After wading through 93 pages of comments in Straylight Run's chat on Absolute Punk last night, here are the Top 10 Things I Learned:
10. Singer/guitarist John Nolan likes Barack Obama and Ron Paul: “i've actually found myself getting pretty excited about the prospect of barack obama winning. he seems like the only person on the democratic side who's actually a real person and not just a political machine. on the republican side i think ron paul is very intriguing. he doesn't have a chance of winning but his ideas are really different and really interesting.”
9. Bassist Shaun Cooper’s favorite Billy Joel song is “Goodnight Saigon”
8. Nolan’s favorite album of last year was Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”
7. They would happily tour with Brand New: “Anytime they want us, we’re there” (Cooper)
6. Drummer Will Noon prefers stick shift to automatic, PC to Mac. And he reads. A lot.
5. The song that had the biggest effect on Nolan in high school was Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
4. Singer/keyboardist Michelle DaRosa is working on a children’s record and her favorite song from the new album is “Cover Your Eyes”
3. Why they toured with Simple Plan: “honestly, we went on tour with simple plan because we had just come out with an ep and we had no other tour offers to go out and support it. and also they offered us a ridiculous amount of money and we needed it at the time. that being said, it was a horrible, horrible thing to do and we definitely regretted it.” (Nolan)
2. Nolan thinks “Take It to Manhattan” should have been the first single from “The Needles The Space” (I kinda agree)
1. A lot of people obviously still care about Straylight Run and maybe Universal could have figured out a way to reach some of them before pulling the plug on “The Needles The Space” so quickly. Just a thought.