Comments on: A Few Favorites…

By: Ashneth

Ashneth — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:53:45 +0000

This is way late.. but i still wanted to share.
These are my favorites.=)
Relient K
1. The Civil Wars… I’m amped for the new Debut album.
2. Paramore- Brand new Eyes
3. NEEDTOBREATHE- THE OUTSIDERS
4. Anberlin – Dark is the way, Light is a place
5. Seabird- Rock into Rivers

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:42:25 +0000

Aw… Have you heard Foo Fighters’ “Echos, Silence, Patience, and Grace?” As an album in its entirety, it’s pretty great.

By: Luke Foley

Luke Foley — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:04:05 +0000

that’s a good top 5. these sort of lists always make me a little panicky though, cause i know 4 hours from now, i’ll think of someting obvious that i forgot. regardless (assuming: it’s top five of all time; they are songs that have had the biggest influence on me as a songwriter and a person; that i’m not tryin to impress anyone):

Counting Crows (August and Everything After)

Pedro the Lion / David Bazan (It’s Hard to Find a Friend / Achilles’ Heel…is a close second)

Jimmy Eat World (Can’t realy pick a fave. Least is the newest one, though. Ha,ha…)

The New Frontiers (Mending- This is a newish favorite, but this record is one of the best i’ve heard from any band in the last decade)

Coldplay (Rush of Blood)

BONUS:
Death Cab (TransAtlanticism…these guys have sorta tapered off for me, i don’t really care for the stuff after. or before or that matter, haha. But that record was a pinnacle. Amazing.)

Ok. Now that i’ve wasted a half hour..off to work.

By: newsboysfan97

newsboysfan97 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:35:59 +0000

hmmmm let’s see here, it’s pretty tricky, but i’ll try

1. Newsboys (In the Hands of God)
2. Relient K (Five Score and Seven Years Ago)
3. Switchfoot (Learning to Breathe)
4. Hawk Nelson (Hawk Nelson… Is my friend!)
5. MercyMe (Coming up to Breathe)

mercyme is a pretty odd choice, they’re getting too CCM for me now, but coming up to breathe is an awesome album. but the songs i can’t stop listening to right now are:

1. Relient K christmas songs
2. Jars of Clay – Wonderful Christmas Time
3. Fiction Family – When she’s near
4. Hawk Nelson – From Underneath
5. Switchfoot – The Sound (John M. Perkins Blues)

By: joshuaryan

joshuaryan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:25:10 +0000

i totally agree on the jimmy eat world, death cab, and dave bazan picks. but with jimmy i’m a static prevails fan. death cab’s “narrow stairs” is a favorite too. as far as christian music, david crowder’s new one is super cool.

i always hate to suck up, but “forget and not slow down” is my top pick this year, above muse, phoenix, and the new john mayer. i guess it hit me when i needed it.

you guys def. have two great albums, maybe even more. you changed the christian rock scene with “two lefts” and had a dramatic effect on pop with “mmhmm.” everyone has that album. i think “forget and slow down” is really catching on as well. cool stuff.

By: trubes88

trubes88 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:28:13 +0000

Top 6 for me would be

Relient k (Anatomy of Tongue in Cheek)
FM Static (can’t really pick an album)
Dashboard Confessional (probably a mark, a mission, a brand, a scar)
Taylor Swift (Fearless, odd liking to her songs)
Audio Adrenaline (worldwide)
Death Cab for Cutie (plans or transatlanticism)

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:34:43 +0000

Wow…I read all of those comments through the whole way. Interesting stuff to read. Being the opinionated person I am, I must now post my top ten. Yet I feel as if my taste in music is totally inadequate and underdeveloped compared to some of you! However, I will be honest, and will not seek out obscure foreign bands or experimental projects in hopes of making myself seem more complex then I am.
Feel free to bash me for lack of originality and diversity in music, but hey, I like what I like. I’m curious as to where any of this falls into your list Matt!

