Silverstein - Misery Made Me (May 6, 2022) Album • Page 8

1. This Is How The Wind Shifts
2. Shipwreck In The Sand
3. Discovering The Waterfront
4. Dead Reflection
5. Misery Made Me
6. Rescue
7. When Broken Is Easily Fixed
8. I Am Alive In Everything I Touch
9. A Beautiful Place To Drown
10. Arrivals & Departures

Missry Made Me & Rescue have been switching back and forth in my head, but this is how I feel now.

 

Gonna go ahead and fix this...

 

Discovering the Waterfront
Wind Shifts
Shipwreck
Dead Reflection
Arrivals and Departures
WBIEF
Rescue
Short Songs
I Am Alive
Misery
A Beautfiul Place to Drown

 

I'd take any other Silverstein album over WBIEF. A complete rerecord of it would probably end up higher on my list though. Shane has improved so much as a vocalist since then that it's become hard to listen to that album for me.

 

we got like 6 of them redone and they are amazing. I’d imagine we eventually get the whole thing by redux 4! Haha.

 

True. Honestly if it happens I might just make a playlist with all of them and listen to that instead of the original album

 

I always rank Rescue pretty low for being by the numbers Silverstein, but then I actually go and listen to it and enjoy the heck out of it lol.

 

yeah I'm hoping they'll fully redo the first album at some point because I'm sure the songs are pretty good but I can't deal with the vocals.

 

When Broken translates great live but as I mentioned before, the album has not aged well.

 

If I just had to rank. Lets give this a shot:

1) This is How the Wind Shifts
2) A Beautiful Place to Drown
3) A Shipwreck in the Sand
4) Discovering The Waterfront
5) Dead Reflection
6) Arrivals & Departures
7) Rescue
8) I Am Alive in Everything I Touch
9) Misery Made Me
11) Short Songs
10) When Broken is Easily Fixed


Rescue and I Am Alive can be flip flopped at any given time. 2-5 can sometimes be rearranged. Need more time with Misery. Misery feels.... hollow? Color by numbers? More so than any of their other work.

 

Discovering the Waterfront
This is How the Wind Shifts
I Am Alive in Everything I Touch
Dead Reflection
Short Songs
Rescue
Misery Made Me
A Shipwreck in the Sand
Arrivals & Departures
A Beautiful Place to Drown

The top two are by far the best.

 

As someone who was obsessed with when broken is easily fixed in high school (that cd stayed in my truck's cd player for like a year straight) - and then stopped listening to them completely for whatever reason, this is both bonkers and overwhelming to consider diving into this 10+ record discography - especially when the debut is apparently ranked incredibly low.

 

WBIEF being so low is more due to the quality of the recording than the quality of the songs themselves. There are great tracks on there but Shane's vocals are harsh and he got so much better in subsequent albums.

 

i always felt like Rescue didn’t get a lot of promo or hype for whatever reason and as a result the reception suffered. I think it’s got just as many top tier and unique tracks as any other record, especially since the EP came right before - I was as excited as I’ve been for any release. IIAIEIT was the “fatigue” release for me.

 

Few mentions of "Don't Wait Up" in here. Great song.

 

I haven't listened to Rescue very much but anytime I have nothing on there is really memorable to me, idk. Just a weird album in their discography to me.

 

1. This Is How The Wind Shifts
2. Shipwreck In The Sand
3. Discovering The Waterfront
4. A Beautiful Place to Drown
5. Dead Reflection
6. Arrivals & Departures
7. Misery Made Me
8. I Am Alive In Everything I Touch
9. When Broken Is Easily Fixed
10. Short Songs
11. Rescue

I like Misery but I don't think it touches anything else above it on my list (could maybe swap with Arrivals solely because of the production on that). Misery just really isn't anything special to me. This being said I do enjoy all Silverstein records.

 

I think what hurts Rescue is that it's not a cohesive album. Shane mentioned that it's basically just a collection of songs they wrote over 2 years that were crammed together in an album. It's all over the place.

 

Rescue is an odd album because at times it feels very un-Silverstein-y, but it still has some amazing songs, and deserves more love than it gets. "Forget Your Heart", "Texas Mickey", "The Artist" & "Burning Hearts" are some of my favorite Silverstein songs, and are not nearly well-remembered enough.

In fact, I'd argue every song is at least a 7/10, but it fluctuates wildly within that range.
But you also have songs like "Live To Kill" & "Sacrifice" which are very by-the-numbers Silverstein, but have fairly lacking lyrics, which is odd for a band that's music is so rooted in sincerity and emotional honesty.

 

I've always loved Rescue. The album that I remember the least about is I Am Alive

 

I’ve heard that before too but can’t say I empathize at all on on the cohesion point. Lucky me I guess lol.

 

Relistening to their discog so I can rank as well and I have to ask. Why are people so down on Arrivals and Departures? Sound of the Sun was the first Silverstein song I heard so I do have a soft spot for the album and I’m aware of the bands disdain for it, but I feel like it still has some solid songs on it.

 

In my opinion it comes down to a couple factors.

A. Shane's vocals just sound off on the entire record. His cleans just sound so much better on Discovering The Waterfront. Compare the chorus of "Discovering The Waterfront" to "Vanity And Greed" to hear what I mean.

B. The songwriting sounds fairly generic by Silverstein standards. "Worlds Apart" & "If You Could See Into My Soul" sound like they could have been written by any emo/post-hardcore band from that era.

C. I think a lot of fans just don't know it well enough to have a strong opinion of it. The band almost never plays any songs from it, and it only got two music videos, so the chance of newer fans meaningfully engaging with it are fairly low.

 

All makes sense, especially since I started with that album and worked backwards so I didn’t have the same expectations for the songs. Thanks!