a friend of mine burned me a copy of this when it first came out, problem is it was missing like 3 tracks. i ended up just buying the album myself.
i have to say this album helped me get through the second half of 8th grade.
this is a no-skips album, so picking my favourites was a little tricky.

a no skips album imho. this one makes my brain really happy for vibin out. i feel ashamed that i don't have any personal memories attached to this album. it FEELS like nostalgia when i think of the adventures i had as a kid and teen when i was in the woods. Rustbelt Appalachia.

i am excited to see what After releases as time goes on. i came across them completely by accident on youtube with 300 dreams and i was HOOKED.

newest album and artist i've checked out (mar.2026) and it's a great dreamy and dancey album. i am a sucker for horoscope themed songs~

Kakenukeru may have changed my brain chemistery forever...an album i listened to a lot while developing Gentleman Syndrome.

i first discovred Ellegarden on a Jrock rotation site back in 2005 with "Missing". i fell in love and BEGGED my parents for a physical copy of Riot on the Grill for my birthday. This is a noskips album and all of these songs mean so much to me. so when i heard One Piece's Egghead opening Carmine i screamed when i realized it was ELLEGARDEN.

this album came out around a very rough time in my life and so it hits all those low feelings of anger and guilt, but there are those high moments of hope.
laying on my floor in the dark wondering if my heart could ever heal or if i'm always going to feel this empty.
i never got to say my apologies, but life moves on...
also all those banjo solos slap

this album was like a Sword of Damocles...it was enjoyable and had so many bops. when i discovered it through Skeleton Song i had no idea how hard some of these songs reflected my feelings with my relationship(s) at the time and i ignored those feelings...then i was 21 and i'd hear Foundations and i'd breakdown into tears.

great album~

i listened to a lot of these songs while developing the very EARLY stages of Gentleman Syndrome's story. i'd say this was the PEAK tumblr hipster music influence lol.

another artist i listened to while developing the very EARLY stages of Gentleman Syndrome, for Jim's band Halo of Thorns. Jim's a bit of an angsty heartbroken writer and i feel like this is how early Halo of Thorns would sound in his basement.

the quintessential myspace music for a future manic pixie dream girl.
no skips on this one because it is just that impactful, though i had no idea the early memeability of Hide and Seek until i watched one of the AMV Hells.

Another banger of an album. another album i listened to a lot while developing Gentleman Syndrome. i sort of storyboarded a fake "ending credits" to in bloom.

an ex sent me the song Nothing Better in an attempt to apologize, but i really don't think they listened very carefully to the lyrics. Either way, i liked the song a lot and the album. i am embarrassed that i didn't realize the connection with Death Cab for Cutie...long until my late 20's.
a good album for when i'm feeling nostalgic for my teen years.

my friends and i went through a ska/punk phase during the summer '07. We mostly blasted "Favourite Noise" (a compilation album) more when we'd drive around, but i liked listening to this one on it's own.
anyone remember the Waterman flash animations...wonder if that movie's every coming out

My favourite album from Asian Kung-Fu Generation, with no skips so this was hard to pick my favourite songs. Sol-fa is mandatory J-rock listening 101, but i'm more drawn to Fanclub.

i believe this was my introduction to BSMR and it just made my brain happy.
when i think about exploring the woods, the railroad tracks and abandoned warehouses in my hometown this is the music that comes to mind.

look...the music video for Drive made 9 year old me feel and experience multiple thiiiiings. i'm not going to explain them...
didn't get to listen to the full album til i was in my mid teens, so my favs will be the mainsteam radio played songs, BUT i do prefer the acoustic versions of Make Yourself and Stellar.
Brandon's voice is just *chefs kiss*

i was going through an indie hipster phase in the wee early days of tumblr. these particular songs have a spooky folk vibe to it which i dig. So they were pretty influential to the early days of Gentleman Syndrome too.

there was a mutual i had on tumblr introduce me to Futurecop! because i mentioned i was looking for something similar to a chiptune artist who had deleted all of their music. this was when i was still into fighting games.

i wouldn't be doing this album any justice by yapping about it. it's perfect, it's heartbreaking, it's...carrie & lowell

Great album to throw on when i'm writing certain aspects of Somnium Saturnia or Roadkill Asylum.

another album that's changed my brain chemistry. i like that i can throw this on when i want to relax/nap or when i want to hyperfocus and draw for hours.

another band i discovered through Jrock Rotation Sites. i thought the name was goofy and i instantly fell in love with Clover. always makes me smile~

Anonanimal was on a 'mixtape' that was floating around on tumblr in the summer of '09. found a lot of great music that way. the latter half of the year was chaotic so finding new genres of music to explore wasn't so much as a distraction, but just a new discovery of self.

2013 was a rollercoaster of a year and this album really reflects that to me.

another no skips album. in highschool i was developing a story which i later incorporated into Gentleman Syndrome and this was a good sound inspiration for Halo of Thorns when they were more estalbished, but a lot of the themes worked well for The Giant Skeleton.

depressed that ELLEGARDEN went on an hiatus...happy that Takeshi Hosomi developed the Hiatus.
i really only find myself drawn to the songs that give the same energy as ELLEGARDEN.
some of the the more orchestral/softer songs are enjoyable, but it sounds like it's trying to be a movie soundtrack?
Centipede was very much The Giant Skeleton's song and still is to this day.

i like this album, but i really only return to my favourite songs here...because of how much it reminds me of ELLEGARDEN, but i understand it's trying to be it's own thing too.

depressed that ELLEGARDEN went on an hiatus...happy that Shinichi Ubukata developed Nothing's Carved In Stone.
good album, feels familiar to ELLEGARDEN, but i like that it's different.

good album, feels very "anime" which doesn't surprise me since two of the songs on this album were used as opening themes. (nothing i've checked out)
lot's of great guitar rifts and it always gets me pumped up.

danced around my room a lot the spring/summer this came out. life at that moment sucked so getting lost in the music helped.

a mutual on deviantArt shared their myspace and i thiiiiink i downloaded it from some sort of chiptune message board or their website. i don't think it was 8bitcollective, but i'm having a hard time finding it's existence.
when i was going through my fighting game phase i wanted to make my own, so this was some good inspo.

it's an EP so it's a given that there would be little to no skips. reminds me of when i would walk the railroad tracks or the drives to go to the local flea market/thrift.
it felt good to feel hopeful .

Thrice is kind of a guilty pleasure, because when i was listening to them i was at my most angsty teen self. the only other person who i knew that listened to Thrice, was the person who introduced it to me (a crush) but they turned out to be a HUGE asshole, so i didn't listen to them for a few years. so i really enjoyed this when i eventually checked out this album on it's own.