Stay What You Are

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 33:36

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My favorite band!!

jlemus28

Saves The Day is by far my Favorite band, I have been following them since their first album, They are amazing and this album is amazing!

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Genius

Bah

Pop pop pop. I wanted to hate this so bad... but can't. I'm not a huge "pop punk/emo" fan, but his.. this is special. It's so good. So catchy. try not sing along...try.... won't happen.

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Not my favorite, but... 4/5

logic1000

First off, I shouldn't like these guys. The lyrics and vocal delivery are soooo emo, and some songs are nothing special. However, #s 1, 3, and 6 make the album worth listening to. It's really a shame that eMusic doesn't have "In Reverie" because that's BY FAR their best album IMO.

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An excellent album

selene784

This is the album that got me into Saves the Day, the very first I ever heard by them, and still my absolute favorite. Check out "This is Not an Exit" or "Cars and Calories," my favorite tracks on this record.

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Punk rock finally smiled during the late ’90s and into the millennium, thanks to the bands like New Found Glory, Sum 41, and countless other TRL mainstays. New Jersey’s own Saves the Day play with post-punk stylings on their third album, Stay What You Are. More mature compared to 1999′s Through Being Cool, Stay What You Are mixes emocore delight with post-grunge snarl, and Saves the Day’s harmonies are jaunty and tight. But the album is also quite dark and grim; they stay close to the anger found in punk in the first place. Album opener “At Your Funeral” pauses at the idea of death of a peer. Frontman Chris Conley’s boyish vocals project a façade of sweet, bouncy sounds, practically glossy and sheer. The bleak descriptions found on “Jukebox Breakdown” and “Nightingale” capture the grittiest three-chord riffs and Saves the Day’s highest artistic moment yet. They’re bittersweet from love, and self-discovery is most pertinent. They want to avoid such loss, and “All I’m Losing Is Me” suggests that. Saves the Day is conscious of what’s affecting their generation, post Generation-X, and they’re asking thousands of questions. Stay What You Are yearns to fight the compromise within social standards and complies with bit of self-indulgence. – MacKenzie Wilson

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