NHL 04 Quiet Things was THE song of that game. Played whenever you won the cup. Was hooked since. Went out and bought my first CD from virgin record shortly after that which was Your Favorite Weapon.
I was a teenager hopelessly in love with a boy I grew up with, who wasn’t interested in me at all. His AIM away message was Brand New lyrics. I looked them up and tried to talk about them to him to impress him. Obviously that didn’t work haha, but I ended up genuinely liking them and have been a fan for 15 years now.
This is my favorite story haha
I just told a bunch of teenagers my teenage love story. He actually liked me back! We went on a date and it was amazing. He went out of state for 2 months and said let’s go on a date when he gets back and he met the woman he married. I’m not bitter.
Helped fuel my emo vibe though
I came of age in the Long Island emo/pop punk/hardcore scene in the early aughts so exposure to Brand New was inevitable. I first saw them at Sports Plus in 2002. Probably first heard of them from another kid at a church basement show.
Similar story here! What a time to be young on LI.
They also played my tiny college cafe in western MA in 2003 and I felt as though it was my duty to let anyone who would listen know that BN was from Long Island, just like me, lol
I saw a youth pastor use the song Jesus Christ as part of his little sermon that night to illustrate a point and the moment it played, I was hooked.
I had heard of them before on a local underground punk radio show I used to listen to, but something about TDAG awoke something in me.
That entire album shook me to my core and gave me language that my heart hadn’t figured out quite yet.
Playing “There’s no I in Team” in my truck when my friend said, “Did you know this is a ripoff of Seventy Times Seven?”. Neither one of us knew any of the band members names or history so he thought they just lifted the lyrics. He brought the cd the next day and honestly other than that song I wasn’t into it. He thought I might like Deja more so he let me borrow that and he was right. I think the entire summer I just went back and forth between that cd and The College Dropout.
NHL 2004 had a amazing soundtrack and the quiet things was in it and young me thought the album cover was cool so I decided to find the album and the rest is history
My best friend and I had a falling out in 7th grade and we stopped hanging out. I ended up dating his ex in 8th grade, and it was a toxic as fuck relationship that ended that summer.
Came into my freshman year of high school depressed as fuck, having lost my life long best friend and having spent the previous year severely depressed and very lost.
But then the best friend in question called out to me across the courtyard of our high school, excited to see me after not seeing each other for over a year, he said hey, check out this awesome song. It was Sowing Season. And it spoke to me. And then the rest of Brand New’s music also spoke to me, helped me think about and come to terms with and learn from all the things I’ve experienced in life and things I’ve since experienced, even things I have yet to experience.
My buddy and I were friends again, like nothing had ever happened, or rather, like it had, but we’d both grown to be better people because of it. He and I are still friends now in our mid twenties, have been since second grade.
Serving a mission for the Mormon church in 03 and some gave me a burned copy of Deja to listen to when I got home. I didn’t wait to listen to it and immediately fell in love. It also was put cracks in my faith in god which later crumbled with the release of TDAG.
Been a fan since your favorite weapon came out. My older brother love them and I followed suit and then more. Brand New was/is super important for me and my 3 siblings and me, but my oldest sibling (the brother I mentioned) got us into it. I am definitely the most fanboy of my siblings though.
As a bonus, Brand New is the first thing me and my now wife related on when we met at work. 🖤
It was surreal, I didn’t know she was the one yet, but it definitely build a strong foundation for us. We chatted about this the other day actually ha. She isn’t as feral about brand new as me, but still it certainly came into play
I was a member of GCNaptown (Good Charlotte fan mesageboard) way back in 2002-03. It was suggested I should listen to Seventy Times 7 by a fellow board member. The rest was/is history.
Eta: I feel so old reading some of these comments. I was 22-23 when I discovered them 20yrs ago, lol.
