The Life of Reidy

While I posting today, I've been listening to Sublime's classic self-titled album. It has always been one of those CD's that EVERYONE has and it seems like everyone is constantly playing in their mix rotations or whatever, so I'm not always jumping on the chance to listen to it, but listening to it again today just reminded me of why everyone listens to it in the first place, obviously. Because it's a damn great album, and all the more testament because it is very difficult to make a good Ska album.



I remember being in high school, after Human Error feel through, I was in about four different attempts at Ska bands that I had been in. The problem is when you are so young, it's very hard to focus yourself on actually going through with what you planned out. So what makes you think that you will have any better luck at coordinating ten or so different high school students, each with different musical backgrounds, and arrange them into some sort of feel-good, rythym and horns, rockin' scat guitar vibrations? It's pretty IMPOSSIBLE. But yet we all wanna rock out, so what other options do we have?

That's right, kids... we all gave up and wrote EMO songs about it.

That's what listening to this album made me think of. That and a few crazy nights that I hope I'm much smarter today to never recreate again.