The Menzingers - After the Party (February 3, 2017) Album • Page 86

Your Wild Years
Gates
Time Tables
Nothing Feels Good Anymore
Casey
No We Didnt
Mexican Guitars
Sentimental Physics
Rodent
Sunday Morning
Sculptors & Vandals
In Remission
Chamberlain Waits
Lookers
I Dont Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore

I cheated and did 15

 

u saucy motherfucker

 

The artwork is from a series of color photos of Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1979 and 1980. Being from the area, I thought this was really neat. Also explains how they managed to get photos of the old Palace Amusements building which was torn down years ago.

Asbury Park & the Jersey Shore, c. 1979

 

Random order:

Time Tables
Casey
I Don't Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore
Bad Catholics
Good Things
Rodent
I Can't Seem to Tell
Mexican Guitars
Lookers
Where Your Heartache Exists

 

I finally sat down and listened to this for the first time yesterday, alone, with headphones, just letting it wash over me. I don't even know what to say. Honestly, there are no words for how this album makes me feel coming right now, at this stage in my life. It's really speaking to me. These guys created something beautiful and undeniably great with this one.

 

tbh just choose ten songs from otip and thatd be my top ten

 

Why does this album sound so fucking good? Yip slayed all your asses

 

Tellin' Lies is the best song they've ever written. Blown away by that song.

 

Tellin Lies is fantastic and it's like my 4 favorite opener which is wild

 

Not forming a list yet either but I think Tellin' Lies and Lookers are already locks.

 

Yeah, I don't want to rank with ATP songs until I let the honeymoon phase pass which may take a while) with the album and I get a sense of how it really sits within the catalog.

 

Seeing everyone's top 10s being so different makes me happy

 

There isn't a single song I dislike on this, the Dave Hause record, or the Less than Jake EP, all of which were released on the same day.

 

Ditto that. November for me.

 

yeah tellin' lies is definitely my favorite song. i don't even mind black mass, and i usually can't stand slow punk songs.

 

lookers i already consider to be a top 5 song of all time for me for any artist

 

I will say that I believe Lookers is a top 5 Menz song from a lyrical standpoint for me at the very least.

 

Yeah, Lookers is probably going to be Song of the Year for me. Fantastic song writing all over this record, but it's definitely the highlight.

 

I actually overplayed Lookers and have maybe only listened to it twice since the record leaked. It's an amazing song, but I beat it in the ground, dug it up, and then beat it in to the ground again. I practically had sha-la-las in my nightmares.

 

If I'm going to do any sort of list then I'm gonna have to go back and listen to Chamberlain (Late to the Game on That one) and Rented World again. I have barely touched those records in recent memory.

 

I fucking love After the Party though. I just think they are firing on all cylinders here. Like all the things they've done well in the past, they're doing the best they have ever been and all of whatever downsides they've had seem to be diminished. I think it'll hold up, but again only time will tell.

 

Most songs from RW are underappreciated... but now that it is sandwiched between two masterpieces it will likely always stay that way...

 

RW is better than this perhaps. Its a tough call

 

I thought RW was an improvement over OTIP. I always revisit RW and rarely OTIP even though there are some gems on there.

I do think that ATP is better than RW and OTIP.

 

RW is a little bit weaker than OTIP and not in the same league as this. I still haven't listened to CW but I plan on fixing that soon.