Manchester Orchestra Band • Page 95

Seriously. Other than The Silence, this is the track I come back to the most on Black Mile.

 

Listened to I'm Like A Virgin... for the first time in forever this morning and what a great album. That's all.

 

I downloaded Virgin the night after seeing them with Brand New in ‘07. The files I downloaded were fine, but there was one little blip on I Can Barely Breathe. I listened to that burned copy so many times that to this day, I still expect to hear that little blip.

Then I bought that record at least 10 different times over the next twelve years.

 

I want all the demos.

Gimme that weird long rambling Shake It Out.

 

I just want Rejoice for the SM 10 year...

 

METN anniversary tracklist includes all of Fourteen Years of Excellence, Go, and demos of a bunch of album tracks

No sign of I Was a Lid or Sure Shot

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MEAN EVERYTHING TO NOTHING
Deluxe Double Vinyl Available Exclusively On Tour

We are SO excited to finally announce that we will be releasing a deluxe double album version of Mean Everything To Nothing. The second vinyl will include the b sides from the album (which turned into fourteen years of excellence and other odds and ends) and a ton of demos that I’ve been too afraid to let people hear. They all have such distinct memories attached and I think having spent 10 plus years away from those memories, they make me really happy and really proud that they turned into what they did.

I started writing the bare bones to METN after our first album was released. Sometimes in the back stage while sharing a dressing room with other openers, other times sitting in the van trying to record demos without the sound of the highway bleeding through. They started to form what would end up being the songs I would bring to the guys. There are so many stories listening to these demos. For “Pride,” this version was recorded in the dressing room of Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit. You can hear the guys in Weatherbox talking and Richard, the guitar tech for Biffy Clyro, loosening up some guitar strings. I’m sure I looked incredibly weird huddled in the corner with my laptop singing really softly. I remember during one particularly depressing tour with Kings Of Leon, I was recording the first version of “In My Teeth” and was using my fist on a table as a kick drum. Jeremiah ran in the room, concerned, not knowing I was tracking and thought that I was repeatedly banging my head against the wall. It was pretty funny at the time. Now, it’s extremely funny and also super insane. “Tony The Tiger” was recording on a curb in the parking lot of the Beaumont Club using our guitar techs mini amp that ran off of batteries. There’s a story and distinct memory for all of them, and it makes me really happy we get to share them.

Making Mean Everything To Nothing was in a lot of ways our first musical education into making a “professional” album. A collection that was recorded live with everyone playing at the same time in the same room. Joe Chicareli would have us start playing a song around 10:30am and we would play that song until 10:30pm. Usually 20-25 takes a song. We almost always ended up using the final take. It was exhausting and really stretching for a bunch of 21-year-olds. We took all of the sessions with Joe and huddled up with Dan Hannon and started weaving in some key pieces that really gave the songs their personality. I recorded almost all of my vocals at night from midnight to the morning with whatever engineer I could convince to stay up with me that night. I was really insecure about my voice and knew I wanted to stretch it, to scream, to have it sound like my throat was ripping out – a hard thing to try and experiment with for the first time in a room full of producers and engineers. In between the full band songs, we would record solo acoustic songs. Songs like “100 Dollars” and “Do You Really Like Being Alone.” Some made the record and others didn’t. Now for the first time, all of the material recorded in those sessions is going to be available.

We are about to head out on a short 10 year birthday celebration for this little album that could and we will be bringing along the limited amount of vinyl that we’ve printed. Make sure to stop by the merch to pick one up if that’s the kind of thing you’re into. On top of this, we will be releasing our EP’s Fourteen Years Of Excellence, Live At Park Ave and Live In SoHo to digital platforms for the first time. I’ve always loved these collections and I’m thrilled they will exist outside of a sketchy YouTube page.

As always, none of this is possible without you. You literally provide for us and our families with your support and there isn’t a moment that goes by when that goes unnoticed or unappreciated. I’ve now been in Manchester Orchestra for half of my life. For me, these albums are all connected and representative of my own life’s journey, but nothing makes it feel more special then when it becomes a part of somebody else’s. Perhaps even at times, a stronger and more realized experience than my own. This is a band I started at 16 and love more than I ever have 16 years later. I’m grateful. Very grateful. Thank you for being on this journey with us and if you don’t hear from us for a while after this tour, know it’s because we want to make something that really matters to us and we want to do it the right way.

All of my love,

Andy

 

I have been wanting Fourteen Years of Excellence on vinyl for... well, a decade now. I'm so excited!

 

i hope this sees a digital release. those first 3 tracks are straight FIRE

 

What are the Live Albums he's talking about?

 

oh i want it

 

Something you may be able to find under a certain Sophie’s floorboard....

 

I have no idea what that means.

 

"Available exclusively on tour" means "Kevin, we're sorry, but you ain't gonna be getting one of these."

 

The Park Ave live set was a RSD exlusive CD.

The SoHo set was for iTunes, I believe.

 

Anyone have an extra for Brooklyn Steel pleasssssseeeee let me know!

 

My bank account is super stoked on this.

 

probably not the demos (unless the vinyl comes with a download code) but 14 years will be released digitally for sure

 

I’m pretty confident the demos/bsides will also be released on streaming as well.

 

Wonder how many LP's they'll allow for sale at each show. There are 8 shows before my date. Here's hoping they have a few left and that I don't have to be in line before the doors are open to get one.

 

Wonder when its going up digitally.

all i can say is ITS ABOUT TIME

 

stoked to finally have 14 years of excellence on streaming services. should probably pick up my ticket tot he LA show

 

Same. I'm sure they're have specific amounts saved per show. Regardless I'm waiting in line and putting it in coat check because this isn't one I'm willing to miss. Hopefully the weather in early December doesn't mess up my five hour drive.

 

I kind of forget this is on my wall, seems appropriate to post.