Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy POLL

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.

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.

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.

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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

ADMIT IT!!! is like burt_stanton set to music.

burt_stanton: the musical

lol my reference point for "Admit It!!!" is usually Henry Rollins but Stanton might replace him now

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.

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I feel kinda bad for not voting now. Maybe "Yellow Cat/Red Cat" (but it's really obv "Wow!", right?).

Four sad voters here
Could it be that emo pop
is our last frontier

hey al i was wrong about this band. you should have just told me to listen to this album cause it rules.

you're still wrong about saves the day's "through being cool" though.

through being cool is a great record and so is this one

otm

not feeling the "...is a real boy" bonus disc though

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

woulda voted for "chia-like," i think

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

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.

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.

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.

that's kinda garbled, but i think what i was trying to say still squeaks through.

so what say you
and all your friends
step up to my friends
in the alley tonight

YEAHHHHHHHHH

hey al i was wrong about this band. you should have just told me to listen to this album cause it rules.

―  (gr8080), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:48 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're still wrong about saves the day's "through being cool" though.

―  (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.

i wont rep for anything after "through being cool" so start there

we both like Lifetime though, right?

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

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

someday i will reissue the album by the mathy political screamo band i played in in high school, though

dude Lifetime is like the rosetta stone of this shit

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 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))

also their reformation and signing to decaydence/fueled by ramen is definitely some sort of circle being completed

apparently emusic purged my end-of-the-decade thing about say anything, dashboard, and lifetime. yet my review of the last tricky album remains.

you're still wrong about saves the day's "through being cool" though.

―  (gr8080), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:50 AM

i'm listening to this in toto right now (ty btw)

\(^o^)/

hahaha

:D

this shit is right up my alley basically

markers do you like this album
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg6mpj2ffj1qdjuqoo1_500.jpg

― Oink Administrator (gr8080), Sunday, April 10, 2011 4:41 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

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

anyway, apologies, i'm listening to it now

marks, do get around to lifetme 'jerseys best dancers' too. you know, when you can

*pencils it in for 2014*

;) (you'll probably dig)

it's on spotify, i'll listen to it tonight

it's like 20 mins long. play bass to it!

"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

such a good band. reunion alb was full of good songs but still kinda depressed me in an abstract way.

exclusive footage of my usual routine while listening to "Airport Monday Morning":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shyG8I9-uBI

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

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".

ugh, why did he make a new "admit it"

gross

this is really uninteresting

i'll give it a few listens, but still

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!)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw6gRgkXEAAD6lW.jpg

"Every Man Needs a Molly" gets in my head a lot.

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/