What's The Story?
Nonpoint are your stock hard rock/heavy metal/numetal band. What A Day is from their 2000 album Statement.
Who's To Blame?
A guy who played in a stock hard rock/heavy metal/numetal band in high school, and currently plays in a hard rock/heavy metal/numetal band downtown.
Why ♥ It?
I've got a two pronged approach for this track.
First, the hands-down most impressive aspect of this track to me is how the vocals can be completely detached from the music at times, and still flow together so damn well. Perhaps when this is most apparent is at the start of the track, when Elias Soriano's vocals flow like a guy telling a story about last night, while the rest of the band goes from intro to verse to chorus almost independently. The actual track itself has some neat guitar and bass work as well. Sure, there are plenty of power chords played with a ton of attitude typical of the numetal movement, but it's worth looking past for some of the finer points. Example: the bass line that starts around 1:17 and works with the second verse is a really neat groove that flows independently, sort of like vocals for verse one.
The second approach I'm taking is that this song has been enjoyable for me during at least 3 distinct musical mood swings. When I was a teenager living just so I could learn Cowboys From Hell on guitar, this song appealed to me. In the mid-oughts, when progressive rock was my Wizard of Oz, the unique/weird layout of the song attracted me. And now again, when I don't know my musical mood well enough to quantify it, I just love blasting this track really loudly.
Hopefully that appeal extends beyond me and fourteen year olds with their guitars tuned to drop-D.
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