STUBHY PANDAV: It's not what I meant to happen but it's so cool to hear other people's interpretations of what the songs were or what they were going through at the time when they listened to the record. It's been fun talking to you about this because we remember the time in our lives when this record came out so well. Tackling some of these songs, I just remember writing them and arranging them and how fun that was.Ĭ: That's awesome.
When you announced that you're going to play every song, you don't really have that choice not to anymore. "Beware" which we haven't played in at least six years. "You Weren't There" which I don't think we've ever played live. I'm having fun playing "Something To Believe" which we've never played live. STUBHY PANDAV: It's weird because it used to be "Closer To Our Graves" because we always played it but now it's all the ones that we don't ever play. We have a chance to do this for people still even though Joe is gone, so why not?Ĭ: What's your favorite song to play live off of Commitment? To Freedom played all the way through or something from Nirvana-unfortunately all of my favorite artists have passed away. They've moved onto other bands and probably don't talk about it every day but when I think about records from when I was growing up, I would love to see 40 Oz.
STUBHY PANDAV: Sometimes you just forget how much-well, at least hopefully-your music meant to people back in the day. If not, I remember what I was thinking at the time.Ĭ: Well, we're glad you're doing the show. I was the happiest and saddest I could have been at the time. STUBHY PANDAV: You know it's funny, this show's been set up for so long but I didn't really listen to the record until about two weeks ago after the first practice. We had this "us against the world" attitude and I think you can definitely hear that in the record.Ĭ: A lot of the songs are about growing up, do you still relate to the album ten years down the road? STUBHY PANDAV: All five of us were growing apart socially a little bit but as a family we were coming together and the reason for that is that we all felt like our backs were to the wall when it came to what the label wanted after the supposed fail of the previous record. The same can be said of Lucky Boys Confusion lead singer Stubhy Pandav who took some time to look back on the album with Chicagoist before the band plays Commitment front to back Friday at the House of Blues.ĬHICAGOIST: What do you remember most about recording Commitment? Tales of just wanting to stay home to get drunk and play videos games while plotting your hometown escape were inescapably relatable and fill at least one Chicagoist staffer with nostalgia to this day. Or perhaps it was perfectly ordinary and that's what made it so good. In a landscape littered with power-chord-packed releases, Commitment was anything but ordinary. To put things in perspective, this was the same year Fall Out Boy's debut album Take This To Your Grave dropped and the Fireside Bowl was still thought of more as a music venue than a bowling alley.
In 2003, Chicago's pop-punk scene was blowing up. We still can't believe it's been ten years since Lucky Boys Confusion's benchmark album Commitment hit local record store shelves, though. Lucky Boys Confusion's 'Commitment' Turns 10 By Katie Karpowicz in Arts & Entertainment on 7:00PMĪs this summer winds down, we're reminded of how fast time passes.
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