There's nothing quite like the vulnerability of the adolescent emotional spectrum. I think that's why music installs itself in our early-teen hearts and souls and stays with us, the music we identify with, for the rest of our lives. On that note, the song that never fails to bring me back there...
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows by Brand New.
I... can't even describe what this song does to my guts when I listen to it now. It's like I'm 15 again, confused and awesome; short, stupid-looking haircut, my Chuck Taylors barely broken in. At that age it's like everything is the worst thing ever, you just hate it all, but you just want someone to listen to you complain about it. I have those angsty years to thank for my foray into blogging, my ability to articulate my feelings, and my colorful vernacular with which I dish out the goods. We're all starved for absolution in our teens, we just want to suffer out loud, and my rush of hormonal emotionality was answered with this album,
this song.
I used to dance, punch, there were hand motions, whenever I listened to it, and it never really went away. I can accept now that the entire album is the most melodramatic cry for help possibly since the dawn of time, but for me it was like emo crack. Now it still leaves the bittersweet sting of that epically mundane time in my life on the end of my tongue.
The hard drives in our brains are wired for different frequencies as we get older, and while I'm
so glad to be ten years past that time in my life, I'm at the same time overjoyed at how I spent it, diving headlong into everything I felt.
Happiness was elation. Sadness was abysmal destitution. Love was rapture. To have a key to this part of my past is something I'd never pass up, which is why I have to bust this single out every so often and remember.
Do you have a song that instantly transports you to a place in your past, leaving you laughing, crying, or more?
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This song still makes my heart skip a beat or two. It's in my top five musical memories, for sure.
God, I still love this song.
Sounds like Brand New played a similar role in our lives. Brand New is still my favorite band and anytime I listen it's like a one-way ticket to high school memories.
For those who like this song (and Dashboard) check out "The Quiet Screaming" by Legion of Doom if you haven't already.
I love you for saying "for me it was like emo crack". I laughed too hard at that. And I agree on what this song does. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot by Brand New does it for me too. Oh the teenage years. :p
OH-EM-GEE. I love this album.
*sings* So keep the blood in your head, and keep your feet on the ground....
@wonderchica22@xanga - I will totally do that! Thanks for the recommendation! :)
omg...now i'm gonna wanna go listen to this album again and be emo...i loved this album..was totally my high school soundtrack.
@faerie_dustx - I literally wrote an entry like two days ago with lyrics from Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot. LOVE. THAT. SONG.
i love this song so muchhhhhhhhh
Great post. This song was and always is a longstanding favourite. I think you nailed my failed pretty accurately. Good post
Yes! I love Brand New and this is my favourite song by them.
I love this song and adore the entire album. It's on my top 10 favorite albums of all time.
Actually, it's weird you mention it. Because I've kind of been on a Brand New kick recently.
kdfjghfdgb yes I adore Brand New! I should start listening to them again :)
I binged on a bunch of Third Eye Blind and Eve 6 my freshman year of college, so now whenever I heard those songs, I am taken back to when I was 18 and so, so stupid >.
Oh, and Wonderwall. I think I listened to that song ten times a day when the second boy I fell in love with broke my heart.
Ach, I have never heard of them. But the band that does that for me is Linkin Park, and the album is Hybrid Theory. I was very, very quiet and repressed as a teenager until my senior year of HS when this album came out. Listening to it for the first time was an emotional revelation...I realized that I had LOT OF STUFF bubbling beneath the placid surface that I needed to let out. And I realized that I was pissed off about a lot of things and needed to explore my anger a bit. I still love that album, every song on it. Takes me back :)
LOVE. brand new
Yes! I love this song. That album really spoke to me in my teenage years too. Still love it for that reason.
This song brings me back too. I still listen to it on a regular basis. Makes me remember my middle school days. Brand new is still and will always be my fabourite band. :)
LOVE BRAND NEW.
Deja Entendu/God and Devil are Raging were the last albums I bought. It's been forever.All of Brand New is beautiful.
Oh I miss this song (:
Love that album.
I have a few from back in the day that rev'd me up to punch walls...so know if i'm upset and i listen to them, it's more a music therapy session...i don't punch walls anymore, but listening to that certain song helps me get through it all a little.
Okay, I believe you but my tommy gun don't.
I love this CD. Brings me back to being 15. "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot" was like, THE song that pretty much got me through/described the falling out between me and my best friend at the time. My bf and I were just listening to a couple songs from this CD today. I may be 22, but this is still good stuff. I think because it HAS years of emotion attached to it. I'll always love the bands from my angsty teenage years...