Great bands that FLOPPED (Saves The Day, The Starting Line & more)
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Great bands that FLOPPED vol 2: Saves The Day, The Starting Line, Unwritten Law, Sworn Enemy
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You should do the bands Fono & Virgos Merlot next. Both were highly underrated imo.
i thought this vid was great. i want to give all of these bands a listen, especially sworn enemy
Absolutely do not use Dave guys, they're a company that preys on vulnerable poor people
Finn, been listening to a lot of your videos lately. Very informative. You know your stuff.
Please help me, I have fragmented lyrics to a song stuck in my head. Can't find it on any apps or Google.
The lyrics, as I remember them "don't be anything without me, don't try anything without my"
Any ideas? Should be a band from the mid 2010s
Saw them a few weeks ago with the get up kids.
Expecting motion city soundtrack to be mentioned again. I picked up commit this to memory the other day at the flea market for a buck and realized later it was signed by the entire band. Criminally underated pop punk rock group
saw em numerous times. fuckin great 😎
It blows my mind Motion City Soundtrack wasn’t bigger than they were. I just saw them in Chicago last month and they still sounded so good, and they still are funny between songs. I have seen them at least six times.
Commit This To Memory is a top ten album of all time for me. I got to see them play the whole album last year.
I Am the Movie rules too
They are still amazing
I absolutely love Unwritten Law! What an underrated band.
ohhhh I haven't gotten that far into the vid yet, but I caught them live with sum41 years ago, and it was fucking amazing. that concert was one of the best crowds I've ever been in... such a blast.
Saw them live a few weeks ago in Australia. It was a small venue but absolutely packed full of fans singing every word.
I saw them in Dallas in the mid-90s opening up for Bad Religion and they were excellent. Surprisingly, their best two albums, Oz Factor and Blue Room weren't mentioned in the video.
Love them in the movie Grind !!
Elva front to back. So much early 2000s nostalgia
I just saw The Starting Line open for All American Rejects and New Found Glory and they still sound great. I still love Say It Like You Mean it. It is a perfect pop punk album
Bro I saw the Offspring, Simple Plan, and Sum 41 in Noblesville Indiana last Friday. One of the greatest times of my life.
@@Leftturnaddict amazing! I saw the Simple Plan and Sum41 recently and it was great! I saw The Offspring at the 2005 Warped Tour and that crowd went nuts. Crazy pit!
@@Leftturnaddict I saw that tour at Darien Center, NY last week. It was amazing.
@@Leftturnaddict I saw Nonpoint, Coal Chamber, and Mudvayne earlier this month! I'd love to see Sum41 and Simple Plan though.
same here, in Boston, agree SILYMI is awesome!
I feel like finn has made a career talking about all the bands from the "MX vs. ATV Offroad Fury" soundtrack.
Kudos to you, good sir.
That was an excellent game.
OMG, MX Vs ATV Unleashed had that Unwritten Law song Called Celebration Song.
All of the Starting Lines albums are great so underrated!
This! All 3 albums are amazing!
That’s what I’m saying.
Bands like TSL, The Early November, Jimmy Eat World, Boys Night Out and Saves The Day were the sort of bands who were just a couple steps ahead of now 30 something year olds at the time. They only “fell off” because we weren’t ready to hear the sort of maturity they were displaying through their writing. As I go back and re listen to all of these records like Futures, Based On A True Story etc. I love them even more than the initial records they put out that got me into them in the first place. These bands hit Rock/Alternative radio around the time when Sirius and satellite radio was booming. They all fell into the weird hole of being too immature for “adults”, and too mature for “kids”.
Very true. I know I didn’t like In Reverie when it first came out but now I think it’s a masterpiece.
I think about this a lot and agree. The band Fireworks is another great example.
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Finn, Unwritten Law are definitely still a band. I’m from Australia and they just did a tour this August.
Definitely an underrated band. I’m 30 years old and I heard about them when I was a kid because Seein’ Red was on the Grind movie soundtrack.
My only friend who listened to them is 35 and couldn’t come to the show because he had to look after his kid, so I went and saw them solo.
They were good live.
the unwritten law front man does have an incredible voice, and it's so so good live too. saw them in a tour with sum41 ages ago, and that crowd was epic... memorable show across the board.
UL was such a great band and were fantastic live. Saw them on warped tour back in 98 with Rancid, NOFX, Assorted Jelly Beans, Aquabats...
