FTC: The Anniversary
So maybe with my from the closet features I’ll start getting the “emo kid” tag, but I don’t really care. The era of the emo, post-emo, pop-emo, or whatever you wanna call it was when I really came into my own as a music critic and fan. That era also exposed me to indie artists like Spoon, Wilco, Ryan Adams and tons of others that have become some of my all time favorites. Now I won’t try to claim that emo kids The Anniversary belong in the same category as those bands, but they were good for what they were at the time. I also wouldn’t claim the band as an inovator of the genre but more a band who rode on the coat tails of fellow midwest bands like Braid and The Get Up Kids. I’ll of course be going with a song from their debut LP Designing a Nervous Breakdown since that was really the high point of the band that sort of fell off after that. So why not re-live a little turn of the decade post-emo music with “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” from The Anniversary. Side Note: I once gave a member of The Anniversary the middle finger during their set at Emos for talking about the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team during the NCAA Tournament. The guy saw me (I don’t remember which band member it was) and called me out, but I kept my middle finger raised. Hey UT was in the Sweet 16 and this is Austin mo fo! Kansas lost in the Final Four BTW. Good story huh?