you will never be a 15 year old living in suburban Midwest during 1999 riding your bike in the fresh breeze at the sundown of the last day of summer while thinking about your high school crush Feels bad man
Strangely enough, I heard "The Summer Ends" last year in a Tokyo McDonald's on a rainy September day... I don't know who makes the playlist there, but it was an incredibly bittersweet moment to spend alone with a double cheeseburger
American Football has a huge cultural impact on Japanese indie rock scene, a lot of bands there are massively influenced by AF, Toe is a great example anyway i love japan
to add: building that fanbase while mostly during a period of not even being active (if we're talking about before they got back together). insane and incredible
53 yrs old, a wasted life, 23 yrs as a heroin addict, lost my partner to anorexia 12 yrs ago which completely broke me ,clean now for 4yrs and completely lost in life and this music is so comforting.. almost like an explanation for my state of mind over those years, I only discovered American football recently and i have downloaded all of their albums and have found great solice and satisfaction in it, some people call it miserable but it's heaven for me.
@@adamweston4152 I'm trying to get off booze. I have a lot of friends who passed from heroin. I'm proud of you and makes me hopeful for my other friends. Thank you for sharing brother. I'm also sorry for your loss.
Crazy that this used to be the anthem of "modern kids" and now it's the anthem of broken, middle-aged dads. Time really does keep stretching and stretching.
Illinois is a wonderful state come visit and you wont be let down, so much beautiful land and wonderful small towns and quirks i love it here. soo much stuff historically has gone down in the land of Lincoln!
The four houses of emo: Fall: American Football (1999) by American Football - deals in regret and having to accept things coming to an end, perhaps relationships or cherished experiences. Summer has ended, and with its changing colours fall brings the transition from one stage of life to the next. Winter: We'll Get to It Eventually (2014) by sports. - deals in self-doubt, frustration, evaluating the ways in which things could be better since life has changed, and the ways in which they're not. With harsher weather, winter evokes harsher and more anguishing emotions. Spring: Home Like NoPlace Is There (2014) by The Hotelier - deals in the newly developed mental anguish, anxiety, and depression, perhaps it's seasonal as a result of the past winter. There's a lot of analysis on death and grief, but spring also means that things are coming to life again slowly, so maybe there's something to look forward to. Summer: Charmer (2018) by Charmer - deals in nostalgia, remembering how all the different seasons have brought emotions into life, and what you've learned from these times. There's references to spending time with people out in the sun, and hopefully developing new experiences and relationships to take forward into life.
Hi. My name is Slavik. I'm writing this now to express my change of attitude towards the beginning of myself listening to this album up until now. Another main reason is to catalogue my emotions to my future self reading this. It's interesting how I've changed. Originally, I listened to this two years ago. I recognized this album's themes; the theme of nostalgia and childhood struggles. At the time, I appreciated that I still had access to my high school days. I knew those memories would ultimately become memories of the past and I indulged in doing as much as I could to enjoy them. I'm now facing the finale of my high school days. I've had many struggles, especially after I began listening to this album. I had a girlfriend that I couldn't emotionally handle. I was accused of doing horrific things. It's been a struggle to say the least. I'm not who I was emotionally anymore. I've matured and learned through my many experiences but I realize now, that just comes with life. I've enjoyed my time with the many friends I've made. All that's left is the final stage, which are my exams. It'll be nice to look back at this comment and understand how I felt. I'll view myself as childlike. That too is something that comes with time. College has a bittersweet atmosphere to it. I hope I'm not the only one in my friend group who experiences that same emotion towards it. I'm sure some do. Most of everyone I know will no longer exist to me soon enough. It just comes with time after all. It'll be strange to experience the lack of closeness of a classroom when I enter college. Anyways, I'll leave it at that. Thanks for anyone who cared to read everyone. Thank you to myself who choose to revisit this comment. I can only hope everything is going just as planned. Goodbye.
I found out about this album about a year ago from my brother. He and I were and still are incredibly distant and have never gotten along well, but one fall evening when we were driving to our mom’s house, he played this album, and it was incredible. This was the first time i ever asked him “what band is this?” out of curiosity and wanting to hear it again, and he told me about this album. Something about driving home during the sunset in the summer/fall with this music on will always remind me of that first time i heard this… this album was a life changer, and i’ll never forget that i found out about this from my brother. He’s moving out to college in about two weeks (as of the time of me writing this), and as much as i wanna say that i won’t miss him after the decade and a half of him and me fighting, i will miss him. Hopefully when we’re older, he and I will be able to start over and get along. But i guess regret and sadness is par for the course for the people who listen to this, so let’s all hope for a better future.
