The Wonder Years Band • Page 74

NCTH is a great album imo. It didn’t connect as immediately as the previous couple albums and the production is spotty, but overall it’s really good. Cardinals, Cigarettes & Saints, Patsy Cline, Bluest are some of their best songs.

 

I started listening to TWY right before suburbia came out, liked TGG but didn't love it. Suburbia was my favorite until NCTH came out and I think that album is TWY's best work. Not that what I think matters, but I've seen some weird patterns with TWY fans and what they like/don't like.

 

So when do we think the next single us coming?

EDIT: From Burst & Decay, that is.

 

TWY is one of those bands where I am a less than casual fan of, but I own a physical copy of all their albums for some reason haha. TGG is legendary though. I do like that album a lot.

 

Looks like they're being accompanied by a string quartet at both of the New York shows. Wish that was happening at Philly too :/

 

My EP just shipped! Honestly forgot it was coming out so soon, so it was a nice surprise to see the email.

 

im back on my bullshit and listening to this bands entire catalog AMA

 

rank the songs plz

 

God damn it.

Ok hang on

 

indepth description of each track in mildly unnerving details pls

 

christ ill spend my next two days off just doing this lol.

 

Merely a request, not a demand buddy









((fukkeen do et"))

 

Me Vs The Highway: A song that resonated with me from the beginning. I know I've shared the story of stealing my college classmates laptop while she was in the bathroom to stream this song when it dropped. Great bridge, love how structurally odd it is and those dueling guitar lines are just delicious. The idea of battling the highway has been rattling around in my mind for many years and this song perfectly summed up my feelings towards riding down the same highway every day, either to go to work or go to the nearest larger urban cities or to just ride alone. Theres an overpass bridge before entering the city of Wilmington and it used to have the words "stay" and "how did i end up here" graffitied on it. I'd like to think they were connected.

Don't Let Me Cave In: The song became my anthem the moment I heard it. I was starting to crack after being diagnosed as bipolar and I was afraid that all of my friends and family thought I was crazy because of how paranoid and unpredictable I could be. My friends Qwen, Kris, Erin, and Keith all took me out to eat one night and they asked me why my face was so red. I'd been crying for hours but I just told them I hadnt slept in a while. They told me they were worried about but they loved me and bought my food for me. I wont ever forget that.

Cigarettes & Saints: My friend Dillion passed away in 2015. He'd been struggling with depression and pill addiction. He snapped when his fiance called off their wedding so that he could get help. They found him in his backyard. We met in band in middle school and we clicked immediately, I played clarinet and he trombone. We entered the talent show along with some of our other friends and played some march, i cant remember but it was wonderful. He was a hell of a musician. Our friend Nick came into the restaurant I was working at to tell me that Dillion had passed. The pastor got his name wrong at the wake and its haunted me ever since. We miss you Dillion.

The Devil In My Bloodstream: my grandfather suddenly became very ill early 2013. he'd struggled with a lot of things, an untreated depression, possible bipolar disorder, heart issues, he also had a very bad back and had to walk hunched over. I cant think of any time where he didnt walk with a hunch, the only time he stood straight up was for pictures and even then he could only hold himself up for a minute at most. When he died I found his old journal he kept from when he was in the Navy. He was very candid about the very dark thoughts he had. Seeing people die had really shook him to his core. "In the end I dont think it was worth it" was the last line in the last entry and I don't think I could some up going to war any better. I remember thinking how incredible it was how far he'd made it in life, depression didnt take him but it certainly didnt leave him be. I couldnt help but think I'd never be that strong. I'm glad I dont think that way anymore.

I Wanted So Badly To Be Brave: One of my friends I made in middle school was named Kevin. He, our other friend Brandon, and myself were really close and we remained close through highschool. We legitimately believed our kids would also be good friends and that we'd be uncles and fathers. The first time I ever went to Kevins house his parents seemed very nice. All of a sudden Kevins door swung open and his father was yelling about a broken broom handle. He threw Kevin from his bed into the living room and then closed the door on me. I wanted to open the door and stop whatever it was that he was doing but I just didnt have the guts to do it. Kevin came back with a bruise on his face and some cuts on his arm. I'd noticed bruises and scars on him before this but it never occurred to me that his parents, or at least his dad, was abusive. When I asked him about it he said that they only hit him when he does something wrong and that he deserves it and that a "real man" should be able to take whatever consequences come with actions. I was stunned, I still am. Hes doing better now, he went to the army for a while but now hes moved out and I think he lives near one of the beaches here. I havent talked to him in a while.

Passing Through A Screen Door
And Now I'm Nothing
Came Out Swinging
Washington Square Park
There, There
Palm Reader
I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral
Cul De Sacs
Stained Glass Ceilings
Hoodie Weather
Its Never Sunny In South Philadelphia
Dismantling Summer
Cardinals
Thanks For The Ride
Teenage Parents
I Dont Like Who I Was Then
Local Man Ruins Everything
Woke Up Older
Coffee Eyes
Everything I Own Fits In This Backback
The Bastards, The Vultures, The Wolves
Chaser
The Bluest Things On Earth
Slow Dancing With San Andreas
I Was Scared & I'm Sorry
A Raindance In Traffic
A Song For Patsy Cline
I Wont Say The Lords Prayer
You In January
Its (Sort Of) A Pleasure To Meet You
No Closer To Heaven
An American Religion
My Last Semester
A Song For Earnest Hemingway
Hostels & Brothels
Melrose Diner
My Life As Rob Gordon
You Made Me Want To Be A Saint
Logan Circle
We Could Die Like This
Living Room Song
My Life As A Pigeon
Summers In PA
Leavenhouse 11:30
All My Friends Are In Bar Bands
This Party Sucks
New Years With Carl Weathers
Dynamite Shovel
Hey Thanks
Madelyn
Suburbia
I've Given You All
Brothers &

I could probably write a little story for all of these songs, minus the bottom like 5, but thats probably too much and would just clog up the thread. but heres my rankings of everything from The Upsides to NCTH and the b-sides

 

I'm so happy you weren't joking about this @CoffeeEyes17. Going to give your blurbs a read later.

 

sounds like theyre preparing to maybe possibly start announcing the new LP. the loneliestplaceonearth ig mentioned theyre gearing up for the next album.

 

We just got done going through this with Brand New, here we go again

 

I'm expecting really big things from this next one

 

if it aint Get Stoked On It Part II: Electric Boogaloo then im Logging Off Forever

 

I'm expecting another band's material.

 

I would not be shocked if the lyrical climate was very political. I'd also love it.

 

Follow the band on Spotify for a free download of the Burst and Decay version of "Ernest Hemingway." I like this one a lot.
Get "A Song For Ernest Hemingway" Early

 

31mb and a .wav file? It's a pretty good rendition.

 

Hmm they also said that they wanted this to be a collective type of thing right? So maybe not a TWY release at all. Are any bands they're tight with due for an album?

 

Man that was an excellent rendition of that song, one of my favourites off that album

 

Wow, that was such a fun rendition.