The Ataris
The Ataris began in Anderson, Indiana in 1996 as Kris Roe's vehicle for emotionally direct punk rock, eventually becoming one of the more recognizable names in late-1990s and early-2000s pop punk. Anywhere but Here and Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits established the early sound: fast tempos, earnest vocals, and lyrics shaped by distance, regret, travel, and romantic memory. End Is Forever kept the melodic punk core intact, while So Long, Astoria gave the band its biggest moment through polished songwriting, "In This Diary," and a widely heard cover of "The Boys of Summer." Welcome the Night later moved into darker, more spacious alternative rock, showing Roe's willingness to stretch beyond scene expectations. The Ataris' music belongs in the punk and emo scope because its emotional language is guitar-driven and immediate, even when the production becomes more expansive. Across many lineup changes, the constant has been Roe's writing voice: nostalgic, wounded, road-worn, and committed to the idea that a loud chorus can preserve a feeling before it disappears completely.
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The Ataris Discography
5 tracks
- 1 Living Each Day Like You're Already Dead 2:59
- 2 Tulips Are Better 3:26
- 3 A Letter to Someone Like You 3:19
- 4 Taking Back Every Word That I Said 4:11
- 5 Someone's Standing on My Chest 4:41
10 tracks
- 1 A Song For The Optimists 4:39
- 2 Dilated 3:34
- 3 Ain't Love Grand 3:43
- 4 Living Each Day Like You're Already Dead 2:45
- 5 Deanne The Arsonist 3:41
- 6 Someone's Standing On My Chest 4:09
- 7 At Least I Know I'm A Sinner 3:22
- 8 Tulips Are Better 3:32
- 9 A Vampires Lament 3:19
- 10 Lip Gloss And Black 5:04
13 tracks
- 1 Blood Children (An Introduction) 1:14
- 2 Bleeding Mascara 2:26
- 3 Right Side Of The Bed 3:42
- 4 This Flesh A Tomb 3:59
- 5 You Eclipsed By Me 3:38
- 6 The Crimson 4:01
- 7 The Remembrance Ballad 4:27
- 8 An Interlude 2:09
- 9 Corseting 2:10
- 10 Demonology And Heartache 3:42
- 11 My Sanity On The Funeral Pyre 3:40
- 12 Nevada's Grace 3:48
- 13 Five Vicodin Chased With A Shot Of Clarity 4:24
13 tracks
- 1 Blood Children (An Introduction) - Instrumental 1:14
- 2 Bleeding Mascara - Instrumental 2:26
- 3 Right Side Of The Bed - Instrumental 3:42
- 4 This Flesh A Tomb - Instrumental 3:59
- 5 You Eclipsed By Me - Instrumental 3:38
- 6 The Crimson - Instrumental 4:01
- 7 The Remembrance Ballad - Instrumental 4:27
- 8 An Interlude - Instrumental 2:09
- 9 Corseting - Instrumental 2:10
- 10 Demonology And Heartache - Instrumental 3:43
- 11 My Sanity On The Funeral Pyre - Instrumental 3:41
- 12 Nevada's Grace - Instrumental 3:48
- 13 Five Vicodin Chased With A Shot Of Clarity - Instrumental 4:24
14 tracks
- 1 Blood Children (An Introduction) 1:14
- 2 Bleeding Mascara 2:26
- 3 Right Side Of The Bed 3:42
- 4 This Flesh A Tomb 3:59
- 5 You Eclipsed By Me 3:38
- 6 The Crimson 4:01
- 7 The Remembrance Ballad 4:27
- 8 An Interlude 2:09
- 9 Corseting 2:10
- 10 Demonology And Heartache 3:42
- 11 My Sanity On The Funeral Pyre 3:40
- 12 Nevada's Grace 3:48
- 13 Five Vicodin Chased With A Shot Of Clarity 4:26
- 14 You Give Love A Bad Name 3:26
9 tracks
- 1 Creature 2:59
- 2 Shameful 3:29
- 3 Our Sick Story (Thus Far) 3:31
