Let me take you back to a year in history, when men were men, women were women, and all of us in high school were none of those things.
This song was played at every goddamn dance ever in high school. In fact, whenever I hear this song, I'm immediately swept away in a movie-style flashback to my prom. My prom sucked by the way. Not like the venue or anything like sucked. Just my experience in particular. Next.
This song re-exploded right around the time I was in high school. This was a pep rally/basketball game favorite. I remember actually having listened to it several years before it got really popular again, and being real angry about everyone acting like this thing was new and "in". I have very strong hipster tendencies. But as I've told my family, with hipsters the driving emotion is smugness, while mine is rage. Totally different. Pinky swear.
This one wasn't as popular with everybody, but had a particular special meaning for me. This is the song that I listened to about 40 times straight after a girl rejected me. A little unconventional rejection song, but it does a really good job of metaphoring. *Sniff*
And then this is the song that started my musical exploration into the world of distorted vocals. This started my journey into the worlds of the -core genres and progressive metal. Still is one of my favorite songs of all time.
This song was also all over the place when I was in high school. You couldn't go anywhere with anyone without hearing this goddamn song. Even my iPod couldn't resist. ; ) And yes this song is still on there.
@rambo @missy