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Its lyrics were penned by Key, whose songwriting focus at the time was "translating bigger moments and scenes into songs that sounded more specific." [9] Its opening lyrics date to a journal of Key's, who wrote the song primarily about growing up and leaving his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. For the band, "Ocean Avenue" represented "saying ...
Ocean Avenue" is anchored around a distorted staccato punk rock guitar riff; [30] in the song's lyrics, Key uses the person he is singing to as a metaphor for Jacksonville. [31] The song was inspired by Ocean Boulevard, a road in Jacksonville. [32] Key said the sign on that road lacked the word boulevard, only being named as such on a map.
Yellowcard was formed in 1997 in Jacksonville, Florida, after its members met at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.The band got its name from a phrase its members used in high school: whenever somebody did something stupid at a party, such as spilling beer on the carpet, they cited soccer laws and gave the offender a "yellow card" for committing a "party foul".
Lights and Sounds is the fifth studio album by American rock band Yellowcard, released on January 24, 2006, in the United States through Capitol Records. Lights and Sounds is Yellowcard's first concept album, which was inspired to reflect what the band was feeling at the time of production and how they have matured in the process.
One for the Kids is the third studio album by American rock band Yellowcard. It was released on April 3, 2001 on Lobster Records and is the first Yellowcard album to include Ryan Key as lead singer and guitarist. It was produced, engineered and mixed by Darian Rundall at Stall No. 2 in Redondo Beach, California.
As singer Ryan Key mentioned in an interview with The Times, Yellowcard drifted from its normal headlining setlist to focus more on its most alt-rock 1990s-leaning songs that Third Eye Blind fans ...
The album's title track was a Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 single and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, becoming a seminal pop punk song. The follow-up single, "Only One", was certified Gold. The album was then certified Platinum in the US by July 2004 and remains as Yellowcard's commercial peak.
The music video was shot in October 2005 and the video is a performance-only video, in which the band play in a dark room with thin lights, a homage to the song's title. Background [ edit ] In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in June 2005, Yellowcard vocalist Ryan Key revealed that the song was written "really late in the process" when ...