YMMV / Remo Drive

• Broken Base:
  • Natural, Everyday Degradation fractured the fanbase into two camps: one that liked them for their rawer, edgier sound like Greatest Hits and before and treat the band like they have ended after Sam Mathys was out, and those who enjoy the new material and defend the band for changing their sound. There are also people who praise NED's songwriting but criticize it's production and say that the album would've been better if they continued to self-produce instead of hiring outside producers.
  • Speaking of NED, whether the rougher demos on the Songs I Think Rock bootleg or the final studio versions are superior.
• Crosses the Line Twice: "The Night I Kidnapped Remo Drive". A song about a crazy person kidnapping someone because he believes they're best friends would be deeply unnerving. Said song also being about kidnapping an entire rock band because they changed their sound is inexplicably hilarious.
• Fanon Discontinuity: While the band has disowned most of the material they've put out before signing to Epitaph, fans had the opposite reaction, preferring to disregard anything they put out since signing to the label and firing Sam Mathys.
• First Installment Wins: Their debut album Greatest Hits is their most beloved and commercially successful release.
• Friendly Fandoms: Remo Drive's fandom often overlap with Title Fight's due to the former's early material taking heavy influence from the latter, to the point where the band were often nicknamed "Title Fight Jr."
• Funny Moments:
  • "Lookin' Under the Tree" is a hilarious inversion of the stereotypical Christmas Song where the narrator complains that "Saint Prick" gave him coal for Christmas.
  • "The Night I Kidnapped Remo Drive" falls into Black Comedy territory for depicting a Loony Fan kidnapping the band for the cardinal sin of changing their sound.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Some people refused to give Natural, Everyday Degredation a chance due to the Twitter arguments the band got into over the album's quality or the fact that Sam Mathys was unexpectedly fired from the band before work on the album began.
• Signature Song: "Yer Killin' Me" is Remo Drive's most listened to song on Spotify by a country mile and the video for it has 4 million views on YouTube.
• Sophomore Slump: Their newer material has its defenders, but the band has experienced a decline in listenership beginning with their sophomore Natural, Everyday Degradation. Fans and critics rejected the more polished and radio-friendly sound that this album would establish for the band and failed to live up to the meteoric success of Greatest Hits. Their popularity would continue to diminish due to the change in direction, with the music video for their fourth album's single "No, There's No Hope For You" struggling to reach even 10k views.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Yer Killin' Me" is heartbreaking for anyone who dealt with a total bigot in their life or a one-sided friendship or anyone who otherwise drains you of your energy.
  I don't wanna fucking hear it anymore
  I know you got problems and we've all got problems too.
  I'm sick of being your shoulders, you know I need shoulders too...
  • "Two Bux" can hit close to home for anyone who wants to explore their sexuality (especially if the listener is homosexual) but grew up in a religious household where that kind of expression was frowned upon and struggles with sex as an adult for fear of disappointing their parents or committing a sin.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Natural, Everyday Degradation took the band's sound in a more "mainstream" direction. Fan reaction was less than kind.
  • Pop Music was also met with this reaction but fans have since warmed up to it.
• Vindicated by History: Pop Music was divisive when it was released for it's more polished production style and for its infamous re-recording of "Heartstrings", but nowadays it's been better appreciated for it's fun songwriting and for being the band's last release with Sam Mathys' involvement, and many fans lump it in with the band's classic era.

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