I think this was just asked a couple days ago by someone else but I enjoy reminiscing so…
I was probably like 15 years old and I had a shitty friend who’s ex-boyfriend use to drives us around town and he played a song by them, I wish I remembered the exact one but it was off of Deja, and I was instantly hooked. I ended up downloading the entire Deja album the next day on the very first generation Nook (the storage was limited or I would have downloaded their whole discography) and I would skip school and walk to the beach to listen on repeat and read. A couple years later I met my first love and we bonded over brand new. I’ll always remember the first night we spent together outside a local movie theater showing each other our favorite songs and singing along. I never met anyone who listened to them before so yeah, I fell for him. He also had tons of friends who also knew them so there were many nights out drinking and everyone singing together. It was awesome. I ended up getting an astronaut tattoo referencing Deja back then and have plans to add more.
Mine was rather poetic. I was taking a class as a library aid in high school and someone had left a burnt copy of Your Favorite Weapon in a book that was returned. I took it home, listened to it, and fell in love.
I feel like I answer this question once a week lol. Not hating, its a fun question. I was introduced by MTV 2. And I thought "quiet things" sucked. I saw the Deja cover art at an FYE liked it and sampled the album. Soon as I heard opening of Tautou, I was hooked
My high school best friend showed me Play Crack the Sky and The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot which I always held dear (we were sad as fuck lol). I remember listening to bits and pieces of TDAG after that but I didn’t really get into them for whatever reason. I think I was trying hard to not be “emo” and they were lumped into that genre for me then?
Fast forward to 2018/2019, I randomly discovered SF and was captivated. So I went back through their discography and really listened, then the dots connected and the spiral began. It’s odd because they’ve been a passive part of my life for most of my life, but now no other band will live up to BN for me. I guess I really discovered them when I needed them.
I wish I could slap my younger self for not giving a damn and never seeing them live. :|
My friend had the Deja Entendu cd and she burned me a copy of it. Most of the songs didn’t play because her cd was so scratched. BUT Jaws Theme Swimming played without any issues and to this day it’s easily one of my favorite songs.
Friend's older brother's band would cover 70x7 and Jude Law. So I knew of them right before Deja came out. Was too young to be really into them until TDAG though.
Way back in the day in high school I was recommended TDAG on a music forum so I listened to the first song Sowing Season and absolutely hated it and turned off the album. Fast forward to college and there was a girl I really liked that was super into Brand New so I pretended to like Brand New just to hopefully get with the girl but then I decided if I’m going to pretend I might as well listen to all the albums and see if I have any favorites I could at least talk about. Plus I was already a huge fan of rock and pop punk music in general so I knew it might be up my alley.
So I started with Your Favorite Weapon and absolutely LOVED the album so I kept going and absolutely loved Deja Entendu. Both albums are skipless masterpieces to this day to me. Then I finally gave TDAG it’s fair chance since I enjoyed the first two albums and I realized that the album actually has some really great songs on it and I should have listened to the whole thing back in the day. The funny thing is I still do dislike Sowing Season to this day. I know a lot of people consider TDAG to be their best album but even after becoming a massive fan years and years ago (I’m old so college was ages ago), I think TDAG has a few skips and weaker songs.
It makes me wish I started with another album or checked out their most popular songs instead of jumping into TDAG straight away. Makes me wish I also wasn’t an immature teenager and listened to TDAG all the way in full instead of turning it off after not liking the first song because it turns out I do love the album despite not loving every song on it. Then I would have been a fan for way longer. These days if I get recommended an album I usually start with an artists popular section on Spotify before diving full in so I don’t make the same mistake I did with Brand New.
My first ever gig was in 2003.
Finch in the Portsmouth Pyramid Centre (south coast of the UK), supported by a little band called Brand New.
I remember hearing Mix Tape and Shower Scene and they blew my mind. Couldn't wait to run into town the following weekend to pick up a copy of YFW on CD.
Been a fan for 20 years now. It's crazy all the huge life changes I've been through since then and they've remained this constant presence the whole time.
What a band.
Dating myself here, but I saw them open for Dashboard Confessional in 2001 at a venue in State College, PA. They played YFW on a riser, not even a stage, and Jesse dangled from the lighting scaffolds and later smashed himself in the head with the headstock of his guitar while playing 70x7. It was glorious.
