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lol yea see told you I had a feeling!

Even though the albums weren't your favorite, glad you found some songs to like! The band is extremely near and dear to my heart, I've seen them in concert 5 times now (which isn't crazy a lot but a fair amount) and their shows are always super fun. Twice on a boat, one time on Halloween where they all costumed and played as a different fictional band they made up, once outside right next to a beach in summer, and once on the final Vans Warped Tour where I got to meet them and take a picture with them all after the show. The boat shows in particular were intense, it was EXTREMELY intimate and the band was playing right above us with no barriers or anything. The ceiling to the room on the boat they were playing would always break and get holes in it from people crowdsurfing and jumping by the end, that's how intimate it was. Also home to my favorite concert memory, when they closed the first boat show with the song Indian Giver (yep one of the songs here!) I happened to be standing near the side of the stage by the stairs towards the front the whole show, and for the ending section of the song they actively started wanting people on the stage and I was one of the first up there. Ended up going shoulder to shoulder with Keith and holding him as he sang out the last part and then I managed to get over to Jordan the guitarist and helped lift him up in the air as he played the final notes. It was insane and such a good closing.

Anyway, now to my further recommendations. I fought with myself on whether to nominate it but decided to go with these two albums, but you would probably like their most recent album the most. It also happens to be my favorite album from them too. They have 2 songs on it that have completely clean (sung) vocals, and the lyrics are as fantastic as ever. Two other ones that I'll put here that you might either absolutely hate or absolutely love because of the lyrics I think, one having to do with cults and the other being probably their absolute bleakest song lyrically having to do with Keith's wife (now very recently separated sadly) struggle with giving birth to their daughter and how they almost both died. I think checking out the whole album would be worth it, also you might like their more groovy Southern-riff songs so The Big Dirty is a good album for those things. Honestly every album of their has stuff to come to for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_tsUBzfMOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXgTYWndBuk

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