Daammmnn, I got chills when Sean came in with the violin. Never heard that song before. Listening to this whole album after this video. Thanks for making this
Lights and Sounds is my favorite Yellowcard album. Like, as much as my little emo heart loves Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds was just so different and hit so hard. How I Go is one of my favorite songs of all time. This video was phenomenal! Keep being awesome Alex!
I don't comment on things.. But bro Yellowcard has ALWAYS been my band. And always will be. You've been in my daily musical lineup for a few years now. I think I know a little more why your style connects with my taste of rock. Lights and Sounds was such a pivotal record to me being more than just a listener of music, but someone who wanted to be into the music. Yellowcard is just one of those bands I can lose myself in. With that being said... GIVE US FULL VERSIONS!!!!!! 😁
@@cadendenoudsten 100%. There's energy in his drumming that other drummers couldn't imitate. He drives the music forward. The other drummers were just playing to the click track.
My personal favorite Yellowcard album is Paper Walls. Ocean Ave and Lights and Sounds were both great, but Paper Walls just had those fuckin JAMS. Five Becomes Four, Takedown, Fighting, just so damn good. I was a bourgeoning drummer at the time as well, and that album really helped me find some new grooves and approaches. The drum solo in the middle of Light Up The Sky just makes me so happy. Thanks, Alex, I guess I'm jamming to Yellowcard for the rest of the day.
Alex all of your musical stylings match up with my formative years in music so well, this was a big deal for me in high school too. You should give Thrice a little bit of love on the channel I know it was part of your collection back then and maybe even now!
Lights and sounds is my favorite yellow card cd. It hit me at a perfect time and I wore it out. Still brings back such great memories. Dang near 20 years later.
This is awesome! Yellowcard is a band that is sorely underrated. Most people think of Ocean Avenue, the song, not even the whole album. Yet, Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds, Paper Walls, Southern Air... I mean, so many great albums!
Dude this was awesome. My first proper gig was Yellowcards 'Lights & Sounds' tour of Australia and I still get chills thinking back to them walking out on stage and that opening riff just blasting through the arena. Without a doubt my all time favourite band. Keep it up Alex 🤘
After the masterpiece that was Ocean Avenue, following it up with a banger like Lights and Sounds was when I knew this band was going to be incredible. As predicted, Yellowcard never failed to amaze with every subsequent record after that. Thanks for touching on these amazing, nostalgic songs and I hope that we get more YC content from you in the future!
I knew there was a reason I like you and your music so much. Lights and Sounds is one of my absolute all time favorites. This whole video is one big treat for me!
Circa 2011, Yellowcard got the opener slot at Warped Tour on Long Island. I could tell they were a little annoyed to be playing at 10:30AM given their caliber but not in a super entitled way. It took almost no time at all for a massive circle pit to form. The entire stage's dimensions replicated in front. Probably about 150 feet by 75 feet, so it was more of an oval. There was so much energy. I've been to a lot of concerts that couldn't match mid morning Yellowcard. They thanked us afterwards for being such an amazing crowd. I'll remember that set forever. Thanks for this video and for resurfacing that memory for me, Alex.
I've watched a lot of drummer videos on YT for the past 15+ years but never saw one done in this way. I remember as a kid liking just 3 songs off this album, but now I'm going to go back and listen again! Thanks!
This is my favorite band! I've always felt like Lights and Sounds was underrated because it sounded so different from Ocean Avenue. It's such a solid alt rock album and has some of the most emotion the band has ever shown!
This is the best video ever. Thanks for making this!!! Yellowcard is forever. Such an amazing band. Seen them in concert many times. Best concerts I’ve ever been to. Everyone in the crowd sings every word of every song.