I have an older and younger brother. They're both pretty straight laced and I was the screw up, especially during my late teens. We didn't get along too well back then. I'm 30 now and even though we might not have a lot in common I still feel a deep love for em. I know they feel the same. When we get together we play game cube games like we did in our sweet youth before teen angst.
Just found out my last friend from my hometown (moved to the big city) is about to fuck off to ohio with the girl he loves. I’m so happy for him but at the same time can’t believe that now the town I love so much now holds nothing for me anymore. It feels as though theres nothing behind me and nothing ahead of me anymore and I’ve never felt more alone in my entire life. But just like an old friend this record is always one listen away from putting myself in a better state of mind. Some albums lose their power over time, but this one will be with me til the day I die always revealing something that in a different time or different situation that I missed. Thank god some things in life never leave you.
What blows my mind is the production, my friend introduced me to American Football last year and I listened to Never Meant for the first time and I was like “aw man these guys are great” my mind was blown that this album came out in 1999 it’s just so well produced that I thought it was a recent album!
I remember discovering this LP, Deathcab's 'We Have the Facts', Thursday's 'Waiting', and Explosions in the Sky's 'How Strange, Innocence' all in the same summer before 8th grade in 2001 in my small town in Louisiana. It was like I finally found music that fit what I felt inside, and really helped shape the young person I became. God bless the late 90's-2003 emo scene.
everyone is talking about their first love and first heartbreak. it hurts just as much to have never fallen in love with anyone . i’ve been waiting to find that person, that love that all teenagers experience . it’s never come . i wanna fall in love so badly . every teenager has their teen romance . i’m still waiting for mine and it hurts
Do not let media and other peoples experiences shape your self view. You still have decades ahead of you. This is the time for self focus and gratification.
Take risks in that area of your life while you’re young or you might regret it later in life. I mean, don’t knock anyone up, that’s not what I mean. I mean don’t expect perfection in other people or yourself. I was the same way. Something that’s not perfect and that doesn’t work out in the end will almost always be better than nothing. If you’re afraid of rejection, just know that asking and getting rejected is (usually) more courageous than not asking at all. Just make mistakes young so that you can learn and look back on these experiences. Just two cents from somebody who needed to hear these things back in the day (even though I may not have listened).
Don’t think I forgot about the other LP1 video on RU-vid with more than 2 million views and an archived comment section of sad, lonely teens/young adults sharing their feelings. I still cry knowing such an emo historical video was taken down
The first time I listened to this album I was standing outside my aunts house and just looking at the snow as the sun was setting and every time I listen to this I think about that moment and it makes me happy
I used to be sad, depressed and emo. There's great comfort in being that person. No one knows what it's like but you and perhaps one or two of your closest friends. You don't want to change because deep down you know you're different, special, unique, etc. Of course you don't want to be like everyone else. eg. all the grey/normal people. Then shit got really bad. Two decades went by and I eventually hit rock bottom. I couldn't cope any more. I couldn't handle the constant anxiety, pain, confusion and repetitive feedback about how much i suck from my partners, so I crawled my way to a psychiatrist in an attempt to save my relationship. It was the single best decision I have EVER made in my life and i'm happily no longer with her toxic self. I wasn't living as a depressed human, I was dying. I now truly understand just how inaccurately our minds can interpret things when we're mentally unwell. I didn't learn fundamental coping/emotional skills as a kid thanks to the shitty environment I was raised in, but I've now learned them as an adult and want nothing more to encourage people like the old me to go and speak to someone straight away. Don't leave it until you hit rock bottom. You deserve to live a better life.
@@bobdole8727 I'm sorry Bob but, you win the fuck out of this comment section. You are the Metal in a very sad "emo" pity party and I just want to say "thank you"!
