Yellowcard stayed good throughout their entire discography. Never felt like they dropped off

Sean's recording of him playin violin in his bathroom is peak yellowcard

Daammmnn, I got chills when Sean came in with the violin. Never heard that song before. Listening to this whole album after this video. Thanks for making this

This was incredible. Paper Walls deserves a breakdown too

Still fangirling over this one!!! Lights and sounds forever 🥰💕

My personal favorite Yellowcard album is Paper Walls. Ocean Ave and Lights and Sounds were both great, but Paper Walls just had those fuckin JAMS. Five Becomes Four, Takedown, Fighting, just so damn good. I was a bourgeoning drummer at the time as well, and that album really helped me find some new grooves and approaches. The drum solo in the middle of Light Up The Sky just makes me so happy. Thanks, Alex, I guess I'm jamming to Yellowcard for the rest of the day.

Lights and sounds is my favorite yellow card cd. It hit me at a perfect time and I wore it out. Still brings back such great memories. Dang near 20 years later.

Lights and Sounds is my favorite Yellowcard album. Like, as much as my little emo heart loves Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds was just so different and hit so hard. How I Go is one of my favorite songs of all time. This video was phenomenal! Keep being awesome Alex!

Criminally underrated. The album is incredible. Great stuff. Every time I watch one of your videos, I want to play drums more often. Love that.

Alex all of your musical stylings match up with my formative years in music so well, this was a big deal for me in high school too. You should give Thrice a little bit of love on the channel I know it was part of your collection back then and maybe even now!

You got Sean!!!

I freaking love this series, I need more please. MORE.

Bro, such a good album! LP's drum choices are so tasteful 🔥

HUGE Yellowcard fan here. Thanks so much Alex for this incredible video. You are mega-talented!

Man, 2006 was the peak of early 2000s music. I think 2003-2006 were my favorite music years. Almost everything I listen to is still that.

I don't comment on things.. But bro Yellowcard has ALWAYS been my band. And always will be. You've been in my daily musical lineup for a few years now. I think I know a little more why your style connects with my taste of rock. Lights and Sounds was such a pivotal record to me being more than just a listener of music, but someone who wanted to be into the music. Yellowcard is just one of those bands I can lose myself in. With that being said... GIVE US FULL VERSIONS!!!!!! 😁

Love Yellowcard, one of my favorite albums. AND YOU GOT FRICKIN SEAN DUDE

Circa 2011, Yellowcard got the opener slot at Warped Tour on Long Island. I could tell they were a little annoyed to be playing at 10:30AM given their caliber but not in a super entitled way. It took almost no time at all for a massive circle pit to form. The entire stage's dimensions replicated in front. Probably about 150 feet by 75 feet, so it was more of an oval. There was so much energy. I've been to a lot of concerts that couldn't match mid morning Yellowcard. They thanked us afterwards for being such an amazing crowd. I'll remember that set forever. Thanks for this video and for resurfacing that memory for me, Alex.

This is so good! We also need more YC covers on your Spotify! (Loved this half time version you did)

i love these album deep dives, you cover them so well

Thanks for making me smile watching this. Seriously such nice moments of joy you and Yellowcard bring

I've watched a lot of drummer videos on YT for the past 15+ years but never saw one done in this way. I remember as a kid liking just 3 songs off this album, but now I'm going to go back and listen again! Thanks!

Dude this was awesome. My first proper gig was Yellowcards 'Lights & Sounds' tour of Australia and I still get chills thinking back to them walking out on stage and that opening riff just blasting through the arena. Without a doubt my all time favourite band. Keep it up Alex 🤘

I knew there was a reason I like you and your music so much. Lights and Sounds is one of my absolute all time favorites. This whole video is one big treat for me!

Great breakdown of what makes them special. His drumming on Paper Walls was super influential on how I play drums. afraid and fighting especially.

Awesome video Alex, and so cool to have the band still contributing and kicking ass after all these years. I have and will always love them.

This is the best video ever. Thanks for making this!!! Yellowcard is forever. Such an amazing band. Seen them in concert many times. Best concerts I’ve ever been to. Everyone in the crowd sings every word of every song.

This is my favorite band! I've always felt like Lights and Sounds was underrated because it sounded so different from Ocean Avenue. It's such a solid alt rock album and has some of the most emotion the band has ever shown!

Southern Air is MY Yellowcard album. It's so underrated. One of their most pop-punk albums but so many instant classics on it.

I love these types of videos SO much!!

Loving this format. We're all just a bunch of dudes inspired by each other's creativity. Exploring these concepts that hook into our brains is exciting. It's not exactly nostalgia, but an appreciation of the foundation of our musical journeys.

Your passion is infectious ❤ Thanks for posting this one bro

I tried to like it twice!! Great job as always Alex, thank you.

super sick!! also one of my favorite albums. cool you connected with the band members for this video :D

Such a great video and a good chance to revisit an album I haven't listened to in a while.

