As an emo music fan & pop punk enjoyer, one of my FAVORITE Myspace-era bands is Dropping Daylight! In 2006 they released their album Brace Yourself, and it's my favorite underrated album ever, seriously.
So in the 2000s they tour/perform with bands like Flyleaf, Papa Roach, Green Day, Simple Plan, etc etc. They were even on Warped Tour for a few years! I'll link their MySpace page circa 2006 (via the Wayback Machine ofc) here, because it's very 2006 to look at lol
The lead singer even contributed piano and vocals to albums like Paramore's Riot!, Breaking Benjamin’s Phobia, and Hawthorne Heights’ If Only You Were Lonely. You might even recognize their song "Tell Me" because it was in the movie Bratz (2007) and hit the top 30 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock chart!
You can listen to their 2006 album Brace Yourself here on Spotify!
Then in 2010 they changed their name to Kidnap Kings and NEARLY released an album named Flashing Lights and Sound. The problem was that this album isn't on any streaming services! Not Spotify, not YouTube, not Soundcloud, not Apple Music. But hope is not lost! A few years ago a fan uploaded the whole album to YouTube, in a single video. (The guy who uploaded the video said that it was leaked pre-release and that's why it was never actually released? IDK!)
So I, naturally, did what any sane person would do: I downloaded the whole thing and manually trimmed it into 14 audio files.
And then I did my best to transcribe every song, and make tacky lyric videos for them. (It felt fitting.) Link to those here.
The depths of my insanity are none of your business!! That took me 10 days and I'm 100% positive some of the lyrics are wrong. I tried!
...And then I uploaded the songs to the Internet Archive. Because I believe that good music should be archived. And this album IS really fucking good. Here's the link where you can download the songs. Yes, this is absolutely a little shady and wrong of me, "stealing" a band's music to preserve it...
But I really stand by the fact that this band deserved better. And I would like to introduce their music to a new generation of emo/scene kids, just like how their music was enjoyed by MySpace emo/scene kids :)
My favorite songs from Flashing Lights and Sound are (in no particular order)
Anything She Wants
Desperate
Flashing Lights and Sound
Last One Standing
NIGHT LOVE!!!!
Therapy
Into This Disaster
And my favorites from Brace Yourself are
Apologies
Till You Feel Something
Take A Photograph
Brace Yourself
Tell Me
Blame Me
War Song
anyways I'm always making some desperate attempt to make other people enjoy this band the way I do! <3
