Your ADTR Stories
I’ve been listening to ADTR since 2007. I came across “Plot to Bomb the Panhandle” when I listened to a Victory Records sample cd. At the time, I was a huge Silverstein fan (and still am), so of course, I was interested in this new band from Ocala, Florida. I never turned back. :) A Day To Remember’s music has helped me through so many dark times. Without them, I literally wouldn’t be here. Cliche, perhaps, but true. Without them, I wouldn’t have made so many great friends. They are truly an inspiration and one day, I’m going to tell them how much they have meant to me. Whenever I’m having a bad day, all I have to do is listen to the words “So cling to what you know and never let go. You should know things aren’t always what they seem.”
Kris:
So A Day To Remember has completely changed my life, and for the better. The first time I was them was on the Sweet Brag Tour with The Devil Wears Prada and the only song I knew was The Downfall Of Us All, but when they came out and the lights were still off and they started singing dadadada the energy in the room changed completely and I still have trouble describing it to this day but it was the only time a band has changed the energy in a room out of all the concerts I’ve been too. They have also helped me threw a few difficult times, one was right after I started listening to them I had a huge fight with my group of friends and they all stopped talking to me, when I was alone and had no one ADTR was there for me and For Those Who Have Heart really spoke to me and was on repeat almost the whole time. The second time was right after What Separates Me From you came out my boyfriend at the time of a year and a half broke up with me out of nowhere and it devastated me and almost every song on that album said exactly what I felt. They have helped me threw some other shit but they have also opened my eyes to a whole other genre of music I never listened to. No matter what mood I’m in they always make it a million times better. They mean so much to me and I love them all so much. When I tell people about getting 44 tattooed most people don’t understand how a band can mean so much, but they also don’t understand how much they’ve impacted my life. I haven’t had the chance to meet them yet but when I do I want to thank them for everything.
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This is my ADTR story. J
Once upon a time, I fell in love with this band so hard.
I had actually listened to one of their songs before, and never listened to again because I was completely obsessed with another band at that time.
2 ½ years later, I go to the mall with my friends and see this big billboard with ADTR’s faces on it. I was like ‘Cool! I remember them,’ and walked into the store. A good week or so later, they crossed my mind again. So I said ‘Whatever, I listen to them to see if I like them.’ So I did.
I couldn’t stop listening to their songs and putting them on my mp4 player.
I thought they were the best thing ever. (Which they are.)
Things were kind of hard at that time, and by the time I was nearly at my breaking point, A Day To Remember had been my life. I had only been listening to them for two days at the time, when they had stopped me from self harming. But there was still one problem: I wanted to go further; suicide. It may sound pretty ridiculous, but they stopped me from that too. Turns out the song I had listened to while I had those thoughts really helped me out, you know?
It’s been a year now, and throughout this year they’ve stopped me through 3 round of suicidal thoughts, 2 rounds of self harm, and many more things that weren’t so great.
These boys have helped me through so much. Their music and their personalities have helped me to stand up for myself and tell someone like it is. I wasn’t able to do that before.
So with all these words I just want to sum this up to one thing that I want to say to the boys:
THANK YOU! ♥
The end.
