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December 12, 2011

Albums That Changed My Life

I wrote this feature for Alter the Press on four albums that changed my life. Click the link above to view the additional three. Here’s an excerpt of the most obvious one.

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Jawbreaker - Dear You

I first received this record from a good friend in high school as a spontaneous gift that I really didn’t deserve. I spent that entire year pandering around unreciprocated feelings, like pulling away each time he tried to hold my hand but kissing him goodbye when he dropped me off at my house. I was confusing, indecisive and did things just because I felt like it and for no other reason—the very things I’ve come to abhor about the opposite sex, though that’s a vast generalization and I’m pretty much still that same way. Like most of the things he gave me—the small sips of alcohol underneath the deck in his backyard and my first cigarette—I consumed, disregarded and never said thank you. The record ended up unopened in a dresser drawer, waiting. It wasn’t until years later when I was haphazardly tearing through my belongings to pack for college that I threw the unopened CD in with the rest of the CDs that never made it to my MP3 player. When I finally listened to“Dear You”, it opened up a whole new world of music which is what I primarily listen to six years later. I loved the songs for the very fact that they were contradictory; they were slow and sad but not soft like a small tinge of sadness that rests in the back of your chest. They were loud, and for some reason, that overwhelming wave of dissonant guitars and distortion sounded exactly the way I felt and for a moment, I could breathe easy.
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