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The song's chorus and bridge were based on a memory of the night Key's family and friends gathered around and said goodbye before the group boarded their van for California for the last time. The song's bridge begins with the central riff repeated, before transitioning to an arpeggiated clean guitar picking pattern over the central three chords ...
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".
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.
So, Yellowcard dug deeply into its discography to choose songs "where we really leaned into that '90s alternative side of ourselves, and our very earliest inspirations for making music.
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.
Another was the intro to "Bombers", which ultimately did not make it onto the album. The first Yellowcard show since October 2006, when the album began production, took place on March 29, 2007 at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California. During the show, Yellowcard played two songs from their new album ("Fighting" and "The Takedown
The album received mixed-to-positive reviews. A Sputnikmusic user referred to the album as 'a befitting and worthwhile finale to one of the most incredible, memorable rides in the history of pop-punk.' [20] Entertainment Weekly was more critical of the album, citing the album's mid-stage ballad "Leave a Light On" as 'cloying' and 'cringeworthy,' but highlighted the penultimate track "Savior's ...