Bayside's Melodic Earworm

The fact a song can sound familiar immediately after a first listen and get stuck in my head for days is equal parts heaven and hell.

My first introduction to the band Bayside was when they got thrown into a discover weekly a few years ago and I was hooked. Their song Strangest Faces is not on their top 5 Spotify tracks but it should be.

While the New York punk group has been making music since I was in kindergarten, I only have been privy to their masterful blend of punk, thrash melodic rock, and a sprinkle of mid 2000s emo, in the recent years.

If you want a song that grabs you immediately through the route of a Capella vocals as the intro, look no further than Strangest Faces. The chorus feels passionate and is only intensified with the studio mixing used for the instrumentals. There is a point towards the latter third of the song that the drums go into an almost hair metal/disco/funk groove that gives good brain feels.

Though they don't qualify to be added to my Small Time, Big Sounds playlist, they are forever in my musical blender known as my likes with near 1000 songs I play on shuffle when I'm feeling froggy.

If you have any songs along this same style, please drop a line.