I've Got the Gift of One-Liners and You've Got the Curse of Curves

I need to find some new music to listen to.  For the second time in two years (actually less) one of my favorite bands has broken up due to the lead singer (reportedly) becoming a douche.  

First it was The Starting Line (the ultimate band pre-MT) whose music was the soundtrack to my high school life, my sanity if you will.  "Say It Like You Mean It" was my favorite CD, a classic that I go back to even now just to listen to and can still remember every line and lyric and chord to.  I can still remember flipping through MTV2 (back when it was still cool) and landing upon the music video for "Best of Me" an ode to John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler from "Say Anything" as a geeky guy in a trench coat holds an old boombox above his head and blaring the beginning of the song to catch the girl's attention before the tape (yes, TAPE) gets eaten.  He then goes to kidnap the band, back when Kenny was still a bleached blonde lycra wearing adolescent, and they start to play as random people approach the Lloyd Dobler-esque guy in his quest to win a girl, some to help and some to discourage before it starts to downpour and he comes to the realization that he had been at the wrong window the entire time (and no I didn't have to watch the video to remember that, some songs and videos are just permanently embedded).

"We got older but we're still young

We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up."

Now, as of last night/this morning, Cute Is What We Aim For is kaput.  A band who I can also still remember how I discovered.  Late night/early morning, flipping onto FUSE (as this was now the cool music channel) and a guy, with hair obscuring his entire forehead and most of his face, in a white suit sat at a table with similarly dressed men and women in various red dresses singing about the "Curse of Curves."  Then proceeding into various plots to steal the girlfriends of all his bandmates (should this have been a sign of the stability of the band?) before being poisoned by his own girlfriend.  The entire summer after discovering CIWWAF was spent listening to the CD "Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch."

Cute is what we aim for - the curse of curves
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"I want someone provocative and talkative

But it's so hard when you're shallow as a shower."

So now I have one band I listen to hardcore that is still together.  I think a trip to Canada is now necessary.  I was lucky enough to see The Starting Line together the year before they broke up but, unfortunately, never got to see Cute.  MT will not be one of those bands that I will hate myself for never getting to see before they, too, break up (because they eventually will like all great bands).  But, unlike, TSL and Cute, Marianas Trench actually has lyrics that relate to more than just a four year period or a careless summer.  More than one song I can relate to no a personal level, things that I never talk about anymore that I hate to even think about (but as of lately people love to bring to my attention, the con of having relatives "in the field").