Another song off the album, “All Kinds of Time”, was used for NFL commercial promotions during the 2005 season.
Anberlin released their follow-up to Blueprints , Never Take Friendship Personal , in early 2005, again produced by Aaron Sprinkle. Charting at No. 144 on the Billboard 200 , the album brought the band closer to the mainstream. NTFP was generally more well received by critics than Blueprints for the…
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In 2005, the band received a good deal of publicity after recording a cover of the Britney Spears single ” Toxic .” The track was the only studio recording featured on Alive ’05 , a 2005 live album that constituted the sixth major release from the band.
In 2005, the band released a Greatest Hits album in both DualDisc and regular CD editions. Greatest Hits contains 14 of the band’s hits between Smash and Splinter , and two previously unreleased songs, ” Can’t Repeat ” and ” Next to You ” (a cover of the Police song…
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In 2005, Sean Kinney came up with the idea of doing a benefit concert
In the spring of 2005, the band went back into the studio with Brendan O’Brien .
A compilation CD was released later that year titled Chau Soda [ es ] (“Bye Soda”).
Mascis and Barlow began to reconcile when Mascis began showing up at Sebadoh shows. “I think he was kind of aware of how much shit I was talking about him,” Barlow noted in a 2005 interview, “but I don’t think he really ever pursued any of it. One of the…
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On May 14, 2005, the group was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live , hosted by Will Ferrell. One of Ferrell’s popular Saturday Night Live characters, fictional Blue Öyster Cult cowbellist Gene Frenkle , made a re-appearance on the show, playing with the Queens on their first song of…
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Granelli left the band in early 2005, moving on to play with Darker My Love, and by summer, Sinn had exited as well, later joining up with Angels & Airwaves . Despite rumors, The Distillers, now just Dalle and Bradley, denied that they were breaking up, instead simply going on…
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