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Gonna throw my two dirty worthless pennies into this discussion: I find that album super tedious, but the way it ends makes it worth it. Those closing seconds are incredibly heartbreaking to me.

 

I hate the Pinegrove album.

 

Shit, the Ace/TEN stuff was getting me real down but that one just breaks my soul

 

Great double album that hardly loses steam at any point: The White Album by the Beatles

 

You know I think Hypnotize/Mezmerize by System of a Down does double albums right

 

I've tried to get into it so many times and it just doesn't engage me at all. I think the most I enjoyed it was the first listen, and I wouldn't say I hate it, but it's almost completely disposable to me. Completely don't get why it has been so acclaimed, both here and elsewhere. It even landed on a bunch of mid-year lists from other publications.

 

You're both dead to me

But not rly love you both

But also kind of dead to me

 

Pinegrove album is good but yeah I don't get why some are calling it the best album of the year

 

walkin out in the nighttime springtime
needling my way home
i saw leah on the bus a few months ago
i saw some old friends at her funeral
my steps keep splitting my grief through these
solipsistic moods
i should call my parents when i think of them
i should tell my friends when i love them
maybe i should've got out a bit more
when you guys where still in town
but i got too caught up in my own shit
that's how every outcome's such a comedown


disposable

 

That's kind of how I felt initially. Like the first handful of times I listened it was like "this is pleasant, but nothing spectacular." I thought Old Friends was the only song that stuck out to me really. I revisited it a couple months later, though, and it really clicked for me.

 

this is what happened to me. phaynes posted some lyrics a few months after i first listened and i was intrigued again. loved it ever since.

 

Great post Ryan great great post you're unruining the website atm

 

How something so emotionally charged and so deviously catchy can be called disposable is beyond me but hey bad opinions thread

 

I can see how people may not love the Pinegrove album, I don't really outside of a few songs, but I think it's obvious why so many do. The lyrics are great and they're the kind of band I can easily see people becoming super attatched to personally.

Plus "Size of the Moon", come on..

 

I mean, it seems like something that should have been a complete homerun with me. Elements of emo/scene bands mixed with folk and alt-country. Like, that's a no-brainer considering my tastes, right? And I do like things about it, like the crescendo out of the slow section in "Aphasia" and some of the lyrics. But for the most part, it doesn't draw me in musically and his voice bores me.

 

Idk I love Evans voice his melodies and inflections are so catchy and interesting

 

And it's awesome that you dig it. I know a lot of people on here do. @Chase Tremaine made a valiant attempt to change my mind about it a few months ago, with his mid-year blog about it. I just continue to be underwhelmed when I listen to that record.

 

Fair enough my friend.

You'll be happy to know that I'm revisiting the Butch Walker catalog in anticipation for Stay Gold. I'll letcha know how that goes

 

Hooray! Definitely come chat about stuff in the Butch thread.

I'm hoping that album streams this week. I want to talk about it with people.

 

amazing amazing amazing

 

yeah you are

 

In this vein, I think "Waiting on You" is a top 3 Weezer song.

"Only In Dreams" and "Across The Sea" coming in at 1-2.

 

I agree with this almost exactly. Waiting on You woulda been a highlight had it made the album and the other two are clearly imo their best songs.

And Bon Iver kinda sucks.

 

For Emma is great, his self titled bored the crap out of me though

 

Yeah self titled did very little for me tbph. But it seems it really works for a lot of people which is cool