Here’s a quick recap previous installments: #50-41, #40-31, #30-21, & #20-11. Without further ado, here’s the very best of the decade… 10. With Love And Squalor – We Are Scientists The brilliance of With Love And Squalor might seem confusing at first. Everything clashes, but it sounds like noting clashes. That is to say, none [...]
Your Favorite Weapon – Brand New
Teens are a complicated lot. And while 2001′s Your Favorite Weapon was released when Brand New’s songwriter extraordinaire Jesse Lacey was in his early 20s, no album better encapsulates the raging emotions of that youthful time. Lacey’s lyrics read like an elaborately detailed diary (probably because it is) and his intense vocal delivery gets the [...]
Stay What You Are – Saves the Day
Here goes a rendition the classic music critic gripe: If the world was a “just” place (oh silly critics) Saves the Day would have the career of Fall Out Boy, only with way more credibility. 2001′s Stay What You Are is the most radio-ready emo album there is and it’s not even that close. It’s [...]
From Under the Cork Tree – Fall Out Boy
It’s easy to dismiss Fall Out Boy due to the over-saturation of coverage about them and their reliance, specifically Pete Wentz’s reliance, on image over substance. However, the album that made them the powerhouse that they are today, From Under the Cork Tree, is so finely crafted that it’s hard for even the most cynical [...]
Un Mas Dos – Straylight Run
Straylight Run is a band in a transitional period. With co-lead vocalist/instrumentalist Michelle DaRosa leaving the band to purse a solo career, the group has lost the most interesting aspect of its sound. After her departure the band has released the EP Un Mas Dos, which finds Straylight Run having morphed into a straightforward rock [...]
