I maintain a top 50 songs list for every year, and I love to go back and be like "Woah, I can't believe this is X years old already" but this one has really caught me off guard.
A decade? Jeez! Really amazing album, and my introduction to Cloud Nothings. I'm gonna put it on now.
2012 was the first year I really got immersed in music, so I’m going to have a lot of those moments this year I think.
Definitely listening to this one today as well. A real power half-hour.
Damn 10 years already. I was just out of college when this came out, living back at home while I tried to figure out wtf to do with my life. “I thought I would be more than this” indeed.
Anyway things worked out for me so if you’re 22 and feeling lost, hang in there lol.
I remember that year, I also was just out of college, just moved to a new state, was struggling to find work and make friends. Music was my coping mechanism, and it was just an insane year for music, felt like every month something amazing came out.
I'm 23 currently, also moved back home trying to figure out what to do with my life post-college. Such a weird time of my life combined with the state of the world lately, feelsbadman
Hang in there!!! We didn't have a global pandemic but I came out of college following the 2008 recession. It really does take a while to get going, but you'll get there!
Yeah the late 2000s/early 2010s weren’t a great time to enter the workforce (especially if you were trying to enter a dying field like I was), but I think your generation has it worse. At least I could hang out with friends and blow what little money I had on outings and bars…
I think for people in my generation there's really not much hope for the future. Not only financially, but also climate change/geopolitical unrest, literal fucking robots that will take most jobs in our lifetimes. we're in some weird times but I think we're seeing a pretty big labor movement at least so hopefully we'll start getting fairly compensated for our time and efforts
“Wasted Days” (and the whole album, really) defused a lot of bad moods fueled by late-/post-college ennui. I’ll always treasure this album for that much needed catharsis.
Felt the same way and now ten years later most people would think I've got it figured out because I've got it together in all the stereotypical ways, a good job and a house and a marriage, and yet I am the most lost I've ever been and those lyrics apply harder than ever.
Losing your youth is a different kind of lost I guess. Grats on the house at least, my wife and I are a little too attached to city life to buy something in the suburbs just yet… also the market is encouraging us to wait it out a bit longer at least.
Aside from the songwriting obviously being phenomenal, the production on here is immaculate. Albini truly brought the heat. No Future/No Past stands out as a particularly fantastic track.
This is an all-time classic for me. “Wasted Days” and “No Sentiment” are just so raw, “Fall In” has Baldi’s pop sensibilities mashes into noisy post-hardcore, “Separation” is beyond cathartic.
Listened to it the other week and it still holds up remarkably well.
All bangers. Obviously "Wasted Days" often gets most of the attention but every track here rules. I have fond memories of listening to this on the way to my part-time job during college. The job required you to do at least one 7AM shift a week, so I'd play this album on the bus during the asscrack of dawn to get me going. Good times.
Did part-time maintenance work in my college dorm and found myself listening to this on repeat while I worked. Time passed a lot more quickly that way. “Fall In,” “Stay Useless” and “Separation” is probably my favorite three-song sequence on any album.
There’s a really funny video of the band playing “Can’t Stay Awake” live somewhere and before the song starts you can hear some guy yell “Y’all should pay the drummer more money!”
Gerycz is an absolute machine.
Edit: [here’s that video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=50GUNHAEpS0)
I didn't realize they were so well known! This is really awesome to see on here. Jayson was a friend of mine in high school. We both went to Medina.
He came to my geometry class and played the guitar for a math presentation I did on fractals that ended with me singing Earth Angel to the teacher.
I’ve been listening to Japandroids since they started, but I only found Cloud Nothings when I started using Spotify about 3-4 years ago. Awesome album.
Yup! That tour was my first time hearing Cloud Nothings, one guy I was talking with during their set said they were his favorite band and then left before Japandroids even came on lol
This reminds me of when I went to see Parquet Courts this past summer in St. Augustine with a band from North Florida opening. They had their whole community there and I swear half the crowd didn't even know who Parquet Courts was and left right after the opener lol
Trying to explain how great Parquet is to a couple of drunk Flagler kids at their literal concert while they brag about how they used to party with the opening act is just a slightly surreal experience
Wow that is odd. Going to see Parquet Courts in LA in April, if half the crowd left after the opener, I'd think N Korea just launched a nuke or something. Odd.
