Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch (May 12, 2023) Album • Page 12

I also never got into the wonder years

 

same. I tried liking them but its not for me. I also would have expected PUP to easily play last.

 

Started to come around really hard on this, on my 6th listen. Some real bangers here and some devastating lyrics.

 

For me, any show has always required a 4 hour round trip. Even with the late nights driving home I would always stay for the full thing. It was just too much effort and money to leave early. And some bands I was not a big fan of put on great shows and converted me.

 

How do the streams of the two compare on Apple Music?

 

I'm the same being a father now. I can appreciate that TWY will never mean the same to someone who was below school aged when the trilogy came out. But at 15 I was still excited or at the very least intrigued (even if only from a bucket list perspective) to see bands from the early 90s. Especially when they were clear influences on the more modern bands I was there primarily to see.

 

as far as I'm aware Apple Music doesn't show stream numbers

 

As if on cue:

Pup and Beach Bunny Live: 10 Thoughts on Streams, Internet Hits, and Loving a Band for Years

 

Found it funny the stage presence was mentioned compared to "noodly emo bands" precisely talking about Andrew (Andrew being originally from You Blew It! ;d ;d). That's an interesing study and right on cue, hell yeah hahh, but at the same time I agree with the conversation going in the PUP thread; I'm all for mixed genre bills and such comparisons are just not that necessary and fair to me.

Didn't realize what are the numbers for Beach Bunny though! Quite amazing

 

Can’t stop listening to this. Probably have spun it 25 times in the past week.

Can’t even pin down what I like about it. Feel like I typically wouldn’t. I can’t understand a damn thing the guy is saying. The music is just so tight and reminds me of so many different bands mixed into one.

Also I’m a huge TWY fan and I’m not sure they had much of an impact on the popularity of the scene. They’ve never really eclipsed the biggest ballrooms in most cities. Feel like they even still play mid-size in like NY.

I can see this band following a similar trajectory as TWY. Playing the biggest ballrooms in cities in a city is a pretty big accomplishment.

On the note of Early November. They did a coheadline with Movielife at the Filmore in Philly and it was legit empty. They just don’t have the staying power beyond 300-500 cap rooms.

 

Just got my ticket to see them headline in July

 

Different obviously but I recently saw Modest Mouse with Beach Fossils and was kinda shocked to see they had 2m monthly listeners. I didn't see a single person in the crowd who knew a word of their songs. I liked them fine but the music definitely struck me as "very inoffensive to include on indie chill playlists" and I kinda figured that's why the streams were so high.
I'm sure if HM or TWY were in the same venue the audience would be a LOT more passionate and committed.

 

It's funny how streams and listens don't necessarily indicate the strength of a fan base.

 

Streaming playlists are a bit like festivals. Heavier bands (even in the pop punk scene) rarely got added to festivals for decades. At best there might be one "heavy stage" or a couple of token heavy acts that had achieved a lot of popularity.
Heavy bands usually had to partake in heavy-music specific festivals.
The thing is those festivals, and now streaming playlists, can play it safe by including less aggressive acts/songs. Sure those songs won't attract as many die hards, but they won't turn people away either. Nobody is switching a background music playlist because Beach Fossils came on. I think we all know that even bands like TWY or HM would cause lots of people to switch. (Those people are wrong but they outnumber us.)
As a result these acts are perhaps more listened to and known rather than actually beloved.

 

i've been falling for this pretty hard over the past week. the back half is so good. really need to catch them live.

 

Just got an email that their okc show this summer was upgraded to a larger venue, very cool

 

I didn’t really love their last one but I’m really enjoying this.

 

i dont think i've connected with any other album lyrically as much as i have with this one this year.

 

No Shoes is so good

 

Most albums this year have come and gone for me but this is still in heavy rotation. It's so good.

 

last two songs hit like a barrel of bricks for me.

 

god I was wrong about this band
This album rocks

And I Smoke, Shh golf, and Gans are just full stuck in my brain

 

The EP and you’ll be fine are also essential imo. Featuring Mark Hoppus and Please Don’t Cry are two of their best songs

 

Yea I kept saying this album didn't hit with me the way the others did, then it did. No shoes is my jam.