Yellowcard Band • Page 67

Crazy World? I would disagree with that. Butch has a much better sense of how to meld country into his style. I do think there are similarities between Butch and Martin though.

 

Yeah, I think he said he could hear a resemblance. I hear it a bit too even though I'm, uh... not really a fan of Burch Walker.

 

If I weren't on mobile I would give you points for this post.

 

What songs on here sound anything like Butch Walker? Looking for some empirical evidence here.

 

Crazy World was indefensibly bad. Blatant trend-hopping and trying to get that country cash.

 

Those two things don't make an album bad though. An album being bad makes an album bad. You can not like the album, but to blame "trend hopping" and "cash grab" for it just doesn't make sense.

Also, lol if you don't think they wrote S/T and Love Drunk to be commercially successful.

 

I can't give you specific Butch songs to which I'd compare anything on CW, but honestly most of the songs on the album give me a Butch vibe at least a little bit. A lot more so in the first six than in the final five.

 

Of course it does. If the songs are shallow and heartless, they're not good songs. Their star was fading after Love Drunk and they went after the sweet, sweet cash. These guys and We the Kings were the two phoniest pop-punk bands around.

I think Love Drunk is also a very cold and processed-sounding record. There's not a lot of personality on that album, but I think the songs are at least stronger than the lazy writing on Crazy World. They did bite Bon Jovi and The Killers too hard on Love Drunk, though.

 

lol ok.

 

you can absolutely have good songs that are shallow and heartless, ha.

 

This is adjacent to the "co-writes suck" argument and I hate it.

 

The only one I could have seen him cutting is "Life of the Party," and even that, only early on in his career.

 

I only have a problem with co-writes when there are like 12 people credited for a three-minute song.

 

Maybe this is the night I try Butch Walker again.

 

I listened to the new Butch song earlier and it's just not my thing. It's fine but it's nothing I'd listen to again. I need to try Letters at some point though because I did really like "Don't Move" when I heard that.

 

I've given that album a bunch of tries and it never did anything for me. His album that I've liked the most was Afraid of Ghosts and even that didn't last long in my rotation.

 

The new Butch Walker album is at least three times better than everything else I have heard this year.

 

I can't decide if I want you to listen or not because your opinions break my heart daily.

 

I'll listen eventually and if I don't like it I'll just keep it to myself, haha. I'll end up checking out the new one too when it comes out although I haven't been into the two released so far.

 

Sometimes I think the four of us and @CoffeeEyes17 are the only ones on this website, haha.

 

Nope. Martin wrote the album as a solo album and the label asked him to release it under BLG instead.

 

Hey Jason's here now it's a party

 

I kind of think you'll like Letters. At least the ballads. They all have a similar epic pop feel, with the same atmospheric, reverb-heavy production.

There are four songs out from the new one so far. Which ones have you heard?

This makes so much sense, how did I not know this?

 

I'm not sure. Haha, I dunno if it was ever actually public knowledge. Martin told me on tour when I was asking about it.