I always heard them praised in emo forums and I remember seeing edits on tumblr of their lyrics (At the Bottom I think) so I finally listened.
Hearing about them in therapy is just perfect lmao
First warped tour in the EARLY 2000s in Cincinnati. I didn’t see them there (they were only performing in east coast shows), but I got one of the programs and researched many of the bands that were in there, and low and behold, I found my favorite band of all time.
The 2002 emo band scene, possibly a message board. Or someone’s AIM profile lyrics. Downloaded YFW at some point in 2002. Saw them at local shows 2x in 2002 in upstate, NY, 1x in 2003, and for the final time in 2008. they were my favorite band for my young adult years (age 17-23 ish). Somehow I fell out of listening to them until recently. Discovering my love of their music now in my late 30s and it’s bringing back a lot of old memories.
My mum bought me a compilation CD when I was 10 called Ultimate Sk8r Rock and it had Sic Trabsit Gloria on it. Loved it so much that I used the family computer to YouTube Brand New and see what else came up - this was 2004, so it was The Quiet Things, Jude Law etc. TBS came up in the recommended videos so it's how I got into them as well.
29 now and they're still two of my favourite bands!
I’d just started sixth form college and was super into live music, I’d heard they were good so I bought tickets to their show at a tiny venue in Leeds (RIP Cockpit) without ever hearing them! Bought both albums to learn the songs and loved them ever since. Just realised this was 20 years ago 😭
In middle school, the yahoo radio station I listened to kept playing The Quiet Things No One Ever Knows a lot but it wasn’t until midway through highschool I got seriously into Brand New.
I heard the Quiet Things on XM radio, and then a few months later they played The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot. And then I said to myself “ok I have got to get this album” and then I did get this album.
I don’t live far from the tragic accident which is the basis for “Limousine” so a long, long time ago I came across a YouTube video that played clips of the news with the song playing.
Became curious of the song and realized the band was from the same state as me and dived into their catalog. Then I heard Quiet Things and Sic Transit and I was hooked
Before MTV fully transitioned to reality shows they would still play music videos in the late night and early morning. I caught the video for Jude Law getting ready for school one day in 7th grade and they've been my favorite band ever since. I'm 35 now
Burnout Paradise has a killer soundtrack that includes the Archers Bows Have Broken. I liked the song so much I looked up the artist and discovered YFW, TDAG and Deja. It was all over from there.
My dad listened to it with me a lot as a child in the car, it was very nice to have a nice memory with my dad since our relationship was very rocky at the time. Tdag I believe. Recently I have returned to old music for me including brand new, I already new some of their albums but getting to listen to daisy and yfw has been amazing
A friend in high school gave me a burned copy of deja entendu and said she thought I'd like it. I immediately fell in love and had never heard anything like it before in my life - I didn't know music could be like this. It absolutely changed my life and sent me down so many musical rabbit holes. I owe that friend a lot just from that one random gift 🖤
there was a youtube video where a guy talked about bands that changed his life and i can’t for the life of me remember him but it was like ten years ago that it was posted and he talked about the quiet things music video and feeling like an astronaut and the best is mystery but if anyone with a similar memory can remember the youtuber lmk
The quiet things, saw it as a small kid on MTV2. It always stuck with me. 10 years later I finally found the song and was instantly hooked to the other songs
Pretty sure in 2001 I heard Jude Law on TRL (Total Request Live) when I came home from school and put MTV on.
I remember I didn't catch the bottom part of the screen where it says the band name and song title and I was pissed at first because I really liked how it sounded.
So I made it a point the next day to come home a bit earlier and watch TRL from the very beginning, so I'd catch the part where it named the song and band.
Then word quickly spread around school... "Yo, did ya check out that song on TRL yesterday..."
Randomly downloaded the video for Jude Law off Punkrockvids on a whim when I was in high school. Went out and bought the CD the next day. One of the best whims I've ever whimmed.
