Nothing Gold Can Stay by New Found Glory

Nothing Gold Can Stay, the debut album by New Found Glory, came out on May 1, 1999, on the indie label Eulogy Recordings, back when the Coral Springs, Florida, band still called itself A New Found Glory. The "A" went later, because fans kept failing to find the records in the racks. The title comes from the Robert Frost poem, and early pressings stuffed in snippets of that poem plus clips from films like The Outsiders, Weird Science and That Thing You Do!.

Jordan Pundik yelps the hooks, Chad Gilbert and Steve Klein saw away on guitars, and Ian Grushka and Cyrus Bolooki keep everything at a sprint: snotty, sugar-rush pop-punk with hardcore muscle under the melodies. Richard Reines of Drive-Thru Records heard it, signed the band and put the album out again that October. Riding "Hit or Miss", it sold more than 300,000 copies, broke them across the States and left its mark on the pop-punk that followed.

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