The Menzingers - After the Party (February 3, 2017) Album • Page 74

They're playing some new songs live on FB right now

 

I will be really sad if we don't get it on 3/1. I also want them to open with Tellin' Lies. I have some demands this time around haha. I would imagine you and I are in a similar boat with this band live. We are in that bougie camp due to amount of times and selection of songs we've experienced haha.

 

Yep haha I'll be pretty upset if we don't get those two. I can see them opening with Lookers but they need to open with Tellin' Lies

 

That's a good guess. If I had my way, Tellin' Lies, extended intro they do for Good Things, Burn, and then Lookers. Thought process is that Lies is actually kind of a long and upbeat opener, so even if the whole crowd doesn't know the energy will move them. That little break to lead into Good Things makes sense for the band. Then they rip off two songs that, in my humble opinion are married to each other in the set. It's like the first two songs on Clash Battle Guilt Pride. They just belong together. After those songs a little talking and keep things moving with Lookers.

 

Greg sounds like he smoked way too many ciggies before this live stream

 

I got in at the end of the Midwestern States but here's what I caught

Midwestern States
Thick As Thieves
Lookers
House on Fire
Bad Catholics

 

yea, may just be the way the sound was for the live stream, there wasn't a whole lot of room sound on it. Sometimes those self produced live streams don't go well, but I've heard Greg sing live perfectly before so i dont know whats going on

 

Maybe but it really just sounds like that good ol' ciggie singing that I am very well acquainted with, hah. After a cig you can't properly get the sound out and you really have to strain yer vocal chords hard, which might be why his voice sounded off. If you haven't smoked for a while your voice is normal, though.

 

this album feels like more of an embodiment of the americana influences that have always had some slight radiation throughout their music but this is asserting them more heads on. just not my thing

 

I haven't been so stoked on an album opener in a long time. I have not been able to make it to the rest of the album because I keep replaying tellin' lies.

 

Man oh man this album is great. I was expecting to enjoy it but damn, it certainly exceeded my expectations. Tom and Greg sound absolutely incredible here.

"Oh yeah oh yeah everything is terrible" about had me moshing a hole in my bedroom wall.

 

Maybe we're thinking of Americana differently as a concept but I think that OTIP is waaay heavier in that department than this is

 

maybe so, it's not a genre i listen to so i'm only using more of my own personal stereotypes. i just feel that both from a lyrical and sonic perspective it leans further in that direction. idk what sets OTIP so far apart from the others for me, the last one was solid but a lot of that more green day leaning stuff sort of lost me on the last one. i don't dislike this at all, i just don't feel the magic a lot of you are

 

lol OTIP is like the perfect encapsulation of Americana in the past 10 years or so. At least since the last great Lucero album

 

First impression is that I like this more than Rented World.

 

I feel like it's way dialed back here compared to OTIP

beat me to it

 

The elevated Green Day vibes here really make the album for me, it reminds me a lot of discovering their discog like twelve years ago

 

idk guys! not well versed in that sound at all, all i know is i got more of what i would think brian fallon/springsteen/etc vibes from this than ever before.

it's okay, i can go

 

News songs live on FB are sweeeeet.

 

It still sounds identifiably like The Menzingers. Really not that huge.

 

They played Tellin Lies first (which gives me hope for it being an opener on the tour) but that's it as far as the set goes

You can watch the full set now on their FB

 

I am not getting the Green Day comparisons but I also haven't listened to an album of theirs since American Idiot so yeah

 

Sha-la-la-la Jersey girls are always total Menzingers

 

Are there any Nebraska Menzingers fans? Because they should be happy about getting a shout out on the this album. 5 states away on I-80. That's kind of cool.

 

This is the album I was waiting for them to make.