Yellowcard Band • Page 99

The transition from RIP to Transmission was awesome.

 

Been binging on these guys again. Their new album was good upon first listen, but it grew on me with more listens. I am happy they made something like 'Lift a Sail' too. It is such a beautiful album with some awesome heavy riffs.

Paper Walls will forever have my heart though. It is my 4th all time favorite album.

 

Just listened to s/t front to back after a couple months... still amazing. It's too sad they decided to end the band, but I'm also happy they went out with a bang.

 

I keep trying to listen to other bands, but I just keep wanting to listen to YC again and again instead :( Also When We're Old Men is an underrated deep cut

 

confession: i still haven't listened to the new YC album...

 

@bradsonemanband what the fuck

 

whoa, this is my first time hearing this.

 

confession: i don't think it's a good album :x

 

When it came out I was like yeah this great but it'll probably never be my favorite YC record. And now honestly I think front to back it makes a strong case for being my favorite YC record

Also Brad still you but you gotta get on that

 

Same... I've been substituting Big If in the meantime. Damn it.

Edit: What the hell at that acoustic version of What Appears. Where did that come from!?

 

Wasn't it a target bonus track or something? Pretty sure it and The Hurt got the acoustic treatment

 

Self titled is my third or fourth favorite by them. Still a great record, but it doesn't have quite the cohesion that their best work does, and "I'm a Wrecking Ball" is kind of a dud.

 

RIP, What Appears, Got Yours, A Place We Set Afire, Empty Street, and a little Fields and Fences are the only tracks I listen to from the S/T album. Everything else just kinda drags on and on. Songs are too long on the album. But the songs I listen to regularly are absolutely killer to me.

 

I liked that song when the album came out, but now I think it's the most boring song on the record. I mean, it's still a good song, but it just interrupts the flow a little bit for me, especially when it's followed by a fast track like Savior's Robes and then by another slow tune like Fields and Fences. The album overall is still great though, and I would say it's just behind Southern Air and WYTTSY in my list (maybe Paper Walls too, but that's a close call).

 

Southern Air and Paper Walls are neck and neck for me. Self titled is probably third, but Lift a Sail and Ocean Avenue are also very close.

 

Hot ass take

I like LaS more than the S/T I think

 

I like them both a lot and they are comparable to me

 

If LaS didn't stumble for its first third, I think it would easily be better.

 

i disagree but i TOTALLY get why some feel that way. Craig has also said something similar. I cant deny that the album really gets going around Illuminate

 

I'm not jazzed about much of it before Fragile and Dear, though Convocation is an excellent intro and I remember One Bedroom more fondly than I remember now that I'm thinking about it. I suppose Make Me So is a decent tune too, but the first two proper songs on the record have always felt like a bit of a chore to get through.

 

yeah Transmission Home and Crash The Gates are good alt rock songs, but I get why someone wouldnt be into them

 

Just want to say that Sure Thing Falling is my YC song of the day... so good.

 

I think Make Me So is the worst song in their whole discography. The chorus in particular always makes me cringe with those "why-y-y-y". The first two songs are decent and have good guitar riffs, although I generally find them a bit boring. The real gems on that record are the title track and MSK in my opinion. California is a very good closer also, quite different from their usual closers.

 

Yeah, I think Make Me So is up there with Two Weeks From Twenty for one of their worst. Also agree with Lift a Sail, the rest of the album could be silence and it'd still be a good album because of it.

 

There's a good number of songs on Lights & Sounds that are worse than Make Me So. But Make Me So is definitely in the bottom quarter of their discography