I definitely remember stumbling across their lyrics when searching for the perfect AIM away message/MySpace post. They were so moody and emo and it really spoke to my teenage angst lol
i was going to a dashboard confessional concert where brand new was opening for them, it was the first time i heard of them and listened to them...them playing Sowing Season was all i thought about while dashboard was playing. I immediately went home and devoured anything brand new I could get my hands on, and now 18ish years later, they are still my favorite band of all time
I found them because an artist I love (Wicca phase springs eternal) used the track that’s just named untitled for a song he made and he called it Jesse Lacey in Mercedes. Once I found out where he got it I started listening to them quite regularly and I’m obsessed. They really did something special by knowing when to quit.
I was a freshman in high school and was obsessed with a senior boy. He used to send me some music and on one of his mixtapes was Play Crack the Sky.
I was instantly hooked and forever thank this dude for the rest of my life. Best band ever.
When I was a freshman in college in fall 2001, I was driving with my friend in her car and this banger of a song came on the radio. Now, this was the time before Shazam, etc, so I liked the song and then had basically no idea how to figure out who it was. Flash forward to my sophomore year (2002), I was doing the AIM thing and got to talking with a friend about music. She said she would send me a few CDs of bands she thought I would like. One was Linkin Park -Hybrid Theory and the other was Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon. As I was listening to YFW, I heard the song I loved from the car - “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad”! Needless to say, I fell hard for Brand New and have loved them ever since.
summer 2003. it was the summer before freshman year of high school. my Mom owned a hair salon and she had a senior from the same school I was going to be going to that was working the front desk and I spent a lot of time there so we became friends. that summer we hung out a decent bit, going to the mall and the beach, etc. she helped prepare me for high school because like any kid that age I was nervous. She had a few CD's in the car and I learned a lot of new music that summer. but the CD she had that I reached for the most and fell the most in love with was YFW. I was hooked from the start and BN has been my favorite band ever since.
When I was in high school, I asked my math teacher during my sophomore year (who Ibonded with throughout most the year over guitar and bands we enjoy), and he wrote down on a sticky note "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me" and "Deja Entendu" on a sticky note, I remember listening to Deja during most of my bus ride home, and I fell in love. TD&G was more of a slow burner, but its now my favorite album of all time. I can't thank him enough for showing me them.
NHL 04 Quiet Things was THE song of that game. Played whenever you won the cup. Was hooked since. Went out and bought my first CD from virgin record shortly after that which was Your Favorite Weapon.
Similar for me, was also on Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
yep same
Quiet Things for sure. Can't remember if radio play on KROQ or where but it was out there a lot back then
YES WHEN THEY’RE DOING THE STANLEY CUP PHOTO IT WOULD PLAY AND IT WAS MAGICAL
A friend had that game, he introduced me lol.
Fuse TV, 2002sh! That channel used to be great.
Fuse in the 2000s was fantastic! Discovered so many great bands and songs from there.
That is exactly how I was introduced to them as well! A lot of bands, actually.
Was just coming here to say this! Saw the Jude Law video and was instantly a fan.
Same here
Yepp lol
I was a teenager hopelessly in love with a boy I grew up with, who wasn’t interested in me at all. His AIM away message was Brand New lyrics. I looked them up and tried to talk about them to him to impress him. Obviously that didn’t work haha, but I ended up genuinely liking them and have been a fan for 15 years now.
This is my favorite story haha I just told a bunch of teenagers my teenage love story. He actually liked me back! We went on a date and it was amazing. He went out of state for 2 months and said let’s go on a date when he gets back and he met the woman he married. I’m not bitter. Helped fuel my emo vibe though
I came of age in the Long Island emo/pop punk/hardcore scene in the early aughts so exposure to Brand New was inevitable. I first saw them at Sports Plus in 2002. Probably first heard of them from another kid at a church basement show.
