Jack's Mannequin Band • Page 22

Its a very end of summer/early fall everyones going back to school and summer relationships are ending sort of album for me haha, veerrrryyy specific memories attached to some of those songs but i still absolutely love the album

 

Some days, i think it’s my favorite album of all time.

 

that's what I like to hear. every summer after a three season fast I put it on and say "how is it this good?"

 

Well shit now I need to listen to this too

 

I like it as the closer too. Another album I never appreciated at the time but have come back to and realised it's great recently. Your top 100 of the 2000s list has been a goldmine for me thanks!
On a very similar note, what do you consider the closer of Letters?

 

I feel this

 

it's my favorite all days. sorry August and Everything After

 

This part right here sums this album up 100% perfectly for me.

 

god “Rescued” is still so crushing

 

"Stateline" is 100 percent the closer to Letters for me. "Thank You Note" is fantastic, but "Stateline" is really essential to that album for me.

P.S. Glad someone got something out of that list! It was a lot of writing, but something I refer back to pretty frequently and am pretty proud of. I'm glad I did it.

 

In the summer, i really don't think there's anything I'd rather here. I spin the vinyl so much and play the songs a ton on my iPod.

 

I’m still kicking my self for buying the black vinyl instead of the dark blue variant when EIT was repressed. Definitely a first world problem, but one of my biggest vinyl regrets.

I also can’t believe it’s july and I haven’t listened to this album yet. Definitely my favorite summer album and prob top 5 overall

 

You people had me all hyped up to throw on Everything In Transit for my July 4th commute home from work after blasting Chase This Light on the drive in.....

.....I was so ready for the nostalgia and all of the intense emotions and feelings as I cruised down The Pike watching out for Stateys.....

.....and I got in the car and realized I did not have any Jack's Mannequin on my iPod at all.

Needless to say I am remedying that sad fact as we speak.

 

Agreed on Stateline. I love it as a closer. The gap before the song, and its more lo fi production, give it more of a bonus/secret track vibe. But it's the perfect ending to the album. Probably a top 3 song on Letters for me.

And yeah I have your list permanently open on my Chrome so i can keep checking it all out. For example ive never knowingly listened to Matt Nathanson. Yet.

 

I’ve never been able to pick a single “favorite record of all time,” but EIT is probably the closest I’ve come to deciding on one.

It’s usually the first that comes to mind when I’m asked that question. There is literally not a single moment on that record that isn’t on par with the rest of it.

All around perfect songs and incredible production.

 

I feel like it's a situation where he really loved both of those songs and they were both closers so he just made one the closer and made the other one a bonus track. "Stateline" is too good to just be a hidden track, though. There's a fairly good argument to be made that it's his best song ever.

Oh man, keep me posted as you continue to go through. That Matt Nathanson record means a ton to me. I like all his stuff, but that one is on another level.

 

Love this way of thinking about it!

 

So, I just plugged in The Glass Passenger on Spotify...and have just discovered the ripped version I downloaded during my university days must have had the tracklist in the wrong order.

Until today, I had only known a world where the opening track of Jack's Mannequin's second album was 'The Resolution'.

 

Dang.

I do remember that tracklist being announced or something, with that one first. But it did change before release.

I feel like my leak had the proper order though. Not sure what you got haha

 

No dude that was a hugeeeeee thing. Everyone on here had the weird order.

 

I truly don’t remember having to change anything. But dear god, it was like 11 years ago. Shit.

 

Same, and its such a better opener.

 

This feels weird to me because I've always listened to the album in its correct order (after buying the CD on release) and if I heard anything but that opening guitar lick of Crashin I'd be confused.

I love the sequencing on TGP but it also is familiar after listening to it that way for 12 years.

 

I honestly went years thinking it was the opener

 

there was a similar issue iirc when Everything In Transit came out, the sequencing on the leak/torrent was no what the CD had.