Say Anything’s Max Bemis walks us through the creation of ...Is A Real Boy
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2018
- Say Anything’s major label debut and second LP ...Is a Real Boy is a masterful mix of angst, social commentary, and theatricality. It’s also the album Say Anything frontman Max Bemis ranks as his best work. But creating the album was a taxing process, costing him his physical and mental health, and resulting in a manic episode. We sat down with Bemis to talk about the process of creating the album, his mindset at the time, and what he would change about the experience.
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Is a real boy/was a real boy is impressive as fuck. Especially since max pretty much made up all the music besides drums. Dude will forever be respected for making this record
This album helped saved my damn life. Lost my sister, was bullied, beaten at home. This album was everything I needed not to end my life. Through I still cut during this time, this album gave me hope to continue! Thank you Say Anything!
Have you ever considered heroin or maybe something a little more normal? Bondage/rough sex?
Most living organisms don’t like to injure themselves. It seems like you have a bad habit you use to get attention more than anything.
Hope you get yourself help.
@@justinTime077 Yo wtf? dude was brave enough to talk about something very personal and you just invalidate how they feel?? bro stfu
I fell into this album when I was disfellowshiped from being a Jehovah's Witness and living on the street. There is something amazing and cathartic here.
@@babywolfg I’ve read testimonials of women in midlife crises who took a DP plus a D to the face that said they never felt more full. It’s just a thought. I’m trying to help here. You don’t have to be so negative.
@@justinTime077 telling strangers to do stuff from porn is a little odd though
One of the greatest albums of all time
Strict Curl Boogie not really 🤣🤣😂😂😂 it’s ok but nothing out of the ordinary
@@jeff7764 nah its incredible
@callmecatalyst stop it, hes dead
I listen to a lot of music across several genres, and this album is in the top 10 of all-time. Beautiful, haunting, sad, happy. It's amazing.
Max is one of the most underrated artists of this generation. Every show I went to was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
The tour they did with Kenny from TSL on bass/backing vocals...still one of my favorite shows I've seen seen. I went with a friend and I legit forgot he even existed.
One of the few beginning to end banger of an albums I can remember
Love this album. Max is a wordsmith
My biggest musical influence. I’m sure with a lot of people here. I’ll repay him someday.
Coby’s drumming on ...Is A Real Boy is incredible
I hate it that he feels those criticism towards this album. His voice sounds perfect on this album, way better than anything else is ever recorded. Also all that hardship is how this beautiful art came out
Say anything fans
...is a real boy is the undisputed best album you've ever made
Max
i would re-record the entire thing
Accurate
His neck is wider than his ears. He doesn't hear it the same way we do.
This is my favorite album ever of any band.
Say Anything is the best band of all time to me, Max has such creative lyrics and an amazing melody when it comes to playing the guitar
The band has meant a lot to me, and a lot of other people too. There isn't an objective "best band" IMO, but this band is one that got a lot of people through some really dark and confusing times. Shout out to Max for being so vulnerable
OTHER THAN BLINK-182. AGREE... MY FAVES... FACTS.
Preach
I completely agree man! Best band of all time!!!
bro this album is flawless
One of the greatest albums of all time and severely severely underrated
I'm 35 now, and this guys music was my everything in my 20s. Max, love.
This is the most meta thing I've watched, I am having an out of body experience. This album has been the anthem of my life since I was 14. THANK YOU MAX FOR SHARING THIS SO SINCERELY WITH US.
i feel the exact same way. he was the only band i loved to watch live. Hes a god
Love you all
This album was literally always playing ether in my house or my car. The writhing south and alive with the glory of love are two songs in my top 10 of all time.
I was listening to this on repeat when I was 18 and homeless. It was a specific place in time. I loved the way it worked out.
one of my absolute favorite albums of all time. a pop punk masterpiece. max is a genius and his voice (writing voice, not literal voice) is so clear in every song in a way that felt like getting stabbed in the heart, alone in my room at age 17
More indie rock but yeah, probably the most profound album of the 2000+
Just a beautiful classic 2000's album. Such great songs are going to have wild stories.
Reading the headlines this morning I’m reminded of how important these songs have been to my life. I was 21 in Detox clutching a tiny boom box the staff let me keep in my room.
I had one CD left because I had sold all the others or left them in places I was no longer welcome.
I’ll let you guess which CD.
Belt means something completely different in detox and lines like
“I’m still the optimist though it is hard when all you want to be is in a dream” are probably the only thing that kept me from walking out the door. I’d literally be dead if it weren’t for those songs.