1. Blink-182 – Enema of the State (no comment needed)
2. Relient K – mmhmm (probably the most played album on my iTunes; its like default music for me. Honorable mention – two lefts don’t make a right, five score and seven years, no offense but FNSD is my least favorite of all your albums, it just doesn’t seem to mesh together well in my mind)
3. Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown (amazing album that got me through a heck of alot)
4. All Time Low – So Wrong, It’s Right (Second most played album on my iTunes, which is something I know I will take a lot of heat for. Matt, I remember talking with you outside of the Maryland show about All Time Low [Jack had come to visit you guys] and I am wondering if they ever make it on your iPod. Also, if you have heard their newest release, and what your opinion is of it?)
5. The Cars – Greatest Hits (I know it’s lame, but none of their albums really had full playability – so I go with the Greatest Hits album! It counts! Maybe..)
6. Weezer – Red Album. Just Kidding! I’m not THAT much of a pop-punk conformist! Blue album all the way…
7. Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation (Nothing can match Tyler’s screamin’ vocals. They are the epitome of summer music in my mind, kind of like the next band on my list…)
8. Huey Lewis and the News – (Cheesy in a way that can only be cool in the context of the 80′s)
9. Jaimie Cullum – TwentySomething (An album consisting almost entirely of covers, but it’s made up for by his voice. I do not usually listen to Jazz, but I’d listen to anything if he sung it. God gave him a great gift in those vocal chords…)
Jack’s Mannequin – Everything in Transit (Just wish they made more albums like this one – I can’t stand the newest album, it just seems far too forced. But following up what they accomplished on Everything in Transit, I could see how there could be a temptation to try too hard).
And that is that! Sorry for all the extremely long, parenthetical notes made. Now for the honorable mentions –
We the Kings, The Maine, Every Avenue, The Wallflowers (bringing down the horse), Taking Back Sunday, Sum 41 (all killer no filler), Eve 6, Panic At The Disco (anything but their newest CD, because it sounds awful).

In closing, I’d like to comment that I cannot stand Coldplay. I realize that my opinion on the matter will be little respected after giving the obviously musically immature list above, but I just feel that most of their songs sound the same. It’s not even that they sound so completely unique, it’s that they sound too unique; I could recognize a Coldplay song immediately, but I’d only be able to know it’s Coldplay, not what song it was. Parachutes is the only exception to this little rant, as I really do get along with that album well – God Put a Smile Upon Her Face, and Yellow, are fantastic songs.

Matt…Don’t be such a snob, okay? Don’t dis Nickelback just because they are so successful! (my sarcasm is obvious..)

Anyway, there’s my rant on music.

P.S. when my band gets around to recording an EP, I’d kill to have you review it…

By: Dot

Dot — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:18:48 +0000

Um. I guess I have to add Hello Hurricane to one of these lists. If not my “favourite albums of all time”, definitely “favourite albums of 2009″.

Which looks like:
1. brand new eyes – Paramore
1. Hello Hurricane – Switchfoot (tied)
3. Forget and Not Slow Down
4. Felt – Anchor & Braille

Hoping to add Battle Studies by John Mayer on there sometime soon.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:45:32 +0000

Everytime I try to figure out a favorite, I’ve left one off. I have really been listening to Forget and Not Slow Down a LOT lately. It helps that it’s easy to type to at work. Rather than “favorites” some of the cd’s I’ve listened to lately are:
The Everglow by Mae and I keep listening to the new song Seasons over and over because it’s just so relaxing
Forget & Not Slow Down by Relient K
Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot – one of their best, imo
Needtobreathe all of their cd’s (There are three great ones, actually – not a bad song on any of them imho.)
Armistice by Mute Math
Remedy Drive
I just bought two new cd’s on iTunes – Attack Cat’s new cd and
Joe Moralez called “If I Could” and loving them both, even though they are very different. I just bought a cd by a band called The Letter Black I plan to listen to next.

Coldplay is amazing live. I still have a zillion butterflies from the concert here a while back. People can hate on them if they want, but the best I could pull up the minute tickets went on sale was row 24 at $120 a pop. LOL

BTW, I think that a lot of bands break the 2 cd rule, you guys do.
I love all of Mae’s cd’s (even if nothing else ever touches The Everglow); Deathcab has more than two as well, imo.

BTW, do you have a favorite Beatles album? I’m particularly fond of Rubber Soul.

And you should get a video of Stella singing.

By: Christi

Christi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:22:26 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention The Decemberists – Picaresque on my list of what I’ve been listening to recently.