Motion City Sountrack - Commit This To Memory

Oh, this album.

Is it legal to do this? I surely don't know.
This album is fantastic. I don't care it's pop punk. It's got all the pure teenage angst an album could ever offer (I'm looking at you, LGFUAD) and lovely adolescent synths. Upbeat and poppy, yet so hopelessly fucking depressing in places. The lyrics can be cynical, regretful (Make Out Kids), kind of silly and anxious (Everything is Alright) and even a bit depressing (Feel Like Rain). It's one of those albums you can listen to and be upset and happy and feel a bit anxious at the same time. You can sing along and know every word and spend all summer blaring it out of your car and just fucking yelling along. It's so teenage, so true, and just a perfect summer soundtrack. And if you're a proper human being, you'll get this not only because of what I just said, but also the sick nostalgia that comes along with it. You know you loved this album. And if you didn't, now's your chance.

Margot & The Nuclear So Sos - Dust Of Retreat

Alright, so I just got home from the hospital, I've been convulsing for nearly 16 hours, I'm exhausted, and I just want to rest. I can't though, 'cause I'm convulsing so hard.

everyone and their mother will wanna get this.

And this album is perfect for that. It's got that radio-rock feel, but it's softer in some parts. It's rocky, perfect, and calming. The guy singing (I'm too lazy and tired to look up his name) has lovely vocals. The lyrics are nice, and overall, the band reminds me a bit of the Dangerous Summer... except there's the occasional funky jazz beat, and unconventional instrument... Like hey, that's a piano, oh wait that's a fucking saxophone. It's like the dangerous summer had a baby with Forgive Durden, and that baby has a fairy grandmother named Dear and The Headlights. Last.fm calls them orchestral pop, and I guess I can kind of see that. It's calming and funky, and I recommend it.

Saves The Day - Stay What You Are

I am going out of town until like the 18th (I'm going to Austin, bitches) and I really don't feel like posting from out of town.

Get this, okay?

I don't care Saves The Day isn't really super indie. They are the best pop punk band to ever exist. This album is my favorite - I know all the words, I blast the fuck out of it in my car, and really, if I was stranded on a deserted island, this would be one of the three albums I would bring and listen to forever and never ever get tired of. This came out in 2001, and moves away from their original direction, and got them a lot of recognition. It's catchy and wonderful and it's something you will never get tired of singing out. They're honest lyrics, kind of sad, and Chris Conley has the best/whiny voice you'll ever hear, and you probably can't help but fall in love with them. He's been around since '94 with them, and he better never change. Old-school pop punk - you need this, and I promise you will fall in love with it.

"Razia's Shadow: A Musical" by Forgive Durden (2008)

Somewhere out there right now, there is a 13 year old girl who has just learned about this album by searching through Panic at the Disco's wikipedia. Her eyes reflect off the screen a pale white, full of excitement and fear and wanting. She grasps at the screen, she tears at her scalp, "I want it!" she cries. She runs down to daddy, who has bought her everything from an Alice in Wonderland sweatshirt to the zebra stripes in her hair. I can only hope that this time, this time... he slaps her in the face.

All of that aside, this is a tremendous album. Do you like pop-punk (a little)? Do you like musicals (i guess across the universe was okay)? Just get this. I don't know what else to say.