Through Being Cool

Through Being Cool is the second album by Princeton, New Jersey-based rock band Saves the Day. It has a more melodic sound than their first release, Can't Slow Down, which was a more punk/hardcore driven record. The album was released one year after the band's first release even though they had replaced three of their members. At the time of the recording, Saves The Day consisted of Chris Conley, Dave Soloway, Ted Alexander, Eben D'Amico and Bryan Newman. Through Being Cool has been hailed by Alternative Press as one of the more influential pop-punk albums of the decade, paving the way for the new wave of punk-pop..

"Through Being Cool" is also the name of a Devo song, as well as a lyrical excerpt from the song "Unlisted Track" by Jawbreaker, a band which influenced Conley.

Track listing

1. "All-Star Me" - 1:43
2. "You Vandal" - 2:28
3. "Shoulder to the Wheel" 3:19
4. "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic" - 3:27
5. "Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots" - 2:37
6. "Third Engine" - 3:40
7. "My Sweet Fracture" - 3:52
8. "The Vast Spoils of America (From the Badlands through the Ocean)" - 3:08
9. "The Last Lie I Told" - 2:23
10. "Do You Know What I Love the Most?" 1:34
11. "Through Being Cool" - 2:04
12. "Banned from the Back Porch" - 2:59

Legacy

Alternative Press ranked this album on the top 10 most influential albums of 1999.

On the disc, there is a picture of Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship and Midtown.

"Third Engine" was covered by Max Bemis from the band Say Anything and can be found on the self-titled album of Bemis & Conley's supergroup side project, Two Tongues. (Say Anything had earlier covered the band's "Jessie and my Whetstone" as well.)

"You Vandal" was covered by the hardcore band xBishopx

"Shoulder To The Wheel" was covered by the band Lostprophets"

"Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots" was covered by the band Hit The Lights