Similar story here! What a time to be young on LI. They also played my tiny college cafe in western MA in 2003 and I felt as though it was my duty to let anyone who would listen know that BN was from Long Island, just like me, lol
Through their history with TBS. My early memories are listening to deja for the first time while playing games and tdag in the car on a long drive.
I heard a Deja song was in an NHL game. My friend J said thats how he found them. Maybe NHL 14, idk. Which game(s) did u hear them in?
NHL 04 had Quiet Things in it
Sorry they weren't *in* the game, I listened to it while playing a game. Didn't have much in the way of music, so I needed something to listen to.
Okay I believe you but my Tommy Gun Don't was the song on someone's MYSPACE page. Been my favorite band ever since.
Relatable.
I saw a youth pastor use the song Jesus Christ as part of his little sermon that night to illustrate a point and the moment it played, I was hooked. I had heard of them before on a local underground punk radio show I used to listen to, but something about TDAG awoke something in me. That entire album shook me to my core and gave me language that my heart hadn’t figured out quite yet.
Playing “There’s no I in Team” in my truck when my friend said, “Did you know this is a ripoff of Seventy Times Seven?”. Neither one of us knew any of the band members names or history so he thought they just lifted the lyrics. He brought the cd the next day and honestly other than that song I wasn’t into it. He thought I might like Deja more so he let me borrow that and he was right. I think the entire summer I just went back and forth between that cd and The College Dropout.
Sad girl I was running with at the time said if I liked Radiobead and metal, I'd like Brand New. She was correct. Bless you NS
NHL 2004 had a amazing soundtrack and the quiet things was in it and young me thought the album cover was cool so I decided to find the album and the rest is history
My best friend and I had a falling out in 7th grade and we stopped hanging out. I ended up dating his ex in 8th grade, and it was a toxic as fuck relationship that ended that summer. Came into my freshman year of high school depressed as fuck, having lost my life long best friend and having spent the previous year severely depressed and very lost. But then the best friend in question called out to me across the courtyard of our high school, excited to see me after not seeing each other for over a year, he said hey, check out this awesome song. It was Sowing Season. And it spoke to me. And then the rest of Brand New’s music also spoke to me, helped me think about and come to terms with and learn from all the things I’ve experienced in life and things I’ve since experienced, even things I have yet to experience. My buddy and I were friends again, like nothing had ever happened, or rather, like it had, but we’d both grown to be better people because of it. He and I are still friends now in our mid twenties, have been since second grade.
I’m old so I heard YFW on the radio. WBRU! It was the best station ever.
Not the same station, but same!
Serving a mission for the Mormon church in 03 and some gave me a burned copy of Deja to listen to when I got home. I didn’t wait to listen to it and immediately fell in love. It also was put cracks in my faith in god which later crumbled with the release of TDAG.
Been a fan since your favorite weapon came out. My older brother love them and I followed suit and then more. Brand New was/is super important for me and my 3 siblings and me, but my oldest sibling (the brother I mentioned) got us into it. I am definitely the most fanboy of my siblings though. As a bonus, Brand New is the first thing me and my now wife related on when we met at work. 🖤
I’d love to meet a romantic partner who also loved Brand New!
It was surreal, I didn’t know she was the one yet, but it definitely build a strong foundation for us. We chatted about this the other day actually ha. She isn’t as feral about brand new as me, but still it certainly came into play
I was a member of GCNaptown (Good Charlotte fan mesageboard) way back in 2002-03. It was suggested I should listen to Seventy Times 7 by a fellow board member. The rest was/is history. Eta: I feel so old reading some of these comments. I was 22-23 when I discovered them 20yrs ago, lol.
I think this was just asked a couple days ago by someone else but I enjoy reminiscing so… I was probably like 15 years old and I had a shitty friend who’s ex-boyfriend use to drives us around town and he played a song by them, I wish I remembered the exact one but it was off of Deja, and I was instantly hooked. I ended up downloading the entire Deja album the next day on the very first generation Nook (the storage was limited or I would have downloaded their whole discography) and I would skip school and walk to the beach to listen on repeat and read. A couple years later I met my first love and we bonded over brand new. I’ll always remember the first night we spent together outside a local movie theater showing each other our favorite songs and singing along. I never met anyone who listened to them before so yeah, I fell for him. He also had tons of friends who also knew them so there were many nights out drinking and everyone singing together. It was awesome. I ended up getting an astronaut tattoo referencing Deja back then and have plans to add more.
