Saves the Day….One of  my TOP bands.  “Stay What you Are” was the album that truly propelled them onto the mainstream music scene.  This is a great album from front to cover.  Enjoy and HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Come on 2010, Please be good to me.

Band Bio:

Saves the Day is an American band from Princeton, New Jersey, formed in 1994.^[6] The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Chris Conley, guitarist Arun Bali, bassist Rodrigo Palma and drummer Spencer Peterson.

After forming under the name Sefler in 1994, Saves the Day released their debut studio album, Can’t Slow Down, in 1998. It was followed by Through Being Cool (1999), which featured their first single, “Shoulder to the Wheel”. Stay What You Are was released in 2001, peaking at number 100 on the Billboard 200. It spawned two successful music videos on MTV2, for the singles “At Your Funeral” and “Freakish”, and has since sold 200,000 copies.^[6] After the success of Stay What You Are, Saves the Day signed to Dreamworks Records, who co-released their next studio album, In Reverie, with Vagrant Records. The band stated that the label had “completely abandoned it three days after it was released”, with the album peaking at number 27 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Top Independent Albums chart.^[7]

The band recorded their fifth studio album, Sound the Alarm, in 2005, without a label. They eventually re-signed with Vagrant and released the album in 2006.^[6] It was announced that Sound the Alarm was part one of a three part concept. The next album in the trilogy was released in 2007, titled Under the Boards. The final album in the series is planned to be released in 2009, titled Daybreak.-”wikipedia.org”