I think we should all give street smart cyclist a listen. They're pretty awesome.
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According to their myspace, Street Smart Cyclist is a 6-piece emo/math band from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. If this doesn't sound awesome, here is a much better description of their sound:
[QUOTE=Jonathan]The other dudes will probably more or less agree with my conception of what constitutes good SSC material, which is: must make you feel like riding a bike/wearing flannel and having a big beard in the fall, and jumping in big piles of leaves; and must be, at its core, comprised of beautiful wussy little melodies, which should get rocked out, played way too hard to the point of almost total obscurity; must unabashedly rip off the promise ring at least once in every song (hehe). Because I think that’s what SSC is for everybody: it’s this great concept of a band that only really exists to have a killer time and get real happy and shrug off all the bullshit of a young person’s life for just a 15 minute set, and take our shirts off. While I’ve just about reached my limit of taking this band entirely seriously, I’d like to make a note about emo, in anticipation of criticism of our use of this term to label Street Smart Cyclist: SSC is an emo band. This band isn’t emo in that pejorative MTV definition where we cry about girls (but i feel like we often do tend to cry about girls). This is different from that because we know where emo comes from and we all love moss icon and rites of spring, as well as angel hair, indian summer, mohinder, fuel, antioch arrow, one-eyed god prophecy, navio forge, usurp synapse, anasarca, policy of 3, jeromes dream, boilermaker, list list list, blah blah blah, yes we are all well aware of what real emo is, and we can probably name more songs by those bands than you can. but its not like aristotle’s concept of the good where if you know them then you will be compelled to abide by them. I know that shit is real emo, but at the same time, i know that braid and cap’n jazz and boys life and the goddamn street smart fucking cyclist are also emo, and they are also fun as fuck, which i understand is completely contrary to the spirit of real emo, but whatever man. I just want to have fun with my friends, and run through fields in the fall, and find birds nests full of cute little robin eggs, and get grass stains on my jeans, and get drunk and drag police barricades and garbage bags in the middle of the street so cars can’t get through and ride my fucking bike.[/QUOTE]
My favorite song
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBv_Q2-HZc8[/media]
I thought this looked like an awesome party
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUcWYqN2OXQ[/media]
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