This just brought me back. Yellowcard will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first band I found and fell in love with on my own. I was playing SSX 3, shredding down the mountain and then I heard it, Way Away. I was hooked immediately and went out and got Ocean Avenue and not long after Lights and Sounds. They were in constant rotation in my Discman. I was so excited for Paper Walls, but it was set to come out the summer of graduation. I was going to be in basic training. I was on MySpace constantly, listening the couple of songs they put out, trying my best to know every word before I left. The first thing I did when I graduated bmt, after my family left, was hit the BX, grab a cheap Walkman, the new PaperWalls CD, and I explore Lackland AFB and I was so happy. Every song in Paper Walls just hit and to this day it remains one of my favorite albums ever. Yellowcard played such a huge roll in my life
This comment section is crazy! At that time I felt I was the only one loving this band. Now I see we all felt the same thing listening to these albums, it's crazy and so overwhelming! I was in high school in France and like you I was checking MySpace everyday to listen to their new releases for Paper Walls. And I remember going at the store the day the album was supposed to come out. And they didn't freaking have it, I had to order it. I was so gutted! So when I came home I pirated it because I couldn't wait! Lol The choir in the song PaperWalls still gives me chill today
Holy moly Alex. This is one of your best videos. You've become such an accomplished drummer. Kudos! I'd love to see you do this for some other classic albums - Color and the Shape, Blue Album, Bleed American.
Loving this format. We're all just a bunch of dudes inspired by each other's creativity. Exploring these concepts that hook into our brains is exciting. It's not exactly nostalgia, but an appreciation of the foundation of our musical journeys.
Simple Girl. I see Yellowcard, I click... Uh I mean Alex Melton I click... Uh I mean.... Both! I saw Yellowcard in Tampa last year and they were still absolutely brilliant. Top 3 concerts of my life and I've been to a lot. If you're reading this folks, go see a show.
Yellowcard is one of my favorite bands of all time, and Lights and Sounds was so big for me too. I thought I'd never get the chance to see them live after 2016's farewell, but I just had the chance to see them this summer with Third Eye Blind, and man it was a teenage dream come true for me!
I was graduating high school when Ocean Avenue came out and it was an explosive album for me at the time. Lights and Sounds elevated everything about their sound. If there are core memories, then both these albums are core albums for me. Love your work!
Yellow card was the first band I ever saw live at summerfest in Milwaukee with Matchbook Romance opening up for them. Ocean Avenue was easily one of my favorite records and then lights and sounds came out and was obsessed for quite awhile. As a drummer LP3’s drumming was so unique and i drummed to all of ocean Avenue and L&S countless times in my basement. This video was amazing and brought me back to high school 🙌
Senior Year of high school. Riding around my hometown in my '96 Ford Explorer. This album on repeat. Yellowcard served as the soundtrack of my life back then, and their bangers are criminally underrated.
I didn't have a lot of friends that were really into Yellowcard when I was growing up, but I ATE UP their Ocean Avenue album. It was my daily listen. Something about the violin being involved, the guitars being sublime, and the drums were always banging, they had me coming back on the daily. After some time, this album is what helped me bond more with my younger sister. Our mutual love for this band has continued to grow and we were able to catch them live in concert last year. I have never lost my voice after yelling at a concert as I did at this one. It was incredible! All the love goes out to Yellowcard!
I remember got a copy of this amazing album in a grocery store at Ajman UAE back in 2008 and from that day on it was on a loop in our playlist. We love each song from this album most especially “How I Go” it holds a special place in my heart forever.. We’re so mesmerized in every aspect of the song, admire the storytelling and it’s 1 of our many favorite Yellowcard songs. Remembering my late wife… She was a huge / #1 YC fan. Ohh God.. I Truly Missed her. I dedicate “View From Heaven” for her.
You've gone to a huge amount of effort to make this, I got chills. PLEASE release a cover album of Lights and Sounds, I'm begging you! 😂 I need to hear the whole songs. Amazing.
LP's ability to take a straight 16th note snare fill and turn it into such a beautifully dynamic and musical tool set me on a path to really learn how to FEEL drums. You can take something incredibly simple and add so much more feeling with accents and dynamics that it completely changes everything about the way it sounds and the emotion it evokes when heard. I used to think that only tonal instruments could manipulate the feel of the music that way by playing different sets of notes like minor, major, diminished, etc... It's hard to explain to non musicians, but I'm sure there's other drummers here that understand what I'm talking about.
No backflip during violin.... 4 out of 5 stars. Also, LP3 is definitely one of the drummers i've modeled my own playing after over the years. I must have played their live DVD over and over when i was in high school just so i could mimic everything he did. Great vid again Alex!
I'm a classically trained musician who is highly interested in musicology and is a lifelong pop punk/alt rock girlie. This kid of video really scratches my brain in all the right ways. I'd love to see more like this!
I didn't hear of YC until about 2007, I was a Junior in HS, and to this day it's still my favorite album of theirs and my second favorite album of all time. Paper Walls takes the first spot. Linkin Park and Yellowcard are my all-time top 2 bands, and this album will always hit. As a drummer, this was a fun watch. ✨✨ I haven't listened to it front to back in a hot minute, so off I go to listen to the whole thang... :P
Holy crap man! Absolutely unreal that you got to jam with Sean! This album was also a huge inspiration for me in High School. It’s one of those albums that when I’m doom skipping all the tracks in my library I always stop on anything from Lights and Sounds. It never fails to bring the good feels.
Phenomenal video! I myself have been very influenced by YC and LP3. Paper Walls made a huge impact on me back in 2008. In particular the whole drum arrangement of Shadows and Regrets. The Lights and Sounds album was impactful as well. Their entire catalogue with Ryan Key (7 albums and 2 EP's) are excellent, EVERYTHING. I will not take the Lift A Sail slander, that is a fantastic album, some of y'all just aren't ready for it yet. Sure, it's missing LP, but you can admit those weren't even suitable for him. It's a mellow mid tempo record that is freakin great.
Hey Alex, this is awesome! Actually going to see YC tomorrow night...for the 18th time since 2004. Hope they play a few songs off this album. It was definitely one of my favorites.
"Lights And Sounds" is my favorite album from Yellowcard, LP's drumming still is very inspirational for me as a drummer, you can tell his drums elevate every song to another level without complicating stuff
Yellowcard from their earliest EPs to their last studio albums showed some of the most drastic evolution of any band. They're a really fun band to do a full discography revisit on.
My word, now I need to go listen to that album again. Take me straight back to pretty formative late high school years there. I forgot how much I loved that album
Lights and Sounds (the song specifically) has a very special place in my heart as well because I was learning guitar via Ocean Avenue 10 years ago and hadn’t heard anything from Lights and Sounds before. So when I turned on the album for the first time and was met with that guitar riff to open things up I was blown away. Still one of my favorite riffs to play. Went on to see Yellowcard play a number of times and Sean Mackin commented on a post of mine when I was reviewing their self titled album back in 2016 when they first called it quits. So cool to see LP3 and Sean play some role in this video. Those guys are so amazing musically and just such kind people.
Yellowcard got grouped in with pop punk, but I always considered them in the alt rock/emo corner. Their early-mid aughts sound had way more in common with saves the day, dashboard, american rejects, and the promise ring than pop punk bands of that day or the 90s.
I have always been super partial to LP’s drumming on Martin Sheen or JFK in this album. The chorus is so simple but so god damn effective. Amazing drummer.
It was wild enough to find someone that loved Lights and Sounds as much as I do, but on top of that, someone that had a Chevy Blazer in High School. Absolutely wild.
Massive Yellowcard fan here. They will always be a truly amazing band, no matter what. For me, Paper Walls is their best album ! But ofcourse I also love Ocean Avenue, Lights & Sounds, WYTSY and so on. However, Lift A Sail was where it went down a bit. It's a good album but the previous ones were so much better.
Chevy Blazer was my high school chariot as well! Constantly had problems and taught me a lot about cars. But it was great for getting my friends around town. Had a sub in the back that made that Lights and Sounds album oh so sweet... until I realized there were other things to do back there with the seats down (giggity) and the sub took up too much space lol.
Anyone else notice the faces in the “down on my head” part? When emulating LPIII Alex has a face of determination and when throwing his own version out there his face is so much more emotional and like… fearful or hopeful?
LP is tied for my favorite drummer with Zac Farro. Yellowcard is still good, but sounded and felt differently after he left. He brought a frantic energy that can't easily be topped.
Sean's recording of him playin violin in his bathroom is peak yellowcard
Legendary, they’re on tour RIGHT NOW so it’s especially nice for him to take the time and do this 🙏
@@AlexMelton the pop punk revolution happening right now is crazy, Love to see it
@@TheFlyWhisperer1 me too! when something corporate announced their comeback I shed real tears. alt rock & pop punk never will die
Daammmnn, I got chills when Sean came in with the violin. Never heard that song before. Listening to this whole album after this video. Thanks for making this
It's a great album, but Ocean Avenue was my absolute favorite album! Go give that a listen!
Lights and Sounds is my favorite Yellowcard album. Like, as much as my little emo heart loves Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds was just so different and hit so hard. How I Go is one of my favorite songs of all time.
