I would pay to be fulfilled

Song: Beleaders
Day: 8/1/2006
Artist: End of a Year (here's a version from a previously released split w/ threefifteen)
Source: Sincerely
voice in ear: "Davin, no one wants to read yet another rant by someone well into their adult years about the tragectory of the word and idea 'emo'"
me: "but its key to understanding why this band is so compelling to me, see back in the mid 80s through the early 90s or so..."
voice in ear (interrupting): "what did I just say?"
me: "but come on, they are named for an Embrace song. Besides, I wasn't going to try to win the term back. You can't stop language from changing. Its gone, I give up."
voice in ear: "about time, you were starting to sound like you were trying out for that national language board I heard the french have."
me: "haun-haun-hau"
voice in ear: "yeah, I know, it's a cheap shot"
me: "still, all I am saying is what was cool about the first few waves of bands tagged with the e-word is that they were willing to push the boundaries of what punk/hardcore sounded like while still maintaining punk's immediancy and intenstity. I mean I love Minor Threat and Bad Brains as much as the next person, but sometimes I want to hear something else."
voice in ear: "What about your extensive collection of Amy Grant records"
me: "I thought I told you never to mention those"
voice in ear: "sorry, so for you it comes down to a retro-punk/progressive-punk thing?"
me:"well I have a lot of records with bands playing fast power chords. listen to this song. Its clearly got the drive of a punk song, but the main riff is a bass and two guitars playing off each other. A little like a fugue. It gives the song a loose, open feel even though the interplay is pretty tight. In this way they kind of remind me of a less showy 1.6 Band."
voice in ear: "who?"
me: "never mind. Or perhaps early Public image limited if you took out some of the dub elements and noisier tendancies and sped up the tempo some."
voice in ear: "uh, Ok"
me: "but also its about the lyrics. What's cool about Embrace or Rites of Spring or Heroin or Moss Icon or the Hated is that their songs weren't all about bad relationships and getting dumped, they had this outward looking element to them as well. End of Year picks this up with some (perhaps a tad sarcastic) existentialist commentary:
There's something missing, there's something missing
I've tried girls and jobs/all that's left is drugs and god"
voice in ear: "Fair enough. But Davin, no wants to read an over-long imaginary dialog. Who do you think you are, Plato?"
me: "shut up, you."