The Menzingers - Hello Exile (October 4, 2019) Album • Page 83

For me, ATP is the Office, with higher highs. HE is Parks and Rec, with more consistency and feels like it will age a little better. Really like both records.

 

I don't know which I like better at this point, but HE immediately hooked me in and I fell in love with it almost instantly, where as ATP took a while to hit for me. The songs that really hit were immediate, but most of the album wasn't. Love love love both records though

I've probably listened to this more than any other record that came out last year

 

I’m with you on this. If HE had the production of ATP it might bump it past it.

 

My top four songs from ATP and HE would be:
After the Party
Midwestern States
Lookers
Your Wild Years

My bottom four songs from ATP and HE would be:
House on Fire
The Bars
Boy Blue
Charlie's Army

 

HE might be my favorite, though OTIP is lodged in a special part of my heart.

 

this is actually a perfect analogy as far as I’m concerned

 

Can't wait for the Menzingers to put out their Brooklyn Nine-Nine then

(This is a good analogy)

 

Thank you! Wasn’t sure how it was going to be received since the love for ATP has been more outward than it has for Exile. Glad to see there wasn’t a lot of pushback!

I have not seen Brooklyn so someone else will have to make that analogy haha.

 

"the menzingers are mike schur" is a galaxy brain take if ive ever seen one lmao

 

Menzingers albums were always spotty for me, as is this one (the second half drags quite a bit), but the songs that hit me hurt like hell.

also, funny to think like this but based on tone and themes i think this is more The Office, where the characters generally give off a stagnant vibe then eventually seem to start moving on, and ATP feels a bit more youthful, colorful and reckless like Parks & Rec.

 

What is happening in this thread right now?

 

OTIP is King of the Hill (Greg Daniels)

 

Winding down after a productive day, listening to this with a bottle of Freakshow (Cabernet Sauvignon) and they compliment each other so well

 

I am so pumped for the Boot & Saddle show tomorrow

 

Did someone say Boot World and Saddle

 

wasn't here for the top 5 back in release week but here's mine (no order, only listened to OTIP onwards):

Farewell Youth
Lookers
After the Party
Telling Lies
Gates
(HM: Anna)

Farewell Youth is just destroying me right now and it might've been my SOTY if i had listened to it when the album came out.

also this band is weird for me in that i absolutely love the crap out of their last two albums but don't really care too much for the previous two. makes me anxious about going after the first two lol

 

As far as this record goes, my current top 5 are probably:

(in no particular order)
Anna
Strawberry Mansion
Last to Know
Portland
Strain Your Memory

 

This is my aoty. Front to back just solid poo.

top 5
1. Can’t Stop Drinking
2. After the Party
3. America
4. Lookers
5. Last to Know

 

1. After The Party
2. Casey
3. Your Wild Years
4. Lookers
5. Anna

HM: Obituaries, Mexican Guitars, America, Farewell Youth

 

1 Gates
2. After the Party
3. Mexican Guitars
4. Midwestern States
5. Lookers

Best of the new bunch: Strain Your Memory, Farewell Youth, Anna
Most overrated: Asshole (still like it a lot though)
Most underrated: Black Mass

 

Song that sounds most like it came straight from American Idiot: Last to Know

And yes that's a good thing

 

I... don’t think I hear that at all haha

 

I heard it from the first listen and have thought it ever since. Even sounds like Billie Joe. Especially the "Promises were made on the altar in blood..." part.

 

I agree with absolutely everything here, except for Gates being number 1

 

Setlist from tonight:

Mexican Guitars
Transient Love
Ava House
Time Tables
Hello Exile
The Freaks
I Can’t Seem To Tell
London Drugs
Lilith Avi
Charlie’s Army
Last To Know
Sun Hotel
Death or Glory (Clash Cover)
Strain Your Memory
Freedom Bridge
Anna
After The Party

encore:
Good Things