Laymans Terms - Everything You Love And Hate

by Kyle Stevens

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1.
Armored Car 04:12
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2.
Raise Your Hands 03:48
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3.
Final Feeling 03:50
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4.
Japanese Girlfriend 02:50
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5.
Get Away, Get Away 02:20
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6.
Until Now 04:24
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7.
Returning Song 03:30
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8.
Coming 'Round 03:31
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9.
Don't Let It Go 02:55
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10.
Kelli's Song (Didn't Want To Go) 03:56
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11.
At Least I Rocked 03:56
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"Everything You Love And Hate" was the last album that Laymans Terms ever recorded, and thankfully how I felt I wanted people to remember the band.

Before we broke up in 2004, we had been writing new material that was very cool, but it was obvious we were all coming from a different place musically and starting to wonder what else life had to offer. A few guys had started their own side things which was hurful to me at the time trying to make an honest go still with LT moving into our 10th year, and it was clear that it wasn't a priority for everyone at the same time anymore. The band had been the biggest thing I had ever done in my life, my baby in many ways, and I made the move to disband at what I felt was one of our peaks instead of fizzle out like I know it would have...I cared about it too much about what we had done in our career thus far to see it do that and knew our fans deserved better.

It was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make.

For Dylan Atari and I who had basically grown up with the band from the age of 13, disbanding at 23 was like ending a part of an extended childhood. I think it was hardest on he and I as the founding members trying to figure out how to do life now without the always constant of the band.

"Everything You Love And Hate" represented 10-years of learning how to be a band, finally playing to what our strengths were, and living in a post-9/11 climate as reflected in the song, "Coming 'Round".

I tried my hand a songs with big choruses a la "Armored Car" and anthemic tunes like "Raise Your Hands". I still love those songs, and feel that they set stage for what I have gone on to do with Kirby Krackle.

"Japanese Girlfriend" was reinterpreted as a KK song in 2011 with the song "Super Powered Girlfriend". Listening to it now, the irony of "At Least I Rocked", the last song on the album, doesn't go unnoticed...I think sub-consciously I knew it was ending. You could say that with that song we were attending our own funeral...

This album also came out before the introduction of digital music, iTunes, and the new way the music industry was going. I wonder how it and our band would have been discovered in new ways if we released it a few years later, but it had it's time and place in it's own great way.

I always have been proud of this album, and very proud with what we accomplished with Laymans Terms. It was my childhood and more, and for that I am very thankful.

KS

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released June 1, 2002

Kyle Stevens: Vocals / Guitar
Dylan Atari: Bass / Vocals
Nick Holman: Guitar / Vocals
Matt Gervais: Drums

All songs written by Kyle Stevens expect "Final Feeling" written by Matt Gervais

All songs copyright 2013 kylestevensmusic

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Kyle Stevens Seattle, Washington

Kyle Stevens is a Seattle based songwriter/performer who began recording with his teenage band LAYMANS TERMS resulting in 5 albums between 1994-2003. In 2007 he released his first solo album, "Songs From The Orange Room", and the one off project COLLIDER in 2008. Starting nerd rock band KIRBY KRACKLE in 2009, the band has released 3 albums, and tours the world. Kyle's solo material is found here. ... more

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