- 4 The Theft 3:58
- 5 We Stand Up 3:06
- 6 Ex's And Oh's 3:31
- 7 Your Private War 3:33
- 8 My Fork In The Road (Your Knife In My Back) 3:25
- 9 Untitled Finale 5:17
11 tracks
- 1 Doomsday 3:19
- 2 Honor 3:10
- 3 Falling Down 3:01
- 4 Becoming the Bull 3:42
- 5 Two Become One 4:42
- 6 Lose It 4:00
- 7 No One Cares 3:05
- 8 Can't Happen Here 4:04
- 9 Slow Burn 3:28
- 10 Blow 4:11
- 11 Lead Sails (And a Paper Anchor) 4:47
18 tracks
- 1 Lip Gloss And Black 5:04
- 2 Ain't Love Grand 3:43
- 3 Living Each Day Like You're Already Dead 2:45
- 4 A Song For The Optimists 4:39
- 5 Deanne The Arsonist 3:41
- 6 Tulips Are Better 3:32
- 7 Someone's Standing On My Chest 4:09
- 8 Bleeding Mascara 2:26
- 9 Right Side Of The Bed 3:42
- 10 You Eclipsed By Me 3:38
- 11 The Crimson 4:01
- 12 Demonology And Heartache 3:42
- 13 My Sanity On The Funeral Pyre 3:39
- 14 Creature 2:59
- 15 Untitled Finale 5:16
- 16 Ex's And Oh's 3:30
- 17 Shameful 3:29
- 18 The Theft 3:57
13 tracks
- 1 Stop! Before It's Too Late and We've Destroyed It All 3:52
- 2 Bleeding Is a Luxury 3:32
- 3 Congregation of the Damned 3:30
- 4 Coffin Nails 3:22
- 5 Black Days Begin 3:54
- 6 Gallows 3:28
- 7 Storm to Pass 3:47
- 8 You Were the King, Now You're Unconscious 5:08
- 9 Insatiable 4:00
- 10 So Wrong 3:20
- 11 Ravenous 3:07
- 12 Lonely 3:40
- 13 Wait for You 4:01
5 tracks
- 1 Livin' on the Edge 5:46
- 2 Holiday in Cambodia 3:46
- 3 Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood 3:00
- 4 The Boys are Back in Town 4:29
- 5 My Own Summer 3:33
13 tracks
- 1 Long Live 3:28
- 2 Live To Labor 3:13
- 3 I Would Kill / Lie / Die (For You) 4:10
- 4 Cut Off The Head 5:00
- 5 A Bitter Broken Memory 3:58
- 6 Do You Know Who You Are? 3:50
- 7 Revival 1:41
- 8 Heartbeats And Flatlines 3:39
- 9 Brass Balls 3:28
- 10 Moments Before Dawn 5:25
- 11 Start To Break 4:40
- 12 Reckless 4:31
- 13 So Others May Live 4:18
12 tracks
- 1 In Our Wake 3:13
- 2 House Of Gold 3:58
- 3 The Time Is Now 3:19
- 4 Nothing Will Ever Change 3:55
- 5 Blind Deaf & Dumb 3:08
- 6 Terrified 4:09
- 7 Safety Pin 3:09
- 8 Into The Open 3:56
- 9 Paper Castle 3:01
- 10 No Control 3:38
- 11 Anger Left Behind 3:23
- 12 Super Hero 6:25
1 track
- 1 Anger Left Behind 3:23
1 track
- 1 In Our Wake 3:13
1 track
- 1 The Time Is Now 3:19
19 tracks
- 1 In Our Wake 3:13
- 2 House Of Gold 3:58
- 3 The Time Is Now 3:19
- 4 Nothing Will Ever Change 3:55
- 5 Blind Deaf & Dumb 3:08
- 6 Terrified 4:09
- 7 Safety Pin 3:09
- 8 Into The Open 3:56
- 9 Paper Castle 3:01
- 10 No Control 3:38
- 11 Anger Left Behind 3:23
- 12 Super Hero 6:25
- 13 In Our Wake - Acoustic 3:50
- 14 The Time Is Now - Alternate 3:36
- 15 Generation 2:26
- 16 Straight To Hell 3:50
- 17 So Others May Live 4:20
- 18 Stronger Than Me 3:13
- 19 When The Day Is Done 4:23
1 track
- 1 The Time Is Now - Alternate 3:36
1 track
- 1 Save Us 2:21
1 track
- 1 Battle Drums 3:29
15 tracks
- 1 Strange Powers Of Prophecy 1:03
- 2 Baptize 2:49
- 3 Save Us 2:21
- 4 Underrated 3:00
- 5 Broken Again 2:35
- 6 Weed 2:17
- 7 Dead Weight 3:14
- 8 Catastrophe 2:44
- 9 Fucked Up 2:45
- 10 Sabotage Me 2:45
- 11 Untouchable 3:05
- 12 No Matter What 3:48
- 13 Oblivion 2:57
- 14 Stay 3:01
- 15 Warrior 2:45
1 track
- 1 Warrior 2:47
4 tracks
- 1 Catastrophe 2:44
- 2 Warrior 2:45
- 3 Underrated 3:00
