The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True (October 13, 2023) • Page 22

I for one am glad that generally speaking since On the Impossible Past this band has not changed things up a ton and have just put out amazing album after amazing album. I am comforted by the consistency and am glad that a band as great as this band is, is doing the thing they're great at. I'd take a dozen more albums of the Menzingers playing songs that sound like the Menzingers.

 

I think Hello Exile has 3-4 of the band's top songs but then the rest of the album really doesn't do it for me.

Really the only one I'm sorta down on as a whole after finally coming around on Rented World

 

Try might be my favorite Tom song since The Talk. What a killer track.

 

Spending more and more time with this, and in true Menzingers fashion, loving it more and more each listen.

 

I’ve been listening several times a day. Absolutely love it at this point.

 

Even though I don’t adore it yet. I’ve listened to it 20 times. About to boot it back up for a night time dog walk.

 

I feel like there’s no band on this site that gets criticized more for making music that’s “by the numbers” for them

 

I don't "love" it yet, but I am loving it. If that makes sense?

Already connecting with it more than Rented World. Never could gel with that album, and only played it a few times since it came out.

 

Rented World is so good, probably my second favorite Menz album (behind OTIP). Deserves more love.

 

I'm coming round to Running in the Roar of the Wind as a closer. I Didn't Miss You is weird, something about the vocals just feels off.

 

band used to be a big favorite of mine but i dont terribly like this record at all unfortunately, yet it seems one of the only songs im digging has been the most common least fav lol. i love i didnt miss you

 

I have to say I'm surprised about complaints this is a departure from their usual sound, firstly because I don't think it's much different and secondly because the songs I like least are the ones that sound the most like formula Menzingers.

 

i actually do like the sound and aesthetics of this album i just think the vocal writing is ridiculously weak by their standards unfortunately

 

how so?

 

gonna try and keep this from being super theory heavy but:

feels like most of the vocal writing here is just rearrangements of the pentatonic scale which is just the notes of the major and minor triads plus the most stable step forward in a scale, so it unfortunately kinda feels like nothing is happening to me outside of a few songs. feels weird to say about this band given how sharp atp and hell even hello exiles melodies were but it is what it is

 

I have no idea what you just said

 

I do think it lacks some of the melodic immediacy of, say, After the Party, which I think is their peak in that regard.

 

he hits so many flat notes, it's honestly super noticeable

 

Idk about music theory all I know is like five different songs from this album have been stuck in my head for days

 

There’s definitely some interesting choices melodically. Some work for me, some don’t.

 

Nobody stays

no feelings final

 

I really like this record. I think it’s more consistent than RW & HE, even though I don’t think it has the big highs.

I do miss when they had a bit more energy, but that’s normal as a band ages, I think.

 

This is one of the best songs of 2023.

 

the title track is still not clicking with me for this reason lol

 

Huh, interesting. "The older I get, the less I knoooow, and I knew nothing then" has been stuck in my head all morning.