365 project:" no i don't hate you. don't want to fight you. Know i'll always love you but right now i just don't like you."

74.

artist:relient K
album:mmhmm


my job involves me being outside for the better part of the day, so i like to keep an eye on the weather, and we all get very excited when we are going to have a perfect day. all week long Friday's weather has been the topic of conversation-sunny with a high of 75. because i was at one point a rather big Relient K fan, hearing that forecast always makes me sing "sunny with a high of 75 since you took my heavy heart and made it light" so it was a no-brainer this morning on what album i would listen to.

a little while back, i covered their album the anatomy of tongue and cheek and my comments were less than glowing. my opinion of mmhmm, however, is totally different. I actually really love this album, and am not sure why i don't listen to it more.

before this album, Relient K was a bitty baby band, really. they were still "my" band. they were accessible and we had what i deemed to be a working relationship. they knew my name. i knew them. we coordinated on interviews and other fun and exciting things. Brandon and I emceed one of their shows in Ocean Grove. full surrender had played with them a bunch. it kind of seemed like they were always around for us and i liked that.

and then Be My Escape hit the airwaves and started getting airtime on MTV. i knew that there was going to be a big push behind this album, but i didn't know that it was going to make them into a household name so to speak, and that it would take away all of that accessibility. in hindsight, I'm sure this wasn't the only reason that we fell out of contact. most of the band roster switched. i left college and therefore the radio station. life got in the way of shows. but at the time, it felt like MTV was ruining one more thing for me.

This was about the point where i stopped listening to Relient K. maybe that was the wrong choice. i don't know. what i do know is that i didn't feel like they were the same band that i had grown to love, and i couldn't handle their "growing up" so to speak, so i just turned my backs on them.

when i was listening to that CD today, i found myself commenting quite a few times about how much i really like mmhmm. i think now that the weather is warmer ill have to find more time to listen. i cant really name a song on this album that i dislike, and my list of likes would more or less read just like the track listing, so it seems silly to post it. i was pleasantly surprised by this CD today.

my suggestion is that all of you go pull it out of your collection and give it a spin again and then tell me if you agree.