The band was recommended to me by a dear friend with fairly quiet musical tastes. This music inspires me a lot to create my own music, and one of the reasons is that all his songs express a lot of feeling to me even though I don't know how to understand English well, his words cheer me up a lot in those days of life. . . Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thank you Google Translate
This album lived through several different iterations in my first two cars, and just like the multiple CD copies purchased, borrowed, and burned, I lovingly rode them out until I couldn't anymore. Road trips with the windows down, late night drives to the diner, sitting in abandoned parking lots, driving to gigs and shows with friends, through rain, snow, and falling leaves. The amount of memories I've experienced intertwined with this album feels almost staggering. #LP1Feels
Aww, That sounds so loving and touching, I could feel in your message you really have a kind and loving heart, I would be more than glad to get to know you more Rob.!
I’ll never forget those cold autumn afternoons in my old townhome when I listened to this album in my room and stared at the ceiling. That was the first home I had by myself as a single 20 somethings man. I had all the growing pains, loves, heartbreaks, wins and losses of early adulthood those memories are bittersweet. The day I moved out I turned on the light in the bedroom, went downstairs to put the last box in my car and I snapped a picture reminiscent of the album cover. I still drive by that place, sometimes that light is still on. I hope the new tenants can fill it with just as great of memories that I have there.
1. Never Meant 0:01 2. The Summer Ends 4:28 3. Honestly? 9:14 4. For Sure 15:24 5. You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon 18:40 6. But The Regrets Are Killing Me 22:23 7. I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional 26:18 8. Stay Home 30:01 9. The one With The Wurlitzer 38:11
I thought the track listing was the track length at first and was like I don't remember honestly being 9 minutes long I know that intro epic af but... Lol
Im from Colombia but weirdly enough theres some people that listen to American Football I dont talk to them bc I dont have friends, but they exist lmao
The fact that the beautiful album made this sort of a comeback after so many years after gives me a very nice but also strange feeling; like some sort of nostalgia of stuff I didn´t actually lived; I don´t know how to describe it. I wonder if these guys ever dreamed about this set of songs sounding all over the world 20 years later and becoming so iconic when they were recording them back in the day.
The tern you are looking for is Anemoia. Nostalgia for memories you've never had, decades you never lived in. HOME- Resonance was designed with this feeling in mind. I find anemoia in most of my fave music, because I usually discover it late. I'm listening to this album for the first time rn! New to second wave emo in general. It's awesome.
This album really scratches a certain itch that nothing else does, it's mathematically precise like a proof from Euclid but it keeps that emo rawness. it's not a small accomplishment to have one or the other done right.
Something about the composition, the production, the album cover, the lyrics... it all creates such a specific vibe and emotion that no other record has scratched for me. No other Midwest emo has been as warm, rich and potent as this album imo. A few things have come close but they do it in their own way and don't bother trying to do what American Football did. What a great album.
Every time I hear this album I get this weird feeling of nostalgia and sadness. It reminds me of highschool and just the good and bad that came with those years. The heartache and the gut busting laughs. God it was so simple then. Thanks for encapsulating that into an album American Football❤️
Thanks for entering my life, I am still immature and I know you will leave soon, but every moment we are together has been the happiest of my life. It was fairly recent when I experienced happiness and true content for the first time in my 21 years of miserable life and I am glad you entered my life in this amazing period. It is going to end someday I know, but till then please remember this. I love you A. Yours truly, K
This is one of the saddest records I've listened to, but it's a good kind of sad that makes you want to cry over past memories, offering a kind of catharsis to someone who perhaps hasn't thought about their past in a long time. You all know what I mean?
Just had that moment right now. I’m still very young and I’m starting to understand that feeling this way is something we all deal with. I’m going on a walk to clear my head
Born in 87 and didn't discover them until 2007. Saw them live for reunion in SF in 17.They nailed it. Man is the fanbase alive and well as it should be.
It's like second hand nostalgia almost. I feel oddly nostalgic for some 60s-90s music and it's like every decade has a certain feeling to it. Imo good music transcends generations
In honor of the 20th Anniversary of American Football’s LP1 we're sharing a collection of previously unreleased and newly mastered instrumental demos. Year One Demos - 12” vinyl, one time pressing, limited to 2000 - is available for pre-order now in the Polyvinyl Store (out 12/13).The recordings are a glimpse back at that inauspicious time, and according to Steve Lamos who recently re-discovered the original tape (labeled with the date May 31, 1997), it's the first proper set of demos the band ever made: plyvnyl.co/af-20
Will there be a digital and not limited release (on Spotify, for example) of these first recordings? I would love to listen to them, but I can't but them right now
Have you ever thought that it seems like the song names are correlated with each other in an order like one is an answer for another? I just realized it now.
