Silverstein - Misery Made Me (May 6, 2022) Album • Page 9

For me what makes an album stand out, apart from the quality of the tracks, is that it has a sound of its own. If I'm in the mood for a certain sound, I know what album to go to. Rescue to me doesn't have its own sound and is all over the place, which makes me less likely to play it, even though I love the tracks.

 

Rescue is solid but just kinda generic Silverstein without any of their best songs. Doesn't really sound any less cohesive than their other records though.

 

I love Arrivals and Departures, but I know the band absolutely hated making the album because Mark Trombino didn’t seem to give a shit when producing it. It’s sucks that they don’t play more of it live, but it’s very understandable.

 

it's just kinda bland.

 

Perhaps a hot take but I think In Memory Of is their best closer

 

it's great and it's definitely my favourite on that album but "Call It Karma" is their best song.

 

I have a friend who is a MASSIVE Silverstein fan, it's his favorite band, and I've always considered myself a casual fan but I do genuinely enjoy every album from them. I end up falling into the same "first caught my attention back in the day with Discovering the Waterfront, recaptured my attention with This is How the Wind Shifts" category, Wind Shifts is probably my overall favorite nowadays.

 

1. This is How the Wind Shifts
2. Shipwreck In The Sand
3. Dead Reflection
4. I Am Alive in Everything I Touch
5. Discovering the Waterfront
6. Misery Made Me
7. Arrivals and Departures
8. ABTD
9. When Broken Is Easily Fixed
10. Short Songs
11. Rescue

Will likely fluctuate over time, but this is where I’m at currently

 

When you can make a relatively legit looking album tracklisting out of a band's album titles.

 

Which is funny since they don’t always do title tracks (or not recently anyway).

 

That is kind of funny, but it makes you wonder what those title tracks would've been.

I would legit like to see a band do that one day. Just get so far into their discography with no title tracks and just be like, alright, time to make those title tracks. And then make an album out of it. It would be such a stupid long game, but I don't care, it'd be worth it.

 

TIHTWS basically has one, and for at least a handful off the top of my head they do say the album title somewhere in a song

edit: I guess the first two albums and Shipwreck do have legit title tracks, I was just thinking about the recent ones

 

Off topic, but since we're talking about title tracks, I think my favorite "title track" concept of anything is from this band called Sinch, who put out an album back in 2005 called Clearing The Channel, with a song called "The Last Scene", where part of the final chorus is "On it rolls, the title track".

And I could be mistaken, but my interpretation of that lyric is that the song itself is metaphorically about "clearing the channel", and therefore it is the "title track" of the album, even though it's not called Clearing The Channel nor does it have those words in the lyrics.

And I always thought that was a neat idea.

 

Just lurking and I've never really listened to Silverstein but also like their sound when their music came on and I legitimately thought this was one of those "my order of best songs on the album" lists.

Going to give "Wind" a whirl on my way to work.

 

Anyone else notice that Don't Wait Up is basically a Saosin song? Loving this album more with each spin!

Anyone get their vinyl yet?

 

true.

my go to is actually their recent live album version.
sound quality is so much better and shane's vocals are great on it too.

 

Vinyl are shipping late June/July

 

Yeah I'd rather listen to that live album than the original.

 

Seeing Rescue absolutely last on everyone's list is borderline preposterous.

It's generic Silverstein? These are THEE Silverstein songs that made us fall in love with them. I guess I'm of a certain age but Victory promoted the fuck out of them with ads on MTV and Fuse, Victory CDs, DVDs, etc. One of the first "hard" bands a lot of people in middle/high school liked were all Rescue songs. Classic.

 

Don't Wait Up is so good!

 

why did you type all of the titles out except for one lol

 

it would be interesting because some artists could do this really well and others not so much. My biggest concern for any band doing this would be the cohesiveness of it. Not a huge concern for Silverstein though since they progress pretty nicely through sounds.

but now I am gonna make a playlist of all their album openers in chronological order and see what that is like.

 

I've definitely been coming back to this a ton the last few weeks.

This and A Beautiful Place To Drown are they're best records but I think I like this slightly less

 

There is no middle section (on a Silverstein record) that’s greater than the one on this record.

Altar/Mary, Slow Motion, and Don’t Wait Up is some of the best material they’ve done IMO and the songs flow so well in and out of each other.

 

Also, yeah I still have been blasting this record a lot. At this rate, it’ll be my favorite record of theirs which surprised the hell out of me.