One of my big goals for this year is to finish
listening to all the bands in Nothing Feels Good. It's not really that
it necessarily takes that long, but I do too many other things and forget about
it. It feels like I have been in Chapter 4 forever.
Chapter 4 has some good stuff. This is where we get
into Jimmy Eat World, whom I liked then, and The Get Up Kids, whom I saw
perform a great show just a few months ago. Besides them, the band making the
strongest impression on me is Christie Front Drive.
They already seem to have left a pretty big
impression on others; I still see mentions of them in odd places, though part
of the point of that time period is that these bands had a strong emotional
impact that wasn't going to fade away. That led me to listen to them early.
My first thought was that I liked them, and so I
didn't mark them off because I wanted to listen more. Then when I went back I
didn't like them as much, but I wondered if I was wrong. That's why I decided
to review them.
The issue appears to be that I like their later
stuff a lot more than their earlier stuff. This may seem like splitting hairs
when the lifespan of the band was really only about three or four years.
Nonetheless, I still like Stereo best. From Anthology, I prefer
the songs that were not on the First LP.
(The discography can be a little confusing because
they did a lot of splits, but these are the titles used by Spotify.)
The sound is a little fuzzy, and reminds me of
jangle in a way, though those two qualities don't get combined a lot. The
singing is incomprehensible to me, and plaintive to the point of whining. That
description does not sound likable, but there's something about it. This may
make Christie Front Drive the quintessential emo band.
They have had a couple of reunions in the past
decade. I don't know if they have plans for more, but I would take them up on
it.
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