Saves the Day - Through Being Cool

Saves the Day
Through Being Cool
1999

1. All-Star Me
2. You Vandal
3. Shoulder to the Wheel
4. Rocks Tonic Juice Magic
5. Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots
6. Third Engine
7. My Sweet Fracture
8. The Vast Spoils of America
9. The Last Lie I Told
10. Do You Know What I Love the Most?
11. Through Being Cool
12. Banned from the Back Porch

Pop-punk is a funny genre, especially looking back as a pop-punk kid myself. Like screamo, it's a genre hated on for the bad with people looking over the good. This is due in fact to what is one of my favorite bands: blink-182. After the release of Enema of the State, we were met with so much shit (Relient K, Good Charlotte, and Simple Plan are the first three that pop to mind) that of course it was going to be looked down on. These bands came and went like hazy days, filling in bad memories in the cracks of music afficados.

Out of all those bands, the most overlooked is by far Saves the Day. Influencing the genre more than anyone could think of, they released Through Being Cool the same year as blink-182 break out album came out, coming out two years after their debut Can't Slow Down. While I prefer Stay What You Are due to classics like 'At Your Funeral' and 'Freakish', Through Being Cool is one of the quitiscential third-wave pop-punk albums out there.

Definitely one to pick up if you're interested in the genre, unless you're a jaded fucker.