Saves the Day
Saves the Day are a New Jersey band formed in Princeton in 1997, with Chris Conley as the central constant across a long and influential run through melodic hardcore, pop punk, emo, and indie rock. The band's debut Can't Slow Down carried strong Lifetime-inspired melodic hardcore energy, but 1999's Through Being Cool became the breakthrough, sharpening the writing into fast, anxious, hook-packed songs that helped shape the sound of late-1990s and early-2000s emo-pop. Stay What You Are brought broader visibility in 2001, slowing some tempos and emphasizing melody, vulnerability, and memorable choruses without losing the band's nervous emotional intensity. Later albums such as In Reverie, Sound the Alarm, Under the Boards, Daybreak, and 9 showed a willingness to stretch the band's language through darker themes, more experimental structures, and reflective storytelling. Saves the Day's catalog remains tied to emotional directness, bright guitar movement, and lyrics that turn personal turbulence into songs built for communal release.
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Saves the Day Shows (2)
Saves the Day Discography
14 tracks
- 1 Deciding 1:55
- 2 The Choke 2:35
- 3 Handsome Boy 1:00
- 4 Blindfolded 3:13
- 5 Collision 1:25
- 6 Three Miles Down 1:36
- 7 Always Ten Feet Tall 3:24
- 8 Nebraska Bricks 2:04
- 9 Seeing It This Way 1:32
- 10 Hot Time in Delaware 1:46
- 11 Houses and Billboards 3:13
- 12 Obsolete 1:58
- 13 Sometimes, New Jersey 1:09
- 14 Jodie 4:36
12 tracks
- 1 All-Star Me 1:43
- 2 You Vandal 2:28
- 3 Shoulder to the Wheel 3:19
- 4 Rocks Tonic Juice Magic 3:27
- 5 Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots 2:37
- 6 Third Engine 3:40
- 7 My Sweet Fracture 3:52
- 8 The Vast Spoils of America (From the Badlands Through the Ocean) 3:08
- 9 The Last Lie I Told 2:23
- 10 Do You Know What I Love the Most? 1:34
- 11 Through Being Cool 2:04
- 12 Banned from the Back Porch 2:59
11 tracks
- 1 At Your Funeral 3:09
- 2 See You 2:08
- 3 Cars & Calories 2:45
- 4 Certain Tragedy 2:27
- 5 Jukebox Breakdown 3:04
- 6 Freakish 3:47
- 7 As Your Ghost Takes Flight 2:25
- 8 Nightingale 3:36
- 9 All I'm Losing Is Me 3:22
- 10 This Is Not an Exit 3:56
- 11 Firefly 2:51
12 tracks
- 1 Anywhere With You 2:32
- 2 What Went Wrong 2:49
- 3 Driving In the Dark 3:14
- 4 Rise 3:12
- 5 In Reverie 2:27
- 6 Morning In The Moonlight 1:53
- 7 Monkey 3:22
- 8 In My Waking Life 2:48
- 9 She 2:34
- 10 Where Are You 1:44
- 11 Wednesday The Third 3:38
- 12 Tomorrow Too Late 3:31
19 tracks
- 1 Ups & Downs 3:18
- 2 Sell My Old Clothes, I'm off to Heaven 3:24
- 3 A Drag In D Flat 2:38
- 4 I'm Sorry I'm Leaving 2:47
- 5 Hold 2:22
- 6 Jessie & My Whetstone 2:05
- 7 Take Our Cars Now! 2:36
- 8 The Way His Collar Falls 2:46
- 9 The Art of Misplacing Firearms 2:09
- 10 East Coast (Demo) 1:36
- 11 01:19 (Demo) 1:38
- 12 An Afternoon Laughing (Demo) 2:00
- 13 Dave Feels Right (Demo) 2:26
- 14 When It Isn't Like It Should Be (Demo) 1:49
- 15 1959 0:33
- 16 I Think I'll Quit 2:14
- 17 Cheer 2:39
- 18 Clash City Rockers 2:14
- 19 Jessie & My Whetstone (Live / 2003) 2:32
13 tracks
- 1 Head for the Hills 2:50
- 2 The End 1:54
- 3 Shattered 3:08
- 4 Eulogy 3:22
- 5 Dying Day 2:22
- 6 34 2:23
- 7 Say You'll Never Leave 2:20
- 8 Diseased 2:12
- 9 Don't Know Why 3:22
- 10 Sound the Alarm 3:06
- 11 Bones 2:22
- 12 Delusional 2:07
- 13 Hell Is Here 3:36
7 tracks
- 1 Certain Tragedy (Live) 2:41
- 2 In My Waking Life (Live) 2:43
- 3 Freakish (Live) 4:06
- 4 You Vandal (Live) 2:20
- 5 Sell My Old Clothes, I'm off to Heaven (Live) 3:22
