listen closer

and it's all from watching tv.

brand new "okay i believe you but my tommy gun don't"
"i hope this song starts a craze, the kinda song that ignites the airwaves." i loved brand new's first album, i really did, they nailed the poppunk thing the first time around. but their second outing, deja entendu is leaps and bounds over their first. hardly the same genre besides in their choruses, they stepped it up. jesse lacey's voice owns this song, which sounds almost like it was recorded in a silo. it builds on its bassline and breathy vocals. "deja entendu" means 'the feeling of having heard something before', but despite something about the album all sounding intentionally familiar, it simultaneously sounds like nothing else. i've kind of given up trying to make genre excuses for people who i think will go "oh brand new? isn't that some crappy poppunk band?" because if they're going to do that, nothing i say will change it. all i can say is listen to it and hope you do.
--from deja entendu [2003]

shout out louds "the comeback"
i may be wrong, but i'm pretty sure this song starts a sample from exciteabike. from there it ends up as a catchy-as-hell strokes-ish jaunt (sorry, i know comparing things to the most obvious "everyone's heard it" source is lame, but... i do it anyways!). i'm tired and late with my post, so just grab this song and wonder why you haven't heard it before!
--from howl howl gaff gaff [2003]