So I got the idea to do a series of blogs based on a Facebook meme that just recently started floating around again. The rules are as follows:
The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends,including me, because I'm interested in seeing what albums my friends choose.
Blah, blah, blah.... So anyway, I thought I'd turn into a blog series, 1 album every couple of days, with an explanation of what makes it important to me and why you should own it if you don't already.
We'll start with an easy one: Brand New's Deja Entendu.
Everyone's who's going to read this probably already has it and has their own reasons for loving it, so for me, it was most importantly a turning point in my musical evolution. I still remember the day I went out and bought it--not the exact date or anything, but I do remember how it all went down. I bought it at Best Buy along with Alien Ant Farm's second album. I had seen the video for The Quiet Things that No One Ever Knows and thought it was pretty cool. But after the day that I brought that album home, I think listened to that Alien Ant Farm album start-to-finish maybe once, and from then on I was hunting for music in a new direction.
Everyone who loves this album thinks each track was written just for them. Which speaks to the simultaneously personal yet universal nature of Deja. It was uncompromising in its effort to evolve from the old Brand New Sound, yet still very catchy and accessible. Some of my favorite memories from high school are of me and my friends belting out the lyrics of Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't while driving around Fort Worth.
Let me know some of your favorite Brand New related memories in the comments.
those were the days :]
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