In honor of the ten year anniversary of Immortal Music that just passed on the sixteenth of September, I've been doing a lot of reflecting and wanting to get back to all of this. With that, its brought me to looking back at some of my old reviews, and my God, are some of them terrible. Some of it is just formatting issues, but some of it just feels so dull and structured, and I hate that so much. They didn't feel like me at all. Mix that with the fact that my music taste and opinions have changed so drastically over the past ten years, I really wanted to revisit and redo some of my old reviews.
I did this once last year, for the Danger Days album from My Chemical Romance, and have wanted to do a series revisiting albums I previously reviewed ever since. So when better than just after the 10 year anniversary? I was scrolling through some of my earliest work, and didn't immediately find one that I felt compelled to redo. And then I saw What Separates Me From You by A Day To Remember, which was new at the time. The first line is what caught my attention and made me immediately start laughing. "Though I am not a fan of A Day To Remember, What Separates Me From You is a marvelous album." Listen, I knew that was the album that made me fall in love with them, and this was posted originally in June 2011, but I had known about them for two or three years prior to this and I would say now I've been a fan of them since Homesick was fairly new. Maybe not obsessed, but definitely a fan. Three years after this album was released, I got an A Day To Remember tattoo, and fast forward ten years and now I have two. I only mentioned two songs from the album in the entire review, with one being, "All I Want." Which yes, is still an incredible song and will forever be one of my absolute favorite songs. But the only other song I named was "Sticks & Bricks" but did say I liked the entire album, and left it at that. HELLO? What about, "2nd Sucks", "You Be Sonic, I'll Be Tails", hell, another ridiculously iconic one, "All Signs Point To Lauderdale"??? This is another reason why I want to revisit reviews, because I always write them while listening to the album for the first time, so I probably just didn't have an attachment to any other songs yet. But today, I always find myself playing ADTR, songs from every album actually, and I still solidly say "All Signs Point To Lauderdale" is one of my favorites to blast while driving around town. It just hits different to hear, "I hate this town, its so washed up and all my friends don't give a fuck." while driving around town. Tell me I'm not the only one that feels that way. The main songs that have stuck with my over the past ten years from this album have been the singles, really. This may have been the album that made me fall in love with ADTR, but its by far not my favorite anymore. What about you? What are you favorite songs from this album? Are they the same as they were when the album first came out? Let me know in the comments down below or over on Facebook. I'd love to hear from you guys, and stay tuned I'm hoping to revisit a handful of albums over the next few weeks. I'm really hoping to get back into Immortal Music to a similar extent I once was. I'll touch base about that soon! Stay tuned.
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