I loved the 'Seein Red' music video when I was a kid. That song was one of those catchy songs I could never get out of my head.
98 was possibly the best warped tour year ever. Instant Aquabats fan the moment I saw them, Fury of the Aquabats! Might be the greatest Ska album of all time, fucking banger.
It's hard to overstate how massive Through Being Cool was when it came out. Everyone was listening to it
They got the whole scene in the palm of their hands with that one, for sure.
Great album
The Starting Line are one of my all time favorite groups. Love to hear you talk about them
I was never a fan of the starting line's music. But I have to say that Kenny is a great guy. He was filling in on bass for a band that I ended up joining after him and he did literally everything he could for us. Got us on a bunch of warped tour dates, promoted us on stage at their shows, shouted us out in the thank yous of the starting line albums, mentioned us in interviews. He seriously couldn't have been cooler to us.
Unwritten Law just finished a tour in Australia and recently released a new record which has some pretty great tracks on it. You should suss it out Finn.
every time Finn makes me feel old I cope with remembering he is many months older than me.
Sworn Enemy was crazy! I loved those guys. Reminds me of Northside Kings, Hoods and all those other “Thug” core bands. I also think people forget, outside of Boston Beatdown, FSU was on Gangland on History or TLC or one of those channels. That shit was real and real violent back in the day. Brass knuckles wrapped in bandanas so you couldn’t see who smacked the shit out of you while crowd killing. Miss it and don’t miss it at the same time
Saves The Day was ALWAYS weird. Seek out the Lisa's Birthday Tape (EP?) on UA-cam, I'm fairly certain those were prior to Can't Slow Down and they're really dark songs. For better or worse, they've always been a progressive band and none of their records sound the same. In Reverie, the record which is pointed out as their nose-dive into obscurity, is now wildly fawned over and instantly sold out both times it was repressed on vinyl.
Never heard those songs before. Thanks for sharing! Yeah, STD always had weirdly specific lyrics (🎵let me take this awkward saw and run it against your thighs…🎵)
It was those deeply emo lyrics combined with the hardcore/pop-punk style that made it all so catchy. When Chris got into his dream pop phase it just became a little too… I don’t know what. But it wasn’t enjoyable to listen to 😅
In Reverie was ahead of it's time imo. They crushed that new emo/pop punk/hardcore sound on their first few albums and they just wanted to do something different. I think Chris said at one point that anyone could have made Stay What You Are, and it is prob their most mainstream sounding straight forward album they've made. But In Reverie just confused people too much and the scene wasn't ready for it.
I remember being super disappointed when In Reverie came out but took me a long time to grow on me and now looking back I see its genius, but of course even when a lot of people realized how great it really was too much time had passed.
I’m a huge Saves fan. And I even like their catalog after Stay What You Are. In Reverie was such a shockingly different album that it just didn’t fit anywhere. No genre base would claim it. And they fizzled. Chris also wanted to turn the band into the modern Beetles, and the departure from their roots was too much for most.
Yeah, too big of a departure from their previous albums…also, In Reverie just wasn’t very good. I think Conley was attempting to get into dreamier pop music (see: The Promise Ring). Maybe they could’ve pulled it off if the original band stuck around to round out the music, but it basically turned into a weird solo project.
In Reverie sounds weird because of the vocals but all the albums after that are great and sound more similar to Stay What You Are. One of their newest albums - Self-titled (or the grapefruit one) is up there with the best imo.
That was the era when he started dumping guys and the lineups started changing a lot. I have to believe that lead to some differences in the songs/sound.
I'm gonna be that guy for a moment. Ready?
To make everyone feel even older, The Best of Me was released in 2002 just before their record in July of 2002. So even older than mentioned.
With that said, everyone should re listen to TSL's discography because it's underrated as a whole! Finn could also make a video on their story because it's a facinating tale from being called Sunday Drive before TSL, to their Geffen label issues to their Virgin records label issues to the fact that they are still selling out shows today despite their last ep coming out in 2013. It's been a Rollercoaster for them and for the most part they take it in stride. As a band and as individuals, they rise above so many artists even those who have mainstream success.
Unwritten Law’s self titled black album was actually their third album (and probably their best) but their second album Oz Factor was a banger as well and leaned more heavily into their punk sound. I associate them more with the skate punk scene than the pop punk scene even though they came out of Poway like Blink.
Still love The Starting Line. Their other two albums are pretty good in my opinion, but I know most people aren't into them. Also, Unwritten Law's "Music in High Places" acoustic album is very underrated.
