The Wonder Years Band • Page 155

Unless it’s a title track I feel like there wouldn’t be single artwork but hopefully I’m wrong

 

Maybe it’s a summer record

 

Pretty sure it isn’t

 

I'd guess late summer/early fall

 

Can't wait. I'm still playing "Oldest Daughter" a bunch and I haven't worn it out yet.

 

Oh????

 

Just want to give a shout out to Matt and Nick and their beautiful harmonies in the first pre-chorus on Oldest Daughter. Literally sounds like you're at church listening to a gospel choir :)

I'm also still in love with the bridge of this song.

 

he really likes to mention people by name and write about cigarettes. it's a wonder years song.

 

pretty meh on this one

 

Actually found this one a bit underwhelming. Also weird there’s no album announcement yet either

 

i'm loving this song. 2/2 for me so far but they're also one of my favourite bands so i'm incredibly biased.

 

Sounds like a classic hopeless rollout

song rules. Excited for the album

 

I definitely think this slower song was picked purposefully to be a pretty drastic change from Oldest Daughter. Like with Sister Cities, some of their heaviest and some of their softest/slowest songs are on that album. I think this song just shows we're probably in store for a pretty eclectic album again, which I'm here for.

I remember when We Look Like Lightning came out on that 7", and how different Sister Cities (the song) sounded from that when it dropped. Then we had songs like When The Blue Finally Came and Ghosts of Right Now on the same album, which even those two are suuuuper different from the songs prior.

I'm so excited to see where this one goes.

 

Sounds like an Aaron West song but I like Aaron West so I'm into it.

 

I was super excited for this one and left underwhelmed. Love a good summer song but wasn’t digging the the different voice intonations/effects on the various choruses. Maybe I’ll like in the context of the album.

 

If there's one thing I know about myself, it's that if I don't initially like a song by a band I love, I almost always come around to it eventually

That's not the case with Summer Clothes though, it's pretty good

 

A lot of people in this thread have said The Upsides is really an album that was a time and place and I kind of agree, but in two different ways. It's obviously an album that will resonate the most with those in the middle of college, as its got just as many references to being just out of high school and semesters as it does about their touring life. But there's a lot on that album about feeling like you don't fit in with the current zeitgeist and maybe that you don't want to fit in with it. That album came out in 2010 which was right in the middle of the Jersey Shore TV show's prime and EDM's ascent among the mainstream at bars and clubs. Even pop punk at the time was dominated by All Time Low and Mayday Parade which was a far cry from what it was earlier in the 2000s. There were a lot of people during that period who either didn't get it or didn't want to engage with that. And then this record drops and it was just a breath of fresh air.

The lyrical content feels very late teens/early 20's now when you go back to it, but boy did they seem to speak to what a lot of people were feeling at the time

 

Pretty boring song.

 

They are really dragging this out with a music video now. Could have hit hard with a Memorial Order presale. Ride that summer theme.

 

Song was such a snoozer that I forgot it dropped

 

Song rules

 

Incredible song, incredibly bad album rollout

 

Hahaha I think the Jersey Shore/fistpump reference is enough to look back and cringe. I went to college with, and had to be around (pretty regularly), a lot of dickheads. 0 of them thought Jersey Shore was “cool” or whatever. If the problem was with binge drinking or toxic masculinity or sexism or frat culture in general, sure. But “Jersey Shore” or “EDM” is just low hanging fruit, and it doesn’t age well.

 

I love this band and they can take however long they want to roll out an album. It’s okay!

I will buy the album if they announce it tomorrow, and I will buy the album if they announce it in a month. It’s okay!

 

Hopeless has been really bad with album rollouts throughout the COVID era - both Foxing and Tigers Jaw had too many singles and a pre-release cycle that was so long by the end of it I literally forgot the album was out. It really feels like that’s happening here too