Albums You Missed: Marcy Playground, MP3 (2004)

Now, this is an album I know you missed.  After suffering the Sophmore Jinx, being the promising first album, second album disappointing sales, Marcy went into limbo for nearly 5 years.  I got to see them on their last show of the 90s and was sufficiently impressed to keep track of them. This was a performance that was their first after getting over some sort of sickness, I don’t remember what and their last for quite a while.

This album has a different feel to it than the prior two.  The album as a whole doesn’t feel as fun or as tongue in cheek.  But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.  The roller coaster range of emotions still rides on in this release.  Songs like Death of a Cheerleader and Jesse Went to War will tug at your heart strings and Flag and Finger will make you want to stick it where the sun don’t shine.  Flag and Finger should have been released as a single because I believe it would have been huge.  It really felt like they completely understood where the country stood when this album was released.

You probably missed this album because there was no touring to back this album.  Luckily, they’re touring now and I will seem them this weekend.  That’s why I have a focus on them currently in my Albums You Missed series.

I wouldn’t recommend this album to a Marcy Playground virgin because this is definitely not their best release but if you enjoyed their first or second album, you will enjoy this one.