Punk rock finally smiled during the late '90s and into the millennium, thanks to the bands like New Found Glory, Sum 41, and countless other TRL mainstays. New Jersey's own Saves the Day play with post-punk stylings on their third album, Stay What You Are. More mature compared to 1999's Through Being Cool, Stay What You Are mixes emocore delight with post-grunge snarl, and Saves the Day's harmonies are jaunty and tight. But the album is also quite dark and grim; they stay close to the anger found in punk in the first place. Album opener "At Your Funeral" pauses at the idea of death of a peer. Frontman Chris Conley's boyish vocals project a façade of sweet, bouncy sounds, practically glossy and sheer. The bleak descriptions found on "Jukebox Breakdown" and "Nightingale" capture the grittiest three-chord riffs and Saves the Day's highest artistic moment yet. They're bittersweet from love, and self-discovery is most pertinent. They want to avoid such loss, and "All I'm Losing Is Me" suggests that. Saves the Day is conscious of what's affecting their generation, post Generation-X, and they're asking thousands of questions. Stay What You Are yearns to fight the compromise within social standards and complies with bit of self-indulgence.
I'm assuming that everyone else has those songs, right? I mean those songs that you just love forever and, no matter how many times you listen to them, they're just totally satisfying because you could never get sick of them even if you tried. I have a bajillion of those songs and "At Your Funeral" by Saves the Day is definitely one of them. This song just NEEDS to belted out at the top of one'...
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That's right, I like emo. And guess what? I'm not ashamed.I think emo often gets a bad rap for the same reason that 70's soft (read: "wuss") rock does. The unifying theme is-- let's face it-- guys getting sensitive. And nothing could be less "rock" (by the standard definition) than that. Rock in the classic sense wants nothing to do with heart-on-sleeve sincerity...unless that sincerity can get...
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That's right, I like emo. And guess what? I'm not ashamed.I think emo often gets a bad rap for the same reason that 70's soft (read: "wuss") rock does. The unifying theme is-- let's face it-- guys getting sensitive. And nothing could be less "rock" (by the standard definition) than that. Rock in the classic sense wants nothing to do with heart-on-sleeve sincerity...unless that sincerity can get...
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I'm assuming that everyone else has those songs, right? I mean those songs that you just love forever and, no matter how many times you listen to them, they're just totally satisfying because you could never get sick of them even if you tried. I have a bajillion of those songs and "At Your Funeral" by Saves the Day is definitely one of them. This song just NEEDS to belted out at the top of one'...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 At Your Funeral |
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| 2 See You |
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| 3 Cars & Calories |
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| 4 Certain Tragedy |
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| 5 Jukebox Breakdown |
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| 6 Freakish |
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| 7 As Your Ghost Takes Flight |
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| 8 Nightingale |
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| 9 All I'm Losing Is Me |
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| 10 This Is Not an Exit |
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| 11 Firefly |
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