"Nothing feels good like you in red and blue jeans"
This is one of those albums you don't get the first time you hear it but if you give it a few listens it comes through as something beautiful, and it will actually touch your heart as cliche as that sounds.
The vocals are really moving and match the music really well, the lead singer has a strange but amazing voice,Davey von Bohlen actually manages to sound sad without making it sound fake.
The word emo has of course become something of a stigma these days but honestly bands like this were amazing and really heartfelt, people like to attack emo bands for being "cliche" and all there songs being just whinging about girls but honestly this and most of the other bands of that first and second wave had alot more to say than people give them credit for, plus everybody in the world gets miserable over the opposite or same sex sometimes its just life and i think its nice to have music for comfort in those times.
I would have loved to have been around when they were touring this album i think some of those shows would have been really powerful.
Not that this album is completely depressing it has some real fun moments, the funky bassline on "a broken tenor" makes me want to dance and "why did we ever meet" has a specactular hook in the chorus that will get stuck in you head for days.
Its a good album to listen to when you first wake up in the morning i dont know why but it seems to really suit that time of day
The lyrics are really strange in parts and not very straight forward which i really like, some parts remind of Capt'n Jazz and there lyrical style, Davey von Bohlen actually played guitar in Capt'n Jazz too
At other points on this album the lyrics are just plain amazing, i get massive chills whenever i hear the line "I don't know anyone,And I don't know god,And I don't know if anything at all will be all right" i think everyone can relate to that now and again.
Its a pity this is another one of those bands that didnt live up to there potential.
The album before this one is pretty good but anything after just kinda sucks, its been said that no emo band can make more than three albums without turning shitty and this makes me agree, the get up kids had the exact same problem too.
it came out in 97 on the legendary jade tree records home to kid dynamite and the blood brothers plus about a million other awesome bands
i would suggest this album for anyone into REAL emotional music