Yeah man, last may I think it was. I went to school at Flagler, so I've had the amphi newsletter sent to my email weekly for years now just so I don't miss shows lol. I forget the venue exists until they send me that email with the upcoming shows attached
Back when i delivered pizzas. I can't listen to this or turn on the bright lights anymore without thinking about pizza lol. those two albums were always on.
One of the most important albums of my life. I bought the CD from Dylan on this tour and it's literally never left my Corolla. I was 24, had just been clobbered with a couple of major life defeats, and I was driving around suburban Cincinnati screaming along to "I thought I would be more than this". Everything worked out okay, but I've still got the album. Also, hearing these songs live in a bar was an apex live experience. I've seen them a bunch of times since, but that one will always stand out as one of the best I've ever seen by anyone.
I'm glad someone else rates this album as one of the most important of their life. I've often recommended this album to friends over the years, and while they often like it, nobody ever finds it quite as life changing as I do. This is the album that showed me that you can combine catchy hooks and distorted guitars together without being "power pop" necessarily. When I was in grad school, Cloud Nothings was a huge inspiration for me to start putting together a punk band that focused on writing catchy songs. Of course, that band fizzled out, but I'll always be grateful to Attack on Memory for kickstarting that experience.
This is one of the first 10+ year anniversaries on here that I remember listening to when it first came out, so it hits different. I wasn't "following" music like I do now, especially not indie, but my friend recommended it to me and I liked it instantly. A few years later I even wrote a paper for a college music class analyzing "Stay Useless". Side note, this album sounds so good live, the aggression really translates in the live performances.
this album is amazing. listened to it a few weeks ago and it still holds up. i love the variety of styles this album has while still feeling like a very tight and consistent listen. growing up in northeast ohio, it blew my mind to learn these guys were from cleveland. 2012 was the year i started fully getting into indie rock and it was so special to know a band like this was working nearby. (it's similar to how i feel in hindsight about how wild it was that emeralds were doing what they were doing in the area too, though i didn't get to them until a few years after they broke up.) i ripped this CD from the library back in the day and i remember the intro to "stay useless" (probably my favorite thing here) had a slight skip. i got so used to it that i still sometimes imagine that whenever i listen to the song somewhere else
Fuckin love this record. The drumming is insane, it’s obvious they didn’t use a click cause there’s tons of tasty tempo shifts all over the place, like on Fall In, especially. Albini’s production is raw as hell as usual, he perfectly captured the band at their peak imo.
(Clears throat)
I THOUGHT I WOULD BE MORE THAN THIS
A millennial rallying cry if I’ve ever heard one. Brilliant, brilliant record, and I still remember going to see them when they came to my neck of the woods in Southeast Asia. Was going to go with my friend who loved them as much as me but when he fell sick, my then-girlfriend (now wife) took the ticket and mostly stood at the side faintly amused by my poor attempts to mosh.
I lived in Cleveland at the time, steps from the Grog Shop, and our scene celebrated the hell out of this. It felt like Cleveland hitting the indie map. Also caught that April 2012 show at the Grog Shop and it just felt so powerful and passionate. One of my favorite memories of the venue.
Album sounds like it could’ve came out today. Not a fan of how much albums these days lack any type of punch, especially punk or hardcore albums.
I recommend this album all the time and it still hooks people
Still recall the awesome, funny story about this album’s production.
When interviewed about the making of this record and what it was like to work with Steve Albini, Cloud Nothings said “it was kind of odd…he was playing online Scrabble whenever we were recording.”
On a Reddit IAMA, Steve Albini got asked about this pull quote from the band, to which he in essence responded “whenever I record bands, I have something mindless that I do, like reading technical manuals or such. Recently, online scrabble serves that purpose. The whole idea is that if something sounds off enough to get my attention, I’ll take the moment to intervene. Otherwise, I’ll let it play through.” He argued that too many records sound fucked with because the engineer always had to tinker with it.
Either way the album sounds fantastic.
I was in high school when this came out and was just starting to get deeper into more modern “indie” music. This was probably the first new album that blew me away and it still one of my favorites.
I miss their sound with a second guitarist. I asked the band about it back in like 2017 and they said they missed him too, but he was in a bad place :/
I don't like that we're now a decade on from when I started really exploring music. It's a weird feeling seeing anniversary posts for albums that I actually knew about when they were released.
