This album saved my life.

this is the maps and atlases i remember and love

i was introduced to this in middle school. i had an after school program, teaching us to animate films frame by frame. a woman, i think she was a college student, her name escapes me, helped me almost every time i went there with my film. she made me a CD with different songs on it, a couple from this album and from the mars volta and the aquabats. this reminds me of a collection of memories of better times, of simpler times, i wish i could thank her.

@Syobnaf

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yeah, I wish more people knew the Aquabats, really goofy and fun music

@chromegnats

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant story and very cool to remember the impact she had on you during that time. Things like that are lasting and as you grow older you begin to realize the true weight they carried. Cheers.

The drummer, Chris Hainey, was my rock band camp counselor and gave me this album when i was in middle school. I remember listening to it on the ride home with my dad. He hated it but it changed my fucking life. Still one of my favorite albums of all time.

@hvndfvst

Жыл бұрын

haha i hope your dads doing better these days man

@travissiegfried636

Жыл бұрын

thats pretty aweosome! He seemed pretty humble, awesome drummer !!

I just found this used cd in a record store. Bought it because it looked interesting. Not disappointed at all!!!!😊

@travissiegfried636

Жыл бұрын

hah anice!

@tippidink

Жыл бұрын

sick, good find. it's a classic

I loved when they were math rock

Played in a duo battle show against the bassist and drummer in their basement in Chicago in 2007 and won after a cymbal flew off and cut the guitar power cable!! Love listening to this still ! Some great waveforms here / hear!!!!

Crazy. I remember when they were just making a name for themselves with this Album. My band was friends with a band they were good friends with, Karma with A K. Back in 2007, Talked to them a couple times. One was someones house in Chicago that used to host shows in the basement called Peoples Project. Man, they deserve their come up. Just wish my band would of stuck together

why I just discovered this band and math rock NOWWW in 2015?And I am child of eighties...weird...but anyhow, happy to hear this piece of heaven!

man nothing gets the nostalgia going like dope music you listened to in highschool

@jaymingles

7 жыл бұрын

yes

2022

@hvndfvst

Жыл бұрын

word.

Used to listen to this back when RuneScape was my life

My taxi driver was listening to this band and I had to ask to share the name of the band ... thank you life 🙏🏼

@travissiegfried636

Жыл бұрын

nice

Simply awesome!!!

In 2007, a coworker's band was playing a free show at UW Milwaukee. The headliner was Maps & Atlases from Chicago. I never heard of them but they totally blew me away. I left with this CD and an enduring love for this sound.

thanks for the upload man. this is the only way i can listen to this album on the go

I miss this maps and atlases :(

@travissiegfried636

Жыл бұрын

aye! check them roaring twenties

Still rocks in 2019

14:43 SUPER SOCCER!!

Great album

this is great!

man highschool-life was something else

yk i listened to this maybe 2 years ago and didnt like it, now its mindblowing. need more music breaking away from norms and stuff, such a unique take on math rock from these guys

@TheSanguineSea

Жыл бұрын

You know Owls from chicago? + Ghosts and Vodka, early Tiny Moving Parts, Street Smart Cyclist somewhat

@TheSanguineSea

Жыл бұрын

This album bangs

Naps and Mattresses

God this reminds me of 8th grade

@harrisonglaeser3129

7 жыл бұрын

OMG I KNOOOOWWWW

@andygump724

6 жыл бұрын

God this reminds me of being 28

@17wasSquared

6 жыл бұрын

I wish I was as cool as you in 8th grade lol

@CubeCF

6 жыл бұрын

for me it was 7th grade, this is the ultimate nostalgia album

@100datbitch4

5 жыл бұрын

Alex Gavin that’s what I was gonna say. But I’m old so idk.

This shit is crazy.

I love math rock fuck with me if you love math rock

@InstrumentalMotion

7 жыл бұрын

Do we have to make eye contact during it?

@TheSanguineSea

Жыл бұрын

Don’t tell me what to do you’re not my dad

scrubs

Why did they stop being math rock?

@xx_420_blz_it_xx5

2 жыл бұрын

I think about that often.

@chromegnats

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like a lot of bands feel the need to “outgrow” an initial sound like this… like they can only go so far with it, which I don’t totally disagree with and can understand. Still yet, you don’t fix what isn’t broken either. It’s a tough thing to balance… “growing” or allowing yourselves to become “stale”. It’s all subjective at the end of the day but yeah, wish they had held this sound for at least a little while longer than they did.

@CubeCF

Жыл бұрын

@@chromegnats They made this album with 4 people in the band and one of the guitarists left soon after, that might have been a reason why they migrated away from a technical sort of sound.

@travissiegfried636

Жыл бұрын

@@chromegnats this was an outgrowth of what was previous, older maps idk if it was the same name had screaming and was much diff

@travissiegfried636

Жыл бұрын

@@CubeCF what was the guitarists name?!

Something wrong with mastering slightly too loud? Sounds heavy though!

@100datbitch4

5 жыл бұрын

Jamie Wilson Na that just the happy tappies

Simply awesome!!!