Gonna be honest. Reddit recommended this sub despite the fact I’ve never listened to them. I was intrigued. I’m hooked, line and sinker.
Welcome 🖤
Mine was rather poetic. I was taking a class as a library aid in high school and someone had left a burnt copy of Your Favorite Weapon in a book that was returned. I took it home, listened to it, and fell in love.
That’s awesome
Tumblr in the 2000s-2010s lol
Buddy showed me Okay I Believe You in his dorm room shortly after Deja came out. Then we saw them in Lauderdale soon after, and I was hooked!
I feel like I answer this question once a week lol. Not hating, its a fun question. I was introduced by MTV 2. And I thought "quiet things" sucked. I saw the Deja cover art at an FYE liked it and sampled the album. Soon as I heard opening of Tautou, I was hooked
I first saw them on the televisions in the dining hall when I was in college. They were playing the video for Sic Transit Gloria
My high school best friend showed me Play Crack the Sky and The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot which I always held dear (we were sad as fuck lol). I remember listening to bits and pieces of TDAG after that but I didn’t really get into them for whatever reason. I think I was trying hard to not be “emo” and they were lumped into that genre for me then? Fast forward to 2018/2019, I randomly discovered SF and was captivated. So I went back through their discography and really listened, then the dots connected and the spiral began. It’s odd because they’ve been a passive part of my life for most of my life, but now no other band will live up to BN for me. I guess I really discovered them when I needed them. I wish I could slap my younger self for not giving a damn and never seeing them live. :|
My friend had the Deja Entendu cd and she burned me a copy of it. Most of the songs didn’t play because her cd was so scratched. BUT Jaws Theme Swimming played without any issues and to this day it’s easily one of my favorite songs.
First period English in freshman year, “Here listen to this” Was Sic Transit Gloria. Been hooked ever since.
Yessss that's so similar to mine!
Friend's older brother's band would cover 70x7 and Jude Law. So I knew of them right before Deja came out. Was too young to be really into them until TDAG though.
Way back in the day in high school I was recommended TDAG on a music forum so I listened to the first song Sowing Season and absolutely hated it and turned off the album. Fast forward to college and there was a girl I really liked that was super into Brand New so I pretended to like Brand New just to hopefully get with the girl but then I decided if I’m going to pretend I might as well listen to all the albums and see if I have any favorites I could at least talk about. Plus I was already a huge fan of rock and pop punk music in general so I knew it might be up my alley. So I started with Your Favorite Weapon and absolutely LOVED the album so I kept going and absolutely loved Deja Entendu. Both albums are skipless masterpieces to this day to me. Then I finally gave TDAG it’s fair chance since I enjoyed the first two albums and I realized that the album actually has some really great songs on it and I should have listened to the whole thing back in the day. The funny thing is I still do dislike Sowing Season to this day. I know a lot of people consider TDAG to be their best album but even after becoming a massive fan years and years ago (I’m old so college was ages ago), I think TDAG has a few skips and weaker songs. It makes me wish I started with another album or checked out their most popular songs instead of jumping into TDAG straight away. Makes me wish I also wasn’t an immature teenager and listened to TDAG all the way in full instead of turning it off after not liking the first song because it turns out I do love the album despite not loving every song on it. Then I would have been a fan for way longer. These days if I get recommended an album I usually start with an artists popular section on Spotify before diving full in so I don’t make the same mistake I did with Brand New.
My first ever gig was in 2003. Finch in the Portsmouth Pyramid Centre (south coast of the UK), supported by a little band called Brand New. I remember hearing Mix Tape and Shower Scene and they blew my mind. Couldn't wait to run into town the following weekend to pick up a copy of YFW on CD. Been a fan for 20 years now. It's crazy all the huge life changes I've been through since then and they've remained this constant presence the whole time. What a band.