- 4 Save Us 2:21
3 tracks
- 1 Warrior 2:45
- 2 Underrated 3:00
- 3 Save Us 2:21
2 tracks
- 1 Baptize - Sullivan King Remix 4:10
- 2 Baptize 2:49
1 track
- 1 Depression Season 2:55
2 tracks
- 1 Break (feat. Atreyu) 2:49
- 2 I'm Not 2:43
15 tracks
- 1 Drowning 2:45
- 2 Insomnia 3:37
- 3 Capital F 2:34
- 4 God/Devil 2:55
- 5 Watch Me Burn 3:38
- 6 Good Enough 3:16
- 7 Dancing With My Demons 3:19
- 8 Gone 3:43
- 9 I Don't Wanna Die 3:39
- 10 Immortal 3:10
- 11 (i) 3:03
- 12 Death or Glory - Feat. Sierra Deaton 4:14
- 13 Forevermore 2:53
- 14 Come Down 3:56
- 15 The Beautiful Dark of Life 3:08
12 tracks
- 1 (i) 3:03
- 1 Good Enough 3:16
- 1 Drowning 2:45
- 2 Death or Glory - Feat. Sierra Deaton 4:14
- 2 Immortal 3:10
- 2 God/Devil 2:55
- 3 Forevermore 2:53
- 3 Gone 3:43
- 3 Capital F 2:34
- 4 Come Down 3:56
- 4 I Don't Wanna Die 3:39
- 4 Watch Me Burn 3:38
8 tracks
- 1 Good Enough 3:16
- 1 Drowning 2:45
- 2 Immortal 3:10
- 2 God/Devil 2:55
- 3 Gone 3:43
- 3 Capital F 2:34
- 4 I Don't Wanna Die 3:39
- 4 Watch Me Burn 3:38
6 tracks
- 1 (i) 3:03
- 2 Immortal 3:10
- 3 Gone 3:43
- 4 God/Devil 2:55
- 5 Watch Me Burn 3:38
- 6 Drowning 2:45
1 track
- 1 You Can't Break Me (feat. Brandon Saller of Atreyu) 3:50
5 tracks
- 1 Gone 3:43
- 2 Drowning 2:45
- 3 God/Devil 2:55
- 4 Capital F 2:34
- 5 Watch Me Burn 3:38
4 tracks
- 1 Drowning 2:45
- 2 God/Devil 2:55
- 3 Capital F 2:34
- 4 Watch Me Burn 3:38
2 tracks
- 1 Watch Me Burn 3:38
- 2 Drowning 2:45
1 track
- 1 Drowning 2:45
10 tracks
- 1 Becoming the Bull - Reimagined 3:58
- 2 Save Us - Reimagined 2:29
- 3 Ex's and Oh's - Reimagined 3:35
- 4 Right Side of the Bed - Reimagined 3:43
- 5 Like A Stone - Reimagined 4:47
- 6 Drowning - Reimagined 2:52
- 7 The Theft - Reimagined 3:36
- 8 Gone - Reimagined 3:52
- 9 Warrior - Reimagined 2:53
- 10 Mary Jane's Last Dance - Reimagined 4:12
1 track
- 1 Leave Me to Bleed 3:38
4 tracks
- 1 Mary Jane's Last Dance - Reimagined 4:12
- 2 Becoming the Bull - Reimagined 3:58
- 3 Like A Stone - Reimagined 4:47
- 4 Gone - Reimagined 3:52
3 tracks
- 1 Becoming the Bull - Reimagined 3:58
- 2 Like A Stone - Reimagined 4:47
- 3 Gone - Reimagined 3:52
1 track
- 1 Like A Stone - Reimagined 4:47
3 tracks
- 1 INFERNO. (with Brandon Saller and Dan Jacobs of Atreyu) 3:32
- 2 NO LOVE LOST. 3:07
- 3 MEANT TO BE. 3:27
1 track
- 1 Gone - Reimagined 3:53
13 tracks
- 1 Blood Children 2.0 1:10
- 2 Bleeding Mascara 2:28
- 3 Right Side of the Bed 3:45
- 4 This Flesh a Tomb 3:59
- 5 You Eclipsed by Me 3:39
- 6 The Crimson 4:01
- 7 The Remembrance Ballad 4:29
- 8 An Interlude 2:08
- 9 Corseting 2:11
- 10 Demonology and Heartache 3:51
- 11 My Sanity on the Funeral Pyre 3:42
- 12 Nevada's Grace 3:53
- 13 Five Vicodin Chased With a Shot of Clarity 4:41
1 track
- 1 Dead 4:04
1 track
- 1 You Eclipsed by Me 3:39
1 track
- 1 Bleeding Mascara 2:28
1 track
- 1 Chasing Shadows (Feat. Brandon Saller of Atreyu) 2:32
13 tracks
- 1 The End is Not the End 0:54
- 2 Dead 4:04
- 3 Break Me 3:10
- 4 All For You 3:54
- 5 Ghost in Me 2:55
- 6 Glass Eater 3:50
- 7 Wait My Love, I'll Be Home Soon 4:09
- 8 Ego Death 2:12
- 9 Death Rattle 3:28
- 10 Children of Light (feat. Max Cavalera) 4:12
- 11 In the Dark 3:52
- 12 Afterglow 3:31
- 13 Break the Glass 4:51
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