I thought you were a house party kinda guy? Cuz i'm pretty sure that song got played at every house party ever since 2008...needless to say, it's a mad tune

heh, actually that's what sparked my most recent appreciation of it. I have a big list of songs that are not old enough to be truly nostalgic but not recent enough to be recent. Maybe like, tracks that just recently became nostalgic but haven't become overdone in their nostalgia yet. This list includes Snoop Dogg's "Beautiful," Kanye's "Gold Digger," and Luda's "Saturday."

"Hate Me" is their worst song, and i'm kind of amazed that it became as huge as it did out of all of their songs.

Because Blue October is nothing like either of those bands. You've heard other stuff they've done aside from "Hate Me", right?

Here's some of their better stuff.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MknhYSj_w-I[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNyGK7ymW0k[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsk4QV4WLZ8[/youtube]

They sound nothing like Nickelback or Hinder through. They exist in that weird, atmospheric realm of alternative rock/post-grunge with bands like Tripping Daisy.

EDIT - It did not inform me you posted that, Piper. "She's My Ride Home" is probably my favorite song off Foiled.

asdf

Put Blue October in their company again and I'll hunt you down and rape your freshly-made corpse.

since we're on the subject of Blue October, I should note that Foiled was one of many albums I considered for my Top 50 but ultimately left off, but would be a shoe-in if we made a top 100. If you like dreamy alt-pop music, I'd recommend giving it a spin.

It's going to make my top 10 without a question. Probably top 5. Congratulations will probably top my singles list too.

My extremely rough draft top 50 has put these albums on my list:

A Silver Mt. Zion – Horses in the Sky
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Converge – Jane Doe
Converge – You Fail Me
Daft Punk – Discovery
Destroyer – Destroyer's Rubies
Destroyer – This Night
Destroyer – Your Blues
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Frog Eyes – Tears of the Valedictorian
Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
Guillemots – Through the Windowpane
Islands – Return to the Sea
Jay Reatard – Blood Visions
Jay Z – The Blueprint
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
Kanye West – The College Dropout
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Liars – Drum's Not Dead
Liars – They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
M Ward – Post-War
Mastodon – Leviathan
Matthew Dear – Leave Luck to Heaven
Menomena – Friend and Foe
Planningtorock – Have It All
Radiohead – Kid A
Scott Walker – The Drift
Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities – Lucas
Snowman – The Horse, the Rat, the Swan
Spank Rock – Yoyoyoyoyo
Sunn O))) – Black One
Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Swan Lake – Beast Moans
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2
The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Streets – Original Pirate Material
The xx – xx
Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
Why? - Alopecia
Xiu Xiu – La foret

Gimme a holla if you've got Dirty South Dance on your list

An update on my albums list:


1. Within Temptation - The Silent Force
2. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
3. Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
4. Epica - Design Your Universe
5. Evanescence - The Open Door
6. Within Temptation - Mother Earth
7. Epica - Consign to Oblivion
8. Epica - The Phantom Agony
9. Evanescence - Fallen
10. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
11. Nightwish - Wishmaster
12. Disturbed - Believe
13. In This Moment - The Dream
14. Papa Roach - Infest
15. After Forever - After Forever
16. Nightwish - Once
17. Ruslana - Wild Dances
18. Lacuna Coil - Comalies
19. Katy Perry - MTV Unplugged
20. Mandalay - Instinct

21. Nightwish - Century Child
22. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
23. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
24. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
25. Keane - Hopes and Fears
26. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
27. Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
28. Epica - The Score: An Epic Journey
29. Nelly Furtado - Whoa, Nelly!
30. Therion - Sirius B
31. Blaqk Audio - CexCells
32. Katy Perry - One of The Boys
33. In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
34. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
35. The Cranberries - Wake Up And Smell The Coffee


I don't know if anything's going to crack that top ten.

I've been able to narrow my albums list down to 54 but damn those last four albums feel like the puppies that are gonna get euthanized if you don't adopt them.

The Thermals- The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006)
I almost thought about not including this but decided to put it on for a spin again. For me, it's the quintessential Portland album of the decade because it embodies its spirit so adeptly. From my experience in the Northwest, you get a sense of a world of liberals but with a kind of conservative energy. As opposed to your New Yorks and your LA's, the region is outspoken about its lefty opinions but polite about it. And this record expresses those same traits. Here you have a wonderful contrast of a very committed and radical lyrical content but funneled through a pop-punk openness. The effect is brilliant: You're at once amped up from the absolute debauchery of its religious-themed attitude, but find it all embracing from its catchy pop sensibilities. We join in on the shenanigans because anyone that crazy who's able to still have fun must be believable. Hutch Harris would never execute this contrast as excellently as what appears on this record, a Jesus-like miracle.

likely a top 15 album for me, good shoutout wanta. one of the five albums that defined my high school experience

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPsdjlPVaJU[/youtube]

I will also likely include the slightly less refined "Fuckin A"