The Maine - XOXO: From Love and Anxiety In Real Time (July 9, 2021) Album • Page 48

My hottest take with this band continues to be that Black & White is very good.

 

fine

YAO
XOXO
LLL
AC

meh

 

I think my ranking is

LLL
YAO
XOXO
AC
FH
Pioneer
B&W
CSWS

So, reverse chronological except that LLL and XOXO are switched

 

Honestly yeah

 

Lovely Little Lonely
You Are OK
XOXO
American Candy
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

Don’t really have an opinion about the rest. I went dark and didn’t care for or listen to The Maine at all from like 2010-2015. American Candy brought me back in and they’ve been on absolute fire ever since.

 

Had a lot to say apparently, not that anyone asked haha. quote boxes to not page stretch too much

LLL
YOA
AC

CSWS

XOXO

B&W

Pioneer

Forever Halloween

 

Your fanboy is showing, my friend. Haha

 

Black & White *is* good though

 

Still don’t understand the hate for Forever Halloween, I feel like if they made that album more recently everybody would be ok with it.

It reminds me of the dislike for The Academy Is album Santi. If Santi would have come out as the bands 3rd album instead of being the follow up to the debut I feel like it would’ve been better received.

 

I don't hate Forever Halloween, but it definitely adds a ~40 minute lull in the context of a discography run.

 

LLL
AC
XOXO
YAO
Pioneer
CSWS
FH
B&W

 

LLL
AC
XOXO
YAO
B&W
CSWS
Pioneer
FH

 

I like rock more than pop, sorry people lol

I didn't say any of it was bad

 

Slip the Noose is the best song they've released from this 4 album stretch.

 

Actually not really. Black & White was the album that got me into them, and then I didn’t really like another one until American Candy. Just hit at the right time, I suppose.

 

I do love this song, and it’s the only one that ever made sense to me for the full orchestra version of the album. That chorus is huge.

 

Fun fact: until literally today, I was under the impression that Butch had produced it for some reason, hence the wisecrack. No idea why I thought that either

 

Ah, that makes more sense!

I think he co-wrote a song or two. “Right Girl” maybe?

 

Right Girl is still such an absolute summer jam.

 

Right? That was the one that immediately brought be back to the old days of emo pop punk. One of the biggest sounding songs I've heard in a moment.

 

That entire album plays so well on hot summer days. I jammed it a few times on the Fourth of July this year.

 

The third verse of "Right Girl" was one of Butch's go-to songwriting moves back in the day, huh?

 

Listening through now, there are definitely several parts of that song that make me think, “Oh yeah, Butch definitely wrote that.”

 

Never realized how much I love the Thunder Road-esque piano in Growing Up. Listening to that whole album now.

 

The vinyl is on its way, yessssss…