The Dangerous Summer - Gravity (June 21, 2024) • Page 17

Without a Doubt. But it would definitely be a "Best of" as they've never had a "hit" chart Wise. Maybe Spotify wise tho

 

For a second I thought Sideways was THAT song (which I now had to look is titled Someday) and was like jeez if that made the cut then I guess we’re very far apart lol

Listening again Sideways is alright, but I couldn’t remember what it sounded like at all

 

Trust me, "Someday" was never getting anywhere close to this playlist. I think "Sideways" is great. The first half of Coming Home is actually pretty strong. It just crashes off a cliff.

 

I feel more like myself when I’m losing it is trying so hard to be blind ambition but comes up massively short because in my opinion just shouting the song title over and over does not a hook make

 

I’m giving this another shot and I just think some of the production choices sound unfinished. Like I hear the lead guitar in You’ll see it all Coming and think that’s the tone they settled on? Really? It’s even worse when what’s an hour really worth starts and that lead guitar sounds so full and crisp and like they actually worked on how it sounds. It seems some songs got way more love than others from the producer and it makes for an uneven listen

 

This is my issue. Can't think of an album off the top of my head where it felt so obvious which songs saw some real time/effort and which ones didn't. I don't like the term "filler material" because it's usually just someone's synonym for "songs I don't personally like," but it feels like that might be an apt criticism to make of this album.

 

I sympathize with deadlines and budget constraints but it’s just so obvious here that half of this needed way more time in the oven. Turning love into war is so close to being a knives part 2 but is betrayed by its weird synth and jangly guitar tones

 

With my pen still sounds weirdly like Red Hot Chili Peppers in the verse lol or like some kind of weird 90s funk rock thing with that guitar chika chika thing I hate

 

People are underselling them booting one of the more creative and forward thinking drummers in the scene to hire Aaron Gillespie off Fiverr as one of the reasons the last 3 releases have been so dry instrumentally

 

I wonder if the switch in guitar player is a reason for this. Were some songs re-recorded? Were others not re-recorded for some reason? Were new songs written towards the end with Josh playing instead of Matt? These are questions we’ll probably never get answers to.

 

I think AJ said in an interview that this album could have been released like a year ago or something but Rude wanted to wait. Makes it seems like it’s been done for a minute and they is what they were happy with. Could be wrong though.

Also, the synth (or something) during the chorus of Turning Love Into War reminds me of the sad sounding Jurassic park theme haha

 

it just sounds so out of place haha. starting over/slowing down is pretty much the only TDS song with synths that i think warrants their inclusion

 

EDIT: picture isn’t really doing it justice, it’s more vibrant in person. Signed insert is nice too.

 

I Feel is probably my favorite song here, and it still doesnt come close to touching any of their other openers

 

Wow, you can really hear the contrast on the heels of the new record. Was this a stylistic choice? Or was he smoking like a chimney at the time?

 

I think that and drinking a lot, and also I remember them touring a ton in the early days. He had a tendency to scream more at shows. I feel like all of that combined destroyed his voice on GR.

 

I think he did a lot of damage to his voice while recording and touring for war paint those songs are a looooooot harder on the voice than the songs from RFTS he just absolutely goes for it on war paint which is partly why it’s my favorite record by them but yeah it really fucked up his voice you could tell during those shows even before golden record

 

War Paint is such a good album, man. So much passion in those songs

 

It’s always an album I listen to in the car every summer because thats exactly what I did the year it came out. In terms of “albums that transport me to a certain time in my life that I’ll always cherish” war paint might be The One. 2011 was an unforgettable summer of love and heart break and growing up as it was in between graduating high school and going to college and I was mixed up in two different intense relationships it was all very fun and very confusing and war paint was like a movie soundtrack lol just hard to put into words what it makes me feel I can’t quantify it

 

I have never listened to an album as many times in a single season as I listened to War Paint in the summer of 2011, and I doubt I’ll ever love an album again quite like I loved that one. I read back my 10-year piece on that one recently and had the “I miss connecting with music like THAT” feeling. Obviously still love a lot of records, but there’s something about that young adulthood period that is so primal in the way you connect to your favorite albums.

Here’s that piece, for the record!
The Dangerous Summer – War Paint

 

YES so much a summer car album. I screamed those songs with the windows open driving home so many nights I was confused and full of emotion I couldn’t name

 

That was my experience with Mother Nature.

 

IIRC he’s said in interviews that he was listening to a lot of Against Me and was trying to mimic Laura Jane Grace’s vocal delivery

 

Haha I really like Meet Me In The Morning. I might be that song's only fan.

 

I do think this and Coming Home are stronger in the first halves for sure.....

My hot take is that I feel the same (maybe even more strongly) about Mother Nature