Yellowcard Band • Page 100

True. It is weird that I consider L&S up there with their best albums, but I skip like 5 songs always. I guess it just shows how strong the other 9 are lol

 

I literally had the same experience when I listened the other day haha. I skipped a lot of the songs on the back half (Two Weeks from Twenty to How I Go, should have removed at least 3 of those songs)

 

Do not agree at all. Aside from TWFT most songs on Lights and Sounds have great lyrical content. Make Me So has (and I pause here because I know these lyrics are important to Ryan, and I understand that) terrible lyrics.

 

I adore this band with my heart, but Make Me So is terrible and the last two albums were definitely their weakest.

Lights & Sounds (other than Two Weeks From Twenty) is leaps and bounds better than anything on Lift A Sail or S/T.

 

Most songs on Lights & Sounds are worse than Make Me So. Don't really understand the hate that song gets; what makes it worse than some of their other poppy songs like Here I Am Alive or Light Up the Sky? To me, the latter in particular sticks out like a sore thumb on Paper Walls.

 

Make Me So is a fine song.

 

Two Weeks from Twenty has grown on me a lot this year. I would still put it as the weakest of L&S but it's not a terrible song. I also just love how dark and angsty the lyrics on that album are. They hated their time in California and they did not let you forget it in that album. Also, I would listen to Make Me So multiple times in a row before I would listen to some of the lesser popular tracks on OA like Inside Out.

 

Inside Out is one of my fav tracks on OA, great deep cut

 

Love that song so much

 

It's just such a different vibe, man. Lights and Sounds is such a top quality album for a certain type, feel, mood...and that just so happens to be nearly opposite of the other stuff they've released which has always been a different vibe.

Lights and Sounds both musically and lyrically has gotten me through some shit. I'll sit down with that record and put it up against OA, SA, any day. It all depends on the situation. One of the great things about this band I think is that they have a catalog of music you can turn to in any situation. I will appreciate that for my whole life most likely.

 

Transmission Home is just such a frustrating song for me to listen to. The intro and first verse are amazing and then everything just pulls back to this weird, off, bland chorus. So disappointing. I also usually skip until F&D.

 

BTW. The bridge of What Appears is one of my favorite things they've done. I wish I could hear them expand on that sound more in the future.

 

I like Make Me So...

 

I love L&S. I HATED it when it first came out. But then I sat down and actually listened. The musicianship on that album is wonderful and lyrics mean a lot to me. The only two songs I don't enjoy on that album is How I Go and Two Weeks From Twenty. I replaced those with When We're Old Men.

Plus, the album art is one of my favorites ever.

 

Because Here I Am Alive and Light Up the Sky are so much more well crafted songs in my opinion, both in terms of structure, tightness and melody. Make Me So just drags. The bridge is pretty cool though.

 

It's funny how so many people start this album at F&D. I often do the same. The Transmission Home intro is some of the coolest shit they've done, so that almost makes up for the rest of the song lacking a bit. (although the bridge is beautiful)

 

Here's a fun idea, take your least favorite track from each album and rank them from the best of the worst to worst of the worst.

 

Light Up The Sky
Life of Leaving Home
Inside Out (difficult one here)
Big Apple Heartbreak
Deepest Well/One Bedroom (tie)
Here I am Alive
Two Weeks From Twenty
Wrecking Ball

 

Life of a Salesman
Drifting
Here I Am Alive
Hang You Up
Dear Bobbie
The Hurt is Gone
Space Travel
The Deepest Well

 

Well, this is harder than I thought. I can not think of my least favorite on Paper Walls, WYTTSY, or Southern Air.

I guess I'll go

1. Hide
2. You and Me and One Spotlight
3. Here I am Alive
4. Two Weeks from Twenty
5. Inside Out
6. One Bedroom
7. I Am A Wrecking Ball

 

Ten
Light Up the Sky
Transmission Home
See Me Smiling
I'm a Wrecking Ball
Empty Apartment
Two Weeks from Twenty

 

Ocean Avenue
Life of Leaving Home
A Vicious Kind
Leave a Light On
Dear Bobbie
One Bedroom
Two weeks from twenty

 

I almost chose Ocean Avenue myself. Decided not to bc my band use to cover that song for parties and it was fun to play.

 

Inside Out (really hard picking one from this album, strong memories connected to every song)
Leave A Light On
A Vicious Kind
For You, And Your Denial
One Bedroom
Dear Bobbie
Two Weeks From Twenty
Trembling

 

Hide
Madrid
A Vicious Kind
Martin Sheen Or JFK
Inside Out
I'm A Wrecking Ball
Dear Bobbie