The Hotelier - Goodness (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 304

I completely agree, musically it just feels so warm and peaceful to me. No other record gives me the feeling Goodness does. Home is funny because I liked them when they were The Hotel Year and my study abroad roommate (now one of my best friends) asked if I’d heard the new Hotelier record and I didn’t think I knew them. As soon as I hit play I realized they’d changed their name. Home is great but it’s a difficult listen, Goodness is like the warmth on the other side. I’m a little drunk so I don’t know if that makes sense but yeah haha.

 

I still remember the goosebumps I got the first time I heard Goodness, Pt. 2 when the band kicks in

 

I revisited Home in full a few weeks ago, probably the first time in 3 years or so. I still love it, specifically the melodies, but it feels so much like a youthful record, ya know? It's passionate and angry and specific in what it sets out to do, and while there are certain songs that absolutely remain powerful and important, the majority kinda washes over me like nostalgia. There are songs on It Never Goes Out that hit me harder now than most songs on Home. And, to be clear, Home hit fucking hard. It was my favorite album the year it came out and it was in constant rotation. It isn't a weak album by any means, just one that I have grown out of.

The energy on Goodness seems perpetual. The beat that ends the record and begins Goodness is intentional, this is a cyclical album. It's one that I can jump into at any point in my life (I get the irony of it only being 4 years old, but I've gotten married and am having a kid in the span it's been out...I've grown) and still feel the same feelings as the first time I put it on.

 

Like I let Goodness roll through into Home tonight and Scope, which was one of my favorite songs on the album, sounds like a completely different band.

 

I'm a little drunk and I am enjoying this revisit. Thank you.

Home was fun, but Goodness connected with me in a personal way. It wasn't just about a fun listen. Goodness was something I needed. An album that gave me hope, in a world that I really needed it. 2016 sucked, and 2020 is no better. This revisit may just be something I needed right now. I appreciate whatever compelled you to comment on this thread.

 

It really is a special record. I feel the same about Home, great record but I think I prefer a lot of It Never Goes Out whether because of nostalgia or whatever. Both great records but Goodness is transcendent. Every time I put it on I think It’ll be a casual listen but I’m stopped in my tracks every time. Just an incredibly important record to me.

 

Also probably helps that I saw Christian play an acoustic show right before Goodness was released and then saw the full band play a few shows after it came out, each time in a tiny NH venue.

 

It's wild that the initial reaction was that the record doesn't really get started until Two Deliverances. Idk how else you could listen to this besides the first 4 tracks.

TBF, I do cut out the poem and sub in Goodness 1

 

I've never seen them live! I'm jealous

 

Anyone put Goodness Pt. 1 at the start of the album? Always seemed weird to me it was left off.

EDIT: At least 1 person does.

 

As soon as the drums start in Goodness, Pt. 2 I am caught. Hook, line, and sinker.

 

Goodness, Pt 1 came out the day after my most recent breakup and I just cried on my couch petting my dog haha

 

Opening Mail for My Grandmother is a tough listen since my grandma died last year. She was my favorite person and it’s a good way to remember her but it’s hard to get through with dry eyes.

 

Mine died early this year, too. I feel the sentiment. We had an atypical relationship. It was closer than most today. I still think of her often.

 

I said this in the rank yr albums thread but that's probably the reason I attach myself to this album so much. She died in 2015, the rest of the year was a weird family limbo, and by early 2016 we had established the new normal of her not being around. It was a super weird, empty time for my family and this album really helped me get through it

 

Wow remember when this song had the BN reference in it?

 

End of Reel is such a fucking triumphant closing track

 

I obviously hope they make more music in the future but if this ends up being their last album what a way to go out

 

@cherrywaves

 

I was all about The Hotel Year and Half Hearted Hero back in 2011 haha, really miss HHH

 

Then you’re a part of the shrine

 

It’s late but it’s Friday and I’m really enjoying this conversation so I figured I’d give this a spin

 

I hadn't heard this before. Soft Animal/In Framing/Title Track:

 

Title Track was already one of my favorite Hotelier tracks, that video may bump it into the top 5

 

Thank you all for reminding me that this album needs to go back into rotation for the fall.