the best melodic hardcore album i've ever heard. on the last day of school me and my friend michael took some adderall before school and i listened to this album all day while i was taking the finals and it felt like the bones in my face were bending.

love love love

This is a great record. The thing that annoys me is rather than completely evaluating the record and the band in this review, you bash STD. So what if they sounded like Lifetime on "Can't Slow Down"? They sure as hell didn't on any of their other records.

Awesome Husker Du cover. Love it.

But the truth is, this album got me into Lifetime AND Husker Du, so I owe it a lot.

Although this album's great, it's sad that I think the best song is It's Not Funny Anymore..cause it's a Husker Du cover. Lifetime do it pretty awesomely though

It's really hard for me to pick a favorite Lifetime album but Hello Bastards is really good.

best band

Alright, jsut for the record, if you're a true music fan you would be beyond the whole name calling and copy cat thing. These artists put out this music for us (the fans), if you like it then you like and if you don't then you don't. STD is clearly not riding the coat-tails of this band, ya 'Can't Slow Down' sounds very similar but, like others have stated before it only takes one band to revolutionize a genre or specific sound. If "Lifetime" were so revolutionary compared to STD than why did they break up? Just enjoy the music for what it is thats what the artists would of wanted us too, all this type of music hits people in different ways. Personally I like both bands jsut as much for different reasons. I was recently at a Saves show, and it blew me away. So everyone can just stop being dumb and complaining about bands and music and just enjoy it for what it is, that's why the music was made in the first place.

Awesome album. Along with "Ass Cobra" and "Destroy Oh! Boy" -two very dissimlar albums with this one, if you ask me-, this is the best more or less straight punk album of the 90's, not Rancid, Offspring or Green Day. Pure emotional punk rock.
I don't know if they call it emo or anything else, but it do acomplishes in creating a moving mood.
The best here is "The Gym is neutral Territory", a masterpiece of song.
Their next album, Jersey's, is filled with more generic punk pop, but the song "Theme Song for a new basement...", just blows me away; what a fucking brilliant song. If a band like AFI only had a song of this caliber, i'll show my respects to them instead of dismiss them as Uninspired MTV punk.

PD: A masterpiece of album, nuff said.

Amazing album. Review lacks only because it spends more time bashing Saves the Day for being a copycat band than it does actually explaining why this is awesome.

-benz

Fathead is gay

Goodness this is a nice record. It reminds me of a mixture of Jawbreaker and Gorilla Biscuits (Both, key bands)...Jawbiscuits. This is, without a doubt, their best release (In my opinion). So many classics, and a nice Husker Du cover. How can you go wrong?

dan yemin is brilliant. his whole hardcore carreer (lifetime, kid dynamite, paint it black) is worth getting into.

I think we should all re-iterate how great Lifetime were.

I loved Boxer, yeah they sounded like Lifetime, but come on, they were a million times better than STD.

How come no one ever compares Boxer to Lifetime. At least Saves the Day moved on.

one of my favorite records ever! so many bands try to copy them... but fail...

My favorite record ever.
P.S STD can suck it

sitting here in my room scrutinized by the gossip of the high school hallways, i turn on hello bastards, punk out, calm down, and realize that everything is going to be ok. how lame am i. lol

Agreed. Along with Hope by the Descendents, Irony is for Suckers is my favorite song... ever.
-Rod Jeremy

I hate ALL Saves the Day shit, and fucking love Lifetime. This isn't just one of the best melodic hardcore releases ever, it's one of the best releases ever period.

....Evildeadalive

You are correct, sir. This is the best melodic hardcore LP EVER, even beating out Gorilla Biscuits "Start Today" in my book.

alright. yes lifetime is much better than saves the day. however how can u love this shit and then say u hate EARLY saves the day shit? its almost the exact same. whatever. lifetime kicks ass.

Ahhhh good ol lifetime!! The best melodic hardcore band EVER!!! Saves the day??? just a dissapointment to the punk scene. Nobody can duplicate lifetime...So dont even try.

Good album, too!!!

ya know, saves the day used to sound like lifetime, but i dont think they do now, personally i think theyve brought the genre further, but if lifetime were still around, MAN! can you imagine how HUGE they would be now?
I was at a saves the day and people in the audience kept yelling "Lifetime!" and the singer yelled backed at them. Needless to say they are sick of the references.
I mean, truthfully, every once in a while you get a band who changes a style or introduces a new one, but all the others are just copying older bands, so its not really smart ot single out STD like that.
(personally, i think a better example of ripping off other bands would be Pennywise and Offspring blatantly ripping off of Bad Religion, and some of Offspring's stuff being Nirvana rips. Have you noticed they have one song on almost every album that rips off of Come As You Are?)

yaeh, they dont sound that much alike. i just get a kick by making fun of boy bands.

yah, lifetime is a good band, and this cd is great, but in your reference to saves the day, i like them a whole lot better, and personally, i think that the singer of saves the day sounds better. but thats just my opinion. and the two bands dont even sound that much alike