Yooo that's awesome!! Keep on killing it, Melton! LAS is one of the best records ever ❤

Absolutely iconic album and I miss LP3 so much in Yellowcard.

Holy moly Alex. This is one of your best videos. You've become such an accomplished drummer. Kudos! I'd love to see you do this for some other classic albums - Color and the Shape, Blue Album, Bleed American.

You are amazing brother! The world needs a male country cover of That's What You Get by Paramore!!!

so cool!! love this!

love the hand over hand roll fill, so good, i remember it well

Holy crap man! Absolutely unreal that you got to jam with Sean! This album was also a huge inspiration for me in High School. It’s one of those albums that when I’m doom skipping all the tracks in my library I always stop on anything from Lights and Sounds. It never fails to bring the good feels.

You've gone to a huge amount of effort to make this, I got chills. PLEASE release a cover album of Lights and Sounds, I'm begging you! 😂 I need to hear the whole songs. Amazing.

The covers are great, but these are my favorite types of videos. Please make more of these

This video is so good!

This was fun- watching you have fun!

Anyone else notice the faces in the “down on my head” part? When emulating LPIII Alex has a face of determination and when throwing his own version out there his face is so much more emotional and like… fearful or hopeful?

I've seen YC last year, sounds so freaking awesome live!

Oh man, this hits all kinds of nostalgia. Thank you 🙏

Please more Yellowcard content Alex!!!

such an inspiration bro!

I have always been super partial to LP’s drumming on Martin Sheen or JFK in this album. The chorus is so simple but so god damn effective. Amazing drummer.

Simple Girl. I see Yellowcard, I click... Uh I mean Alex Melton I click... Uh I mean.... Both! I saw Yellowcard in Tampa last year and they were still absolutely brilliant. Top 3 concerts of my life and I've been to a lot. If you're reading this folks, go see a show.

I didn't hear of YC until about 2007, I was a Junior in HS, and to this day it's still my favorite album of theirs and my second favorite album of all time. Paper Walls takes the first spot. Linkin Park and Yellowcard are my all-time top 2 bands, and this album will always hit. As a drummer, this was a fun watch. ✨✨ I haven't listened to it front to back in a hot minute, so off I go to listen to the whole thang... :P

I didn't have a lot of friends that were really into Yellowcard when I was growing up, but I ATE UP their Ocean Avenue album. It was my daily listen. Something about the violin being involved, the guitars being sublime, and the drums were always banging, they had me coming back on the daily. After some time, this album is what helped me bond more with my younger sister. Our mutual love for this band has continued to grow and we were able to catch them live in concert last year. I have never lost my voice after yelling at a concert as I did at this one. It was incredible! All the love goes out to Yellowcard!

Saw them in St. Louis a few weeks ago. Felt like a teenager again. It was amazing!

After the masterpiece that was Ocean Avenue, following it up with a banger like Lights and Sounds was when I knew this band was going to be incredible. As predicted, Yellowcard never failed to amaze with every subsequent record after that. Thanks for touching on these amazing, nostalgic songs and I hope that we get more YC content from you in the future!

Can we also just talk about that guitar tone you played at the start of Lights & Sound - big taking back sunday vibes!

This is awesome! Yellowcard is a band that is sorely underrated. Most people think of Ocean Avenue, the song, not even the whole album. Yet, Ocean Avenue, Lights and Sounds, Paper Walls, Southern Air... I mean, so many great albums!

Super cool video man

Love the playing as usual, but the commentary and perspective is really rad

Yellowcard got grouped in with pop punk, but I always considered them in the alt rock/emo corner. Their early-mid aughts sound had way more in common with saves the day, dashboard, american rejects, and the promise ring than pop punk bands of that day or the 90s.

I was graduating high school when Ocean Avenue came out and it was an explosive album for me at the time. Lights and Sounds elevated everything about their sound. If there are core memories, then both these albums are core albums for me. Love your work!

LP3 needs to come back. He was absolutely incredible.

YES! More YC stuff please!

This just brought me back. Yellowcard will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first band I found and fell in love with on my own. I was playing SSX 3, shredding down the mountain and then I heard it, Way Away. I was hooked immediately and went out and got Ocean Avenue and not long after Lights and Sounds. They were in constant rotation in my Discman. I was so excited for Paper Walls, but it was set to come out the summer of graduation. I was going to be in basic training. I was on MySpace constantly, listening the couple of songs they put out, trying my best to know every word before I left. The first thing I did when I graduated bmt, after my family left, was hit the BX, grab a cheap Walkman, the new PaperWalls CD, and I explore Lackland AFB and I was so happy. Every song in Paper Walls just hit and to this day it remains one of my favorite albums ever. Yellowcard played such a huge roll in my life

I literally bought my first guitar a week after hearing Lights and Sounds for the first time. That album changed my life.

