u/imlyingdontbelieveme

Happy anniversary to Daisy.

Tl;dr: Daisy is the only of Brand New’s albums where two of their core identities as a band come together and blend at the highest level. What was for the band a representation of their purest form at their peak of songwriting and musicianship, fell onto unwilling ears and suffers in reputation because of it’s purposeful sound. A Failure by Design, if you will.

Look, I’m sorry it’s such a long read but I really wanted to find a way to get out all my thoughts about Daisy and how I could try to convince as many people to listen to a record that I not only think is  Brand New’s best album but a Top 3 (and not third) generally in rock music.

To do that I used a spreadsheet of every Brand New album, song, lyric, credit, review, stat and music sheet, popped them in a few python scripts, looked at what came back and tried to write a convincing argument that I assume after reading the title I already have 1,000 people up in arms saying ”But wait a minute tdagarim is WAY better than Daisy”.

Which is fine, you can think that. I just disagree and this essay is an attempt to explain why. 

I love this album - the essay might hold a little bias. I might be projecting here and there. I might make a terrible argument that you end up hating.

That’s all fine. My biggest goal with this is to have you take a break out of your day to read about something written specifically for you, a brand new fan. To let us all show some appreciation for Brand New for a moment, and sit with an album that gets overlooked in the company of it’s sibling releases. 

I hope you have fun.

PS: If you liked my last post about the Deja astronaut, I updated it and made it it’s own essay on that same site here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brandnew/comments/1ma0znf/happy_anniversary_to_the_moment_in_space_flight/

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