I've loved the Faint for a while now, but had only had a few songs from back in my limewire days, where i'd discover someone new, type their name into a search engine and randomly download 5 to 10 tracks that popped up. I think Glass Danse was the first song i heard by them, can't really recall. I thought there must have been another band who called themselves The Faint when i first heard the track Syntax Lies in this edit by TJ Schneider and the guys at Capita and the Snowboard Realms:
Coincidentally, he used another track from the same album, "Tandem: City to City" in another edit. Both these songs reminded me vaguely of early Get Up Kids and maybe even Moving Units if they were on prozac. After that, i needed to pick up the album regardless. Couldn't find it illegally, tried pretty hard to find a hard copy of it, failed, then just bought it on iTunes. Its really been growing on me. The best part is that this album was put out on Saddle Creek Records, a company i had been into waaaay back in the day who signed artists such as Desaparecidos, Bright Eyes, Beep Beep, Cursive, Tokyo Police Club (to name my favorites) and more all in the very early stages of these artists' lives. Really brought back memories of when i first really started getting into music and discovering stuff on my own rather than waiting for the radio to tell me what i should listen to. Haven't really had the radio on since then, and life would not be the same without these little finds.
So i don't know, just cool how this huge influence in my life has remained prevalent for so long and sort of completely come back around and showed me where it all started again. I love music. I say that with the utmost sincerity. It's been like 8 or so years since i truly started forming this diverse taste in music i've come to own, and it still continues. Thought i'd share it with you.
Buy "Media" on iTunes! or from Saddle Creek!! or better yet get the hard copy if you can hunt deep enough into the shelves at best buy.
Merry Christmas.
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