The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever (Sept 23rd 2022) Album • Page 19

Psssst... speaking of Hoodie Weather, I covered it as the b-side for a song I wrote, which you can buy here digitally or on 7" vinyl...

 

Washington Square Park
Hoodie Weather
I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral
I Don't Like Who I Was Then
It Must Get Lonely

 

I should try to listen to their albums again sometime soon to see how I feel. I’ll always have a soft spot for this band, but I rarely listen to them anymore. I’m kind of curious to see how I feel now about some of their albums that I haven’t listened to in years

 

Hostels
Woke up older
Culdesac
Brave
Pyramids
Paris ;)

 

I was just in this boat. Even skipping them if they came on shuffle on any playlist but these 3 new songs have me fully back in

 

Off topic, that bassline in the pre-chorus of You Made Me Want To Be A Better Person should be out of place for how busy it is but it works! Never really noticed until the re-listens I’m going through now

 

Bar Bands
Came Out Swinging
Chaser
Cigarettes & Saints
Sister Cities

 

This is probably my exact list but bar bands is definitely staying haha.

 

new songs sound like a huge regression to me. shame, sister cities was a great direction. back to pop punk I guess.

 

those two singles may be the only pop punk sounding songs on the record really

 

Songs about Death is a slowly paced sludgy number that builds and builds

the album is a good mixture of what the band does best

 

Yeah I can’t say any of the new songs did anything for me after my first listens to them

 

oldest daughter and summer clothes probably my least favorite songs on the record (even tho I do like them)

 

I kind of like that it’s such a change of pace from even the last 2. Hard to explain, but there is a levity here that if they went back to darker stuff, I’d be disappointed.

 

I was wondering this when they called Wyatt's Song the lead single. Maybe those are the weaker songs on the record (still decent!) and they released them early so when the record comes out, it blows us away. Wyatt's Song is incredible imo.

That said, I'd love if it were an album that could follow on from TGG sonically. The three songs that have come out could be that; if they hadn't gone darker/more alt-rock with NCTH and Sister Cities, these could be songs that fit on the album after.

 

Would much prefer them to build upon the alt rock sound they went for with Sister Cities

 

It’s there on the new record

 

Oldest Daughter > Wyatt's Song > Summer Clothes, but I like all three a lot.

 

Yeah this really isn’t a pop punk album at all

 

Not sure how people feel, or maybe when I think of "pop-punk" I associate more of the bands that leaned into genre tropes, but I haven't really associated The Wonder Years as a pop-punk band in a while. Like even The Greatest Generation doesn't really feel that way to me, it just felt like they'd matured past that point and were doing their own thing that could be loosely associated with other genre bands. Upsides is definitely of its time pop punk and Suburbia leaned into Saves the Day/Starting Line homage, but everything after hasn't felt like they're emulating anything.

 

Couldn't have said it better. Exactly how I feel.

 

Washington Square Park
Came Out Swinging
Passing Through a Screen Door
Cigarettes & Saints
Pyramids of Salt

 

Washington Square Park
Hoodie Weather
Cul-de-Sac
A Song for Ernest Hemingway
It Must Get Lonely / The Ocean Grew Hands To Hold Me (this one is the only one I don’t have an immediate answer for)

 

Fruit Punch
Logan Circle
Came Out Swinging/Living Room Song
The Devil In My Bloodstream
Stained Glass Ceilings/A Song For Patsy Cline
Pyramids of Salt

 

Washington Square Park. I had heard a couple TWY songs before, but the premiere of this one (either on AP.net or their Myspace) was what really hooked me.
And Now I'm Nothing. A perfect closer to one of my top three favorite albums.
Cul-De-Sac. This is a tough one. There's three or four that probably rotate for me.
I Don't Like Who I Was Then. My favorite TWY song.
It Must Get Lonely. I would love to hear them really lean into the sound of this one for a whole album.