The Menzingers - After the Party (February 3, 2017) Album • Page 20

sunday morning likewise

 

"dope things"

 

dank things

actually nvm I don't ever want to hear a song called that

 

It'd be Dank Thangs

 

I don't want to hear that either

 

How about a cover of Wild Thing?

 

i was really sad when bad things was not a greg song

like that's his thing

 

Nice Things is a tom song tho? So it was 50/50 on OTIP

 

The best Menz song.

 

You are right! I was thinking of the title track before it where he sings "we always wanted niiiiiiIIceeee things"

 

The more I hear and think about it the more I think vinyl delays are the culprit, and Epitaph is well are of it, so there has been little rush to get the marketing campaign going so early.

ETID, another Epitpah band finished Low Teens in early April and were delayed until the end of September. A similar delay along with not wanting to release the record during the perceived dead period around the holidays/end of the year is forcing the decision to release it next year.

 

Fuck, yeah, Mexican Guitars is an amazing song.

 

1. Transient Love
2. Gates
3. Where Your Heartache Exists
4. Good Things
5. Lookers
6. Casey
7. Time Tables
8. Obituaries
9. Sun Hotel
10. I Don't Want To Be An ASShole Anymore

 

Transient Love is my favorite

 

Transient Love is so so good

 

that's more like it

 

That song's underrated as hell. Loved seeing it live the last time I saw them.

 

I wish I didn't live on a rock in the middle of nowhere and could see these guys live

 

This seems to be getting more and more common in the industry/scene these days. It sucks, especially because I'm not a vinyl guy, but I understand the reason for it.

 

This vinyl stuff is so ridiculous. There's no chance in hell this album wasn't recorded, mixed and mastered in the digital realm, so it's insane that this and so many other releases are delayed so that people can pay $30 for an ancient format so that they can hear the album with a layer of vinyl noise floor and crackles and pops on top of it.

 

I hear what you're saying. I mean the vinyls come with a download card anyways, right? The record is definitely done, but we're getting into the territory where bands don't really release music. 2016 has also been pretty stacked with music and if they are trying to make a push for a bigger market, then I can understand waiting until next year. Hopefully we'll get another single or two and maybe they'll stream the record early or something.

 

Every Time I Die lost out on a summer of Warped Tour sales because of vinyl delays. I don't see any time of year short of next summer's Warped Tour being better in the long run for them. For Menzingers, maybe next Spring is better than this Fall/Winter, but that still seems like a hell of a delay.

I don't think that streaming the record early will be good for sales. They normally do that one week before release to get people buzzing about it - if they do it too early, many people will have moved on and no longer care by the time it is available for sale.

I think they (Menzingers, ETID, and anyone else) should do CD and digital downloads at a time that makes sense for touring and sales climate, and not factor the vinyl pressing times into the release date at all. If 10% of the music buying market is so hung up on outdated wax discs that are a purposeful step away from what the recording truly sounds like, then they should be fine waiting the extra 2-3 months or whatever it ends up being for the vinyl to be pressed.

 

I think there are only like one or two major vinyl plants. It's a pretty untapped market for mainstream releases. The Goo Goo Dolls paid a rather ridiculous amount last spring to have their production moved up in the queue.

 

Not enough pressing plants and big companies are hogging all the production time since they can pay more. Smaller labels are left out to dry. The vinyl bubble will burst in the coming years

 

Yuuuup precisely haha