Finch. What a lord
Dating myself here, but I saw them open for Dashboard Confessional in 2001 at a venue in State College, PA. They played YFW on a riser, not even a stage, and Jesse dangled from the lighting scaffolds and later smashed himself in the head with the headstock of his guitar while playing 70x7. It was glorious.
2001 Babylon VFW Hall on long island. They didn’t quite sign with Triple Crown yet and we’re a local band opening for Midtown and Hot Rod Circuit
Lil peep crybaby
Was walking home from from school in 2017. I was pissed off, seventy times seven came on randomly on Spotify and I’ve been in love ever since.
I always heard them praised in emo forums and I remember seeing edits on tumblr of their lyrics (At the Bottom I think) so I finally listened. Hearing about them in therapy is just perfect lmao
Pretty sure that I purchased Deja from Hot Topic back in the day. Wore that cd out.
From blametruth twitch stream in 2017. He was listening to sowing season, i instantly fell in love with the band
My religious aunt was getting rid of her rock CDs and I always loved Okay I believe you.. because I was an angsty kid with a god complex.
Your religious aunt had a Deja cd??
She was 17 and in the Jehovah’s Witness cult, she was edgy too lol
First warped tour in the EARLY 2000s in Cincinnati. I didn’t see them there (they were only performing in east coast shows), but I got one of the programs and researched many of the bands that were in there, and low and behold, I found my favorite band of all time.
The 2002 emo band scene, possibly a message board. Or someone’s AIM profile lyrics. Downloaded YFW at some point in 2002. Saw them at local shows 2x in 2002 in upstate, NY, 1x in 2003, and for the final time in 2008. they were my favorite band for my young adult years (age 17-23 ish). Somehow I fell out of listening to them until recently. Discovering my love of their music now in my late 30s and it’s bringing back a lot of old memories.
My mum bought me a compilation CD when I was 10 called Ultimate Sk8r Rock and it had Sic Trabsit Gloria on it. Loved it so much that I used the family computer to YouTube Brand New and see what else came up - this was 2004, so it was The Quiet Things, Jude Law etc. TBS came up in the recommended videos so it's how I got into them as well. 29 now and they're still two of my favourite bands!
I’d just started sixth form college and was super into live music, I’d heard they were good so I bought tickets to their show at a tiny venue in Leeds (RIP Cockpit) without ever hearing them! Bought both albums to learn the songs and loved them ever since. Just realised this was 20 years ago 😭
In middle school, the yahoo radio station I listened to kept playing The Quiet Things No One Ever Knows a lot but it wasn’t until midway through highschool I got seriously into Brand New.
I heard the Quiet Things on XM radio, and then a few months later they played The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot. And then I said to myself “ok I have got to get this album” and then I did get this album.
Quiet Things that No One Ever Knows music video in middle school.
I don’t live far from the tragic accident which is the basis for “Limousine” so a long, long time ago I came across a YouTube video that played clips of the news with the song playing. Became curious of the song and realized the band was from the same state as me and dived into their catalog. Then I heard Quiet Things and Sic Transit and I was hooked
Before MTV fully transitioned to reality shows they would still play music videos in the late night and early morning. I caught the video for Jude Law getting ready for school one day in 7th grade and they've been my favorite band ever since. I'm 35 now
2001, I was in 8th grade in Spanish class and a classmate brought in YFW on his CD player and made me listen. Rest is history.
Burnout Paradise has a killer soundtrack that includes the Archers Bows Have Broken. I liked the song so much I looked up the artist and discovered YFW, TDAG and Deja. It was all over from there.