i remember listening to a day to remember for the first time in early 2008, The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle was the first song i listened to and i fell in love. I saw they were coming to my town with the devil wears prada who i also was in love with at the time and got so excited. the day of the show i bought for those who have heart and listened to it the whole way there i was so excited. i bought my very first a day to remember shirt that night and wore it all the time, to this day that was still the best show iv ever been to and i still wear the shirt. i came out of that show with more passion and love for a day to remember then any other band iv ever liked. something about them, their lyrics, and everything is so meaningful to me. iv watched them grow so big, it used to be me wearing their shirt around school and everyone asking me “whos a day to remember?” to a day to remember being everyone elses favorite band. i have so much respect for them and they deserve everything they get, they have saved my life. it may sound stupid, but they really have, theyve helped me through so many hard times in my life and for that i will forever be greatful. favorite band forever and always. <3
Jack Well i got into a day to remember about a year and a half ago. I was talking to a friend on facebook and she was helping me decide what kinda hair cut to get. She was going to send me a link of what hair cuts to get but she accidently sent me a youtube link to the video of ”i’m made of wax,larry what are you made of?”I totally forgot about getting a hair cut and listened to that song on repeat for days! I couldn’t get enough of it! I searched more into this band ” a day to remember” I wasn’t really into “Screamo”/heavy music at the time so this was all new to me. The heaviest band i listened to was linkin park or lostprophets.I decided to look beyond the curtains for a day to remember becuase that song i had listened to was sick! I soon found the album “Homesick” the deluxe edition I downloaded that straight away without listening to the tracks before. I thought it was fantastic! So i instantly bought For those who have heart of Amazon! Soon after i got all the material of there’s i could such as “Right where you want me to be ep” Etc. I feel that a day to remembers’s lyrics have “saved” me in one way or another. I split up with my girlfriend who i had been in a relationship for years with which made me depressed as fuck! But listening to a day to remember really cheered me up! I would really like to thank the lads and tell them how much i appreciate what they do If i ever get the chance to meet them.
SO THANKYOU a day to remember :’)
I like to think that A day to remember saved my life. Before I started listening to ADTR I was: Cutting, suicidal, taking dieting pills, trying not to eat much, isolating myself from people, etc. My father was beating me a lot. I was really unhappy but couldn’t find a way to feel better. I had a friend who lived in England, and he was making me happy for a while, he introduced me to ADTR and I began to love them. I began to have strong feelings for this British fellow as well. So what me and the British boy had in common, was our love for ADTR. Anyways, we had spoken, skyped, chatted daily, for months. The one day, this British boy stopped speaking to me. So what did I do? I started cutting more often, and I started cutting more deeper. I ate even less, barely went to school, didn’t even bother listening to music anymore. I thought I was broken. I felt like I was broken. Soon my school found out about my cutting, they told my parents, and they called me in a counselor. Just days after all that happened, my parents announced they were getting a divorce. I still hadn’t heard from the British boy no matter how much I tried to get his attention online. So, I tried to stop cutting, it was getting more and more difficult each day, people were bullying me, I would get beaten up at school sometimes, I felt better once my parents knew about my cutting, and the divorce didn’t really bother me that much. But I felt so empty knowing the boy was ignoring me. I just wanted someone to love me in all honesty. Even if he loved me as a friend, I would be content. So one morning, I decided to walk to school because I had just gotten a new mobile phone and I downloaded some new music on it. I was listening to Of mice and men, when suddenly the song changed half way through the OM&M song, which didn’t make sense to me, because it wasn’t supposed to do that. I was half asleep, cold, depressed, and tired, so didn’t bother to change the new song playing. The new song happened to be ‘Another song about the weekend’ I actually had actually never actually fully listened to this ADTR song before, just small clips of it and I never payed attention to the lyrics. So I listened, focusing on the lyrics, and everything I was hearing was just, making me smile, and making me feel less lonely, and I suddenly felt like I wasn’t sad anymore. I felt like I had an epiphany, it’s as if the moment the chorus hit, I began to think straight. I just began thinking “There’s hope. Things will get better. I’m going to be alright. Someone is going to love me. I’m not alone.” Just, happy thoughts. Then, when I got to the park by my school, the bridge began to play and I got this warm feeling all over me, the sun was shining, and I was smiling. What started out as a dreary, grey Canadian winters day, turned out to be the warmest day we’ve had all winter, and it was the day I began to recover. This was all less then a month ago. I’m 3 weeks clean of cutting, and don’t plan on doing it ever again. If that ADTR song hadn’t started playing that morning, I have a feeling I would’ve been at the bottom of the ocean right now. Thank you for saving my life ADTR<3