This video was phenomenal!
Keep being awesome Alex!
I don't comment on things.. But bro Yellowcard has ALWAYS been my band. And always will be. You've been in my daily musical lineup for a few years now. I think I know a little more why your style connects with my taste of rock. Lights and Sounds was such a pivotal record to me being more than just a listener of music, but someone who wanted to be into the music. Yellowcard is just one of those bands I can lose myself in.
With that being said... GIVE US FULL VERSIONS!!!!!! 😁
Please more Yellowcard content Alex!!!
This was incredible. Paper Walls deserves a breakdown too
Cut Me, Mic is a banger.
Yes!
@@nmbr1ctrmantop 3 YC song
By far my favorite YC album, probably top 5 emo albums of all time for me
@@nmbr1ctrman One of my favorites in their entire discography. And The Takedown is a hell of a way to start an album.
Yellowcard stayed good throughout their entire discography. Never felt like they dropped off
I’d mostly agree, but after LP3 left, some of the ✨magic✨ was missing.
@@cadendenoudsten 100%. There's energy in his drumming that other drummers couldn't imitate. He drives the music forward. The other drummers were just playing to the click track.
@@cadendenoudsten at which record was he missing?
@@huhndaking777 he left between Southern Air and Lift a Sail
absolutely
Still fangirling over this one!!! Lights and sounds forever 🥰💕
Been listening since ever and into forever!
My personal favorite Yellowcard album is Paper Walls. Ocean Ave and Lights and Sounds were both great, but Paper Walls just had those fuckin JAMS. Five Becomes Four, Takedown, Fighting, just so damn good. I was a bourgeoning drummer at the time as well, and that album really helped me find some new grooves and approaches. The drum solo in the middle of Light Up The Sky just makes me so happy.
Thanks, Alex, I guess I'm jamming to Yellowcard for the rest of the day.
100%. The first time I heard the opening groove in afraid and the open hi-hat accents along with the kick pattern, something changed in my brain.
Paper walls is a piece of music magic. I'll never forget listening to it as a 15 year old for the first time. Best yc album hands down.
Paper Walls has some of the best album art, ever. The front/back concept is so great.
I freaking love this series, I need more please. MORE.
Bro, such a good album! LP's drum choices are so tasteful 🔥
Alex all of your musical stylings match up with my formative years in music so well, this was a big deal for me in high school too. You should give Thrice a little bit of love on the channel I know it was part of your collection back then and maybe even now!
Criminally underrated. The album is incredible. Great stuff.
Every time I watch one of your videos, I want to play drums more often. Love that.
Lights and sounds is my favorite yellow card cd. It hit me at a perfect time and I wore it out. Still brings back such great memories. Dang near 20 years later.
Southern Air is MY Yellowcard album. It's so underrated. One of their most pop-punk albums but so many instant classics on it.
It was a breath of fresh air when it came out.
Ten kills me every time. Such a pure emotion bleeds through.
Yeah southern air is mine too
This is awesome! Yellowcard is a band that is sorely underrated. Most people think of Ocean Avenue, the song, not even the whole album.
Yet, Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds, Paper Walls, Southern Air... I mean, so many great albums!
You got Sean!!!
i love these album deep dives, you cover them so well
This is so good! We also need more YC covers on your Spotify! (Loved this half time version you did)
HUGE Yellowcard fan here. Thanks so much Alex for this incredible video. You are mega-talented!
Thanks for making me smile watching this. Seriously such nice moments of joy you and Yellowcard bring
Dude this was awesome.
My first proper gig was Yellowcards 'Lights & Sounds' tour of Australia and I still get chills thinking back to them walking out on stage and that opening riff just blasting through the arena.
Without a doubt my all time favourite band. Keep it up Alex 🤘
After the masterpiece that was Ocean Avenue, following it up with a banger like Lights and Sounds was when I knew this band was going to be incredible. As predicted, Yellowcard never failed to amaze with every subsequent record after that. Thanks for touching on these amazing, nostalgic songs and I hope that we get more YC content from you in the future!
I knew there was a reason I like you and your music so much. Lights and Sounds is one of my absolute all time favorites. This whole video is one big treat for me!
