365 project:"im still alone, still alone like the day i was born, born and brought into this world"

81.

artist:straylight run
album:the needle the space

i was so excited for this album to come out. the band gave away the mp3 of "the miracle that never came" a few weeks before the release and i was hooked. i really loved that song a lot. and then i got the album and hated it. i was so disappointed in it because it didn't sound like their first album, which i was disappointed with because it didn't sound like their original EP.

i listened to the needle the space a few times and then shelved it. i just wasn't feeling it at all. i was dealing with a lot of personal stuff in my life at that time and listening to straylight run was not helping the situation, so that was the end of that.

we went to the zoo yesterday. on the way down we listened to straylight and a few of these songs popped up, so i decided to revisit it. I'm actually kind of glad i did, because i like the CD a lot more than i remember. i really love Michelle's voice, so I'm not sure why i haven't checked out destry. at first i thought it was maybe because i was bitter at her for leaving straylight, but as far as i can tell that was the catalyst that led to the demise of straylight and the reunion of the original lineup of taking back Sunday, which i am very happy about, so it can be that. who knows, really. i guess ill have to suck it up and check them out at some point.

there are songs on this album that i could do without, for sure. i am not a big fan of "soon we'll be living in the future" at all. if i was near the CD player when it came on, id have probably skipped it, but i wasn't, and am lazy today, so i left it alone. but there are also songs that i love. "the miracle that never came" and "still alone" actually rank as some of my all-time favorite straylight run songs.

i can absolutely see myself pulling this CD out again over the summer and listening to it as I'm driving around doing whatever it is i do.