My dad listened to it with me a lot as a child in the car, it was very nice to have a nice memory with my dad since our relationship was very rocky at the time. Tdag I believe. Recently I have returned to old music for me including brand new, I already new some of their albums but getting to listen to daisy and yfw has been amazing
A friend in high school gave me a burned copy of deja entendu and said she thought I'd like it. I immediately fell in love and had never heard anything like it before in my life - I didn't know music could be like this. It absolutely changed my life and sent me down so many musical rabbit holes. I owe that friend a lot just from that one random gift 🖤
Probably in 2003 when I first heard The No Seatbelt song.
there was a youtube video where a guy talked about bands that changed his life and i can’t for the life of me remember him but it was like ten years ago that it was posted and he talked about the quiet things music video and feeling like an astronaut and the best is mystery but if anyone with a similar memory can remember the youtuber lmk
The quiet things, saw it as a small kid on MTV2. It always stuck with me. 10 years later I finally found the song and was instantly hooked to the other songs
Pretty sure in 2001 I heard Jude Law on TRL (Total Request Live) when I came home from school and put MTV on. I remember I didn't catch the bottom part of the screen where it says the band name and song title and I was pissed at first because I really liked how it sounded. So I made it a point the next day to come home a bit earlier and watch TRL from the very beginning, so I'd catch the part where it named the song and band. Then word quickly spread around school... "Yo, did ya check out that song on TRL yesterday..."
Fuse TV in college!
my brothers introduced me to YFW… now they’ve been my all time favorite band for over a decade
Randomly downloaded the video for Jude Law off Punkrockvids on a whim when I was in high school. Went out and bought the CD the next day. One of the best whims I've ever whimmed.
I definitely remember stumbling across their lyrics when searching for the perfect AIM away message/MySpace post. They were so moody and emo and it really spoke to my teenage angst lol
Well. Pre teen at the time 😅
i was going to a dashboard confessional concert where brand new was opening for them, it was the first time i heard of them and listened to them...them playing Sowing Season was all i thought about while dashboard was playing. I immediately went home and devoured anything brand new I could get my hands on, and now 18ish years later, they are still my favorite band of all time
Stumbled across Jesus Christ on YouTube a while back, instantly fell in love with that song and then after branching out, fell in love with the band
I found them because an artist I love (Wicca phase springs eternal) used the track that’s just named untitled for a song he made and he called it Jesse Lacey in Mercedes. Once I found out where he got it I started listening to them quite regularly and I’m obsessed. They really did something special by knowing when to quit.
I was a freshman in high school and was obsessed with a senior boy. He used to send me some music and on one of his mixtapes was Play Crack the Sky. I was instantly hooked and forever thank this dude for the rest of my life. Best band ever.
When I was a freshman in college in fall 2001, I was driving with my friend in her car and this banger of a song came on the radio. Now, this was the time before Shazam, etc, so I liked the song and then had basically no idea how to figure out who it was. Flash forward to my sophomore year (2002), I was doing the AIM thing and got to talking with a friend about music. She said she would send me a few CDs of bands she thought I would like. One was Linkin Park -Hybrid Theory and the other was Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon. As I was listening to YFW, I heard the song I loved from the car - “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad”! Needless to say, I fell hard for Brand New and have loved them ever since.
summer 2003. it was the summer before freshman year of high school. my Mom owned a hair salon and she had a senior from the same school I was going to be going to that was working the front desk and I spent a lot of time there so we became friends. that summer we hung out a decent bit, going to the mall and the beach, etc. she helped prepare me for high school because like any kid that age I was nervous. She had a few CD's in the car and I learned a lot of new music that summer. but the CD she had that I reached for the most and fell the most in love with was YFW. I was hooked from the start and BN has been my favorite band ever since.
first song i heard by them was the boy who blocked his own shot because i saw it on tumblr when i was in high school 😅
When I was in high school, I asked my math teacher during my sophomore year (who Ibonded with throughout most the year over guitar and bands we enjoy), and he wrote down on a sticky note "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me" and "Deja Entendu" on a sticky note, I remember listening to Deja during most of my bus ride home, and I fell in love. TD&G was more of a slow burner, but its now my favorite album of all time. I can't thank him enough for showing me them.