Lights and Sounds (the song specifically) has a very special place in my heart as well because I was learning guitar via Ocean Avenue 10 years ago and hadn’t heard anything from Lights and Sounds before. So when I turned on the album for the first time and was met with that guitar riff to open things up I was blown away. Still one of my favorite riffs to play. Went on to see Yellowcard play a number of times and Sean Mackin commented on a post of mine when I was reviewing their self titled album back in 2016 when they first called it quits. So cool to see LP3 and Sean play some role in this video. Those guys are so amazing musically and just such kind people.

Love this band! I hope they make another album.

I'm a classically trained musician who is highly interested in musicology and is a lifelong pop punk/alt rock girlie. This kid of video really scratches my brain in all the right ways. I'd love to see more like this!

The drumming on their following album Paper Walls may be even better. Would love if you did a video on that one too!

GREAT stuff man, I'm a big fan of that genera of music; Yellowcard, The Spill Canvas, Relient K, even some of Plain White T's stuff!

mixing drummers perspective :) im in love.

My word, now I need to go listen to that album again. Take me straight back to pretty formative late high school years there. I forgot how much I loved that album

Hey Alex, this is awesome! Actually going to see YC tomorrow night...for the 18th time since 2004. Hope they play a few songs off this album. It was definitely one of my favorites.

LPIII Has some of the most fun parts I think I've ever played.

I *need* a full cover of Down on My Head. One of my fav Yellowcard songs.

Phenomenal video! I myself have been very influenced by YC and LP3. Paper Walls made a huge impact on me back in 2008. In particular the whole drum arrangement of Shadows and Regrets. The Lights and Sounds album was impactful as well. Their entire catalogue with Ryan Key (7 albums and 2 EP's) are excellent, EVERYTHING. I will not take the Lift A Sail slander, that is a fantastic album, some of y'all just aren't ready for it yet. Sure, it's missing LP, but you can admit those weren't even suitable for him. It's a mellow mid tempo record that is freakin great.

Senior Year of high school. Riding around my hometown in my '96 Ford Explorer. This album on repeat. Yellowcard served as the soundtrack of my life back then, and their bangers are criminally underrated.

Could have watched an hour version of this video lol. Lights and Sounds is sick, Waiting Game, Space Travel, and Martin Sheen or JFK are all *chefs kiss*

LP is tied for my favorite drummer with Zac Farro. Yellowcard is still good, but sounded and felt differently after he left. He brought a frantic energy that can't easily be topped.

I remember got a copy of this amazing album in a grocery store at Ajman UAE back in 2008 and from that day on it was on a loop in our playlist. We love each song from this album most especially “How I Go” it holds a special place in my heart forever.. We’re so mesmerized in every aspect of the song, admire the storytelling and it’s 1 of our many favorite Yellowcard songs. Remembering my late wife… She was a huge / #1 YC fan. Ohh God.. I Truly Missed her. I dedicate “View From Heaven” for her.

Same year as I loved yellow card!

Every Album of Yellowcard is a Gem.

Yellowcard from their earliest EPs to their last studio albums showed some of the most drastic evolution of any band. They're a really fun band to do a full discography revisit on.

Just saw them in concert in Minneapolis! My girlfriend got me tickets for my birthday (: sounded amazing and seem like a good bunch of people.

THIS ALBUM DOES NOT GET TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH!!! Amazing album

Lights & Sounds has always been my favorite Yellowcard album and it's so good to see it get the love it deserves.

WHAT!? This is sick!

Dude! I just saw them (YELLOWCARD) with Third Eye Blind and A R I Z O N A this past weekend at Pine Knob! They still got it!

Chevy Blazer was my high school chariot as well! Constantly had problems and taught me a lot about cars. But it was great for getting my friends around town. Had a sub in the back that made that Lights and Sounds album oh so sweet... until I realized there were other things to do back there with the seats down (giggity) and the sub took up too much space lol.

"Lights And Sounds" is my favorite album from Yellowcard, LP's drumming still is very inspirational for me as a drummer, you can tell his drums elevate every song to another level without complicating stuff

Every one of their albums is great, but this one is a banger from start to finish!

LP3 my second favourite drummer behind the GOAT Travis.

Massive Yellowcard fan here. They will always be a truly amazing band, no matter what. For me, Paper Walls is their best album ! But ofcourse I also love Ocean Avenue, Lights & Sounds, WYTSY and so on. However, Lift A Sail was where it went down a bit. It's a good album but the previous ones were so much better.

Lights & Sounds and Paper Walls are it for me, best YC albums.

Oooh Yellowcard is where it’s at!!

The absolute nostalgia high from hearing my first Yellowcard album and still remembering the words

It was wild enough to find someone that loved Lights and Sounds as much as I do, but on top of that, someone that had a Chevy Blazer in High School. Absolutely wild.

No backflip during violin.... 4 out of 5 stars. Also, LP3 is definitely one of the drummers i've modeled my own playing after over the years. I must have played their live DVD over and over when i was in high school just so i could mimic everything he did. Great vid again Alex!