Saves the Day - Stay What You Are (w/ guest Matt Koerner)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Musician and songwriter Matt Koerner (feenynj.com) joins Bill and Brian to talk about early aughts pop punk innovators Saves the Day and their breakthrough album Stay What You Are (2001, Vagrant). Matt shares his experience discovering the band as a teen pop punk devotee. Then we get into what it's like listening to a band from your hometown, Weezer's interactions with the band, Chris Conley's evolution and maturation as a songwriter and artist, Rob Schnapf's influence as producer, how this isn't Say Anything, Eben D'Amico's groovy bass, Bryan Newman's ability to make Matt air drum, the Muppets, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bell.
0:02.4	And I'm Brian.
0:03.2	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.1	Today we are talking about 2001's Stay What You Are by Saves the Day.
0:11.6	Tonight will be here the night that we begin to we hear the plugs out of the dam.
0:23.6	And we will stand, and need deep in the floor, the undertow, grab our heels, it won't let go. So what we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:45.1	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and then we cap it all off with a
0:50.6	track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we like about the songs and
0:55.1	the things we think about while listening to the music.
0:58.0	Just kind of think of us as like your couple of buddies hanging out together.
1:02.8	We're like, hey, know that album?
1:05.0	You don't know that album?
1:06.3	Let's listen to this album and we'll talk about it.
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:09.1	Yeah, we just kind of hang out and talk about
1:10.9	the music and it's a good time and we're not doing it alone brian no not this week we're
1:15.8	having matt kerner from the new brunswick uh pop punk emo band feeney join us in studio yeah he actually
1:24.1	came down from like 20 minutes down the road.
1:28.0	Yeah, yeah. Like he was right nearby, which was really cool.
1:30.4	And for anyone who doesn't know, we are in fact based in New Jersey ourselves
1:35.0	and saves the day is a New Jersey band from this area.
1:40.2	Yeah, yeah, not, yeah, not Asbury, which is, you know, we talk about a lot, but an hour away.
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