That 90’s New Brunswick/Princeton scene was so good (Saves the Day, Lifetime) which wound up producing an all time great Philly melodic hardcore band, Kid Dynamite ⚡️
Lifetime and Kid Dynamite are still 2 of my favorites
Man this took me back I use to skateboard to these bands now I'm pushing almost 40 and would disengrate if I fell off a skateboard
Starting line was from real close by my town, my wife always tell the story bout how they came in to her empty bar late on like a Tuesday to celebrate when the island music video got played on mtv. She said they were the coolest most wholesome guys. Bonus points the singer’s grandma was a lunch lady at my high school. 😂
About 20 years ago, I saw The Used headline a show that had the openers Finch, Days Away, The Starting Line, and Saves the Day. All in a 1,000-ish person little club and thought they were all going to flourish. This one hurt :(
What ever happened to Finch? There debut defined emo for me.
@@ltrskltrA lot of it had to do with Nate Barcalow. He's quit and rejoined the band multiple times. They also changed their style big-time on their second album, which hurt their momentum.
@@ltrskltr They have broken up 3 different times since 2006, or been on "hiatus," however you want to describe it. I think they played When We Were Young festival and were supposed to tour this year but I don't think they went out. Thought they were gonna be huge!
@@matthewp9569 my buddy saw Finch in Chicago like a month ago!
Sworn Enemy was/is great. Love that 2000s hardcore sound like Hatebreed, Throwdown, Bury Your Dead, On Broken Wings, pre keepers of the faith Terror, Lionheart, First Blood, Too Pure To Die etc.
One of the best eras ever for hardcore
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA should have added Flop from Seattle to this video or is that too much of a dad joke
UL is absolutely amazing. They’re still a band. They released a new album a few months ago. Scott Russo is one of my favorite songwriters. He made an album with Amee Allen (the interrupters) in 2007 called Scott & Aimee - Sitting in a tree. What a great album…
Yeah, they’ve been around a long time. Blink plugged them in “Josie” but UL already had a deal with SONY at the time. What are the odds that a small town on the outskirts of San Diego would produce 2 of the bigger skate punk bands in the 90s?
dude, i'm a huge UL fan and my kid loves the interrupters, i had NO IDEA they collaborated. i'll have to check it out
@@leftocastpunx83 scott & Aimee - Sitting in a tree. Amazing album. You will love it. Let me know what you think about the album!
@carlospavon83 first quick listen, did not love it...
Unwritten Law is still one of my favorites.
Remember all the 'Now that's what I call music' CDs? You gotta make a playlist series with all your picks from these lists lol
Also shout out ny hardcore. Qns forever
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Also, honorable mention for No Motiv. How did they not blow up big after Diagram for Healing? Super catchy with a radio-friendly voice. Tremendous live.
And what about Fenix Texas?
I am a 52 year old woman who used to go to Gilman over 30 years ago. There were probably twice as many guys as gals. Sometimes the skater types would bring their 'normal' looking girlfriends with them and they usually wouldn't mingle and would look at us like we were some kind of freakshow. LOL By the way I met Unwritten Law in a 7/11 parking lot around Oakland about 20 years ago. I was playing old Bad Religion with my windows rolled down when I pulled up and they were hanging outside of their van eating some snacks. One of them said they liked the song and I think he may have flirted with me but I wasn't sure. I said thanks then drove home.
Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are, are damn classics. I always wish Homegrown was bigger than they were, same with Houston Calls.
Love Unwritten Law, and i still listen to them today. Elva and Here to the Mourning are absolute gems
same. have you listened to The Hum? it's great also
Sworn Enemy is one of the best hardcore metal bands of all time. First time I saw them was on tour with Biohazard and Kittie. Changed my whole perspective on hard music forever.
I saw them with dying fetus...eventually, there was constant fighting between hardcore and death metal kids
I went to high school with the guitarist from Sworn Enemy. Great band! He was a hardcore metalhead then also. Makes perfect sense he chose the career path he did.
Love all three bands!
The self titled Unwritten Law ‘black album’ was their third record. Blue Room and Oz Factor were solid.
I think w/TSL, SILYMI, as great as it was, 'Based On A True Story, took way too sharp of a left-hand turn from that prior sound for people to be on board with it. They didn't ease people into their change in sound. Similar to Saves the Day. 'Can't Slow Down' was amazing, 'Through Being Cool,' same. Then they got lucky with the college-indie crowd embracing, 'Stay What You Are,' but then 'In Reverie' was like, "who the hell is this band?" UL's, 'black' album is an all-time favorite for me. I think the band's in-fighting and diving head first into drugs/alcohol/partying, etc., held them back from being bigger. Sorry, passionate rant over. I just love that you talk about bands I grew up with.
I actually played in a band that opened for Sworn Enemy here in Manchester UK. The 2000s was a great time growing up in the alternative/underground scene.
Thank you for another bands that should have been bigger, always appreciate these videos. I remember seeing TSL in HS late 2002 right after Say it Like You Mean It, I was in the audience going " Damn these guys look like they are the same age as me"
Unwritten Law 100% still a band. Saw them a couple of weeks ago in Australia and I’m 2020 as well. Unlike a lot of older bands winding down and doing small club shows, they are a very tight band and Scott still sounds amazing.
i saw them twice on the Hum tour back in april. i'm so jealous you guys got to see Cailin too. Did she come out and sing 'Cailin' with him? i've been a fan of the band for over 20 years and i've always wanted to see her come out for that song. btw i was at the show where scott got arrested and missed it.
@@leftocastpunx83 she came out and sung with Scott at the Brisbane show.
Saves the Day is like the whiny pop punk sound version of the Descendants. So many bands in the following decade like Yellowcard, We the Kings, Simple Plan, Something Corporate, All Time Low, Paramore, and dozens of others all were clearly inspired by Saves the Day. Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are are incredibly iconic. The cover art for Through Being Cool is the single most encapsulating pop punk/emo image in existence.
That TSL album should be in a museum as the epitome of pop punk. Not a single skip on that entire thing. This was back when Drive Thru Records basically ruled that genre. Would love to see a video about the rise and fall of Drive Thru. I’m sure the owners (Richard and Stephanie I want to say?) would be up for an interview if you could track them down.
Saw UL and DHC opening for Bad Religion in 96 :P
Unwritten Law are playing at a local pub down the road from me. FYI i live in suburban Melbourne, Australia 😅
Same, they are playing a pub 10mins from me, and I'm in Western Sydney!
I got into Saves The Day after In Reverie dropped. True it was weird compared to their older stuff, but I found the song writing and soundscape amazing with the inclusion of weird jazz chords in a pop-punk setting. I've kept up with every release up until their S/T with the grapefruit on the cover. Unfortunately, their latest release (9) is a huge let-down with uninspired songs, a 20 minute rock opera that repeats itself too much, and feels like a boomer trying too hard to be their young self again.
Unwritten Law was always a band i thought people knew because of Seein' Red.
I remember it was on the soundtrack to a dumb skateboarding comedy called Grind.
But yes, apparently they are still a band, they released a new album in 2022. Called "The Hum"
My preppy rehab roommate stole my saves the day shirt back in 2010 and I’m still not over it. SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHO THEY WERE😭
STD basically dissolved after the 3rd album and Chris Conley carried on with the name even though it was more like a solo project. Whenever the style of the music changes so drastically, I wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler to go by another name instead of confusing fans.
UL was so good and when Blink lost Tom, I thought Scott Russo would've been a way better fit than Matt Skiba. But they just lost steam.. not sure why. The Ataris too. I still think Kris Roe was one of the best songwriters of that era of pop punk.
The Starting Line and Saves The Day - Great examples. I have listened to these band A LOT since they popped up. Both had really interesting arcs. Kenny Vasoli (TSL) was recently a guest on the Chris Demakes A Podcast picking a part a later song of theirs. The 2nd album has a few songs clearly written during the 1st album, which are lovely (Bedroom Talk, Surprise Surprise) and then has a lot of angry songs. Still very very good. Then I lost them in the 3rd album.
Saves The Day really did that voice thing you talked about. 1st and 2nd album (which is not on streaming) has the "gentle" voice, also the 3rd album In Reverie. Then the band did a trilogy of albums that pretty hard and dark, my favorite of them Sound The Alarm. More of a post-hardcore + thrashy Beatles thing, hehe. Then there's been a bunch of albums only for the diehard fans. Frontman Chris has been involved in some weird #metoo stuff, not sure about the status of that right now.
Yada yada yada, I love the early work of both of these bands, hurray and thank you Finn always for bringing them up. Lots of love from Sweden.
