Saves The Day Band • Page 74

Everyone sucks

 

Top 3 off Sound the Alarm:
Bones
Eulogy
Diseased

 

My top for all their albums:

CSD -
Three Miles Down
Jodie
Choke

Through Being Cool - (All of them are great so this was hard)
Shoulder To The Wheel
Holly Hox
The Last Lie I Told

SWYA -
Firefly
Certain Tragedy
Jukebox Breakdown

In Reverie -
Anywhere With You
Driving In The Dark
In Reverie

STA -
Eulogy
Don't Know Why
Bones

UTB -
Get Fucked Up (the bass is so sick)
Bye Bye Baby
Can't Stay The Same

Daybreak -
Daybreak
Undress Me
Living Without Love

Self Titled -
Stand In The Stars
In The In Between
Supernova

9 - (really don't like this album so this was tough)
29
Suzuki
Rosé

Bonus:

Ups and Downs - (coincidentally the first three songs of the album)
Ups and Downs
Sell My Old Clothes
Drag In D Flat

I'm Sorry I'm Leaving -
Jessie And My Whetstone
Hold
Take Our Cars Now!

 

daybreak or daybreak acooustic?

 

Daybreak

 

Daybreak. Daybreak acoustic is just the drums and electric guitars taken out of the pro tools session haha

 

Daybreak kinda blows. They really lost it after under the boards and it became a Chris solo project. the self titled had a couple highlights but felt hollow. the last album was just embarrassing.

 

I think self-titled is the best out of those last records because of the highlights (in the in between, lucky number, ring pop). his voice is really bad though.

9 is a terrible record and in hindsight it seems extremely egotistical

 

the pitchfork review kind of nailed it on that one tbh

 

His voice is good in most songs on the self-tilted, but absolutely horrible on 9.

I just don't know if I even want STD to continue at this point.

 

Like you don't want them to live anymore?

 

I think it’s fairly obvious what they meant

 

I think the band was on borrowed time even before the allegations. They were basically living off nostalgia and the band had run its course creatively. I’d be shocked if they came back.

I hope Chris is doing the work he needs to get himself better, but after what he has done he doesn’t deserve the platform that he took advantage of to hurt other people.

 

Last time I saw them, there were mayyyyyybe 50 people there. So yeah, I don't think there was too much demand for them even before the allegations. That was just a nail in the coffin, I think. I'd also be very surprised if they ever tour again, let alone put out anymore new music as Saves The Day.

 

I got it lol

 

The Under The Boards Sea Glass vinyl is pretty. It's at Newbury Comics for only 25.99

 

I thought that when the record came out.

I couldn't tell whether it was more of a cheap ploy to tug at the heartstrings of long-time fans (which didn't work on me) or whether it was a guy who is obsessed with his own "legend" and wanted to anthologize his own "legendary" career.

 

It really is incredible how bad they got. Like even forgetting about what was revealed last year, the band was on a shit trajectory long before.

And I will also agree that while I just could not find my way into the self-titled album at all (or much of Daybreak for that matter outside of "Living Without You"), the vocals were pretty darn good on both albums. He didn't go for a fake punk sneer like on Sound The Alarm and some of Under the Boards. And then on 9 he's back to that weird mall-punk sneer.

I always found it weird that when Chris responded to what I guess he saw as the commercial "failure" of In Reverie his idea was to die his hair pink, write mall-punk songs and then sing with some weird British sneer. I always thought that it would have been easier for him to try to approximate his Stay What You Are voice and write some songs in that style. But he did what he did and now knowing what we know, I think the reason for it was it that this is a man who has some major emotional issues.

Dying your hair pink and just his overall tenor of being in 2005 and 2006 seemed really weird and in retrospect I think it was real now, whereas then I thought it was a put-on. I think he's just gotten more and more angry and bitter as years have went on as record sales dwindled, band members bailed, and crowds shrank while he's reduced to opening for garbage bands he influenced while also growing into a legend in own mind. Like seriously, first of all, an album about Saves the Day? What in the ever loving fuck? A diss song about Eben (who had been out of the band for what, 14 years at that point)?. Pathetic. Medicating himself with drugs and alcohol and exhibiting rock star behavior to the few people still who looked up to him like the person who ended up sharing those creepy stories, and we have what we have now. A sad story.

Nonetheless, I don't think he's irredeemable. He did some bad shit, some fucked up mental shit to someone that considered him a friend. But he didn't do Ryan Adams type shit or R. Kelly stuff. I don't know whether I'd buy a new Saves album or see him live, but I don't think he should be cast out of music forever especially with some of the scum that still remains especially in the punk/emo/whatever scene.

 

Wait, what song was about Eben?

 

I think it was called "Rosé."

 

I dig the long thoughtful post. People can agree or disagree, but it’s nice to see someone write something more than a quip or gif trying to get a response. My comment isn’t aimed at anyone, it’s just more an acknowledgement of the commitment to the post, which I think makes a lot of good points.

 

Thank you. I guess Saves the Day was just a really important band to be during a rapidly changing, interesting period in my life, and it saddens me to see what Chris has become.

 

I don't understand the diss against Sound The Alarm or dying his hair pink. That seemed like some weird stretches.

 

I haven’t listened to any Saves The Day music since everything came out, but I think that’s a bit of an overreaction. I feel like Sound The Alarm, Under The Boards and Daybreak are very authentic albums for the time.

My sister still can’t/won’t get into In Reverie despite her musical taste growing well beyond what Saves The Day were on their first few albums. The reaction to In Reverie still sticks with some people and I absolutely see that trilogy of albums as him trying to move past it his own way.

The vocals definitely changed up but I’d argue it works for the themes of the albums.

After typing all that up I felt gross going to bat for Chris considering his actions, but I still wanted to express it some way