New Found Glory Band • Page 63

Amen. I don't pay attention to lyrics in most music, but the shit on that album is so distracting.

 

Yup. I don’t need lyrics to be great, especially not in pop-punk, but so many of these are egregiously bad. The sometimes awkward vocal melodies they’ve been using in recent years only highlight them even more. Even some of the song titles make me cringe.

 

I literally have listened to the newest album once ever and halfway through it lost my attention. I used to call them one of my favorite bands too

 

What are the chances they start on new material sooner rather than later?

 

I hope so and hope it’s more like Makes Me Sick than F+ExI so we can all forget it exists.

 

As sketchy as a dude Steve was, I honestly felt they lost something when he left he band. Didn't he write most of their lyrics? I know, 'fuck that guy', but they never felt the same band to me and i've not been interested in anything since Radiosurgery. I saw them play as a 4-piece too and they just didn't sound as good live either.

 

For what it's worth after he left the band said everyone collaborated on the lyrics and they just gave Steve the main credit to keep him happy. You can decide for yourself whether that's true or not.

Live, they had Ryan Key playing second guitar on one tour and I wish they'd bring that back, I think it helped their sound.

I definitely feel Resurrection (which was written when emotions were running high) and Forever and Ever (which was a conscious effort to recapture their old lyrical style) are much weaker albums lyrically than Radiosurgery and the albums beforehand, but Makes Me Sick is better except for the bits where they come across as cranky old men (Party On Apocalypse and similar).

 

loved what ryan brought to the live performances.

 

Coming Home is their best record. No debate please.

But seriously I can’t pick a favorite. My favorites in no particular order:

Coming Home
Sticks and Stones
Self-Titled
Makes Me Sick
Not Without A Fight

 

I fully recognize Makes Me Sick is a very good record, but it never really grabbed me the way their first handful of albums did. Maybe that can be attributed to not feeling as strongly about this band as I once did.

My top 5, in no particular order:

S/T
Catalyst
Sticks & Stones
Coming Home
Not Without a Fight

 

Yeah my top 5 is always the same 5 albums. Coming Home is always number 1, but the other 4 move around in the ranking. For now I'll say:

Coming Home
Self Titled
Sticks & Stones
Not Without a Fight
Catalyst

Makes Me Sick

Nothing Gold Can Stay



Forever & Ever
Resurrection
Radiosurgery

 

I don't think the production and mixing combo on Makes Me Sick gets enough credit...its incredible...Aaron Sprinkle producing and Tom Lord-Alge (wow) mixing? Can't say they've ever sounded better than on that record.

 

That stretch of Blurred Vision, Say It Don’t Spray It, Barbed Wire is awesome

 

Aaron Sprinkle just turns everything he touches into gold

 

Top 3 is

Sticks & Stones
Makes Me Sick
Self titled

 

Will forever stan Radiosurgery. Yes, it was the first NFG album I ever heard so some of that is nostalgia, but it's also just a damn good record in my opinion. No waste, just crisp riffs.

 

I think Summer Fling is the only song from Radiosurgery I ever go back to.

 

Drill it in my brain is mine.

 

I like Anthem for the Unwanted, I’m Not the One, and Memories and Battle Scars quite a bit, but the rest is pretty forgettable for me.

 

Sticks & Stones
Catalyst
Coming Home
Self Titled
Radiosurgery (map of your body is my go to)
Not Without a Fight
Makes Me Sick
Nothing Gold Can Stay




Resurrection
Forever

 

Catalyst

 

The chorus to “I’m not the one” is so catchy. I think that’s the only one I ever go back to.

 

I hardly ever go back to Radiosurgery, and I always say it's one of my least favorites....but whenever I DO listen to it, I realize that every song is super catchy and end up singing along.

I think it's actually a good album, but all of the songs are stylistically similar and not what I typically want from New Found Glory so I guess I just have to be in the right mood to go back to it.

 

S&S
NGCS
S/T

Radiosurgery
Catalyst
MMS
NWAF
Resurrection
Forever

CH

 

All the songs are super consistent and have the same energy. The downside is that they kind of all bleed together. But I really enjoy the album