Unwritten Law did their rounds for sure on Leno, The Carson Daily Show and MTV prime time concerts. I even saw them playing on the ESPY’s back in the early days. Unwritten Law is one of my favorite bands, for some unknown reasons they just didn’t catch on, but were well respected by other bands in the scene at the time.
Nice if you like them do you like mxpx? They played the new album on UA-cam is really good.
@@craigmahaney4369 yea I saw that about MXPX, but I haven’t quite got around to listening to the me album yet. I saw them live in 2000. “We ain’t got no place to go, LETS GO TO THE PUNK RAWK SHOW !”
@@craigmahaney4369 UL and mxpx are 2 of my favorite bands. The new mxpx is ok, the previous self titled album that came out in 2018 i think is my favorite album they've done and i've been a fan since 97. the new UL album The Hum is also really good.
The Unwritten Law song Celebration Song was in Need For Speed Underground 2 and it was a great addition. They are still around and put out an album called The Hum last year
It’s funny what you said about Unwritten Law’s Here’s to the Mourning, my friend described it as Deftones meets Sunny Day Real Estate
The Starting Line is the soundtrack for that time in your life where you're starting to come into yourself and really like cool music and have cool friends but you're not quite at the point where you have to be really responsible for anything serious. You and your best friend go to Kings Island with your mom and dad and crush on a girl you met there. Cookouts in the summer playing Tony Hawk vibe. No worries. The whole world is wide open. Great stuff.
Brooooo thank u so much for the sworn enemy shout out! My cousin is Lorenzo the og lead guitar. He left to go Hollywood n shit but im glad his work gets recognition. I got the pleasure of goin on tour wit him when i was 18 back in 06. On that tour was six feet under, animosity(another super underated band)n it was job for a cowboys first tour. Jfac only did the second half of the tour cuz they were seniors in hs still lol. Also rip pauly the og drummer. I miss that guy .....
thank you for helping me revisit some of my way overplayed middle school burned CD/ high school iPod music + reminding me that im getting old as shit too lol.
I love you Finn, but Dave is a super scam. They say they don't charge interest, but there absolutely are extra fees and it's the equivalent of scummy payday loans
Saw unwritten law in torquay Australia last Sunday. Put on an amazing show and cailin supported and she came on when they done the song cailin, and in wade fashion was just normal crazy and there was fight in the encore and wade got up threatening to fight em both. Etc etc haha
Glad to see Finn getting some advertisements to plug. Guy has been grinding on youtube for years, glad to see him getting paid!
G-rated? The starting line literally has a song that goes “im gonna tear you @$$ up like we just got married”😂😅
I definitely had Alk3 in HEAVY rotation back when I was essentially drinking myself to death. Good one Finn. Cuts deep.
As your 2000s racing game turbo nerd I feel the need to mention unwritten law having a song on nfsu2, burnout revenge and mx vs atv unleashed
will always love saves the day. a lot of people hated 'in reverie' but i really liked it. still have my tattoo from that albums artwork lol
Unwritten law are so good. Found them because of need for speed underground 2 when i was about 7. Good Times
Rye Coalition, KARP, that first Fallout EP with Peter Steele in 1982 before Type O Negative, and Harvey Milk are the most underrated bands I have come across. I hope this is useful for someone
There is a hidden track on the Unwritten Law CD, after the track 418, called Father, Father (I think) , that is in my mind the best thing they ever did. The drums are phenomenal, all of the instruments are done well, singing is on point, the song has a solid groove and it has changes in tempo. Like I said, I think it's the best thing they ever did!
I saw The Starting Line open up for Finn’s favorite band: Reel Big Fish
Always appreciate you carrying the torch for Unwritten Law, one of my faves
Bro! I love unwritten law! And they did get some AirPlay with up all night and seeing red rest of my life,save me. But I still feel like they never got the respect or credit that they deserve an awesome band! That I still blast on the regular!
sworn enemy never got the respect they deserved.
"save your breath" is amazing song.
God I remember the first time I heard teenage suicide by unwritten law and it hit me so goddamn hard
I'm just happy that Jimmy Eat World still make good music.
