This is the hardest thing ever...

1. Based on A True Story
2. shit i can't do this... too many amazing records are floating around my head. i love them all.

Such a great read Jason. Thanks for sharing. Couldn't agree more about the generation being tagged Drive Thru kids.

Originally Posted by cassieee

The only thing I would add on is Hidden In Plain View's Life in Dreaming.

Would be #11 for me. With a TEN release being #12. Probably the acoustic EP.

A New Found Glory - Nothing Gold Can Stay
Midtown - Save the World, Lose the Girl
The Starting Line - Say it Like You Mean It
The Starting Line - Make Yourself at Home
Hellogoodbye - Hellogoodbye/Avocado EP
Steel Train - Twilight Tales from the Prairie of the Sun
The Early November - The Rooms too Cold
Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodies Business - S/t
Allister - Last Stop Suburbia

not in any specific order.

i can still remember buying 'let it enfold you' the day of release(after being leaked for like what 1 year prior) and it came with that hilarious DVD. that will always go down as my favorite cd and the soundtrack to my high school life. every time i listen to the title track i still get chills.

Great to see Progress on your list-probably my favorite drive thru album ever

Originally Posted by vegasbabyvegas

Such a great read Jason. Thanks for sharing. Couldn't agree more about the generation being tagged Drive Thru kids.

Glad you like. Funny thing is, in a few years -- there's a FBR kids post in me. I can feel it!

Originally Posted by dearmsterri

Fuckin' right dude.

I loved those DVDs I used to watch the hell out of them.

my friends and i worshiped those dvds. every day after school we would watch the whole thing and just be amazed that there was all this music out there that everyone around us were missing out on.

A New Found Glory – Nothing Gold Can Stay (1999)
Midtown – Save the World, Lose the Girl (2000)
A New Found Glory – From the Screen to Your Stereo EP (2000)
Dashboard Confessional – The Swiss Army Romance (2000)
The Starting Line – With Hopes of Starting Over EP (2001)
Finch – What It Is to Burn (2002)
The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It (2002)
The Early November – The Room's Too Cold (2003)
Rx Bandits – The Resignation (2003)
New Found Glory – From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II (2007)

Add me to the "I bought this album just because it had the Drive-Thru logo on it" list. I found so many good albums just by looking at the little fliers that came with the cds.

Originally Posted by iseejosh

great cd, but I wouldn't put on a best of list. i felt if they kept going on, they could've released 'that album' . 'bob and bonnie' is still one of the catchiest songs I've heard.

Oh yeah, I know. In my eyes, there's the 'classics' and the 'others (good or otherwise)', and ACoSS tops the latter, is all I'm saying haha.

But reallly, I'm only 20, so I didn't get to fully appreciate these albums right when they came out; wasn't till a few years later. So I guess my opinion is swayed due to my time frame.

SILYMI
nothing gold can stay
for all of this
swiss army romance
leaving through the window
what it is to burn
40 hour train back to penn
save the world lose the girl

i always feel like a lot of the smaller bands get overlooked. i always dug jenoah.

Originally Posted by Jason Tate

Glad you like. Funny thing is, in a few years -- there's a FBR kids post in me. I can feel it!

Haha. Let's put that on hold for awhile so it ensures we continue to get new kids into our bands!

Also, it's near impossible to pick a favorite Starting Line release. Not a bad song on any record.

I was the same way about Drive Thru for a good five-or-six years after I graduated from high school in 2000. All I'd have to do is see the logo on a CD and I'd purchase without hearing. I knew I'd enjoy whatever it was because I already loved the rest of the label's roster. Those bands played a huge role in my post-high school "who the Hell am I?" phase, and still get regular play on my iPod and spotify.

I'm pretty sure my top ten list would very closely resemble Jason's, only maybe with Say It Like You Mean It as my Starting Line record, finding a way to shove that Senses Fail EP in there, and also Day At The Fair's The Rocking Chair Years tacked on as well.