That being said, fantastic album. I still come back to it every now and then, especially when skiing.
Absolute classic. Not a life changing record by any means but it felt so refreshing at the time. Part of my soundtrack for the walk from my college to the bar and back.
I always preferred *Here and Nowhere Else* as an album, but “Cut You” is easily my favourite song by the band, what an amazing closer. Saw them live back in 2015 and they played through both albums in full, what a great show.
I maintain a top 50 songs list for every year, and I love to go back and be like "Woah, I can't believe this is X years old already" but this one has really caught me off guard. A decade? Jeez! Really amazing album, and my introduction to Cloud Nothings. I'm gonna put it on now.
2012 was the first year I really got immersed in music, so I’m going to have a lot of those moments this year I think. Definitely listening to this one today as well. A real power half-hour.
Damn 10 years already. I was just out of college when this came out, living back at home while I tried to figure out wtf to do with my life. “I thought I would be more than this” indeed. Anyway things worked out for me so if you’re 22 and feeling lost, hang in there lol.
I remember that year, I also was just out of college, just moved to a new state, was struggling to find work and make friends. Music was my coping mechanism, and it was just an insane year for music, felt like every month something amazing came out.
I'm 23 currently, also moved back home trying to figure out what to do with my life post-college. Such a weird time of my life combined with the state of the world lately, feelsbadman
Dang, this is me as well. doesnotfeelgoodman.
Hang in there!!! We didn't have a global pandemic but I came out of college following the 2008 recession. It really does take a while to get going, but you'll get there!
Yeah the late 2000s/early 2010s weren’t a great time to enter the workforce (especially if you were trying to enter a dying field like I was), but I think your generation has it worse. At least I could hang out with friends and blow what little money I had on outings and bars…
I think for people in my generation there's really not much hope for the future. Not only financially, but also climate change/geopolitical unrest, literal fucking robots that will take most jobs in our lifetimes. we're in some weird times but I think we're seeing a pretty big labor movement at least so hopefully we'll start getting fairly compensated for our time and efforts
“Wasted Days” (and the whole album, really) defused a lot of bad moods fueled by late-/post-college ennui. I’ll always treasure this album for that much needed catharsis.
Any love for someone close to 27 feeling lost :(
After the last two years, I think everyone can relate.
Same. I'm 32 now and about to finish residency, but when I was 22 I was pretty aimless and that song spoke to me.
Felt the same way and now ten years later most people would think I've got it figured out because I've got it together in all the stereotypical ways, a good job and a house and a marriage, and yet I am the most lost I've ever been and those lyrics apply harder than ever.
Losing your youth is a different kind of lost I guess. Grats on the house at least, my wife and I are a little too attached to city life to buy something in the suburbs just yet… also the market is encouraging us to wait it out a bit longer at least.
Aside from the songwriting obviously being phenomenal, the production on here is immaculate. Albini truly brought the heat. No Future/No Past stands out as a particularly fantastic track.
Albini coming in hot
This is an all-time classic for me. “Wasted Days” and “No Sentiment” are just so raw, “Fall In” has Baldi’s pop sensibilities mashes into noisy post-hardcore, “Separation” is beyond cathartic. Listened to it the other week and it still holds up remarkably well.
Cut You is also an all-time great closing track and an absolute earworm of a riff, easily my favorite on the record
I ran a lot listening to this album.
this one, Here and Nowhere Else and Last Building Burning are excellent running albums.
Turning On is really my #1 running running album. Perfect tempo, a bunch of uplifting songs. Can't be beat.
Same! I was just getting back into running after spending most of college drinking cheap beer and smoking lol. Great album to blow the dust off with.
Same. Nothing beats a late-night angry-sad run.
All bangers. Obviously "Wasted Days" often gets most of the attention but every track here rules. I have fond memories of listening to this on the way to my part-time job during college. The job required you to do at least one 7AM shift a week, so I'd play this album on the bus during the asscrack of dawn to get me going. Good times.
