I first found out about Neon Trees in 2012, after hearing “Everybody Talks” on “Universal Music Group Record Store Day Sampler 2012″.
However, I knew about them in 2010, when they used to play the music video “Animal”, and somehow I never knew what band did that song. I always remembered hearing it, and I always tried to figure it out but I never could.
After hearing “Everybody Talks”, I wanted to hear more from them.
Eventually, one day when my family and I went to Best Buy, I got a copy of “Picture Show” and it became all I listened to.
After getting crazily into “Picture Show”, I eventually got a copy of “Habits” and then it happened.
The mystery song was by Neon Trees. How crazy is it that the song I could never figure out was by my all time favorite band in 2012??
It blew my mind, to be completely honest. It was awesome to finally solve that mystery.
Then, in 2014, “Pop Psychology” came out. Now, I actually had a love/hate relationship with this album, because of when I got into it and a debate over if I thought it was good enough.
I took some time away from it, but I found my way back to it when I was ending high school and starting college, and it made me really nostalgic and it hit me differently than when I used to listen to it.
I can’t even count how many times I’ve listened to “Teenager In Love”, “First Things First” and “Text Me In The Morning”.
I’ve always loved the Neon Trees because I always felt that they were different than everything else in the mainstream, and there was this older vibe that isn’t common in music today and I’ve always strayed from the norm.
If you know me, you know how I’m heavily into older music, so much so, that you would think I was alive when those albums came out. I say that because I know information on those albums like the back of my hand and I’ve had so many phases with so many albums, and somehow I astound people who were around when they came out…and I just wonder how that’s even possible.
A whole other generation, and I’m encyclopedic, and I astound myself with how much I know, because it’s offhand.
Listen here: Retronaut Favorites: Neon Trees