Anyone who thought I wouldn't be using Joywave for the New York entry hasn't been paying attention. At all.
Joywave are from Rochester, NY, the city I lived in for a quarter century. I don't live their anymore, but that doesn't mean I don't love Joywave.
And there was no fucking way I was featuring a band from New York City. Fuck that. Just, no.
This song, from the band's debut album How Do You Feel Now?, is one that they often use to end their shows...... and they frequently play it twice in a row. It, and not "Dangerous", is absolutely their signature song. The song is scary and in-your-face - by design. That's how it's supposed to sound.
It received a lot of modern rock radio airplay, and is just a great song.
I mention they frequently play this song twice in a row during their sets.
In this particular set, they played it SEVEN times. In the band's words:
On June 21st, 2018 at 6:30 PM Joywave took the stage at PNC Bank Arts Center (now known as The Joywave Center For Performing Arts) in Holmdel, NJ. Dozens of fans were packed into the 17,500 capacity shed, eagerly awaiting the evening’s headline performers. As the band walked out on stage to roars of silence, one devilishly clever audience member suggested the band perform “Free Bird” that evening. But with roughly 17,400 seats reverberating his request throughout the Greater Holmdel area, it was a bit difficult to hear. The following video is an uninterrupted feed of 6:30 PM -7:00 PM ET on that fateful day. A simpler time. The power. The musicianship. The Destruction of Holmdel, NJ. Enjoy.
Yeah. I listened to all of them. They're all solid. The crowd, however, was a little pissed.
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