Oi, Miles. You’re drunk and this is here for when you’re sober to remind you that there’s a new Motion City Soundtrack song out and you really liked it at 4.01am when you were buzzed on rum and Cherry Coke.
but, to be clear:
I would gladly, instantly trade the entire Bright Eyes and Conor Oberst and Monsters of Folk recording catalogue out of existence in return for a second Desaparecidos album that’s as good as Read Music/Speak Spanish.
So, so clearly the best thing Oberst has ever done. Maybe not lyrically but holy fucking christ the guitars! The guitars!
So it seems Desaparecidos played new songs at their recent reunion show. So they might be an actual band again. So.
This is better than any Bright Eyes record. And I don’t hate Bright Eyes, but this is better than any Bright Eyes record. I do kinda hate a lot of the “Conor Oberst” records and this is obviously massively better than those. And based on interviews and his stage persona I don’t like Conor that much as a person, but this band…
The guitars in the chorus are just SO fucking good.
The Wonder Years - Me Vs. The Highway
Off the Punk Is Dead. Get A Job split
The bridge on this is incredible.
“And I remember me at 18, naked in your parent’s basement”
The Wonder Years: Royale; Boston, MA (March 12th 2012 - The Glamour Kills Tour)
Washington Square Park
Melrose Diner
Keystone State Dude-Core
It’s Never Sunny In South Philadelphia
Hoodie Weather
Coffee Eyes
Came Out Swinging
Don’t Let Me Cave In
Woke Up Older
Local Man Ruins Everything
My Last Semester
Won’t Be Pathetic Forever
I Was Scared And I’m Sorry
Logan Circle
And Now I’m Nothing
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You’re Not Salinger. Get Over It.
All My Friends Are In Bar Bands (featuring Matt Arsenault of A Loss For Words)
Oh hey look, a full recent live set by one of my favourite bands. I will reblog this so it is easy to find when I want to watch it later.
My first ever time seeing Brand New and we got this set list. Amazing. I’ve now seen them do all my favourite songs* except for Archers (and it seems like they do that one pretty regularly, so, next time).
Biggest surprises: Spin Light and Boy Who Blocked (WITH THE TRAILER TRASH ENDING!) which they haven’t been playing regularly, Flying at Tree Level which according to Setlist.FM they’ve only played ten times, ever.
Highlights: Tommy Gun, Boy Who Blocked, Jesus Christ, Degausser. But I enjoyed every single song they played.
Goddamn that band is good live. Some more, bigger/wider thoughts on the show (and why it was a lot like my favourite gig I’ve ever been to despite being nothing like my favourite gig I’ve ever been to) later.
And hot DAMN it is good! Lots of great songs and it works wonderfully as a full album (story blah blah concept blah blah sonic cohesion blah blah great transitions blah blah). Quite possibly their best work since The Ugly Organ. Highly, highly recommended.
By way of a break from the stuff I’m meant to be doing, I rank albums by bands I like, like the kids on the message boards do when they’re bored and want something to argue about.
I am listening to this a lot today.
I am not sure yet if I like Say Anything but there’s some great stuff in here. (I’ve intentionally not started with “Real Boy” because I remember hating the singles when I was a stupid anti-emo teen. I’ll get round to it if enough of this one sticks).
So far, four songs I think I love and three I’ve deleted. There’s hope.
Just remembered how much I love this song (A LOT). If you can put up with some goofy frontman-faces, this is a borderline perfect bit of emo/indie-rock fusion.
Long Lost Friends by Transit
The way I’ve been selling “Listen & Forgive” to my friends who’re cooler than me is that it’s what would happen if a group of American Football (the band) obsessives made a pop-punk record, and this is maybe the song that most deserves that. They’re mixed weirdly low but if you look for them, at any moment there’s a twiddly guitar bit going on somewhere in this song. Meanwhile: Frigging GREAT vocal melodies.
The more uptempo “All Your Heart” came on in the club we were at on Saturday night and I may have been the only person there going for it, but I did, with all my stupid body could give it. It’s a really great album, you guys. And you’ve only got a few more weeks of bittersweet winter for it to perfectly soundtrack.
