PUP - The Dream Is Over (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 22

Direct Hit singer always sounded a bit like DeLonge to me but a little less nasally.

 

There is something really specific I hear, somewhere in the NOFX or Lagwagon world, I don't know why I can't place it right now

 

At least we can agree that the new album rips! Although, Brainless God is still my favourite from them, that has too many jams

 

I suppose I'll have to backtrack and check that one out then huh

 

Trust me, you have to! Can't go wrong with a concept album about the world ending but talks about it in an upbeat way.

 

Imagine an album about a nuclear holocaust that has some morbid humor in the songs, and by the end, it becomes a genuine love story with a touch of cynicism -- but presented cheerfully and upbeat!

 

Album was shortlisted for the Polaris prize in Canada.

 

PUP in Brooklyn, NY • chorus.fm


Ton of fun show. Figured I'd share it here

 

Their Cleveland show was the best show I've been to so far this year. Also the sweatiest show I might have ever attended. I worked the show and they were great guys too. All around great experience and I can't wait to see them again. Definitely will make the trip to Pittsburgh this fall

 

Honestly the best band

 

Bought this and the debut on iTunes yesterday and hotdamn, i have been missing out!

 

Man, I really like this album. Haven't listened to it since May... that's been a mistake.

 

Yeah, this album will chart high for me come EOTY. Lasting power all over.

Anybody else wonder and worry about the future of this band what with everything with Stefan's voice?

 

where the fuck have I been

this is so good

 

Really love this album. Easily TOP 5 for the year so far, probably at the higher end.

Does anyone know if Pine Point is auto biographical?

His voice sounded great on the album so I would say he probably healed up and just needs to not go as hard next touring cycle. Ryan key also had a vocal cyst he recovered from.

 

Based on their live videos from this touring cycle, which I can confirm after seeing them in November, they're tuning down a half step below the album, hopefully that's helping Stefan's voice

 

Definitely top 5 on the year despite not knowing they existed before. I just can't stop singing it.

Actually a bunch of stuff I'd never heard before will be top 5 I think...

 

Yes

 

Ok, I asked because (sad as it is) if Stefan's brother died in '86 in a drunk driving accident that would make his brother a lot older than him since Stefan is in his late twenties currently.

 

It came from the pitchfork review. Not sure how true the year was since I could see it just being a number to go with the song.

PUP: The Dream is Over Album Review | Pitchfork

Inspired by the 2011 interactive web documentaryWelcome to Pine Point, Babcock looks back and remembers his brother dying in a drunken car crash, walks around the abandoned Northwest Territories mining town and sees Pine Point as a fate far worse than death or even his current situation ("Imagine if your hometown never changed" goes the tagline).

 

Unless his brother wasn't the driver but a passenger, or if the other car that crashed into them had a driver who was drunk.

The line goes: "In Pine Point, '86. My older brother died when we were kids
His best friend was wasted at the wheel"

So I guess his older brother was probably much older. Old enough to have a driving friend.

if he's 29, Stefan would've been born in 86 himself. So the "When we were kids" bit seems I guess a bit misleading.

 

But I guess technically even if you are a minutes/days/weeks/months old you are a kid. And you're still a kid until you're 18 at least.

 

Unless, of course, the 86 part was just a setting for the song's story and not when his brother actually died. He could've died much later than 86 but for the sake of the song (and the fact that the mines closed in Pine Point in 88) he set it then in 86.

 

After reading that quote a couple times I think he mixed the story of Pine Point with his brother's death for his song. Used the analogy of Pine Point of being in a town going nowhere.

 

So this made my morning: