Weekly Nostalgia: Saves the Day - Stay What You Are

In this case, I'd post a picture of Luke Cripps looking his absolute best at last years Alkaline Trio/Saves the Day/Rival Schools/The Subways sideshow in Melbourne, but unfortunately, that picture has been lost forever. In his own words, albeit alcohol fuelled and hilarious; "I want to look my best for Chris (Conley), I'm going to tell him how much I love him and how he should kick the rest of Saves the Day out and It'd just be me and him".

Wise words, Cripps. Even if Conley just looked at you like a Deer in the Headlights and walked off.

But anyway, Stay Where You Are resonates something special with me, being one of the bands I made the journey for last year, seeing them live was incredible. Starting off with At Your Funeral, my all time favourite song by Saves the Day, the crowd erupted, lighters were shining, arms over shoulders and a lovely couple to my left tounging eachothers intestines.
 

Some Saves the Day fans see Stay What You Are as selling out (up the punx), being slightly more poppy and mellow that their previous release, but fuck 'em. This record got me into Saves the Day, and I've loved everything ever since. Fuck, they even have a couple of GlassJAw members.

There's not really much to be said about Stay What You Are, it's a perfect blend of radio friendly rock, razor sharp (hello typical phrase used in most review-like blogs) lyrics and amazing music.
 

In short, I'm drinking a beer, the sun is setting and i'm blaring Stay What You Are. Perfect.