Love Yellowcard, one of my favorite albums. AND YOU GOT FRICKIN SEAN DUDE
Circa 2011, Yellowcard got the opener slot at Warped Tour on Long Island. I could tell they were a little annoyed to be playing at 10:30AM given their caliber but not in a super entitled way. It took almost no time at all for a massive circle pit to form. The entire stage's dimensions replicated in front. Probably about 150 feet by 75 feet, so it was more of an oval. There was so much energy. I've been to a lot of concerts that couldn't match mid morning Yellowcard. They thanked us afterwards for being such an amazing crowd. I'll remember that set forever. Thanks for this video and for resurfacing that memory for me, Alex.
I've watched a lot of drummer videos on YT for the past 15+ years but never saw one done in this way. I remember as a kid liking just 3 songs off this album, but now I'm going to go back and listen again! Thanks!
This is my favorite band! I've always felt like Lights and Sounds was underrated because it sounded so different from Ocean Avenue. It's such a solid alt rock album and has some of the most emotion the band has ever shown!
Great breakdown of what makes them special. His drumming on Paper Walls was super influential on how I play drums. afraid and fighting especially.
This is the best video ever. Thanks for making this!!! Yellowcard is forever. Such an amazing band. Seen them in concert many times. Best concerts I’ve ever been to. Everyone in the crowd sings every word of every song.
This just brought me back. Yellowcard will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first band I found and fell in love with on my own. I was playing SSX 3, shredding down the mountain and then I heard it, Way Away. I was hooked immediately and went out and got Ocean Avenue and not long after Lights and Sounds. They were in constant rotation in my Discman. I was so excited for Paper Walls, but it was set to come out the summer of graduation. I was going to be in basic training. I was on MySpace constantly, listening the couple of songs they put out, trying my best to know every word before I left. The first thing I did when I graduated bmt, after my family left, was hit the BX, grab a cheap Walkman, the new PaperWalls CD, and I explore Lackland AFB and I was so happy. Every song in Paper Walls just hit and to this day it remains one of my favorite albums ever. Yellowcard played such a huge roll in my life
This comment section is crazy! At that time I felt I was the only one loving this band. Now I see we all felt the same thing listening to these albums, it's crazy and so overwhelming!
I was in high school in France and like you I was checking MySpace everyday to listen to their new releases for Paper Walls. And I remember going at the store the day the album was supposed to come out. And they didn't freaking have it, I had to order it. I was so gutted! So when I came home I pirated it because I couldn't wait! Lol
The choir in the song PaperWalls still gives me chill today
Holy moly Alex. This is one of your best videos. You've become such an accomplished drummer. Kudos! I'd love to see you do this for some other classic albums - Color and the Shape, Blue Album, Bleed American.
I love these types of videos SO much!!
Awesome video Alex, and so cool to have the band still contributing and kicking ass after all these years. I have and will always love them.
Man, 2006 was the peak of early 2000s music.
I think 2003-2006 were my favorite music years. Almost everything I listen to is still that.
Loving this format. We're all just a bunch of dudes inspired by each other's creativity. Exploring these concepts that hook into our brains is exciting. It's not exactly nostalgia, but an appreciation of the foundation of our musical journeys.
super sick!! also one of my favorite albums. cool you connected with the band members for this video :D
Yooo that's awesome!! Keep on killing it, Melton! LAS is one of the best records ever ❤
Such a great video and a good chance to revisit an album I haven't listened to in a while.
Your passion is infectious ❤
Thanks for posting this one bro
Simple Girl. I see Yellowcard, I click... Uh I mean Alex Melton I click... Uh I mean.... Both! I saw Yellowcard in Tampa last year and they were still absolutely brilliant. Top 3 concerts of my life and I've been to a lot. If you're reading this folks, go see a show.
Absolutely iconic album and I miss LP3 so much in Yellowcard.
I tried to like it twice!! Great job as always Alex, thank you.
Yellowcard is one of my favorite bands of all time, and Lights and Sounds was so big for me too. I thought I'd never get the chance to see them live after 2016's farewell, but I just had the chance to see them this summer with Third Eye Blind, and man it was a teenage dream come true for me!
I was graduating high school when Ocean Avenue came out and it was an explosive album for me at the time. Lights and Sounds elevated everything about their sound. If there are core memories, then both these albums are core albums for me. Love your work!
Yellow card was the first band I ever saw live at summerfest in Milwaukee with Matchbook Romance opening up for them. Ocean Avenue was easily one of my favorite records and then lights and sounds came out and was obsessed for quite awhile. As a drummer LP3’s drumming was so unique and i drummed to all of ocean Avenue and L&S countless times in my basement. This video was amazing and brought me back to high school 🙌
Senior Year of high school. Riding around my hometown in my '96 Ford Explorer. This album on repeat. Yellowcard served as the soundtrack of my life back then, and their bangers are criminally underrated.
I didn't have a lot of friends that were really into Yellowcard when I was growing up, but I ATE UP their Ocean Avenue album. It was my daily listen. Something about the violin being involved, the guitars being sublime, and the drums were always banging, they had me coming back on the daily. After some time, this album is what helped me bond more with my younger sister. Our mutual love for this band has continued to grow and we were able to catch them live in concert last year. I have never lost my voice after yelling at a concert as I did at this one. It was incredible! All the love goes out to Yellowcard!
I remember got a copy of this amazing album in a grocery store at Ajman UAE back in 2008 and from that day on it was on a loop in our playlist. We love each song from this album most especially “How I Go” it holds a special place in my heart forever.. We’re so mesmerized in every aspect of the song, admire the storytelling and it’s 1 of our many favorite Yellowcard songs. Remembering my late wife… She was a huge / #1 YC fan. Ohh God.. I Truly Missed her.
I dedicate “View From Heaven” for her.
You've gone to a huge amount of effort to make this, I got chills. PLEASE release a cover album of Lights and Sounds, I'm begging you! 😂 I need to hear the whole songs. Amazing.
LP's ability to take a straight 16th note snare fill and turn it into such a beautifully dynamic and musical tool set me on a path to really learn how to FEEL drums. You can take something incredibly simple and add so much more feeling with accents and dynamics that it completely changes everything about the way it sounds and the emotion it evokes when heard. I used to think that only tonal instruments could manipulate the feel of the music that way by playing different sets of notes like minor, major, diminished, etc... It's hard to explain to non musicians, but I'm sure there's other drummers here that understand what I'm talking about.
I've always said they just got better with each record. Such a fantastic group.
No backflip during violin.... 4 out of 5 stars. Also, LP3 is definitely one of the drummers i've modeled my own playing after over the years. I must have played their live DVD over and over when i was in high school just so i could mimic everything he did. Great vid again Alex!
love the hand over hand roll fill, so good, i remember it well
I've seen YC last year, sounds so freaking awesome live!
I'm a classically trained musician who is highly interested in musicology and is a lifelong pop punk/alt rock girlie. This kid of video really scratches my brain in all the right ways. I'd love to see more like this!
I didn't hear of YC until about 2007, I was a Junior in HS, and to this day it's still my favorite album of theirs and my second favorite album of all time. Paper Walls takes the first spot. Linkin Park and Yellowcard are my all-time top 2 bands, and this album will always hit. As a drummer, this was a fun watch. ✨✨ I haven't listened to it front to back in a hot minute, so off I go to listen to the whole thang... :P
Yellowcard will always be my favorite band.
You are amazing brother! The world needs a male country cover of That's What You Get by Paramore!!!
Holy crap man! Absolutely unreal that you got to jam with Sean! This album was also a huge inspiration for me in High School. It’s one of those albums that when I’m doom skipping all the tracks in my library I always stop on anything from Lights and Sounds. It never fails to bring the good feels.
I literally bought my first guitar a week after hearing Lights and Sounds for the first time. That album changed my life.
The covers are great, but these are my favorite types of videos. Please make more of these
Phenomenal video! I myself have been very influenced by YC and LP3. Paper Walls made a huge impact on me back in 2008. In particular the whole drum arrangement of Shadows and Regrets. The Lights and Sounds album was impactful as well. Their entire catalogue with Ryan Key (7 albums and 2 EP's) are excellent, EVERYTHING. I will not take the Lift A Sail slander, that is a fantastic album, some of y'all just aren't ready for it yet. Sure, it's missing LP, but you can admit those weren't even suitable for him. It's a mellow mid tempo record that is freakin great.
Hey Alex, this is awesome! Actually going to see YC tomorrow night...for the 18th time since 2004. Hope they play a few songs off this album. It was definitely one of my favorites.
