The Hotelier - Goodness (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 275

Someone on reddit pointed out that the intro to wildflowers is almost identical to the intro of marigold and patchwork by the Appleseed cast and now I can’t unhear it

 

Both bands I adore so it’s cool haha

 

This is still the greatest album of the past decade and it's not even hyperbole. I haven't connected with an album as much since Boxer/Midnight Organ Fight.

 

These well thought out and profound statements about the art, that is this record, are so great to read

 

hey I was there

 

wonderful

 

two deliverances is becoming my favorite hotelier song

 

Chris has been sounding really good lately on the back up vocals

 

I was there too!!

 

i missed that tour


but i just remembered the time i saw christian acoustic in a basement with like 20 people there tops

 

Was that like this past September? The Toronto date was super small too (probably closer to 40) but it was so great. The Avril cover brought such an amazing energy to the room.

 

i wish i went to every single christian solo/emperor x date in the UK

 

It was in July I think? It was the summer tour tho yeah it was ridiculous the Avril color was serene

 

so who's going to Christian's Super Bowl party?

 

it may be my favorite song period.

 

Still pissed I missed that Christan / Emperor X show in Norway last august. I'm sure there were like 30-40 people there.

 

ughhhhh I’m so sad for you that show would have been life changing

 

Haha, I don't know about life changing, but yeah it probably would have been great. Well, at least I have a couple new YouTube concerts to enjoy now, so thanks for that @Kennedy and @nfdv2 .

 

100% lifechanging trust me

 

Well then, thank you for making me even more sad I missed that show :)

 

to me ive always applied it to myself as a yearning for the past. i remember when Goodness came out that line hitting me like a ton of bricks. i wasnt in the best place in terms of relationships in my life, and i was pretty tied to my past at that point. i didnt want to let the past go. i was pretty confused about how the future was going to work out and what would happen, and really i just wished things were back to the way they had been in the past. i didnt really know what i needed in that moment, because i knew what i wanted was the gone and not coming back. but i knew i couldnt have it and things would never be what they were.
so i guess to me it meant being in a mental state of being indecisive in regards to what was my current situation mixed with a yearning for what was.

 

For me it’s a longing for a very particular moment in your past that no other moment can make you feel like you did then. No matter how hard you try to replicate it.

 

to me it's like, youre longing to go back to a past time you've already lived through, but since you've already lived through it you obviously can't repeat the past so you don't really know what you want right now

 

Yall just expressed what i was trying to say a lot better haha

 

Yeah, basically knowing that wanting to go back to a time and place is impossible, but still being consumed by the desire to a point that you’re no longer driven to/know how to move forward.