories etc
Haha you are absolutely on the money but alas I love On A Wire too “Walking On A Wire” popped up on my running playlist yesterday! Funnily enough my Mrs loves In Reverie from back in the day too, and we didn’t meet until we were in our 20s. Can’t both be wrong surely
On a Wire had it’s moments, eg Walking on a Wire, Stay Gone, etc, but Campfire Kansas? Really? Although I do like how people ask Matt Pryor to play it solo and he gets annoyed