Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive (April 5, 2024)

1. The Devils
2. Castaway
3. Go To Hell
4. How To Ruin Everything (Patience) (feat. Ice Nine Kills)
5. Good Advice
6. Miracle
7. Strangest Faces
8. Say So Long
9. Bad Intentions
10. Just Like Home
11. I’m So Happy I Could Die

 

Nice...but so funny to me that Interrobang was a two-week rollout and this album is quite literally a two-year roll out.

Pumped nonetheless.

 

There are worse things than being alive two year rollouts

 

Not a fan of this type of rollout at all but hey the songs have been great. Excited for what is essentially the last EP.

 

I guess it's good I never listened to the EPs, but the fact that the record is basically three EPs crammed together takes my excitement down a notch overall.

 

I posted in another Bayside thread last year that it's kind of a scummy move to sell the EPs separately when they knew full well they'd eventually package it all together into one full album. I get that they need to make ends meet and capitalize on everything they can, but something doesn't sit right about that decision.

 

Excited for more Bayside but this is what happens doing the EP thing...maybe the old songs will get remixed a bit...

 

I can not wait for all the posts to say that the songs sound a little different

 

I probably wouldn't even notice if they were different, tbh

 

They specifically said it would be packaged into an album later did they not?

 

Not explicitly, that I have seen or heard. They were always pretty vague about it. When they released Strangest Faces (nearly two years ago) they said they got together and wrote 3 songs and then they were getting together 5 or 6 months later to write 3 or 4 more songs and they kept packaging them as EPs. They may have alluded to eventually dropping it all together as one, but nothing ever official.

It wasn't until Anthony's Instagram live he did a few weeks ago where he was asked if they were recording a new album and he said 'you've already heard half of it.'

I could be wrong, but I don't think they ever initially said two years ago that it would all be packaged together as one.

EDIT TO ADD: When they announced The Red EP, Anthony was quoted as saying this:

"We've been writing and releasing songs as we are inspired to lately. That's the plan for us for now as opposed to having to fill a quota of songs for a full length," shares vocalist Anthony Raneri. "We don't want to abandon the idea of songs as a collection all together so we decided to release each record session as an EP. The Red Ep is a collection from the first round of recordings we did for this project"

 

Stoked. Never really listened much to the EP's in anticipation for the eventual full length.

Hope they never do it like that again ha.

 

A bit annoyed that I picked up both the EPs on vinyl when this will inevitably also get pressed but looking forward to hearing the remaining songs.

 

Super happy to have all these (great) songs in one place. Love the artwork

 

Avoided buying the EPs so this works for me just fine

 

First Microwave releasing half of a new album (5 years in the making) over the course of two years and now Bayside? Except with Bayside it’s like 80% of the record having been released for a bit now? lol make this madness stop.

 

Is there another band that could break the internet and charts like bn did for their last one? A simpler time before the truth came out, but damn was that release strategy one of a kind. I can see MCR doing something similar and see insane success. Would love for someone to do something similar with a release, because fucking streaming and algorithms seem to run the world.

 

Had no idea about the EP's, but thrilled for this. I'll be at the show the day of and after the release, so that should be extra fun.

 

Really excited for the few new songs, bummed that it’s only that. Go To Hell is one of the best bayside songs in recent memory, maybe even in their history, so that alone makes it

 

Uh what?

 

atreyu did the same thing last year, 3 EPs and then the 4th was the album so we got more songs but exact same rollout, but they did it all within one year and the album came out in December so it was fun to jam it throughout the year, and the final album had 15 songs! (no interludes)

 

i also see it is dropping the same day as strung out & ERRA, shaping up to be a beefy release day if i do say myself!

 

I didn’t play the EPs enough to ruin the songs in the context of the album so I’ll be happy to re-discover them in April

 

Has the band even officially announced this yet?

 

nope

 

Nice cover art. I'm not super into the 6 songs they've released so I didn't play them much. i'm glad the opening/closing songs are new.

I'm not into this 2 year roll out as now this is "that weird album that has songs has half songs I heard before" rather they do it like JEW and just do a single or two and then give us a new album when they have enough material they are proud of.