Bands who never lived up to that first song....

[3GunGaz]

Any bands who you were blown away by upon first hearing a song... Then for you they never managed to outdo that song?

For me - Funeral For a Friend and 'This Year's Most Open Heartbreak'

It just came on shuffle which made me think about it haha.

Also that doesn't necessarily mean you don't like the band - FFAF are alright!

[MickShamrock]

Completely agree. That was the first song I ever heard by them. Their Ep's were so good. The albums are alright, but haven't been the same for me.

[tottivillarossi]

Any bands who you were blown away by upon first hearing a song... Then for you they never managed to outdo that song?

For me - Funeral For a Friend and 'This Year's Most Open Heartbreak'

It just came on shuffle which made me think about it haha.

Also that doesn't necessarily mean you don't like the band - FFAF are alright!
If you think This Year's... is better than Escape Artists Never Die - it's your opinion fair enough - but YOU'RE WRONG.


Two songs from each of Between Order and Four Ways ended up on Casually Dressed though.

[love_american_style]

so many bands...but FFAF aren't one of them in my opinion. I've never been dissapointed in them.

[voncorn]

The Fall of Troy - Whacko Jacko Steals The Elephant Man's Bones

Aside from that song, fuck that entire band's discography.

[LaDiabla]

Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance

[sasalukac]

off the top of my head...

fear before - fear before doesn't listen to people who don't like them

[pattyd86]

Anything for Saosin after "Translating the Name"- talk about an album that let you down...I don't listen to them anymore but that struck me the most haha

[lonelysuperstar]

Emery - Walls

[MickShamrock]

Emery - Walls

This was the first song I heard by them and instantly liked. Disappointed after that!

[pattyd86]

AH MAN! how can you guys not like that entire Emery album??...incredibly depressing but I dug it...

BUT- it's all a matter of opinion!

[MADSTA]

The Spill Canvas - All Hail The Heartbreaker
I know there are a bunch more, but they've escaped me.

[3GunGaz]

Emery - Walls

Crazy I thought that too!!

I just COULDN'T get into them although I love that song..

I also like 'it doesn't feeeeeel right, holding someone else's hand' - I don't know the name..

[Chino In The AM]

ive thoroughly enjoyed every Emery album thus far...

[Chino In The AM]

Crazy I thought that too!!

I just COULDN'T get into them although I love that song..

I also like 'it doesn't feeeeeel right, holding someone else's hand' - I don't know the name..

ponytail parades.

[calciumwaste]

The Fall of Troy - Whacko Jacko Steals The Elephant Man's Bones

Aside from that song, fuck that entire band's discography.
agreed 100%. i love that one song, but that CD seriously gives me headaches.

[Hey Kevin]

mgmt has some really catchy song, i think it is called Kids, but other than that...shit

[Inches&Falling]

mgmt has some really catchy song, i think it is called Kids, but other than that...shit
I also liked time to pretend by mgmt but the other songs definitely aren't as good.

[hailthewarrior]

angels and airwaves - the adventure

and even it got old after hearing it on the radio all the time for a year.

[what_ever]

I also liked time to pretend by mgmt but the other songs definitely aren't as good.

Crazy I thought that too!!

I just COULDN'T get into them although I love that song..

I also like 'it doesn't feeeeeel right, holding someone else's hand' - I don't know the name..

these

[Burn That Shit]

Finch.

[E5CAP3 ART15T]

Finch.

which Finch song? What It Is To Burn was an incredible album but Say Hello to Sunshine wasn't as good but still good!

[wewascontenders]

protest the hero - turn soonest to the sea

[mel bell]

this one will be random
but Ashley Parker Angel with Let U Go. I mean, it was a decently good pop song in my opinion and like, I mean he had a freaking show on MTV getting everyone all hyped up about him making his "come back." Some come back...for about 5 seconds? What happened??

[MattRM]

For me, You Me & Everyone We Know. The first song I heard was Livin Th' Dream and holy shit, I was absolutely blown away. Don't get me wrong, their other songs and their newest EP are good, but they haven't topped Livin Th' Dream yet for me.

[Broclee]

I'm gonna echo the MGMT comments. I loved Time to Pretend, but that album was shit.

['59]

I agree with MGMT.
Also, for me, Silversun Pickups (Lazy Eye).

[Broclee]

I agree with MGMT.
Also, for me, Silversun Pickups (Lazy Eye).
Ohhh, yeah. I mean, Carnavas was a good album, but none of the other songs grabbed me like Lazy Eye.

[Paulb-182]

Angels and Airwaves - The Adventure

[oddwithoutend]

mgmt has some really catchy song, i think it is called Kids, but other than that...shit

You should probably listen again. They have a few catchy ones.

For me though...

The first song I ever heard by The Weakerthans was Left and Leaving. I haven't heard anything better than that yet.

[lonelysuperstar]

I don't dislike other Emery material. But they haven't really done themselves justice after promising much more to me.

[lonelysuperstar]

angels and airwaves - the adventure

and even it got old after hearing it on the radio all the time for a year.

i'll second this too

[Paulb-182]

angels and airwaves - the adventure

and even it got old after hearing it on the radio all the time for a year.

shit, you beat me to it

[harveyn590]

"Planning a Prison Break" by TREOS. This song encompasses everything this band ever did musically and does it best. And the modulation at the end, OMG I love that moment.

[harveyn590]

The Fall of Troy - Whacko Jacko Steals The Elephant Man's Bones

Aside from that song, fuck that entire band's discography.

