Jack's Mannequin Band • Page 24

Not knowing The Resolution was the opener is Limewire culture (for legal reasons, I can neither confirm nor deny whether I also thought The Resolution was the opening track).

 

Revisiting “Caves”. It’s an ambitiously epic closer and the story behind its creation is lovely, but I’ve never loved it and it doesn’t really hold up tonight either.

 

“House In The Trees”, now there’s a song. Gotta give Upside Down Flowers another shot tonight.

 

“Caves” probably isn’t a top five song on the album for me, but it’s so crucial to experience of the album and the overall thematic arc that I can’t imagine in not being on here. Also, the second half is fucking awesome.

 

I’d put Swim, Annie, Hammers, and Miss Cali above Caves, but I guess it would be in my top 5 then, just barely. Plus my younger brother had leukemia, so the song resonates with me on a deeper level than most people.

 

Yeah, thinking about it more, it’s probably my five, after Crashin, Hammers, Swim, and Dropout. If Doris Day were in play, that would bump it to six.

 

Crashin is great. I like Dropout, but it never hit me that hard. What draws you to it? Or what resonated with you about it?

 

I remember some clips and/or live takes of songs circulating before the album came out, and I latched onto that song immediately. When the album came out, I think it struck me as the closest thing to an Everything in Transit style song. There are deeper tracks lyrically (though I love the themes of escapism in that one, and the "And our friends will write us letters..." verse is great), but I think the melody is always what sold it for me. That chorus is huge.

 

“caves” is one of the most beautiful songs ever made

i love glass passenger the whole way through, even acknowledging he cut some dope songs. album got me through some shit

 

That might be sacreligious to some I know....

 

yeah, thats exactly what i did in 2008

 

EIT has always been THE summer album for me.
TGP has always been a fall record, but for some reason People and Things seemed more like a mix of fall AND spring to me.

i remember hearing caves live for one of the first times he played it live (on a keyboard lol) and hands down it is one of the loveliest songs he's ever written.

 

If every song is good that is what i do as well.

 

interesting how everyone's talking about having Glass Passenger out of order; my illegal download of that was fine, but I had Everything in Transit in the wrong order for yerars; I don't remember the specifics but Holiday From Real was still the first song, Dark Blue was later, Into the Airwaves wasn't even there (interestingly, Through Being Cool also was missing it's last song from the same source), and La La Lie was the last song on it

 

Listened to TGP last night, here's my tiers.

Crashin
Miss California
Hammers and Strings
Spinning
---
Swim
The Resolution
Annie Use Your Telescope
American Love
Drop Out
---
Caves
Bloodshot
---
Suicide Blonde
Orphans
What Gets You Off

 

Learning that people hold “Miss California” in much higher esteem than I do.

 

Crashin
Hammers
Swim
Drop Out
Caves
The Resolution

Spinning
Annie
What Gets You Off
Bloodshot
Miss California

Orphans
American Love
Suicide Blonde

 

I concur

 

Your bottom two tiers are my bottom 5 songs as well.

 

Tier 1:
Spinning
Crashin
Drop out
Hammers
Resolution

Tier 2:
Swim
American Love
Annie
Miss California

Tier 3:
Caves


Tier 4:
Bloodshot
Suicide Blonde
Orphans
what gets you off

 

Top:
Caves
Crashin
Hammers
Spinning
Swim

Middle:
American Love
Annie
Miss California
Resolution
Drop Out
Orphans

Bottom:
Suicide Blonde
Bloodshot
What Gets You Off (which arguably might be the worst JM song?)

 

"orphans" is so dope come on y'all. and i adore "what gets you off" lol

anyone who ranks "bloodshot" at the bottom has NOT had a nervous breakdown

 

i get why ppl dislike "suicide blonde" but i could never

 

it's all about that post-chorus piano riff, the best shit ever

 

Tier 1:
Spinning
Crashin
Resolution
Miss California
Doris Day
Caves
At Full Speed

Tier 2:
Swim
American Love
Annie
Cell Phone

Tier 3:
Bloodshot
Suicide Blonde
Orphans
What gets you off
Hammers
Drop Out

This is kind of where it's always been for me.