Back in the day a sworn enemy show at castle heights was a great place to get your face broken
First time I heard Unwritten Law was the video for “Save Me” from Here’s to the Morning in line for a roller coaster at Six Flags
I really dug The Starting Line's third album with Kenny embracing his curly hair for the first time. They had that acoustic album that was great as well that my late mother loved. Mark Trombino honestly has to be my all-time favorite producer in the music industry and he produced their first album. Just look at all the masterpiece albums he produced throughout the years including my all-time favorite album by Mineral, Endserenading. That will always be my favorite album until the day I die. He also produced Finch's debut, a bunch of Jimmy Eat World's best albums, and the underrated Denver Harbor album where 16 year old Ilan Rubin played amazing drums to the best pop-punk singer, Will Salazar on vocals. Oh and he produced Blink 182's Dude Ranch.
What It Is To Burn 🔥🔥🔥
mine is based on a true story. but directions is great too.
I still have a finch belt buckle I rock almost weekly. Lol! I still listen to Fenix TX (tearjerker) and Starting line gets rotation weekly as well. I loved anyways, but have been around since the very beginning. I heard startingline in my mall through the entire lobby at the start of the pandemic. Say it like you mean it. I'd say if you get played in the mall... like Jimmy eat world... you didn't flop.
It was a typo, dude meant he's THE shit... (I got your back kid 😂)
Nickelodeon UK tried to market The Starting Line as the next "boy band with instruments" over here as Busted and McFly were doing really well, but when their song played on the station it was at 6.59 and the feed cut to Turner Classic Movies as soon as the chorus hit at 7 😂 I remember being so annoyed. British kids tv stations had a weird time schedule back then.
Just knowing that Sworn Enemy is still putting out bangers makes me feel slightly less old...Gonna listen to SE, Mushmouth, and Terror for the rest of the day in a swoon of nostalgic, ignorant bliss...
I love pg bands then there needs to be more violin hardcore😂😂😂
At this point Unwritten Law should just change their name to "The Scott Russo Project". Its not even the same band anymore.
Wade looks so wasted
Literally saw Unwritten Law last week in Adelaide SA. Absolutely killed it.
saw them twice on this tour in the US. jealous you guys got Cailin too
Unwritten Law's 'the Celebration song' was in need for speed underground soundtrack. I still play 'rest of my life' in every acoustic guitar that cross my way. Great vid.
I’ll never forget watching a video of saves the day playing this is hardcore and a young person commented “is this title fight for old heads?”
Accurate
The Starting Line were so fucking good.
This is S-Tier Content right here.
Unwritten Law's acoustic album is soo good too
Man, I saw STD, when "Through Being Cool', was released, the shows were so damn fun. I miss there old tunes. I never got into them after 'Stay What You Are'. I still rock this cd, and 'Can't Slow Down'. Yes,, miss this look as well, I've never seen so many dudes who were so damn skinny, Seems like they would shop at the local thrift stores. Yes, Chris's voice def changed that's why I lost interests. But, 'RingPop' is a good track.
I saw Unwriitten Law In boston once with my girl at the time, what a great show. Of course Scott was trying to hit on my girl at the time, she had huge 36DD's but it is what it is. They were so good, wish I saw them when they were starting out though Journeys the show store at the mall plays videos as well. Search out for the track "Miltary Man'. It's a good unrelated track. There' self titled is my fav. After 'ELVA' I didn't care for them anymore.
Unwritten Law is timeless & phenomenal 🖤
I feel like Cartel deserves a mention along with these bands. Along with Motion City they kinda mastered the upbeat song with super depressing lyrics. Their albums rip though it sucks they never got bigger.
Dude, all the chicks went to scene shows back in the day regardless of what group at school they belonged to. If there was a scene band playing all the girls from every group were at that show. Scene/Screamo/Sass bands got all the babes.
Sound the alarm by saves the day in 2006 is amazing.
OMG I haven't thought about that Boston Beatdown video in forever. That dude getting stitches at his house is wild.
Unwritten Law are criminally underrated
Saves the Day is the shit. Absolute jam
I always felt like it was a crime that unwritten law wasn't bigger
Grew up in the same town as the STD guys and they were locally huge but then bands like NFG came along and just ate their lunch in terms of gaining popularity outside of the northeast. STD went too hard into Beatles-worship at a time when people wanted harder-edged music.The consistent lineup changes didn't help. They were literally called "the pop punk Menudo."
Unwritten Law are currently touring Australia going to a bunch of small cities that never get bands like Gosford on the Central Coast and Torquay in rural Victoria. I saw them on the Gold Coast. Small venue but packed out show. One of the best shows I have been to in the last 10 years
Stay What You Are is a masterpiece
TSL were so good, so many good songs from one band!