Thank You For My Life
Brandon P. That’s Woe
SA might have saved my life as well.
Say anything definitely saved my life to.
My man my man my man... You don't even know how identical your story is to mine. Including the masterpiece that is say anything (particularly this album) as well as my journey getting clean and finding self. All love brother
I bought the cd when i when i was in the 4th grade, i was introduced to it by older friends. 24 now and it will always be my top 2. Favorite band
Probably my favorite album of all time, I still rock it cover to cover an least once a month,
dewayne maddox it never gets old and even the songs that got me through some shit make me happy in some way.
This is a timeless album. One that we can all show our kids someday and they’ll be like “damn this rocks”
Top ten albums that got me through adolescence/early adulthood. It's such a perfect snapshot of youthful angst and depression. This is one of those albums you felt "saw" you.
I love albums like this that are so raw. I’m glad they never re-recorded it
This album got me through my year abroad as an exchange student. I was lonely and going through a lot of trauma.. played it every day that year. I listen to it now to pass rage when I need to, love screaming along to this whole album!
I have a feeling this is going to be one of those albums that is only fully appreciated years and years later when everyone has had sufficient time to realize how great it actually is it
14 years later and these songs still make me feel alive ❤️
I would change NOTHING on this album. Its the only album i felt was perfect and achieved its vision
one of my friends had a skate video with every man has a molly as the song. after that i listened to the whole album and fell in love with it immediately. i listened to it on loop for over a year. every song is perfect its crazy. and they don’t really sound the same. max is one of the best lyricists in my opinion
One of the best albums ever made
Random ass music and album that brought an eclectic group of us together pre social media. I remember EVERYONE loving the sons.
Loved this album when it came out. Loved hearing it live in Nashville last week. Love Max always and forever :)
Goddammit, thank you. This remains to this day one of my favorite albums of all time. I will always love and follow Max.
Thanks for sprinkling in some amazingness in my teenage life. I am alive because of music. I would not have made it if I couldn't have done this singing along to artists like you.
I got this record when I was 21 and going through a weird depression. "Belt" was my anthem then that helped me get through it. Thank you Max.
Thank you for doing this interview. One of my favorite albums ever. My fav by Say Anything. So introspective and articulate. Not just teenage angst like they are accused of.
Still listen to it weekly/daily
Been a fan for 11 years, and I still to this day cherish their music. Max is an extremly talented musician and just all around good person!
Ill never forget back in 2012 (relatively late for this album) my brother played “wow i can get sexual too” and i liked it, fast forward to this year it turns out the whole album is a banger. Now im starting my 20s w. This album like most did back then, the cycle continues!
anybody else heard the sad news today?.. i wished i could have seen this guy performing live at least once, hope is going to have other cool projects in the future
I have indeed heard the news...feeling both sad and happy, honestly. Mental health's important.
I wish i could have seen them a while ago but never got around to it💔 but I cant wait to see what Max does next. I hope he's doing mentally alright
Sad news?
This makes me so sad and happy. Sad because I never got to see them live. Maybe they'll do a reunion tour sometime? Maybe he'll play a bit in Brooklyn with his wife?
Me and my girlfriend watch their children. They’re working on music now!!!
One of those few albums I can actually listen to the whole thing and love every song!
Thank you so much Max
What an amazing album and band. Thank you for bringing us this piece of art full of meaning
my guy with the slurp glurp walkie talkie vape
Funny enough I never noticed the guitar tones being done through a POD. Pretty interesting how people used to trash the POD back then and some of the sounds they get are phenomenal. Digital processors have come so much farther since then, but they did manage to get really good sounds out of it back then.
I'm fairly certain Baseball (the homemade album before this) was recorded using a Line 6 amp and the built in feature that had.
I randomly stumbled upon this band and I gotta say this album is very fast one of my favorite albums ever.
I just rediscovered this band this year and I'm blown away how great they are.Top 10 bands of all time Yes, Genesis,. New Order,New Pornographers ,Green Day Saves the Day ,Ani difrANCO herself,Tanya Donnelly herself and with Belly short lived 2 albums,Lemuria,The Get up kids,and now Say Anything.Paramores new album was this year's best it was perfectly muted like putting pillows in your kickdrum...
This album hit me hard Senior year 2007
I can't even think of the right words to say to this, in all honesty. But...love this album. And this video. I'm crying actual tears listening to this, for some reason.
I'm a weird mixture of both sad and happy over recent Max decisions, but I respect the guy.
