Mostly Here For Music
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Mostly Here For Music
@justonemusicfan.bsky.social
Started this account to share a countdown of my top 100 albums of the 21st century so far. You can find that if you scroll to the start. Sticking around enjoying other, mostly music, stuff.

This is entirely my opinion. Meant for fun only.
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Hey, all #MusicChallenge / #musicsky people! I’ve decided a #newmusicchallenge is in order for December. Announcing now to give you prep time.

I’ve doing lists like this - with varied audiences - for years & been excited about them. Let’s have fun!

(A few other thoughts in thread below 👇🏻)
I’m 99% for this! The 1% is for the times when I don’t have cash.

BUT why I’m reposting is even more about agreement with the comment that you shouldn’t be allowed to pay extra to skip the line! YES! That’s so incredibly rude. Turned an okay night into an absolutely miserable one a while back…
On national jukebox day I must come out against being able to control the jukebox from your phone, people should know who put on that awful song and you should stand there and support your taste with whole heart
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act
Of the whole American people, which declared that
Their legislature should make no law
Respecting an establishment of religion
Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Thus building a wall of separation
Between Church and State”
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Mostly Here For Music
Hey, all #MusicChallenge / #musicsky people! I’ve decided a #newmusicchallenge is in order for December. Announcing now to give you prep time.

I’ve doing lists like this - with varied audiences - for years & been excited about them. Let’s have fun!

(A few other thoughts in thread below 👇🏻)
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New music! Well, kinda! This just dropped as a single. I’ve been wanting this since April when the album arrived.

Album - Rooms By The Sea - technically isn’t out yet, beyond crowdfunding. When it is, I recommend it enthusiastically. Hasn’t quite reached the heights the last one did for me yet…
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I noted a year end list is tentative

Things arrive late — Caramel - win!
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

I’m not gonna stall this trying to create a fancy graphic - some of you do amazing ones - but here’s my text recap:
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

When we weeeeeeeeeeeeere only kids…

Nostalgic, acoustic, magic. Back at #10, there was the one that referenced the feeling "like a slow song starting to accelerate,' which is perfectly showcased here.

#1: Shadows and Regrets

youtu.be/8ljDhmX0Dic?...
Yellowcard Shadows and Regrets Music Video
YouTube video by Tiago Morais
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Well, my #ArtistFave15 pick has been ready to go, but I’m just freaking tired of playing games with being told I can’t post what I wrote because it’s too long. Frustrating, for something that should be celebratory. Don’t have time to play silly games and rearrange it all right now. 😕
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

Why not screw with expectations?

This one had a big impact.

Sleeping all day, staying up all night.

A few friends sent me street sign photos because of it.

Was beyond obsessed in 2003/04, and… it hasn’t gone away.

#2: Ocean Avenue

youtu.be/X9fLbfzCqWw?...
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
YouTube video by YellowcardVEVO
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Yellowcard

It's predominantly a Ryan / guitar ballad. I discovered this one at the first show I saw. It’s perfect.

YC has been putting out great songs since, but… hard to top this… but I have two more…

#3: Rough Draft

youtu.be/99VqN7PrpKM?...
Yellowcard - Rough Draft [live]
YouTube video by deecoyc
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

Everything is gonna be alright... (x3)... be strong, believe.

The best blending of violin and punk they ever did.

The 9/11 stuff was overdone in US culture, but this is nothing short of perfect. Best experienced opening a show*.

#4: Believe

youtu.be/eSd_iTChv1Q?...
Believe - Yellowcard
YouTube video by lilitali
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Yellowcard

Recent entry praised album. These two tracks are inseparable, hence…

The night I saw them do an opening with these two songs paired together was important. How every YC show should start…

#5: Convocation/Transmission Home

Live vid this time:
youtu.be/W4q73ewLBJc?...
Yellowcard - Convocation / Transmission Home
YouTube video by Stephen Rees
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

Top five about to kick off soon, & I’m confident in these picks…

Life comes at the speed of light
But there’s a place in time for me when
Love runs into into everyday
Over every place that I’ve been
I wanna wipe these tears from my eyes
I wanna search & see what I find
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

#6: Empty Apartment

OA album cut. Seems important. Seems like it could've been a single, but, hey, this was before the era of "let's release 145253242 singles before the album and then release nothing as a single."

youtu.be/Y1gHa6VZXqA?...
Empty Apartment
YouTube video by Yellowcard - Topic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Yellowcard

Title track from their best album of the 2010s. It's great.

#7: Lift a Sail

youtu.be/wmWvWQ2Hw_4?...
Yellowcard - Lift a Sail (audio)
YouTube video by YellowcardVEVO
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Yellowcard

This one - maybe it should be higher - I watched a movie for this I didn’t like much and this never appeared. “Music from and inspired by…” - we didn’t need another “Spider-Man” thing in 2004, nor now.

#8: Gifts and Curses

youtu.be/Cu5msj7yWbo?...
Yellowcard - Gifts And Curses
YouTube video by Pop Punk Rarities and B-Sides
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It’s a significant new CD day - and this one feels important - Sombr / I Barely Know Her. Now, I had previewed via YouTube Music, because, for some odd reason, it’s was released on steaming early and on CD today. (Makes no sense to me.) Anyhow… 👍👍. It’s a win….
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Grammy nominees are showing up!

Not to spoil my year-end singles list too much, but I have clear choices for the “big four”:

The Subway
Swag
Golden
sombr
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Yellowcard

With just 15, stuff is lost. Acoustic guitar ballads get unspoken bonus points. L&S was a great album, but this wins from that album.

#9: How I Go

youtu.be/f-5ppz6Wi2I?...
Yellowcard - With You Around
YouTube video by Hopeless Records
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

My fav WYTTSY track.

"Like a slow song starting to accelerate" - YC can do that; it resonates. YC has made both super-fast punk songs, and beautiful slow ballads.

Aligns with my taste - as YC has over the last 24 years.

#10: With You Around

youtu.be/f-5ppz6Wi2I?...
Yellowcard - With You Around
YouTube video by Hopeless Records
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#ArtistFave15
Yellowcard

EXTRA

The prior extra was the oldest to me, and this one is one of the newest. My fav track on the new album.

It evokes nostalgia, the vibe is good... and among YC-only, it reminds me a bit of the upcoming #10...

Bedroom Posters

youtu.be/eI08BaiUYz4?...
Yellowcard - Bedroom Posters (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Better Noise Music
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Yellowcard

Third single from the breakthrough album. One of my favs from first listen of that album.

The album version is great. The acoustic version is even better, esp when you experience it live, paired with another one that's coming up.

#11: Only One

youtu.be/RJLkcPhVi9w?...
Yellowcard - Only One (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by YellowcardVEVO
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Yellowcard

2nd fav WYTTSY* track

In the vein of "Something of Value.” Got #6 from me that year but seems like it deserved higher; Foster the People, Guster, Gaga, Adele got in the way. But when I think of 2011 musically, stands tall...

#12: Hang You Up

youtu.be/9qndx2CNGeo?...
Yellowcard - Hang You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Hopeless Records
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Yellowcard

Thematically, it's essentially the same as the last, except I don't have any personal connection to it.

This was from one of those cool "Punk Goes..." compilations that did well in the early 2000s.

#13: Firewater

youtu.be/6Mo5du76zfg?...
Yellowcard - Firewater
YouTube video by PUNKGOES13
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Yellowcard

This song was perfect to me just a few months after the album came out and I latched onto it.

#14: Keeper

youtu.be/kFiX3anjpIk?...
Keeper
YouTube video by Yellowcard - Topic
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM