What no reissue bonus disc? I guess "Wow I Can Get Sexual Too" would skew the results too much. If this poll is popular I'll do one on "In Defense of the Genre" which is an even better jammm.
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i dunno, think of the first disc as the 'true' album and of the bonus tracks i only particularly like "Wow" and maybe one other. a Defense poll would be cool too (maybe one for each disc?), SO many great songs even though it being a double makes it in my mind way less consistent than this one.
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to vote in this, but I haven't listened to this album nearly as much as I have In Defense of the Genre and I don't have this on my iPod right now. Maybe I'll give it a listen tonight.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
top 3:
"Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat": the song that most makes me think i am listening to a Great Album when it's on
"Alive with the Glory of Love": the single that grabbed my attention and made me think this band might be worth a shit
"Chia-Like, I Shall Grow": the build of the intro with all the drums and synths revving up is probably my single favorite moment on the album, and the outro rules too, but I'm not really that into the song that happens in between
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ADMIT IT!!! is like burt_stanton set to music.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
burt_stanton: the musical
lol my reference point for "Admit It!!!" is usually Henry Rollins but Stanton might replace him now
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably between Yellow Cat/Red Cat, Woe and Admit It. I haven't listened to this in quite a spell though. I'm gonna pop it in and re-evaluate. Almost every song has one part I really like though.
― Danelectro-Dribble, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel kinda bad for not voting now. Maybe "Yellow Cat/Red Cat" (but it's really obv "Wow!", right?).
― Sundar, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Four sad voters hereCould it be that emo popis our last frontier
― Haikunym Mark II (Dimension 5ive), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 08:28 (fifteen years ago) link
hey al i was wrong about this band. you should have just told me to listen to this album cause it rules.
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
you're still wrong about saves the day's "through being cool" though.
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 07:50 (twelve years ago) link
through being cool is a great record and so is this one
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
otm
not feeling the "...is a real boy" bonus disc though
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i feel bad this guy's done nothing as good since because this really is one of my fave guitar albs of the last decade
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
woulda voted for "chia-like," i think
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
in defense of the genre is great, strongo! "have at thee!" is my favorite say anything song
was pretty tired of this dude and his dudeliness by the third album though
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
heh i think i just got overwhelmed trying to process two full (and long!) discs of s.a. at once. or maybe i'd just been burned by too many pop-emo concept albums/kitchen-sink epics. never really went back to it after a few spins the year it came out, though there are a couple of songs i cherry-picked that i love. also, christ, i didn't even know there was a third album.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
thinking about it more: feel like when the scope of the music matched the gross absurdity of the lyrics there was something really compelling here, and as they progressed, the songs scaled back while max bemis' worldview went completely static. that last record they made is just a really misogynistic pop-punk record.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah sometimes i wonder if i didn't hear more meta-commentary on misogynist/self-pitying pop-punk lyrics tropes than was actually there, just because the songs themselves sounded so much like grandiose takes on just about every '90s/early '00s pop-punk/emo trope available.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
that's kinda garbled, but i think what i was trying to say still squeaks through.
so what say youand all your friendsstep up to my friendsin the alley tonight
YEAHHHHHHHHH
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
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― (gr8080), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:50 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
awesome! pretty sure i didn't say anything (no pun intended) about any specific Saves The Day record, i just said i thought they suck, which was just broadly based on not liking the singer's voice and rmde at what i heard from an emo girl i knew in college. i should check it out sometime though.
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
i wont rep for anything after "through being cool" so start there
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
we both like Lifetime though, right?
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
chris conley's voice changes from record to record although he never really leaves the general orbit of the high whine
in reverie is the best undersung power pop record of the 2000s
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
the last two SA albums are full of great songs btw, just not overall as consistent as this one. In Defense is definitely one of those double albums that doesn't play well as a whole but has more than an LP's worth of jams.
have never heard Lifetime...my exposure to modern emo is strictly major label tbh
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
someday i will reissue the album by the mathy political screamo band i played in in high school, though
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
dude Lifetime is like the rosetta stone of this shit
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
these are crucial:http://i.imgur.com/DPbzC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EW3Oc.jpg
and this is the decade-later-reunion album but still good:http://i.imgur.com/KqoHw.jpg
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
gr8080 is completely right
if i wrote any sort of history of this stuff i'd probably signify lifetime as the moment when "emo" shifted from post-hardcore to pop-punk (not that the two weren't inextricably linked since way back when (jawbreaker))
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
also their reformation and signing to decaydence/fueled by ramen is definitely some sort of circle being completed
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
apparently emusic purged my end-of-the-decade thing about say anything, dashboard, and lifetime. yet my review of the last tricky album remains.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
― (gr8080), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:50 AM
i'm listening to this in toto right now (ty btw)
― through being dave cool (markers), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
\(^o^)/
― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― through being dave cool (markers), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
:D
this shit is right up my alley basically
markers do you like this albumhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg6mpj2ffj1qdjuqoo1_500.jpg
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― (gr8080), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
i have a letter sitting on my desk unopened from one of my favorite teachers of all time -- it's been sitting there unopened for over a year and a half probably
― through being dave cool (markers), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, apologies, i'm listening to it now
― through being dave cool (markers), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
marks, do get around to lifetme 'jerseys best dancers' too. you know, when you can
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
*pencils it in for 2014*
― through being dave cool (markers), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
;) (you'll probably dig)
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
it's on spotify, i'll listen to it tonight
― through being dave cool (markers), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
it's like 20 mins long. play bass to it!
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
"in order for you to play with this record, you must tune your guitar to ours. we will start with the first string--"
BADADADADADADADA ADUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMM
― (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
such a good band. reunion alb was full of good songs but still kinda depressed me in an abstract way.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
exclusive footage of my usual routine while listening to "Airport Monday Morning":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shyG8I9-uBI
― (gr8080), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Equal Vision Records is proud to release Say Anything's fourth studio album, Anarchy, My Dear, out today. The album, which was produced by Tim O'Heir (Superdrag, Sebadoh, Say Anything), is currently streaming in full via Billboard and Spinner
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to bump this to find out if any of the Say Anything stans around here had heard this yet. I've read wildly varying reviews, verging from basically "its shit" to "its awesome".
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
ugh, why did he make a new "admit it"
gross
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
this is really uninteresting
i'll give it a few listens, but still
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Goddammit every emo(-and-related) album I have checked out recently on ILM's recommendation has been flat out amazing.
WHAT DO THE OLD PEOPLE TEACH US EXCEPT HOW TO DIE? (DIE!) DIE? (DIE!)
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw6gRgkXEAAD6lW.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
"Every Man Needs a Molly" gets in my head a lot.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Friday, 11 November 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
the tour is apparently not going well. two of my close friends went and left midway through, and then this popped up on Reddit :(
https://www.reddit.com/r/SayAnything/comments/1ci5gui/wtf/
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link