Thursday, September 26, 2013

Lost Great Albums Vol. 2: A Nightmare for You....





Due to various unforeseen circumstances I was unable to post on here for what was quite some time and a rather large pain in the ass, but let’s not dwell on that people because I’m back and in my time of no internet I got a little inspiration to bring to you guy’s another exciting edition of Lost great Albums.

In all the years of angst ridden rock and roll there was this odd period of time in the early part of the millennium where alternative music took a turn towards a very squeaky voiced lyrically driven sound that’s best described as whinny, simple, and quite annoying and while there was groups who decided to go in a more vocally shredding direction ala My Chemical Romance, Hawthorn Heights, and Thursday there were acts that decided to go in a more poppy direction where the tunes where simple, radio friendly, and the pants where tight and lyrics a straight shot for top 40 gold ala Fall out Boy, but this is Lost great albums people we don’t talk about successful acts here no instead I’m going to talk about my favorite overlooked, under-appreciated, and forgotten act of that terrible decade known as Nightmare of You and their eponymous début album.

I’m not going to lie Emo as a Genre is probably worse in most way’s than boy bands with all those tight pants eye liner heavy Ian Curtis inspired individuals doing their best to be socially accepted Goth kids there’s a special group of hipsters today that could really come to realize they were the problem then and have now moved on to more electronic affairs but amongst the myriad of Joy division inspired Pop Punk groups to come out of htat time phrase there’s a diamond in the rough and that’s what this album truly is.

From stupidly simple cuts (My Name is Trouble), Deliciously Dirty cuts (Thumbelina),and even a tiny bit of amusingly self aware destiny (The Studded Cinctures) this albums one of the most lyrically driven pieces of work you’ll possibly listen to and have the pleasure of enjoying, with each song using more and more vivid wordplay even when things are so stupidly simple you have this kind of innocence to the tracks that just kind of demands you make importance of them and really take note.

Now I’m not going to lie there’s a lot of memories I have attached to this album that give it that special place for me personally and I’m more than sure it’s exactly why I haven’t dismissed it as another throwaway work of it’s time but there’s also the fact that this really is an effort that the mass media and world didn’t even acknowledge and they’re my super special semi generic alternative music act hell after six years of being on Youtube their lead single hasn’t even gotten a quarter of a million views, but I digress.

So yeah this isn't’ an original album by any means but there’s a certain smiths like charm that each of these tracks have in the fact that they’re all self aware pieces of work that thrive on the joy’s of one’s misery and it’s those miserly crafted numbers that have managed to stick with me for this long and I guess after one amazing EP to follow up this bad ass debut and a lack luster follow up effort this band will have to forever be just a faded product of their time, which in all respects leaves me with yet another Lost Great Album….