Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God (April 30, 2021) Album • Page 44

I personally include Simple Math in that run, but man those first two albums were special. I feel so lucky to have discovered them in high school and got to see like... in store performances for Mean Everything to Nothing.

 

Alright. Here are the results:


LAVLAC Top:
Colly Strings
Where Have You Been?
I Can Barely Breathe
Wolves At Night

Bottom:
I Can Feel Your Pain
Don't Let Them See You Cry
Alice & Interiors



METN Top:
Shake It Out
Pride
The River
I Can Feel A Hot One

Bottom:
100 Dollars
My Friend Marcus
In My Teeth

Simple Math Top:
Apprehension
Simple Math
Pensacola
Pale Black Eye

Bottom:
Deer
Mighty
Leaky Breaks


Cope Top:
Top Notch
Every Stone
Cope
Girl Harbor

Bottom:
Choose You
All That I Really Wanted
See It Again

ABMTTS Top:
The Silence
The Grocery
The Maze
The Gold

Bottom:
The Mistake
The Parts
The Sunshine



Top 10 Chorus Manchester Songs:
Colly Strings
The Silence
Top Notch
Shake It Out
Pride
Apprehension
Where Have You Been?
The River
Every Stone

Tied for 10th:
Wolves At Night
I Can Barely Breathe
The Grocery
I Can Feel A Hot One


Bottom 6:
The Mistake
100 Dollars
I Can Feel Your Pain
Don't Let Them See You Cry
My Friend Marcus



Colly Strings was a top for ~80% of people.
The Silence was a top for ~75% of people.
Simple Math and A Black Mile To The Surface were the most diverse in favorites.
I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child had the biggest difference between Top 4 and the rest.

 

I’m a fan of most of Simple Math. I had a hard time picking my top 3 from that album as well, but not to the same degree as METN and ILAVLAC. Knowing stuff was held back or off Simple Math makes me feel that way more. I’ve been vocal about my thoughts on a certain song not making that record.

 

Cope was my introduction of the band. It’s so good.

 

Don’t Let Them See You Cry is a really good song, or I really have a soft spot for it anyway. I just can’t replace any of the top songs I picked. Those softer songs really set up the bigger moments.

 

I listened to Cope for the first time in quite a while today, and I actually forgot how much I liked it. For some reason I thought I'd only listened a few times, but when I was listening it all came back to me.

I'll also always love Simple Math, since it's the first one I got really into from them.

 

Cope sounds bad. The production and mix seriously detracts from otherwise great songs

 

yeah cope is a great record that was completely cut at the knees with its production

 

Hope is so damn good I don’t go back to Cope as much, but still like it.

 

that period was pretty much the furthest away I ever felt from this band, just in terms of not being engaged whatsoever when I usually followed every single move they make with complete attention (as I do again now lol)

that said, "After the Scripture" and the Hope version of "Girl Harbor" are still top-tier cuts

 

The Cope era gave me this song and it is just ahead of after the scripture for my favorite thing they did during that release

 

Man they really know how to close an album out huh? They’re never really talked about when this site talks about great album enders but maaaaaaan

 

same

 

it's really the drum production on Cope that kills it for me. you've got these loud brash guitars, which are cool! and then the drums sound like they were recorded from the room over

 

HOPE is 100% better than COPE and COPE is also 100% better than a lot of y’all are making it out to be.

 

Cope & Hope didn’t do much for me but the first half of Cope is a jam:

Cope:
ChooseYou
Girl Harbor
The Mansion
The Ocean

 

I think the recording of Cope didn't entirely capture how good the songs are. I think by doing Hope it proved that.

 

I’m not normally a change-the-track list person, but is there some mix of Hope/Cope songs that people treat as a cohesive whole?

 

I think what I was trying to articulate was that I enjoy COPE and HOPE (they are definitely not bad albums) but I have no real attachment to any of the songs in the same way that Where Have You Been, I Can Feel A Hot One, Pride, or Apprehension have become such an integral part of my musical life. I can put COPE and HOPE on and I know all the melodies and sing all the lyrics but none of it means anything special to me, which is in contrast to their previous three records.

 

Too many people not giving Pale Black Eye the love it deserves.

 

This is the version I like the best (including putting the B-sides within the album in places that seem to make sense to me)

1. Top Notch (HOPE)
2. Choose You (HOPE)
3. Girl Harbor (COPE)
4. Opposite Sides (B-Side)
5. The Mansion (HOPE)
6. The Ocean (COPE)
7. Every Stone (COPE)
8. All That I Really Wanted (HOPE)
9. Never Really Been Another Way Out (B-Side)
10. Trees (HOPE)
11. Indentions (HOPE)
12. See It Again (COPE)
13. After the Scripture (B-Side)
14. Cope (COPE)

 

Very cool. I’m making a playlist of that rn.

 

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So production-wise, COPE is like TBS Louder Now? An album that would have been GREAT if it had been produced differently?

 

No, Louder Now is great and there's no production issues.

COPE is like letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful and Nightmare of You - Infomaniac. Good albums where the muddy production overwhelms the enjoyment of the actual songs.