Manchester Orchestra Band • Page 57

I can't remember this, please enlighten me

 

Leave It Alone is probably my favourite MO song! When it reaches the climax it is just astonishing. "When I was a fire I turned into ice, melting off my last feverish highs"

The spooky phone thing was neat - i like stuff like that. Hopefully we get to hear a single soon!

 

Simple Math is a great song that means nothing. Simple Math is the best album.

 

Simple math is a pretty lame song

 

I almost listened to Simple Math this evening

Almost

 

Ha, the last three songs on Simple Math are what make it so compelling, to me. It features some of the rawest, most personal, and best writing from Andy, and the emotion of that three-song run puts the whole album on METN-level to me. I also just love the sound of those songs; I wish they'd explored more of that "Leaky Breaks" vibe afterwards.

 

I listen to Simple Math more than I'm Like a Virgin.

Still hyped on the tour announcement coming

 

Mean Everything to Nothing, Simple Math then Right Away Great Captain! material. Andy Hull's side project. Cope when you get to it.

 

I was watching the live video they shot of Top Notch at the Tabernacle in Atlanta a few years ago and thought it would have been fantastic if they recorded themselves playing all of Cope live. I know that would probably be excessive since Hope exists, but I adore that video and think a live recording of the album would be 10x better than the album itself.

 

It would need to be exactly like that mix which is perfect but I agree.

 

I love the third verse down the octave and then he jumps up on the "you try to wash it out!!"

 

You are 100% correct and I shall delete it.

But Top Notch is a good song!

 

Just curious do you dislike hope just as much? It's such a different sonic space and I think it was a great move to bring in an outside producer for that one and it shows

 

I enjoy Hope a lot more.

Didn't they advertised Cope as a heavy rock album that just keeps hitting you over the head? METN is way heavier. Cope is almost poppy. To me it just completely fails at what it set out to be

The musical part of Hope is really beautiful and I really like it in that respect. I'd probably listen to it more if it was just instrumental though because for some reason I just don't connect to the lyrics on Cope/Hope like I do on any other thing Andy has ever done.

 

Been trying to revisit this band's discography but just keep playing ILAVLAC over and over again instead lol.

 

i'm not a huge fan of the chant in Pensacola.

 

They shot the whole show, so, maybe one day.

 

Who actually cares

Cope is no more poppy than anything else this band has done

 

Yeah i know. I wasn't saying that. It's just that it was supposed to be their relentless, super loud and heavy album or whatever but it's just not.

 

Leave it Alone is probably a top 3 MO song for me.

 

Also, complete sidenote, but can anyone confirm what After the Scripture is about? I thought I once read Andy say or someone else say that the song was about a girl who was an MO fan who died of cancer and the family had asked Andy to come to the funeral and he did.

 

I think it definitely could have been if they didn't do such an embarrassing job with the production

 

This is true. Can't find a specific quote regarding "After The Scripture," but MO became pretty close to a girl named Anna and the charity, 1 Million for Anna, associated with her and her family. I found some discussion of it in this Blue Indian interview: 10 Questions with Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra - The Blue Indian

 

oh man is it fun to sing live though!

 

That's so awesome...I think I may have even heard him talk about it at one of his solo shows. I've never seen that interview before but I know I've heard about it and I couldn't find it anywhere online, so I'm thinking maybe he did talk about it at this solo show where he played ATS.

Andy just seems like the coolest guy. I've had a few personal experiences with him (drank with him at a bar in Akron for a good 30 minutes in 2012 - he even invited me to a show the next night when they opened for Weezer) and when he released the RAGC vinyl trilogy, he saved a copy for me and we e-mailed back and forth a few times on how to for sure get a copy.

He's so down to earth and generous and seems genuinely appreciative of his fans.