I'm gonna be honest I miss her so damn much I pushed her to far with me leaving and she finally said it was best. we have been broken up for some time now but my heart hurts I love her so much man. i took her for granted and caused problems I just hope this emptiness doesn't last long.
Hey man, I'm at similar spot right now, just earlier in the journey. It will keep on hurting, I'm certain of that, but that pain is a reminder that what you had was special. Just don't let the self doubt get the better of you; you are worthy of love. You will find it again, perhaps soon, perhaps later, but you will find it when the time is right. Learn from your mistakes because they are there for you (and me) to grow and mature
I had always put this album off, maybe because I just wanted that raw emotion that midwest pen pals gave off in their music, but now that I'm a little older I gave this a listen and I realized raw emotion can be just instrumentation too. Now I'm hooked on old school emo and how...steady it is. Steady in its melancholy, like leaves falling in the crisp autumn air. That quality of slow, graceful aging. The Japanese call it wabi.
I'm 43 and I'm glad I've found this album when I can emotionally digest it. Have I listened to this back in 99 I could have been a completely different person.
This album feels like those last few weeks before high school summer break ends. You're melancholic because the fun of summer is ending but at the same time excited, contemplating your future experiences in the next school year.
I have a strange perception that emotions I feel while listening to this album is the most real thing I've experienced in a while. Amazing album, means a lot for me.
i think i discovered this album 4 years ago, right before i started highschool. it was august 2016 and i was 14. i was a pretty weird ass kid and didnt know how to talk to people. i had three close friends though, still do. they made the whole "teenage loneliness" shit a lot better, as corny as it sounds. now i'm in my second ever semester of college. im 18 and honestly? it's pretty boring. quarantine doesnt help, obviously. but i still dont really know how to make friends so every day is kinda just a blur. still, im glad i have this album to come back to every once in a while. brings me back to those early days of 9th grade, trying to find people who jammed to Basement or Turnover but fucking it up every single time. now i try to find people who listen to Vein and Static Dress and still fuck it up! some shit never changes. also its funny how i'll write an essay on youtube but not in my writing class. it iz what it iz
If I lived in NYC I'd have blown my brains out by now. Not judging your opinion, mind you, but if you'd ever been there you might change your mind. This album is as vast and unsettling as that massive stretch of sky over the flatlands. Watching the sun set on a seemingly infinite horizon while the wind drives the corn into fits of applause is an experience you shouldn't deny yourself. Take highway 80 through Iowa sometime. Especially this time of year. It's lovely. The sense of isolation and smallness is intense out that way.
@@ersatzmachine5732 I've been on east to west road trips and traveled down both coasts. I've been through the U.S. enough to have an opinion of each region. Not only is the midwest culturally boring, but it lacks any memorable scenery when compared to regions like the Pacific Northwest, New England, or Southwest. Sorry man.
It's the kind of album that only makes one nostalgic about the romanticism of the past and the passage of time in your life, but it also illicit s memories in your head that conjure up specific people and loved ones that you may have lost touch with. I've never met anyone in this band, but their music makes me feel as if I've known them my entire life. Truly the definition of playing with all your heart and soul. 10/10
Even though I was born in -99, this album reflects same emotional troubles and thoughts that me, my parents and many other generations of youngsters have gone through. Timeless album and at least for me a classic
There is "something ' in this songs , this album which makes me back to . Eternal nostalgy , youth juices , space vibes from small town . Great in small -small in great .
Desde meus quinze anos eu escuto esse álbum. Ele me ajudou a todo momento com a "pressão" que eu criei em mim mesmo por não ser feliz o suficiente... Esse álbum sempre esteve lá nos momentos mais difíceis e eu não poderia ser tão grato por isso
Same here. I generally do 2 : when the north-east winter is getting the best of me and that indescribable time between when Summer Ends and Autumn begins
I just discovered this band, literally 15 minutes ago. I changed my flight to stay more in Milan to see this band with a person I love that I didn’t see in years. I’m close to this person since when we were like 14, this gonna be a great soundtrack to bring back those old lovely momeries. Thank you American football
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