365 project:"come on. let go of those affectations. you dont fool anyone"

64.

artist:midtown
album:save the world, lose the girl

"God i wish i could hate you for the rest of my..."

talk about an album that i love, jeez, i love this one so much i sing along to the guitar parts when there are no lyrics. i didn't like midtown a whole lot when i first heard them. i didn't dislike them but they didn't do anything to my ears to make them stand out from every other pop-punk outfit that was getting played on my college radio station at the time.

then i went to see Dashboard Confessional. i bet you are wondering what a tiny, whiny man with a guitar has to do with a crazy bunch of rock & rollers, so ill tell you. Brandon and i went to see DC when it was still just Chris Carabba and his guitar. he played a now-defunct club in north jersey and we went thanks to tickets from the radio station, i am pretty sure. at any rate, i got really sick during this show (i don't know why i remember this, and it has nothing to do with anything in the whole damn world, but i was wearing an orange sweater. what a strange thing to remember.) and wanted more than anything to go back to my dorm room and sleep it off, but i didn't want to have to make B leave, either, so i didn't really force the issue.

a fellow radio station staffer was there as well, and was hanging out near us for some reason or another. Dave said that he wanted to leave, though, because he was bored or had somewhere else to be, and i ended up leaving with him. we went to the car and all i wanted to do was sleep on the car ride home, but when Dave started his car, "just rock and roll" came loudly out of the speakers. now, this wasn't the first time i had heard midtown, but for some reason that night i developed a new-found appreciation for them.

there is a hidden track at the end of this album. most hidden tracks annoy me, honestly, because they are just nonsense or garbage, but for some reason today i left the CD alone and let it play out...i think i was enjoying the silence. at any rate, the hidden track started playing and i immediately heard "the concerts east concert update" playing in my head. i had completely forgotten about that spot, as well as concerts east, to be perfectly frank, so this was a silly little memory that popped back up.

you know, i say all the time that id LOVE to see midtown get back together, but i don't think i loved either of the later albums as much as i loved this one.