artist:Relient K
album: K is for Karaoke
Years ago, I was about the biggest Relient K fan I knew. In my lifetime, I have seen this band over 40 times. I was on a first name basis with Matty T. I wanted to marry Brian P. Then they wrote a song about Five Iron Frenzy and I loved them even more.
Here is a picture of us hanging out at Skate and Surf some years ago.
And then something changed.
By my senior year of college, I had pretty much given up on everything that was so important to me previously. Looking back, I still cant figure out why I changed so much, but i did and that was that. in the middle of all of this, i decided that i was "too grown up" for Relient K's silliness, and that was pretty much the end of my relationship with this band.
Lately, mostly because of this project, I have been going back to stuff that I had previously given up on and listening with fresh ears to determine if 31-year-old me is still as stuck up as 23-year-old me became. Mostly, I am finding, I am not. I don’t know if I am mellowing with age or just becoming more open minded, but i need to keep in mind that while i have always, always been a music elitist, I was working with nothing but pop music for most of my formative years, and that it really doesn’t matter if no one has ever heard of the bands that i listen to.
i believe that is where the root of my "issue" with Relient K came from. They used to be my band. part of the reason I’ve been lucky enough to see them so often is because B and the boys were able to play gigs with them, or i was lucky enough to be asked to come MC a show that they were playing. (I need to locate those pictures, that was a good day.) Then they released mmhmm and with that their single be my escape was everywhere. i think i just couldn’t stand that my band was all over MTV and that was more or less the end of that...also, Brian leaving the band had kind of a profound effect on me.
Well, all of this is to say that lately I have been listening to the band again, if even, as i said, a little bit at a time for this project, and was kind of excited to hear that they were putting out a covers album. and then I heard that they were covering they might be giants' dr. worm and I was all in.
I waited around to see if a leak ever got posted on my trusty leak-gathering site, but it didn’t, and then other things in life took over and i actually just forgot about the album. Then yesterday my friend Jason posted something about it and i immediately hunted it down and went about listening to it. my only complaint was that i was about to leave to go to the shore with Nicole and wasn’t able to burn it to a disk before i left, so i could only listen to it once through.
The album is a good time. I generally like covers, and I like them more when they are songs that I know and love. oh, they cover Justin Beiber, too, and while I’m wholly against anything beiberific, i cant help but to sing and dance along. it pains me that i know any of the words, and by the time this is over, ill probably know ALL of the words. oh well, at least my Bug will be proud of me.
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