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  Review by: Brian See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
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Published on October 30th 2007
In several interviews, Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley has already admitted that a healthy portion of Under the Boards was actually written shortly after the release of 2003's abysmal In Reverie. That means some of the material here is not only close to four-years-old already, but that Conley deliberately left it off their 2006 comeback, Sound the Alarm. From there, Conley realized he had a storyline going that he could continue with Under the Boards and mark it as the second part of an ongoing trilogy, Boards acting as "reflection and remorse" after Alarm's "expression of discontent."
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Some thoughts: it's pretty good.. needs a few listens i think. Under The Boards is simply great. For me, this was the easiest/fastest STD album to fall in love with. "Get Fucked Up" is one of the best songs this year. this album is just okay, but sound the alarm and even fucking in reverie are both much better. for me though, it doesn't get better than stay what you are with these guys. i will always have love for that record. i really do get so fucking sick of the "saves the day just ripped off lifetime" thing. every fucking band rips off some other band in one way or another. obviously the dudes in the original saves the day lineup really enjoyed the sound that lifetime was using. being from new jersey themselves, i'm sure they saw them a whole lot. you can't say that certain areas of the country don't have a ton of bands that sound very similar comparitively to other parts of the country. also, i honestly don't think Can't Slow Down sounds nearly as much like lifetime as everyone always claims that it does. that being said, everything after Can't Slow Down is definitely ALL Saves The Day style. Stop using that fucking cop-out of a comparison already. they are definitely from different eras... you cannot compare the two bands. by the time STD started getting big, Lifetime had already broken up. the fact that STD ripped off Lifetime points to that too. lol at that eras comment. Does the seven years between the start of Lifetime and the start of STD really qualify as an era? I think you are throwing that term around too loosely. i listened to the stream and this album is pretty consistently "meh" why would Lifetime cover Saves The Day songs? they're from different eras and Lifetime is legendary... they're in a completely different league than STD "They should do a split with Lifetime, where they cover each others songs." That's awesome. You're just a idiot with feelings. I tend to agree that their a piss=poor band to see. I saw them on this acoustic tour that they were doing, and some body said they'd come all the way from New York to see them play (show was in Arizona.) Chris asked from where, and they named off a county, to which he replied, "Thats not New York, thats basically Jersey." Pretty boring album. Their last three albums have been mediocre at best. I'd still go see them live though. imjackandihateyou: Fucking "Tomorrow Too Late" is too good. That chorus kills me every time. Damn. I disagree with the comment bellow. Although Can't Slow Down is my favourite Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are are great pop albums, even Sound The Alarm has some quality tunes. I haven't heard this yet. two things I need to get off my chest: "the last three songs should have been cut outright. they suck, and bring the album down a few pegs." I'm not saying In Reverie is complete shit, but c'mon, a lot of those songs are boring/filler. connely's vocals were flat on the whole album and the weird double tracking made him sound even worse. There was no agression to it at all, I'm not saying STD are hardcore or anything, but there's a certain passion in the majority of their records that is not present on In Reverie. this guy's voice has gotten more NFG-ish and nasally, dont know how some of you can stand it According to David, from STD, the next album is going to be "a party record." the last three songs should have been cut outright. they suck, and bring the album down a few pegs. while this album does not seem to have the stellar individual tracks that saves the day have been known for, i think this is their most cohesive album to date. i've only heard it a few times and it seems to get better with each listen. scott, there is no way that sound the alarm is their best album. F_ward knows whats up. but he left out rock tonic juice magic, blindfolded, and sell all my clothes, im off to heavan. Favorite songs: Drag in D Flat, Freakish, You Vandal, Deciding, Tomorrow Too Late, This is Not an Exit, the list goes on...... it's staggering how many jokers there are that don't realize what a gem in reverie is. fact: thats the same tree from the no doubt album. I just don't think Saves the Day can do wrong. I honestly love all of their albums. I'm not seeing how people who loved Sound the Alarm aren't liking Under the Boards. It's the same (great) dark tone but further evolved musically. Listen to the drums for instance. Durijah (I think) is the man. I was skeptical of him after Pete Parada's great drumming on Sound the Alarm, but Durijah holds his own for sure. Manny does NOT dissapoint after STA. I was worried he was going to hold back on this album but that's not true at all. He shredsss the bass. As far as guitars go, I think they hit middle ground between In Reverie's ridiculously jazzy complicated chords and structures with Sound the Alarm's more power-chorded songs. It's great. I agree with Scott. There's just something unique about Sound The Alarm. I agree with some of the previous posts that Sound the Alarm is their best album. I think Stay What You Are is kinda overrated, In Reverie is underrated (as in, it wasn't as awful as people thought), and Through Being Cool is still good, mostly because it was one of my favorites in high school. Can't Slow Down was good, but they weren't really writing their own music then. this is good, not quite as good as sound the alarm, but I dig it. you can really hear the glassjaw influence on a few of the slower/heavier songs. Score is for Through Being Cool. This is good. I dunno, in a week or so it might just be an 8. probably, but it was a good record That mini-trilogy at the end of the disc is just so brutally heavy lyrically (and hell, even musically, at least for Saves The Day) that it's hard to listen to -- this album is obviously very cathartic for the dude, and I give him props for even making all of his deep, dark thoughts public. Score is for "Can't Stay the Same" seriously, what the fuck happened to his voice Well, considering the band's best efforts are basically 9s and 10s, yeah. This albums dec. Its nothing to write home about, and its probably my least favorite saves the day cd out yet. but then again I've felt the same about the past 2. Horrible album, if you like this type of music listen to a band like State Radio or something. "Get Fucked Up" and "Radio" are two of the worst songs I have heard all year. Overall garbage album. This band reminds me of Yellowcard. What I really enjoyed about this album which Brian surprisingly failed to mention is its amazing flow. It starts off with "Under The Boards" that sets the tone for the whole album and then it goes upbeat for the first 6 songs until reaches "Stay". From there it's a downhill of depressing songs that just get slower and slower until the combo of "Woe" and "Turning Over in My Tomb" end it in a beautifully haunting way. The songs individually are not that strong, but all together and with Coneley's voice, the album is incredibly powerful. I have to admit, I'm thoroughly impressed with how consistent the album is. It's like a Manic-Depressive disorder in 13 parts. this band has sucked ever since in reverie. everything before that was gold though. what the hell happened to his voice? i think that Sound the Alarm had a few better individual songs on it, but as far as the entire record goes, i think Under The Boards flows so well. definitely enjoy it better than Sound the Alarm. it's ok. i'd give it about a 6 or 7, about the same as sound the alarm. I wasn't too keen on Sound The Alarm (I'd give it maybe a 6). This doesn't really sound like it's better. Meh. Maybe I'll get if off emusic. Sound the Alarm is a horrible record. This is leaps and bounds better, though still far short of the band's glory days. don't like this album at all really i think that sound the alarm was such a positive starting point to new sound for this band. and by starting i meant hoping they'd expand on it. it wasn't too long of an album, which was a good thing. under the boards is just disappointing all around - it's the same formula as the previous effort without the punch. it's the first record in years where saves the day hasn't just totally tried something new and it really shows in the lack of playtime this got after one listen. Chris is through being cool. hardy har har does this have the fast punk tracks that Sound the Alarm had? ...but ah hell, we'll give it 7/10 stars anyway. Chris Connely seems mentally ill on this album... Under the Boards may be rather depressing and far from the band's best efforts... |
