2002


Probably The Best Year Ever

This would probably be more authentic as a LiveJournal, but whatever.
Not all of these albums came out in 2002, but I want to discuss the 3 visible ones that did: Taking Back Sunday’s Tell All Your Friends, Something Corporate’s Leaving Through the Bathroom Window and Bowling For Soup’s Drunk Enough to Dance. Tell All Your Friends came out in 2002, but I bought it in maybe 2003. I first listened to it the day it came in the mail from half.com (where I bought most of my albums that year, save for the select few I deemed worthy enough to be purchased the day they came out at the mall’s Sam Goody) on my old boombox (a Christmas present from 1997/1998) that I had used White Out on to mark my favorite radio station’s spot on the dial. It was that era of my life when I would get a new album and then sit in front of my boombox listening to it and reading the liner notes carefully. My immediate favorite song was “You’re So Last Summer,” but I always loved that one line on “Timberwolves at New Jersey” that goes “literate and stylish, kissable and quiet: that’s what girls’ dreams are made of” because, ya know, it’s true and whatever. I don’t think I listened to Leaving Through the Bathroom Window until late 2002. I remember someone running around the hallway at school wearing a SoCo sweatshirt and thinking, “hey, that kid also likes bands I like. I should listen to Something Corporate.” I loved them despite knowing I would never be a punk rock princess because I am just so not punk rock enough. Also, “Hurricane” is probably my favorite song from that album because c’mon, sweet catastrophe. I listened to Drunk Enough to Dance on my Discman on the way to Hershey Park with my little sister’s Girl Scout troop. I remember a girl in my science class saying she didn’t like bands whose members were “ugly” and so she didn’t like Bowling for Soup—she also wore a Slitknot sweatshirt a lot, so. I was sort of embarrassed to like them because they were sort of dorky or something, but I also didn’t care. And then they covered “…Baby One More Time” on the Freaky Friday soundtrack in 2003 and it was amazing.

Not all of these albums came out in 2002, but I want to discuss the 3 visible ones that did: Taking Back Sunday’s Tell All Your Friends, Something Corporate’s Leaving Through the Bathroom Window and Bowling For Soup’s Drunk Enough to Dance.

Tell All Your Friends came out in 2002, but I bought it in maybe 2003. I first listened to it the day it came in the mail from half.com (where I bought most of my albums that year, save for the select few I deemed worthy enough to be purchased the day they came out at the mall’s Sam Goody) on my old boombox (a Christmas present from 1997/1998) that I had used White Out on to mark my favorite radio station’s spot on the dial. It was that era of my life when I would get a new album and then sit in front of my boombox listening to it and reading the liner notes carefully. My immediate favorite song was “You’re So Last Summer,” but I always loved that one line on “Timberwolves at New Jersey” that goes “literate and stylish, kissable and quiet: that’s what girls’ dreams are made of” because, ya know, it’s true and whatever.

I don’t think I listened to Leaving Through the Bathroom Window until late 2002. I remember someone running around the hallway at school wearing a SoCo sweatshirt and thinking, “hey, that kid also likes bands I like. I should listen to Something Corporate.” I loved them despite knowing I would never be a punk rock princess because I am just so not punk rock enough. Also, “Hurricane” is probably my favorite song from that album because c’mon, sweet catastrophe.

I listened to Drunk Enough to Dance on my Discman on the way to Hershey Park with my little sister’s Girl Scout troop. I remember a girl in my science class saying she didn’t like bands whose members were “ugly” and so she didn’t like Bowling for Soup—she also wore a Slitknot sweatshirt a lot, so. I was sort of embarrassed to like them because they were sort of dorky or something, but I also didn’t care. And then they covered “…Baby One More Time” on the Freaky Friday soundtrack in 2003 and it was amazing.

  1. lynnr reblogged this from fuckyeah2002 and added:
    read some stupid shit...13. It’s whatever. Also Eminem.
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