Saves the Day

I missed most of the back-and-forth between gr8080 and markers about Saves the Day vs. Say Anything. I liked the hell out of the two albums of theirs that I picked up after getting massively dumped by this chick in the early 2000s. I think that Chris Conley's lyrics definitely wavered back and forth between awesomely righteous emo and misogynistic creepy embarrassing emo, but he maintained a fairly high quality of imagery throughout and the songs themselves were consistently powerful pop-punk.

I haven't heard anything since "Through Being Cool" and "Stay What You Are" though. Has anyone been keeping up with these guys?

ha yeah. At Your Funeral was a soundtrack to a self loathing, more emo time in my life. I did hear something a lot later from Under the Boards and hated it. TBF Stay what you are was pretty hit and miss too.

Eh, I think it's pretty consistent for the first 7 songs. Then you have "Nightingale", which is way over-syrupy but probably does the trick for the ladies in the audience. Then "All I'm Losing Is Me" is more of a return to form. I honestly can't remember the last two tracks and may have forgotten to download them at all (Audiogalaxy, RIP).

Just to get it out there, the most embarassing has to be "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic" off of Through Being Cool.

Let me take this awkward saw
And run it against your thighs
Cut some flesh away
I'll carry this piece of you with me

What's up ICP?

And if not I'll take my spoons
I'll dig out your blue eyes
I'll swallow them down to my colon
They're gonna burn like hell tonight

I can't even.

I'd buy you lemonade right now
if you were here
then I'd throw it in your face
And I'd listen to you cry

Oh my god... And this disappoints me so much because then you have the awesome, awesome, super-catchy emo coda of "you and are are like when fire and the ocean floor collide".

haha

i have kept up with these guys. in reverie is a really really underrated record, i think, maybe my favorite pop-rock record, or at least what i'd consider the best for an arbitrary set of years. it's not emo at all.

sound the alarm and under the boards bring back the emo but ends up sounding like my chemical romance, mostly because conely's voice has twisted into an even higher, whinier register. people have a lower tolerance for this stuff, but there are strong pop hooks throughout.

the new one, daybreak, is all right but feels kind of half-finished, unfortunately. first time i've been really underwhelmed by this band.

feel like this song is representative of in reverie but it's all on spotify:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2ryRmcTy0

also, favorite song from the sound the alarm era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emMzZrc72I

Maybe I should fly out to Montana where it's quiet.

the new one, daybreak, is all right but feels kind of half-finished, unfortunately. first time i've been really underwhelmed by this band.

i was full of shit. daybreak is awesome

http://static.pledgemusic.com/mail_outs/000/002/039/hashed/59162d8009a21e4d8b5b9bfe1d58d628.jpg

new album out september 17, here's the first song from it https://soundcloud.com/savestheday/remember-new-song-stream

another new song, it's great http://www.spin.com/articles/saves-the-day-the-tide-of-our-times-equal-vision-records-stream/

God, I can't stand his voice now. What the hell, Chris?

love this record, which probably isn't a surprise to anyone

the shifting texture of chris conley's voice from record to record is kind of fascinating to me

it's really something. His voice, that is.

Having a hard time stomaching this new version of it

I sipped down
Warm ginger ale

in reverie is a perfect album

been singing This is Not an Exit today, introduced it to my sis and we are bonding over it. Now i want to learn this on guitar tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0Zp7m0U3k

his voice is unreal

stay what you are is a perfect album. guess they have two under their belt.

aw i missed this revive, love u spottie <3

just wanted to post the twenty minute track from the new one which i think is one of their best songs ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YbPF2K8Cl4

it even slyly references "we belong together"

aw i missed this revive, love u spottie <3

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, November 1, 2018 5:00 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no prob! gotta check out the new album.

For those of you in the New Jersey area.

https://www.facebook.com/events/457476838433752/

Just started reading that emo oral history book (Where Are Your Boys Tonight?) and today I learned that the guy passed out on the futon on the back cover of Through Being Cool is PJ Ransone aka Ziggy Sobotka from The Wire.

awesome lol

Fuckin' Ziggy