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artist:hothotheat
album:elevator

on at least four separate occasions while listening to this album i actually said out loud "hot dog! why did i ever stop listening to this album?"

I'm not sure why i bought this album to begin with. I'm guessing it was because i heard the single on the radio, but it could very well be any reason under the sun. i know that i didn't listen to it for very long. something else must have caught my attention and taken over before this album had a chance to run its course.

i do remember going to see them in concert with Mandy. i know that it was warm out, and i know that it was raining. the show was at the troc in Philly. i feel like we went to see the band that was opening for them...and now that I'm thinking about it, i have a crazy feeling that it might have been eisley. i know that originally i was supposed to go with someone else, but they didn't return my calls or texts for the few days leading up to the show, so Mandy came along in his stead.

we left that show about halfway through hothotheat's set and went to the wawa across the road. (i have only ever been to one show in my life at the troc that didn't end with a trip to the wawa across the road, actually.) i had been waiting the entire set for a specific song, and it was getting close to the end, and both of us were bored and tired, so we decided just to leave. when we were walking back past the troc on the way to the train station, we could hear island of the honest man coming from the stage. that was the song i was waiting for. oh well, them's the breaks, i guess.

there were a lot of songs on elevator that i really dug. aside from island of the honest man, there are you owe me an IOU, middle of nowhere, and running out of time, just off the top of my head. the entire time i was listening to this album i was dancing in my seat and singing along with the lyrics that i still remembered. I'm glad i decided to listen to it and get out of the slump that I've been in lately. i have to remember that when i need to dance or be happy, i should pull out hothotheat's elevator album.