356 project:"i think we're going somewhere. we're onto something good here"

day 6.

artist:Relient K
album:the anatomy of tongue and cheek

back in college i was a DJ on the college radio station. i did this at both schools i attended, and i loved it. obviously i kind of really like talking about music and sharing new stuff with people, otherwise i wouldn't be doing this blog at all.

at any rate, for the entire five years i was on air, i dj'ed Christian music shows. i did a few others during my time, but this is the one that i stuck with all the way through college. i had my favorite artists to play, as anyone would, and relient k was right up there at the top.

relient k, for us, was a band that was just always around. we were playing them on the radio. they were playing shows in our area. B's band was playing shows WITH them in our area. they were always touring with five iron, so i saw them a lot. they played skate and surf one year (i just recently came across a picture of us up in the seats at convention hall with Matt and Brian), i mean, at some points in time i felt like i was seeing this band more than i was seeing my friends or my own family.

i was interviewing them for some reason or another at a show, and when i walked in, i distinctly remember Matt theissen saying "oh, genesis lomax!" like i was the one about to get up on stage and play (i really DO have that kind of a name, though...)

i haven't listened to relient k in a really long time. its probably been a few years. i know i busted out an EP a summer or two ago, but before that i cant even remember the last time i listened to this band that i used to love so much, so i decided that for today's aotd, id listen to anatomy of tongue and cheek. i used to love the poop out of this album, and it was in regular rotation on our radio show, so i figured it would be fun to throwback and also the upbeat music would keep me motivated to clean my room.

i was right, it was motivation to clean, because i had made a deal with myself that i couldn't leave the room until i was through the album, and my options were to clean or to die a slow and painful death while all of my blood escaped out of my ears.

alright, that might be a bit much, because there are still some bright spots on the disk, but overall its not something that i think ill ever spin again. i don't know why i went from love to hate with this album exactly, but I'm not about to sit through it again anytime soon to figure it out.

at best, ill add a few songs to itunes and add them to mixdisks here and there, and that will be that. but i guess that's what the point of this whole experiment is, to see what i still like or what I've grown to hate...to see how I've grown and changed since i started buying Cd's.