Help Me Through The Hopeless Haze

Bands, and albums, that will never get old for me. Artists that have basically made me, me. And it still sticks true months after I wrote it. I don’t think this list is ever going to get even the tiniest change.

Although I took letlive off. I love them, and they’re freaking amazing, but they haven’t really changed my life other than every time I hear anything by them Fake History gets stuck in my head on repeat, and I gotta make EVERY effort to go see them whenever they’re close by, and they renewed my hope that not all music is going to be shit, but they didn’t change me like these other beautiful masterpieces did.

These are like, my babies. They’re gonna get unconditional lovin’ no matter what happens ever.

Alexisonfire

• Crisis
• Watch Out!
• Self titled

Always and forever will I love this band, and those three albums, more than anything.

Anberlin

• Blueprints For The Black Market
• Cities
• Never Take Friendship Personal

Their other stuff is pretty damn awesome too, but those three albums are like. Their prime stuff in my opinion. I really wish they’d go back on Tooth & Nail, or at least back to that sound.

Emery

• I’m Only A Man
• The Question
• The Weak’s End
• In Shallow Seas We Sail
• While Broken Hearts Prevails
• uhhhhhh, I’m just gonna go ahead and make it everything they’ve ever produced, I haven’t listened to their debut EP yet, but I’m almost sure I’ll love the shit out of that too.

I don’t think that they will ever disappoint me with anything ever. They’re too amazing, and my love for Toby Morrell probably would make me too blind to see that they should be disappointing me, if the impossible thing like that ever happens.

Haste The Day

• Pressure The Hinges
• When Everything Falls

Burning Bridges is a good album too, but I never did listen to it enough to make it something close to my heart like those two albums. I’m so sad I never got to see Haste before they called it quits, especially after they pumped out Wolf King. My god.

The Killers

• Hot Fuss

Really, like, I used to listen to this album on repeat. I bought it, and I was in love. I bought the deluxe version for the extra 3 songs, and I was so sad when they didn’t put anything else out for forever. And then Sams Town rolled around. I love that album too, but it’s no Hot Fuss. After Sams Town I didn’t much care for anymore of their music, but this album will alwaaaaaays be an inspiration to me.

Motion City Soundtrack

• Commit This To Memory
• Even If It Kills me
• I Am The Movie

There’s nothing against My Dinosaur Life, it’s an amazing album right along with everything else they’ve ever crafted, but again I just have no been listening to it anywhere near long enough/connected with it/had it connect with me on the level as the other three have. Back in the day, forever ago, Everything Is Alright was one of the very first songs I actually heard that got me into music, or into the music that I was going to like, instead of just listening to what my dad played over the radio. And I fell in love the very first drum beat I heard from that video.

Story of The Year

• Page Avenue

It sooooooooo throws me back to when I lived in Kentucky, just hangin’ with my best buds in their basement shooting pool, and playing video games, while bundeled up in super amounts of warm clothes, because cement basements aren’t very warm during the winter. Loving every second of it, randomly finding a thong down there that my friend had stolen from our lesbian friends hot sister, and then making fun of him to no end because of how creepy that was. Good freaking times. Nothings gonna bring’em back, but I love to reminisce. And this album fits perfectly right along with everything.

Norma Jean

• Bless The Martyr and Kiss The Child

This is the album that pushed me towards heavier music. I fell in love on first listen, and I’m sooo glad I did. If I didn’t have this album, then Motion City would have still been there to back me up with some form alternative/indie music I’m sure, but I still would not have had the experiences that I’ve had today without the heavy genre in my life I don’t think. It’s opened my mind to thinking, wanting to think more, wanting to make other people think as much as it’s made me think, made me a lot of what I am today. And I certainly owe a lot of that to Norma Jean.

I’m sure there are waaaaaaaay more albums that I’ve left unmentioned, but they’ve just been lost in time for now. One day someone will play a song, and I’ll be like, HOLY SHIT I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOO OLD BECAUSE THIS IS THROWBACK MUSIC, once again.

Bands that are going to steal my heart in the future?

• Bon Iver
• A Plea For Purging
• Oh, Sleeper
• William Fitzsimmons
• Minus The Bear
• Closure In Moscow
• City and Colour
• COPELAND

Now, Dallas Green has my heart, but his acoustic music I’ve only really been into fora couple years now. And although I love him more than possibly any other artist ever, I can’t go claiming that he’s on the same standards as Alexisonfire, or anything yet. But I got faith in my boy, and he’ll get there.