I played played in my college's pepband (it's kind of like a marching band, except my school didn't have a football team so we just played from the bleachers for like, basketballs and volleyball games, mostly), and I used to joke that, because we had so many songs in our book from Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish, etc., that we were basically an athletics department-sanctioned ska cover band. I love ska, and you can make all the checkerboard jokes you want but I won't apologize. I associate the genre with this very particular time in my life of making fun music with my dearest friends. And besides, there's something about upbeat, dancey music juxtaposed against lyrical themes of like, mental health and religious abuse that really scratches my brain. Streetlight are also a very fun live show, even if I'm too big of a weenie to wade into the mosh pit. I cried twice.

Honorable mention to With Any Sort of Certainty. Somewhere in the Between is a better album than WASoC is a song, but WASoC is a better song than any song on SitB, if that makes sense. It was one of the live songs to make me cry.

Shoutout, as well, to A Better Time, A Better Place, the second song in the setlist to make me cry. Iykyk.