Yellowcard - Yellowcard (September 30, 2016) Album • Page 43

A Place We Set Afire was one of my favorites on first listen but has since been overshadowed by several others. In fact, at this point I might say the last two songs are my favorite.

 

oh yeah i didnt frame these songs in the sense of a divorce but yeah thats a good point to0.

 

"Surface" talks all about the fire, energy, and time left to burn.

"Afire" is the sequel track as the flame burns out and you learn to accept it.

 

If anyone is interested, I've found a site where we can stream songs and chat at the same time. I'll post a link when it's ready.

 

The last violin note matches up roughly to the first guitar note on the first track of One For The Kids.

Can someone test this more solidly?

 

Yeah, I definitely think at least Rest in Peace, Got Yours, Leave a Light On, and Savior's Robes refer partially to that.

Oh, that's pretty cool, I hadn't put that together.

 

Im not imagining that right? I played them back to back

 

Yeah, they're both D's.

(The same D, too, to be specific.)

 

There's no chance this wasn't intentional. Especially since the last note of the record is ever so slightly dissonant compared to the rest of the song.

 

Yep, song is mostly in A major (speaking from a classical musician's mind here, don't know guitar tunings) so to end on a D is pretty weird.

 

So cool. Can't believe I caught it. Haha

 

I also think the end of F&F harkens back to Convocation (also A major).

 

Those are two of my favorite post-hiatus songs by them. I think I am going to love Savior's Robes. I think it's the song I'm most excited for hearing when I finally listen to it. Who am I kidding? I'm beyond excited to heard the whole thing.

 

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Amen. It's pretty definitively my second favorite at this point. And easily their most consistently great, I think.

Yeah, that's the thing. Southern Air (and all the others, but especially that one) has personal connection going for it.

"Yellowcard (feat. Chad Kroeger)"

This is what I think of when it gets to the end of that song. Sort of feels like it ties these two albums together.

 

I wish I liked Wrecking Ball. That one takes me out of the album. Other than that, I really do think every song is great.

 

I got that vibe too, but I always think these things are attributed to all kinds of situation. I was unaware he was even divorced.

Any of those could be break up songs (relationships and the band) or about past members. They work so well all around.

 

I'm A Wrecking Ball reminds me so much of Joshua Radin. I dig it.

 

Fields and Fences is absolutely perfect. They couldn't have done a better closer for the Yellowcard chapter.

 

@RoKKeR: Again, on the S/T bridges transitioning from verse to chorus are clearly the band's biggest misstep as they were on LaS. The memorable, catchy, vibrant songs on the record are those with well-thought out seamless bridges. However, a majority of the songs awkwardly transition from phase to phase within. Not great.

 

lol there's literally nothing awkward about the transitions on this record

 

Leave it to you to get offended for me not enjoying these last two Yellowcard albums. You can like them and I can think they're shit. How anyone can think these songs are dynamic is beyond me. I'm not even a huge fan of pop-punk but if I was, making these songs faster would certainly not save the record. Just because the songs have many layers doesn't mean they're good - especially when those layers blend together and sound like a fuzzy mess of nothingness. The fact is, that this band's strength has never been writing the slow to moderate paced songs. I'd argue that most of the songs paced as such throughout their discography are some of their worst. It's just not what I want out of a Yellowcard record. If I want to listen to slow or moderate paced songs, there's a handful of bands that do it much better than they've have done of the last two albums. They are lifeless and they are flat because they're just not that well thought out. The songs don't have a high point, they don't arc, they're just kind of there, existing. Again, I commend them for fulfilling their artistic vision (which they obviously have accomplished because it seems like they're super proud of LaS and S/T), but major portions of this album still feel extremely clunky combining all of the band's elements in addition to transitioning from verse to chorus and back again. The lead single is the best example. The violin is just kind of thrown on top of the rest of the band because it kind of "has to be there", the guitar solo is terrible and the verse to chorus transition is just cringeworthy.

 

No ones offended, just calling out statements that are pretty objectively false

 

Yes, because an opinion about music is objective. Ok bud.

 

I mean, objective facts about music do exist, but nice strawman.