This was the first cd of say anything I got and I played that everyday, hell still do! I'm glad I've been blessed to go see them a lot in Phoenix
they played so many good shows in phx
This album means so much to my wife and I and will always hold a special place in our hearts. We can still play it to this day and sing all the lyrics
nothing but love for this
I’ve got freakin chills listening to this.
Omg!!!! The fact that he said he would record the entire thing all over again aaahhh! I love this album. As long as it wouldnt get rid of this one, I would love a remastered Max version
Admit It was a song I recited in spoken word for a theatre class project in high school lol.
Surprised my teacher let me do it
Max I love you man. Your music is amazing. Thank you for everything.
I would love it if Max went back and remade this album they way he wanted it to be in the first place. It's a masterpiece!
one of the best albums ever recorded. hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Favorite album of all time.
I miss and love this band so much!
This album changed my life!
I’m going to see them again soon!!!!
Love me some Bemis talk
One of my top 10 favorite albums all the way through
Honestly if you're here in this comment section, I respect the fuck out of you and you have great taste in music.
Say Anything is awesome, Max is awesome and I can really feel the energy he has puts into this album, which is without a doubt my favorite. Would love to see them live some day.
Alive with the glory of love is their first song I've ever listened to, all thanks to Scrubs
Same here :)
Best ever. The real MVP, the true GOAT. Probably my biggest inspiration as a songwriter and performer.
A literary GENIUS...which I still believe stems from his bipolarity.
I fuckin love Bemis, great artist, hugely underrated.
My favorite album of all time
One of the best ever.. Album and band.
It is more than just a collection of songs it does tell a story..... And I get it.... and it's beautiful and even though it's not mine I can relate.
🖤🏴☠️🥲🌹🔮
Love you all
Thanks for the awesome video! Max’s music has shaped who I am as a person. One of the best lyricists of our time.
My top 3 are
Is a real boy
In defense
Hebrews
Can’t wait for the new album and hopefully a tour!
ending the band, no new tour.
He’s said something big is coming that’s probably not a tour but it will be something
You HAD to do it in BK tho Max. I get what you’re saying, I hate my voice too on 15 year old recordings. The conditions you created it under are so vital to its tone and approach though. Admit It is a perfect example.
If you re re-recorded it now, 2018 style, it would be a completely different beast.
I’d still go cop it and rock that shit tho, so get on it gangster Killa!!! 👁👁👁
I love you max
Still listening to the album.
He is my favorite song writer ever.
Amazing band, my favorite at one time. Still jam out to metal now, belt, signal the rifleman, and baseball but better.
miss this
Favorite fucking album ever. So much fire.
I love all your albums! Defence of a Genre! Isn't there something like 25 songs on that album! Wish I got to see you play live!
It doesn’t surprise me at all that Max vapes. In fact I bet he was the first vaper of all time.
It’s a fucking legendary album.
My favorite album of all time, an artist is never satisfied haha
Alive with the glory of love was the song I was listening too when I realized I had a very real lesbian love for someone for my first time. Hearing him explaining it is so ironic because back then the world really did conspire to keep us apart.
I need to go eat something because it’s been like 40 hours but I’m in bed listening to say anything and watching Max Bemis videos instead
Max! Stay hard!
Whew. My highschool years.
Greatest album ever made. Of all time. Ever. In history. Period.
ANDDDD he's ending the band now - revisiting the "character" (him in denial of it not being him the whole time) to FINALLY acknowledge IARB was and is so influential and unfortunately the only beginning to end masterpiece release he has ever recorded.
"him in denial of it not being him the whole time"...That is absolutely what Ive been thinking. The words are too sincere and emotionally sung for him to not have felt the way he describes on the album
Glad I’m not the only one that picked up on this, when I read his farewell thing for the new album I was confused, like I understand the logic of looking back and really hating the person you were but to say that it was a character I call bullshit, when you clearly have gone through multiple things that happened I just don’t believe it being a character, it’s going to be weird with the new album because already the two songs I’ve heard definitely don’t sound relatable and is over the top in some ways, they are good songs but the lyrics don’t mean anything to me.
Guess it's time I finally check out this album
You have never heard this album!
The best rock albums of the oughts. Maybe if the last 20 years
I remember listening to Say Anything back in Puerto Rico, This album came to me at the perfect time at my life.
Thank you Max for your music. I have many stories with many of your Bands hits and tracks in my life.
Now today when I drive I will put in Is a real boy... and sing my fucking ass off.
Best damn album ever
Love your new shit just don't re-record this I love it too much
Listened to this at 18 when i had no car and my friend drove me around in his f150 to and from work. 36 now and me and my gf revisited this album on a roadtrip yesterday. ❤
Max made a fucking masterpiece