Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God (April 30, 2021) Album • Page 43

I'm Like a Virgin:
Wolves at Night
I Can Barely Breathe
Colly Strings

METN:
I've Got Friends
Pride
Everything To Nothing

Simple Math:
Mighty
Pensacola
Pale Black Eye

Cope:
Top Notch
Girl Harbor
Cope

A Black Mile:
The Moth
The Alien
The Silence

 

COPE is a very good album eclipsed by every other album this band has made

 

Cope is the album I’ve listened to the most from them. I love it so, so much, and while I won’t say it’s their best, it’s not their worst. In my opinion.

 

Will back any skater who chooses Trees as the track for their next part.

 

Or See It Again for a love of skateboarding type part.

 

The last third of "See It Again" is one of the best moments in their discography.

 

If Manchester Orchestra records were food, every record is some kind of steak. Rich, decadent, deep in flavor. Then there’s Cope. Cope is fried chicken. No one’s pretending it’s five star cuisine, but it’s always satisfying. It’s cheap, greasy, rough around the edges, and delicious.

(And if you want to take it easy, there’s Hope - the boneless, skinless, grilled option that’s quite tasty as well).

 

I love Cope as songs, but it doesn’t feel like an MO album. Re-listened again today to confirm.

 

I will defend Cope to my dying day.

 

Virgin:
Colly Strings
Sleeper 1972
Golden Ticket

METN:
Shake It Out
Pride
The River

Simple Math:
Mighty
Pensacola
Virgin

Cope:
Top Notch
Girl Harbor
Cope

Black Mile:
The Gold
The Alien
The Grocery

 

Virgin:
Now That You're Home
I Can Barely Breathe
Colly Strings

METN:
Pride
Everything To Nothing
The River

SM:
Pale Black Eye
Apprehension
Leaky Breaks

Cope:
Top Knotch
Every Stone
See It Again

Black Mile:
The Moth
The Grocery
The Silence

 

I really like the mistake but for whatever reason I always forget its on black mile

 

baffling post

 

Gotta say the live version of the silence pretty much makes the album version obsolete. Immaculate recording

 

ILAVLAC
Wolves At Night
Golden Ticket
Colly Strings

METN
I Can Feel a Hot One
Everything to Nothing
The River

Simple Math
Pensacola
Pale Black Eye
Apprehension

Cope
Top Notch
The Ocean
Cope

ABMTTS
Alien
Sunshine
Grocery


The top 2 was really easy for me for each one (Golden, Colly; Hot, River; Pensacola, PBE; Ocean, Cope) but for Black Mile I couldn't go outside of that Alien -> Sunshine -> Grocery run, it's just too perfect.

For ILAV I went with Wolves, though I could've easily picked Neighborhood. If the album version of "Where Have You Been?" came anywhere close to the live version that would be my pick, but that Casio keyboard choral sound is laughable on the album version. For METN I was going between Pride and Everything to Nothing, but I've been into Everything to Nothing more these days so picked that. I could've picked almost anything else from SM, but I just have a personal connection to Apprehension so I had to pick it. And for Cope, Top Notch is the song that usually pops into my head that makes me want to listen to that album so it got the vote.

 

I'm only an extremely casual fan of this band, have listened to their music only a handful of times (although I did see them live in 2019 to catch Foxing and Oso Oso), but this new song is pretty cool. I need to do a discography dive someday soon.

 

Rank, you coward.

 

UHH

Whoops, I came in at a bad time as a very casual listener hahaha

I do like everything I've heard on METN so that's probably my favorite out of what I have heard.

 

We're about to make you a chorus opinion greatest hits playlist.

 

You should definitely check them out. I think, based on your posts, you’d probably dig them in either release order or reverse order

 

I always appreciate more company.

 

Can I just say how happy I am that most people aren’t counting Hope as an album. I see way too many people count that as a stand-alone album when it’s just an acoustic version. Biggest pet peeve as a MO fan.

now to try and rank the songs...

ILAV:
Now That You’re Home
Neighborhood is Bleeding
Golden Ticket

METN:
Shake It Out
Pride
Hot One

Simple Math:
Deer
Pensacola
Leaky Breaks

Cope:
realized I don’t really care for this album and barely listened to it. I like The Mansion because it ties to the far superior Weatherbox song The Devil and Whom

ABMTTS:
didn’t love this album at first, but it’s grown on me lately. especially with how good it sounded in the live stream

The Gold
The Alien
Lead, SD

 

Cope is very, very good.

 

ILAVLAC
Wolves At Night
Now That You're Home
I Can Barely Breathe

METN
Shake It Out
Pride
In My Teeth

Simple Math
Pensacola
April Fool
Pale Black Eye

Cope
Cope
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ABMTTS
The Mistake
The Mistake
The Mistake

 

Doing this like these just reminds me how much I enjoy METN and ILAVLAC