365 project:"you would kill for this, just a little bit"

45.

artist:straylight run
album:straylight run

i was obsessed with this band before i heard a note of their music. i don't think i need to get into the hows and whys of this band's existence, except to say that the second i heard that john left TBS and was going to do this project i was in love with it.

the first EP came out. i was not disappointed. i could not wait for the full length album, which i knew was on its way. then i got it. i was disappointed. you know how you first hear a song and sometimes its just a raw version of it just to get it out there, but that's what you grow to love? that was the situation with this disk. I'd heard five of the songs already on the EP, and fell for them. i remember hearing "existentialism on prom night" for the very first time on the full length and just hating the crap out of it because they changed the ending. these days i don't even notice, but i remember being really kind of pissed about it at the time.

i miss straylight run though i am glad as hell that taking back sunday reformed. there is a large chunk of my life right out of college where straylight was the only thing i was listening to. we used to go see them all of the time. we would listen to their disk on night drives or when we were hanging out. they are just one of those bands that absolutely equate themselves with a very specific time in my life.

i got burned out on this CD and just stopped listening. as a matter of fact, I've been looking for the disk for a few months now and have been unable to find it on my CD shelves or in my stacks, so i had to re-acquire the disk in order to listen to it for this project. i kept trying to put it off until i found the CD, but i kind of hit a wall here; i didn't want to listen to anything else and this was the only album that would be acceptable.

its still out in my CD player in my car. ill have to finish listening to it tomorrow, because i came home from work and ended up falling asleep, so i didn't get through it, but that's okay. its not like i don't know how it ends.

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