Really?

That sucks. Nothing else did it for you?

It doesn't seem like Wacko Jacko is that dissimilar from their other material, especially on the self titled and doppelganger

[Snork]

"Planning a Prison Break" by TREOS. This song encompasses everything this band ever did musically and does it best. And the modulation at the end, OMG I love that moment.
i agree with this
i like that album a lot, but that is easily the most well done song on it

[Snork]

and I, like everyone else, echo the Angels & Airwaves thing
so incredibly disappointed by the other songs on that albu

[WasteofPaint31]

Walls is one of my least favorite Emery songs from their debut.

That song is too structured.
It's a great opener but the rest of the album kills it.

[WasteofPaint31]

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

[voncorn]

Walls is one of my least favorite Emery songs from their debut.

That song is too structured.
It's a great opener but the rest of the album kills it.

So glad I'm not the only who thinks this!

[Tony Pascarella]

Agreed on TREOS. I really liked "Planning a Prison Break" but the rest of their stuff has never really done it for me.

[oddwithoutend]

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

SSPU has a few songs I like just as much as Lazy Eye, such as Well Thought Out Twinkles, Future Foe Scenarios, Common Reactor, Substitution, etc.

[mellzie14]

Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance

dance, dance wasn't anywhere close to their first song.

[voncorn]

dance, dance wasn't anywhere close to their first song.

This thread isn't about a band's actual first song, but rather the first song that YOU heard from an artist, and how the rest of their catalog didn't live up to that first awesome song you heard by them.

[lonelysuperstar]

^ And Dance Dance is one of their greatest songs. I'm quite digging Folie a Deux though. I think it might be my fav album since TTYG.

[LaDiabla]

dance, dance wasn't anywhere close to their first song.

who cares what their first song was?

[Hey Kevin]

Glassjaw - Ape Dos Mil
Shout Out Louds - I Wish I Was Dead pt 2

[mellzie14]

who cares what their first song was?

the title of the thread was first song so naturally i thought first song by them.

[fueledbyerin]

^ And Dance Dance is one of their greatest songs. I'm quite digging Folie a Deux though. I think it might be my fav album since TTYG.


Oh my god, hell yea. Folie a Deux has to be their best Cd yet. With all the great collaberations with label mates and even Lil wayne, its eccetricness leaves you feeling like no 2 songs are the same. Each song is a new unique experience


But since this isnt a fall out boy thread, my song would have to be A) Falling Down by Atreyu, because its one of their only songs where they SING not do that weird throat scream thing, B) The Diary of Jane- Breaking Benjamin- i love Breaking Benjamin but that song was by far their BEST EVER nothing can ever beat it

[owiseone35]

All American Rejects- Swing Swing

Armor For Sleep- Car Underwater.

[Javs]

Saves the day - The end

Love that song
hate absolutely everything else by them

[bradnewman]

straylight run- big shot(hands in the sky)

[Hey Kevin]

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
i jam this song a lot
its just catchy all over and a solid pop song
the rest of their shit is really boring

[voncorn]

Motion City Soundtrack - My Favorite Accident

[Broclee]

Motion City Soundtrack - My Favorite Accident
That sucks, I think MCS have even better songs. But it's all opinions.

[voncorn]

That sucks, I think MCS have even better songs. But it's all opinions.

I've listened to all of Commit This To Memory, and there are only like three or four tracks off it that I like, and none of them stuck with me like My Favorite Accident did. I have not listened to the rest of I Am The Movie or their most recent one though, so maybe I haven't given them a fair enough chance yet.

[Broclee]

I've listened to all of Commit This To Memory, and there are only like three or four tracks off it that I like, and none of them stuck with me like My Favorite Accident did. I have not listened to the rest of I Am The Movie or their most recent one though, so maybe I haven't given them a fair enough chance yet.
Check out Even If It Kills Me, there's some gems on there.

My Favorite Accident is a killer song though.

[flks511]

I heard Hollywood Undead's "Young," and was completely mislead. I like that song a lot, but I hate the band.

[AussieBoy]

so many bands...but FFAF aren't one of them in my opinion. I've never been dissapointed in them.
totally, heartbreak is a sweet song, but ive loved everysong on every album theyve done

[AussieBoy]

one dollar short - satellite
steriogram - walkie talkie man
cobra starship - snakes on a plane

[lonelysuperstar]

All American Rejects- Swing Swing

.

excellent call. seconded

to whoever said straylight run though = wtf? i didn't like the song big shot (hands in the sky). i thought their first album was incredible though but everything since has been kinda meh.

[pennie]

Good call on AAR.
As for Straylight, The album and first ep are brilliant. AN Un Mas Dos is pretty good as well.

[harveyn590]

I've listened to all of Commit This To Memory, and there are only like three or four tracks off it that I like, and none of them stuck with me like My Favorite Accident did. I have not listened to the rest of I Am The Movie or their most recent one though, so maybe I haven't given them a fair enough chance yet.

Ya commit this to memory really only has a few really strong tracks, but I believe "Time Turned Fragile" maybe their best song right next to "My Favorite Accident".

I Am The Movie is by far their best, I feel they had a real great and engaging sound that just got completely watered down in CTM and was sorta resurrected a little bit in a new form in Even If It Kills Me.

[Hey Kevin]

Good call on AAR.
As for Straylight, The album and first ep are brilliant. AN Un Mas Dos is pretty good as well.

i liekd Existentialism on Prom Night
but i remember my sister bought the whole album and it was just boring mediocre songs