Alkaline Trio's "Goodbye Forever" was recorded just as it was becoming obvious that the band was maturing into a depressive pop punk powerhouse. It was released on the I Lied My Face Off EP that predated Maybe I'll Catch Fire, which was an amazingly progressive and exciting punk record. It also predated so much of the silly makeup and adolescent celebration of macabre the band has now adopted to market themselves. It kind of makes it embarrassing to listen to them. Oh well.

Fortunately, "Goodbye Forever" has a charming video featuring the band hanging out and doing nothing in particular, which is definitely a skill set of mine. I've always loved that such a great song had such a low budget video, but the shots they chose are kind of endearing and there is just no sense of image control or marketing. They had a great song and needed a video and this would do. Despite the massive budgets of their later projects, I think I'd take something like this any day. Also, I definitely play air drums to this song more often than I should admit in print. Like, way more often.