Days of the New has been largely written off as a Creed clone.  They may very well be one.  Certainly their most well known song, "Touch, Peel and Stand", positively reeks of Creed.  Bands that parlayed this whole style, with the wall of heavy guitars and psycho-tenor singing voices, were hardly rare in the 90s.

And their name is just so incredibly lame.  "Days of the New."  Blecch.  I don't like typing it or even thinking it.

However, "The Down Town" is still a huge fave.  Here's a tune I've wanted to post for a looooong time.  But the studio recording just wasn't to be found.  YouTube has several live renditions, not to mention a whole bunch of anonymous wankers trying to play it on their guitars.  Hey, geniuses, it's not like this song is all that hard.  You know that E-based barre chord?  Which was probably the first thing you ever learned?  Yeah, leave the top two strings open while you're playing those.  Voila.  You are now playing the bulk of "The Down Town."  Color me unimpressed.

(You know, at some point one of these YouTube wanna-bes is going to find my site, hear my recorded cover tunes and tell me I suck and that I'm fulla crap.  Hey, at least I'll get some actual traffic that day...)

In any case, where was I?  Oh yeah, couldn't find this song anywhere online.  Enter a little website called thesixtyone.  The band has a page there, and "The Down Town" is on it.  Search over!  Here it is!  It may be somewhat derivative, but it just has such a great sound and I appreciate the understated arrangement.  This just wouldn't work as well if it was another Creed-y barrage of massively overdubbed electric guitars.

Screw it.  I'm gonna record myself playing this on a ukulele and upload it to YouTube.

Hear "The Down Town" on thesixtyone.  What a douchey band pic.  Eh, whaddya gonna do?