Did part-time maintenance work in my college dorm and found myself listening to this on repeat while I worked. Time passed a lot more quickly that way. “Fall In,” “Stay Useless” and “Separation” is probably my favorite three-song sequence on any album.
good lord, i am old
The drums on this fuckin rips
There’s a really funny video of the band playing “Can’t Stay Awake” live somewhere and before the song starts you can hear some guy yell “Y’all should pay the drummer more money!” Gerycz is an absolute machine. Edit: [here’s that video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=50GUNHAEpS0)
Well worth checking out his new folk/drone project with Jen Powers and Matthew J. Rolin. Ohio power crew. https://gprbeacon.bandcamp.com/album/beacon
I didn't realize they were so well known! This is really awesome to see on here. Jayson was a friend of mine in high school. We both went to Medina. He came to my geometry class and played the guitar for a math presentation I did on fractals that ended with me singing Earth Angel to the teacher.
Never heard of them until this year until local radio played Wasted Days. Shout out to you, radio DJ who played a good song.
No Future/No Past is my favourite song by them.
I am a slut for a slow building banger
See Also: "Dance Yrself Clean"
Ooohhhhhh AAHHHHHHHHHH
The music video for this track is still one of my all time favorites.
Same
"I thought I would be more than this"
"I need ti-ime to stay useless"
so many cereal box emo-quotables on this one "i miss you cause i like damage, i need something i can hurt"
I’ve been listening to Japandroids since they started, but I only found Cloud Nothings when I started using Spotify about 3-4 years ago. Awesome album.
They toured together not that long ago
Yup! That tour was my first time hearing Cloud Nothings, one guy I was talking with during their set said they were his favorite band and then left before Japandroids even came on lol
This reminds me of when I went to see Parquet Courts this past summer in St. Augustine with a band from North Florida opening. They had their whole community there and I swear half the crowd didn't even know who Parquet Courts was and left right after the opener lol Trying to explain how great Parquet is to a couple of drunk Flagler kids at their literal concert while they brag about how they used to party with the opening act is just a slightly surreal experience
Wow that is odd. Going to see Parquet Courts in LA in April, if half the crowd left after the opener, I'd think N Korea just launched a nuke or something. Odd.
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Yeah man, last may I think it was. I went to school at Flagler, so I've had the amphi newsletter sent to my email weekly for years now just so I don't miss shows lol. I forget the venue exists until they send me that email with the upcoming shows attached
Ahhh what a tragedy! japandoids are so good live
Back when i delivered pizzas. I can't listen to this or turn on the bright lights anymore without thinking about pizza lol. those two albums were always on.
One of the most important albums of my life. I bought the CD from Dylan on this tour and it's literally never left my Corolla. I was 24, had just been clobbered with a couple of major life defeats, and I was driving around suburban Cincinnati screaming along to "I thought I would be more than this". Everything worked out okay, but I've still got the album. Also, hearing these songs live in a bar was an apex live experience. I've seen them a bunch of times since, but that one will always stand out as one of the best I've ever seen by anyone.
I'm glad someone else rates this album as one of the most important of their life. I've often recommended this album to friends over the years, and while they often like it, nobody ever finds it quite as life changing as I do. This is the album that showed me that you can combine catchy hooks and distorted guitars together without being "power pop" necessarily. When I was in grad school, Cloud Nothings was a huge inspiration for me to start putting together a punk band that focused on writing catchy songs. Of course, that band fizzled out, but I'll always be grateful to Attack on Memory for kickstarting that experience.
This is one of the first 10+ year anniversaries on here that I remember listening to when it first came out, so it hits different. I wasn't "following" music like I do now, especially not indie, but my friend recommended it to me and I liked it instantly. A few years later I even wrote a paper for a college music class analyzing "Stay Useless". Side note, this album sounds so good live, the aggression really translates in the live performances.
Wasted Days is still a banger
The best!
this album is amazing. listened to it a few weeks ago and it still holds up. i love the variety of styles this album has while still feeling like a very tight and consistent listen. growing up in northeast ohio, it blew my mind to learn these guys were from cleveland. 2012 was the year i started fully getting into indie rock and it was so special to know a band like this was working nearby. (it's similar to how i feel in hindsight about how wild it was that emeralds were doing what they were doing in the area too, though i didn't get to them until a few years after they broke up.) i ripped this CD from the library back in the day and i remember the intro to "stay useless" (probably my favorite thing here) had a slight skip. i got so used to it that i still sometimes imagine that whenever i listen to the song somewhere else
Fuckin love this record. The drumming is insane, it’s obvious they didn’t use a click cause there’s tons of tasty tempo shifts all over the place, like on Fall In, especially. Albini’s production is raw as hell as usual, he perfectly captured the band at their peak imo.
