The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True (October 13, 2023) • Page 25

Also on OTIP I thought they only had 1 singer. Since that album very easy to tell imo.
Tom's performances on each album ranked:
1. OTIP
2. Hello Exile
3. Some of it Was True
4. Chamberlain
(Gap)
5. ATP
6. RW

 

Shoutout The Freaks which isn’t on an album but one of my absolute favorite Tom songs.

 

i read it as ogrecore

 

Gaslight isn’t orgcore, and cw is way more orgcore than otip anyway

 

Aside from their voices, their songwriting styles are very different too. Greg is more direct while Tom is more metaphorical.

 

yourscenesucks.com - you are just like everybody else

 

I've been too busy to get to this, so at this point I'm gonna wait til the 27th and jam this for the first time back to back with the new Gaslight. AND OH WHAT A DAY IT SHALL BE

 

Yeah definitely one of his best lyrical outputs

 

The best Tom song is Cemetery’s Garden

 

Try is very, very good.

 

Nonsense, it is really good though

 

Now I'm thinking about it and trying to figure out what my all time favorite Tom song is...probably Nice Things but I suppose it depends on my mood. Nobody Stays has seriously catapulted itself way up there for me already

 

Nobody stays (Nobody stays)

 

Been listening to this every chance that I get and I am so happy with it.

Think the only song that I don’t really vibe with is High Low. And even there, I dig the music. Just not really into the lyrics.

 

Honestly you're better off not knowing.

 

Agree on CW but I didn't put that much thought in tbh just thought CW is shouty hooky punk with screams a bit like Rise Against. ("A bit" doing heavy lifting.)

But Sink or Swim is very orgcore and they went nuts for 59 Sound even as that (like OTIP admittedly) drifted a fair way from standard orgcore sound.

 

Freedom Bridge is easily my favorite Tom song. Thick as Thieves is the 2nd.

 

I didn’t know how I felt about it at first but for some reason I just realized that take it to heart fucking slaps. That bridge rules, I love how the guitars sound

 

A different song from this album has been stuck in my head any given day this week, today it's Alone in Dublin

 

Really like the lyrics to the title track.

Suddenly I’m 17,
Driving alone for the first time,
Smoking cigarettes, they can’t kill me yet

 

I know they’re from Scranton / Philly but the songs all sound like they’re about a podunk Pennsylvania town and I love it

 

I wear hearing aids - they can cost around $5k+ for a pair!

 

I went to college in Scranton and that line really hit me, just evokes the image of this dingy Turkey Hill gas station everyone used to go to on Mulberry street near Nay Aug park. OTIP came out when I was there too so it's all strangely Proustian

 

New album is good and has me re-visiting Hello Exile. Better than I remember.