New Found Glory

I didn’t expect to say this, but…this was a really good show. My take of NGF going into this show, and still after, is this: their last two albums are kinda horseshit, but Nothing Gold Can Stay is brilliant and their self-titled album is one of the top pop-punk albums ever.  S/T is oh-so catchy to the point of me knowing the lyrics to pretty much every song.  I admit I like Sticks and Stones as well, but I never caught on to that one quite so much.

Anyway, 2010 marks the 10-year anniversary of the S/T album and NFG celebrated by playing the entire album on this tour.  I was expecting this show to be a routine gig with a mix of songs throughout their career and me pretty much enduring the newer/unknown ones to have fun with the older tracks.  So that I got to hear one of my favorite albums live (I still feel like such a pop-punk geek admitting that, but it’s solid, and if you can’t at least admit its catchiness…get over yourself) was pretty rad. It was nice hearing the rare-live-song Black and Blue. This show totally took me back a decade; I would have attended this easily in 2000. The band played that entire album then came back for an encore of a handful of other newer songs.  I was a bit bummed they didn’t include any songs from Nothing Gold Can Stay.

Saves The Day, along with two others, opened the show.  I caught the end of the STD act.  I never really got into them, tho I can admit they have a couple cool tunes.  The show had a good crowd that rocked along with the openers and just exploded for NFG.  Thanks to Krista for convincing me/giving me an excuse to go to this show.  Even my metal-head buddy Casey, who isn’t into these bands so much, granted they put on a good show. Who knows if I’ll catch them again, but I’m glad I made this one.