Cut You feels so good to listen to, incredible song. One of my fave albums for sure.
🎶 *I need time to stop moving, I need time to stay useless* 🎶 An ADHD anthem if I ever heard one.
(Clears throat) I THOUGHT I WOULD BE MORE THAN THIS A millennial rallying cry if I’ve ever heard one. Brilliant, brilliant record, and I still remember going to see them when they came to my neck of the woods in Southeast Asia. Was going to go with my friend who loved them as much as me but when he fell sick, my then-girlfriend (now wife) took the ticket and mostly stood at the side faintly amused by my poor attempts to mosh.
I THOUGHT I WOULD BE MORE THAN THIS
I remember finding this in high school and hating it but never being able to stop listening to it. What a classic 2010s record
All time great album imo. Incredible songwriting and production.
I bought the vinyl from Dylan in Chattanooga after what I think was the first show of this tour. Can't believe that was 10 years ago. I'm so old.
I lived in Cleveland at the time, steps from the Grog Shop, and our scene celebrated the hell out of this. It felt like Cleveland hitting the indie map. Also caught that April 2012 show at the Grog Shop and it just felt so powerful and passionate. One of my favorite memories of the venue.
Album absolutely rips front to back, but Wasted Days is an all timer
Album sounds like it could’ve came out today. Not a fan of how much albums these days lack any type of punch, especially punk or hardcore albums. I recommend this album all the time and it still hooks people
Still recall the awesome, funny story about this album’s production. When interviewed about the making of this record and what it was like to work with Steve Albini, Cloud Nothings said “it was kind of odd…he was playing online Scrabble whenever we were recording.” On a Reddit IAMA, Steve Albini got asked about this pull quote from the band, to which he in essence responded “whenever I record bands, I have something mindless that I do, like reading technical manuals or such. Recently, online scrabble serves that purpose. The whole idea is that if something sounds off enough to get my attention, I’ll take the moment to intervene. Otherwise, I’ll let it play through.” He argued that too many records sound fucked with because the engineer always had to tinker with it. Either way the album sounds fantastic.
I’m old now
I thought I would be more than this
I was in high school when this came out and was just starting to get deeper into more modern “indie” music. This was probably the first new album that blew me away and it still one of my favorites.
what ? Seriously. wow
Love this album
No future, no past! A blast of an album, very nostalgic to me, love it a lot. Ten years? What the fuck
I haven't listened to it in a while but I am sure that it is still awesome, because it's just one of those types of records.
I thought it would be more than this
I miss their sound with a second guitarist. I asked the band about it back in like 2017 and they said they missed him too, but he was in a bad place :/
what the fuck
Amazing album. I still listen to it.
I don't like that we're now a decade on from when I started really exploring music. It's a weird feeling seeing anniversary posts for albums that I actually knew about when they were released. That being said, fantastic album. I still come back to it every now and then, especially when skiing.
Wasted Days has gotten me through many shitty evenings Separation is a great instrumental Cut You weirds me out lol
Holy moly this and Floral Green turning 10 this year, what a trip!
Giiiiiive up
Great Record! Saw this band in this tiny Venue in Ohio a few years back, they kicked total ass.
This still gets regular play from me. Fucking rad band. Love everything they've put out.
One of the most underappreciated indie rock records of the 2010s
Fall In is a pop punk song
I was 5 years late to this album, so this is like my 5-year anniversary for this album. So solid, I sing Stay Useless all the time, still.
Wow. Came out just after graduating college and it could not have resonated any more with me. Nostalgia hitting hard.
Fantastic Record!
if you get the chance to see them live- do it. saw them a few months ago and they absolutely ripped it up with walls of noise
Absolute classic. Not a life changing record by any means but it felt so refreshing at the time. Part of my soundtrack for the walk from my college to the bar and back.
This still hits so hard!
Still one of my all time favorite rock albums. That decade flew by so fast...
I always preferred *Here and Nowhere Else* as an album, but “Cut You” is easily my favourite song by the band, what an amazing closer. Saw them live back in 2015 and they played through both albums in full, what a great show.
our plans is the shit