Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God (April 30, 2021) Album • Page 42

YOU DIDN'T EVEN BUY ME DINNER

 

1. The Only One
2. The Gold
3. Girl Harbor
4. Pride
5. The Alien
6. Every Stone
7. The Grocery
8. The Wolf
9. Apprehension
10. Leaky Breaks
11. Colly Strings

 

I distinctly remember the day they released the video for Simple Math. I watched like like four times in a row, and then when I saw my wife after work, I made her watch it. That was the day MO went from a band I liked a lot to one of my favorite bands on the planet. And I loved that record so much that it made me revisit the first two more, just because I wanted to listen to the band so much, and that’s when those albums clicked into ‘these are perfect’ territory in my brain also.

 

1. The Maze
2. Shake it Out
3. Pensacola
4. I Can Feel Your Pain
5. Where Have You Been?
6. I Can Barely Breathe
7. I Can Feel A Hot One
8. Leave it Alone
9. Apprehension
10. Everything to Nothing
11. The Silence

That was near impossible and a stupid waste of time.

 

1. Wolves at Night
2. Shake it Out
3. Pensacola
4. Pride
5. Where Have You Been
6. I Can Barely Breathe
7. I Can Feel a Hot One
8. The Wolf
9. Apprehension
10. Everything to Nothing
11. Colly Strings

 

Are we all done with the top 3 songs from each album? I've got the excel spreadsheet here with the results

 

A Black Mile was that watershed moment for me with the band.

I enjoyed each of their albums, to the extent that I spun them rather regularly, but they weren't in "heavy" rotation, if that makes sense.

I've been waiting patiently for their follow up album, and loved when Andy said a couple months ago that this is almost like a new sophomore album to their second phase as a band. It perfectly articulated how I feel about them, and would definitely say that they're in my top three favorite bands now.

 

Fuck it, I'm bored at work:

1. The Maze > Deer > The Only One > Wolves > Top Notch
2. Shake it Out > The Gold > Now That You're Home > Choose You > Mighty
3. Pensacola > I've Got Friends > The Moth > Girl Harbor > Neighborhood
4. Bed Head > I Can Feel Your Pain > The Mansion > Lead, SD > Pride > April Fool
5. Where Have You Been? > Pale Black Eye > The Alien > In My Teeth > The Ocean
6. I Can Barely Breathe > Every Stone > The Sunshine > Virgin > 100 Dollars
7. I Can Feel A Hot One > All That I Really Wanted From You > Sleeper > Simple Math > Grocery
8. Leave it Alone > The Wolf > Trees > My Friend Marcus > Golden Ticket
9. Apprehension > The Mistake > Tony the Tiger > Alice & Interiors > Indentions
10. Everything to Nothing > See It Again > Don't Let Them See You Cry > Leaky Breaks > The Parts
11. The Silence > The River > Colly Strings > Cope

 

I already hate my list.

 

Like A Virgin:
Colly
Wolves
Where have you been

Mean Everything:
Shake It Out
Pride
The River

SM:
Apprehension
Leave It Alone
Simple Math

Cope:
Top Notch
Indentions
Cope

Hope:
Every Stone
Indentions
See It Again

Black Mile:
The Maze
The Silence
The Grocery

 

What in hell has this Simple Math slander been?

 

My experience with the band is a variation on your theme.

I was heavily invested with Virgin through METN. Walked away with Simple Math. Completely ignored Cope and Hope. Revisited Simple Math and it clicked. Dove in head first with Black Mile. Still have no interest in Cope / Hope though.

And that quote from Andy is cool and exciting.

 

COPE always felt like it was missing something. I have no idea how to articulate it but none of the songs ever really stuck with me which was so so so disappointing because Virgin, METN, and Simple Math are like some of my favorite records. I keep trying to make a COPE/HOPE combined record with the best versions of each song but it still never clicks. I keep going back to it all the time and it just all blurs together.

 

HOPE while lying in bed at night. COPE while driving fast on a road trip. That's how they clicked for me.

 

Like A Virgin:
Wolves
Where Have You Been
Colly

Mean Everything:
Shake It Out
Pride
Hot One

Simple Math:
Pensacola
Pale Black Eye
April Fool

Cope:
Top Notch
Every Stone
Cope

Black Mile:
The Maze
Lead, SD
The Silence

 

HOPE was released two weeks after our first child was born. I cannot tell you how many nights I spent sitting in my son's room at night rocking him to sleep to HOPE.

 

As much as I love every album, I feel like if I do this I am basically just going to end up with the tracklist to Black Mile...

 

I basically don't consider COPE to be part of their discography. That's how disappointed I was with that album. It's still fine once and a while but I'd never recommend it to anyone if I was introducing Manchester to them.

 

I was there too. Y’all just didn’t know it.

 

I’ve never listened to it front to back and honestly only like Top Notch and Cope with enough confidence to put on a top 3 so I just picked a random 3rd song for the ranking..lol

 

COPE is easily the band's worst album, but I still find a lot of enjoyment in it.

That is how good Manchester Orchestra is.

 

cope sucks. 2 or 3 passable tracks

 

LOL

 

The songs on COPE are great, but the production style kills it for me, just hard to enjoy

 

Cope is a better album than most bands put out these days.