"Lights And Sounds" is my favorite album from Yellowcard, LP's drumming still is very inspirational for me as a drummer, you can tell his drums elevate every song to another level without complicating stuff
Every Album of Yellowcard is a Gem.
Love this band! I hope they make another album.
Yellowcard from their earliest EPs to their last studio albums showed some of the most drastic evolution of any band. They're a really fun band to do a full discography revisit on.
My word, now I need to go listen to that album again. Take me straight back to pretty formative late high school years there. I forgot how much I loved that album
Lights & Sounds has always been my favorite Yellowcard album and it's so good to see it get the love it deserves.
I love Yellowcard's self-titled album, culmination of years of experience and passion. New stuff is fun, too.
Lights and Sounds (the song specifically) has a very special place in my heart as well because I was learning guitar via Ocean Avenue 10 years ago and hadn’t heard anything from Lights and Sounds before. So when I turned on the album for the first time and was met with that guitar riff to open things up I was blown away. Still one of my favorite riffs to play. Went on to see Yellowcard play a number of times and Sean Mackin commented on a post of mine when I was reviewing their self titled album back in 2016 when they first called it quits.
So cool to see LP3 and Sean play some role in this video. Those guys are so amazing musically and just such kind people.
GREAT stuff man, I'm a big fan of that genera of music; Yellowcard, The Spill Canvas, Relient K, even some of Plain White T's stuff!
Oh man, this hits all kinds of nostalgia. Thank you 🙏
Yellowcard got grouped in with pop punk, but I always considered them in the alt rock/emo corner. Their early-mid aughts sound had way more in common with saves the day, dashboard, american rejects, and the promise ring than pop punk bands of that day or the 90s.
so cool!!
love this!
THIS ALBUM DOES NOT GET TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH!!! Amazing album
I have always been super partial to LP’s drumming on Martin Sheen or JFK in this album. The chorus is so simple but so god damn effective. Amazing drummer.
LP III is incredible. His dad was a professional drummer and LP started playing with his band at the age of 3!
The drumming on their following album Paper Walls may be even better. Would love if you did a video on that one too!
LPIII Has some of the most fun parts I think I've ever played.
Watched this. And now i’m having a Lights and Sounds nostalgia day today
Saw them in St. Louis a few weeks ago. Felt like a teenager again. It was amazing!
As a lifelong Lights and Sounds apologist, I'm thrilled that this album is getting it's flowers from Alex Melton.
It was wild enough to find someone that loved Lights and Sounds as much as I do, but on top of that, someone that had a Chevy Blazer in High School. Absolutely wild.
Massive Yellowcard fan here. They will always be a truly amazing band, no matter what. For me, Paper Walls is their best album ! But ofcourse I also love Ocean Avenue, Lights & Sounds, WYTSY and so on. However, Lift A Sail was where it went down a bit. It's a good album but the previous ones were so much better.
Every one of their albums is great, but this one is a banger from start to finish!
Chevy Blazer was my high school chariot as well! Constantly had problems and taught me a lot about cars. But it was great for getting my friends around town. Had a sub in the back that made that Lights and Sounds album oh so sweet... until I realized there were other things to do back there with the seats down (giggity) and the sub took up too much space lol.
Dude! I just saw them (YELLOWCARD) with Third Eye Blind and A R I Z O N A this past weekend at Pine Knob! They still got it!
Still have LP's drumstick I caught at warped tour a looong time ago. Got him to sign it later, great memories. Always a special band to me.
Love the playing as usual, but the commentary and perspective is really rad
Anyone else notice the faces in the “down on my head” part? When emulating LPIII Alex has a face of determination and when throwing his own version out there his face is so much more emotional and like… fearful or hopeful?
Can we also just talk about that guitar tone you played at the start of Lights & Sound - big taking back sunday vibes!
LP3 needs to come back. He was absolutely incredible.
Just saw them in concert in Minneapolis! My girlfriend got me tickets for my birthday (: sounded amazing and seem like a good bunch of people.
LP is tied for my favorite drummer with Zac Farro. Yellowcard is still good, but sounded and felt differently after he left. He brought a frantic energy that can't easily be topped.
LOVED this album
Lights & Sounds and Paper Walls are it for me, best YC albums.
This was fun- watching you have fun!
I *need* a full cover of Down on My Head. One of my fav Yellowcard songs.