Bands you loved that faded away • Page 94

Hahaha amazing. Well as you see, I never posted again so maybe after the single I forgot!

 

Last.fm shows I never listened! Yes I still use last

 

I always thought The Track Record should have made it further. Rushmore/Drive-Thru band, they were like prog-pop-punk.

 

i remember this band from the DTR holiday compilation, never heard their actual stuff, but i feel like they were around the day at the fair/houston calls era?

 

I definitely lump them in with these two bands

 

Just discovered this thread and searched to find any mention of Chronic Future. I always describe them as "They showed up, dropped a perfect album, and then disappeared." Even though I know they did some before and very little after, nothing else ever lived up to Lines In My Face for me.

 

100%

 

Last.fm foreva

 

i made a new account in 2020!

 

Mine's been non-stop since: 25 Jan 2005

 

all my old accounts are long gone, used to talk shit in the forums back in the day and would get banned LOL the website is ALOT different in 2020 then it was in 2008

looked you up

Your compatibility with irthesteve is Very High.

You both listen to Dance Gavin Dance, Youth Fountain and Bethany Cosentino.

 

Okay here's one that I can't remember but would love to find again. No idea of the name of the artist, I just remember the cover art.

IIRC it was a solo artist (possibly starting with the letter J) and the cover art was like a cartoon-y worm/snake with limbs and alternating colors in a desert scene. I believe musically they were close to Limbecks alt country sound and it was around 2006-2008. Don't think they were ever big but I remember some posts about them on AP.

 

Thanks for the quote reply! I remember picking that CD up in a bargain bin after hearing “Time And Time Again” on MTV2 or something. Would love it on vinyl, that first six song stretch is especially perfect.

 

While I’m thinking of circa 2004/2005 bands that I overplayed, Ambry comes to mind. Bought the CD because of the cover art and song titles, absolutely plagiarized the lyrics to “Car Crash Love” for the first song I ever “wrote” haha. I don’t miss being 14.

 

Probably not it, but this is what I imagined

 

Not it but thank you!

 

I bought this CD unheard because someone said they sounded like TBS and did the duel vocals that TBS was starting to shy away from

Safe to say...they were not. But that was a definite blast of nostalgia

 

Balance and Composure

 

I think I found it and I was off by almost every metric except for the wormlike creature and the J name. John Ralston. Used to be on Vagrant

 

That’s how I found Just Surrender’s first album, which was wayyyy better than it had any right to be.

 

When I was 13 I was at a Christian summer camp and feeling pretty lonely during a rough period of life, so I stopped into the Christian bookstore they had on the campus we were staying at (our summer camps were always at Christian universities for further indoctrination purposes as you might correctly surmise). I remember looking for something new I hadn’t heard before because I was feeling restless with the music my parents only allowed me to listen to. I was perusing the aisles when I came upon an album by this band “Annie” with the title Sc-fi Canon Blues. I loved the title of it because it seemed so out there and that’s what I was looking for.

So on a whim I used some leftover birthday money and bought the one and only copy they had in the store for myself. Went back to the dorm room I was bunked in for the week and put on my CD player and, my god, what an experience. I’d never heard anything like it. It was the closest I could have ever been to something like Radiohead in my sheltered upbringing. I always had a special connection to that record for years afterward, which is why I so pleasantly surprised when, years later, I was sitting through my first listen of Copeland’s “In Motion” and recognized a very familiar voice (Stephen Nichols) during the bridge of “Choose The One Who Loves You More”. I was on the Further Seems Forever messageboards at the time and people were asking who it was and I was one of, I’m assuming, maybe like a couple dozen people in the world who actually owned a copy of their music. I got to share the record with them and I remember how cool it was to see people being so receptive to it after years of being the only person in my world who had any semblance of who the band or singer even was.

Anyway, they only ever released a few other EPs and then split up. Stephen went on to form a new band under a couple different names (The Good Players, Summer Dregs), but nothing ever seemed to take off for the guy. Dude’s brilliant. I have always had a particularly special place in my heart for the Annie song “Dining Victoria”. The way it begins to swell into this soothing choral arrangement around the 2:40 mark always takes me away to a place in my mind I would go to when I wanted to shut off the reality of things going on at home and disappear somewhere peaceful.

 

I re-logged in and got back into it hardcore like 5 years ago.

Nice, my account is from 23 Jan 2008 but I took a year or two break.

 

Polar Bear Club :( Really missing them today.

 

Whatever happened to Go Radio/Jason Lancaster? He was always one of my favorite pop-punk vocalists but I feel like I haven't heard anything from him in a decade.

 

Didn't they just put out a new song though?