- 6 My Sweet Fracture (Live) 4:03
- 7 Jodie (Live) 4:06
13 tracks
- 1 Under the Boards 3:15
- 2 Radio 2:13
- 3 Can't Stay the Same 2:48
- 4 Get Fucked Up 2:59
- 5 When I'm Not There 2:43
- 6 Lonely Nights 3:04
- 7 Bye Bye Baby 2:35
- 8 Stay 3:24
- 9 Getaway 2:45
- 10 Because You Are No Other 1:58
- 11 Kaleidoscope 3:17
- 12 Woe 3:05
- 13 Turning Over In My Tomb 3:26
7 tracks
- 1 This Is Not an Exit (Live) 4:29
- 2 Rocks Tonic Juice Magic (Live) 4:12
- 3 Wednesday the 3rd (Live) 4:09
- 4 Stay (Live) 3:34
- 5 Coconut (Live) 2:52
- 6 Don't Know Why (Live) 3:30
- 7 Take Our Cars Now! (Live) 3:03
7 tracks
- 1 Radio (Live) 2:29
- 2 Deciding (Live) 2:01
- 3 Hold (Live) 2:37
- 4 Dying Day (Live) 2:44
- 5 A Drag in D Flat (Live) 2:27
- 6 Third Engine (Live) 3:30
- 7 See You (Live) 2:18
13 tracks
- 1 Daybreak 10:46
- 2 Let It All Go 2:46
- 3 1984 3:07
- 4 E 3:03
- 5 Z 2:55
- 6 Deranged And Desperate 2:25
- 7 Chameleon 3:23
- 8 Living Without Love 1:58
- 9 U 2:39
- 10 O 2:37
- 11 Undress Me 4:55
- 12 Stay - Electric Version 3:37
- 13 Hold - Electric Version 2:38
11 tracks
- 1 Remember 2:49
- 2 In the in Between 2:53
- 3 Beyond All of Time 3:29
- 4 Ain't No Kind of Love 2:58
- 5 Lucky Number 2:54
- 6 Xenophobic Blind Left Hook 3:10
- 7 The Tide of Our Times 2:25
- 8 Supernova 3:46
- 9 Verona 2:23
- 10 Ring Pop 2:33
- 11 Stand in the Stars 3:39
9 tracks
- 1 Saves the Day 2:34
- 2 Suzuki 1:19
- 3 Side by Side 3:12
- 4 Kerouac and Cassady 3:43
- 5 It's Such a Beautiful World 2:11
- 6 Rosé 3:39
- 7 1997 2:47
- 8 Rendezvous 3:37
- 9 29 21:30
1 track
- 1 Side by Side 3:12
1 track
- 1 Kerouac & Cassady 3:43
1 track
- 1 Rendezvous 3:37
29 tracks
- 1 All-Star Me 1:43
- 1 All-Star Me - Basement Demos 1:48
- 2 You Vandal 2:28
- 2 My Sweet Fracture - Basement Demos 3:43
- 3 Shoulder To The Wheel 3:19
- 3 Shoulder To The Wheel - Basement Demos 2:50
- 4 Rocks Tonic Juice Magic 3:27
- 4 Hold - Basement Demos 2:17
- 5 Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots 2:37
- 5 Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots - Basement Demos 2:48
- 6 Third Engine 3:40
- 6 Banned from the Back Porch - Basement Demos 2:59
- 7 My Sweet Fracture 3:52
- 7 The Last Lie I Told - Basement Demos 2:32
- 8 The Vast Spoils Of America (From The Badlands Through The Ocean) 3:08
- 8 Through Being Cool - Basement Demos 2:43
- 9 The Last Lie I Told 2:23
- 9 The Vast Spoils Of America (From The Badlands Through The Ocean) - Basement Demos 3:17
- 10 Do You Know What I Love The Most? 1:34
- 10 All-Star Me - Live Session 1:41
- 11 Through Being Cool 2:04
- 11 The Choke - Live Session 2:45
- 12 Banned From The Back Porch 2:59
- 12 Shoulder To The Wheel - Live Session 3:15
- 13 Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots - Live Session 2:36
- 14 The Last Lie I Told - Live Session 2:24
- 15 The Vast Spoils Of America (From The Badlands Through The Ocean) - Live Session 3:05
- 16 Houses & Billboards - Live Session 3:09
- 17 Hold - Live Session 2:21
2 tracks
- 1 Some Kinda Hate 2:01
- 2 Where Eagles Dare 1:52
1 track
- 1 Remember/Verona/Ring Pop (feat. Lloyd Vines) 9:56
2 tracks
- 1 Shoulder To The Wheel 3:21
- 2 Lady in a Blue Dress 3:18
10 tracks
- 1 Buried a Lie 4:43
- 2 Lady in a Blue Dress 5:13
- 3 Rum Is for Drinking, Not for Burning 4:25
- 4 Slow Dance 3:32
- 5 You're Cute When You Scream 4:48
- 6 Shoulder to the Wheel 6:16
- 7 Rocks Tonic Juice Magic 5:40
- 8 Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots 4:53
- 9 You Vandal 1:56
- 10 Through Being Cool 3:19
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