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Allhailburnzy liked Paulms85's post in the thread Yellowcard - Better Days (October 10, 2025).
Potentially my favourite album of theirs based on the reasons you've mentioned. The Hurt Is Gone is my favourite track, the chorus of "change comes for you, even when you're hiding out" hits so hard, I love the way it doesn't change much for the chorus and that driving, pulsating rhythm for all 6 minutes with no crescendo, giving that sense of the need to keep moving, or getting away from something but with no known destination or end point.
Oct 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM -
Allhailburnzy liked Dog Fish's post in the thread Yellowcard - Better Days (October 10, 2025).
Was shuffling the full discog on my flight today. Rivertown Blues. What a fucking song. Double time, half time, pretty bridge, shredding solo. It has it all
Oct 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM -
Allhailburnzy replied to the thread Band blink-182.
I never listened to the OMT deluxe much but for the past week I’ve had the “Oo oo” part of One Night Stand stuck in my head. This band is so good at creating earworms always
Oct 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked Kiana's post in the thread Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (October 3, 2025).
I will say this is the first album of hers where I thought she was chasing trends in a very clear way. Actually Romantic seems her attempt as Chappell's My Kink is Karma and Wood is her attempt at a Sabrina song. It's kinda cool to see what I feel like is clear inspiration from the younger Gen of artists, but it also didn't feel authentic to her. It came across to me that she enjoyed what they were doing and wanted to try her hand at it too and it didn't work
Oct 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked beatingheartsbaby's post in the thread Album Tame Impala - Deadbeat (October 17, 2025).
I thought my old ways was one of the only really good songs tbh. Most of this is just so sauceless. Not even bad just boring. This probably makes no sense considering tame is his solo project but this would make so much more sense under the name Kevin Parker and not tame impala
Oct 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked Aaron Mook's post in the thread Album Tame Impala - Deadbeat (October 17, 2025).
Very weird album. Not as hyperbolically bad as I was expecting -- I like it more than I don't -- but I have to agree that the club tracks are largely unengaging and feel like they lack evolution. Really kind of just makes me wish I was listening to better house music. The first two tracks are genuinely bad, which is a first for him, but the singles have grown on me exponentially, and "Piece of Heaven" has some CRAZY 80s Enya shit going on. Just kind of all over the place, stylistically and from a quality standpoint. Interesting in hearing was @beatingheartsbaby thinks
Oct 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked Aaron Mook's post in the thread Album Tame Impala - Deadbeat (October 17, 2025).
Boy, an Australian accent really comes in clutch when trying to rhyme "Dracula" with "spectacular" lol
Oct 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked irthesteve's post in the thread Band Foxy Shazam.
So this album actually is fucking great huh, wow
Oct 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM -
Allhailburnzy liked ncarrab's post in the thread The Format - Boycott Heaven (January 23, 2026).
Thursday Evening Spins
Oct 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Allhailburnzy replied to the thread Band Fall Out Boy.
The 100 percent thing is wild, cause that’s just assuming FOB hired Pete Wentz to be a hearthrob when they were playing basements
Oct 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked Jason Tate's post in the thread Band Fall Out Boy.
No shade but the post said 100% his parts and I’ve sat in the studio with the band. “100%” is wild. That’s the part I’ll dispute.
Oct 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked irthesteve's post in the thread Bad Opinions II.
I wish I didn't agree, but I have tried so many times to get into them and I just don't get it
Oct 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked Leftandleaving's post in the thread Bad Opinions II.
Title Fight is a very boring band
Oct 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked Chcurry182's post in the thread Band blink-182.
Please be sure to cite all sources in APA format
Oct 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM -
Allhailburnzy liked Carrow's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
I assume it's just a five-minute (Brothers &) Cardinals as track 2. I can't imagine not having You in January or Palm Reader on here.
Oct 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked irthesteve's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
So apparently "You in January" is amazing
Oct 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM -
Allhailburnzy replied to the thread The Format - Boycott Heaven (January 23, 2026).
The Format was beginning to think the stars were aligned against them. Just as Nate Ruess and Sam Means were finally able to sort through the aftermath of the 2020 pandemic-which first stalled, then completely wiped out their last attempt at a reunion-tragedy struck again. On the very first day of recording new music in nearly 20 years with Grammy-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, The Killers, Bruce Springsteen), the Los Angeles wildfires broke out, leaving devastation across the city. It was enough to inspire a little conspiratorial thinking. “It seriously felt like the universe was against us,” Ruess says, trailing off. “It was at least…” “It was testing us, for sure,” Means adds, finishing the thought. It’s no wonder that Boycott Heaven, their third album, is charged with there is no waiting on tomorrow energy. After all, if the universe was in fact putting you through your paces, how might you respond? Not on some far-off imagined judgement day, but right now? “Holy roller, don’t go wasting all your time,” Ruess sings in the boisterous single “Holy Roller.” In other words, the time for creating something more like heaven isn’t tomorrow or some other day, but today. A certain romantic fatalism has always coursed through The Format’s lyrics, which the more mature Ruess cops to in the heartland rocker “Shot in the Dark.” “Lived my whole life like I was ready to die,” he confesses over jangling guitars and stomping rhythms. But Boycott Heaven is filled with reflections on reasons to stick around this broken old world: family, life-long connections, distorted guitar riffs, and a stubborn belief that even as bad as it is, tomorrow could be better. Once it was safe to return, the duo got back to work at Henson Recording Studios. Sam and Nate both played electric guitars-Ruess having picked up the instrument in the years since The Format’s last album, in addition to launching a solo career, forming the chart-topping fun. with Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, and collaborating with P!nk, Kesha, and Hayley Williams of Paramore.) Their rhythm section was comprised of O’Brien on bass and drummer Matt Chamberlain (David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Fiona Apple,). Fans of Interventions + Lullabies (2003) and Dog Problems (2006) will recognize the hooks and retro-pop bravado, but Boycott Heaven signals a new era. It’s not a nostalgia play, even as it incorporates sonic nods to the alt-rock, grunge, and pop-punk sounds Ruess and Means first bonded over as Arizona teenagers. “We first bonded listening to bands like Weezer, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots,” Ruesssays. “I’m a new guitarist, just enamored with power chords, so I’m listening to all this stuff we’d listen to back then and cross referencing—NOFX, Lagwagon. But you take that pop-punk stuff and slow it down, and then have Matt Chamberlain playing on it, and then it feels a little like grunge. All that’s in there.” “It does kind of bring us back,” Means says, not just in terms of time but “As a partnership, too. It feels like a cool extension of where we came from.” Though the concept of recording with a mega hit producer was intense at first, Means says O’Brien made it easy to focus on the music. “Brendan just being Brendan made it so that we could focus on being there to make a good record and have a good time,” he says. “Not that it wasn’t a whirlwind, cause it was. When it happened, it happened fast.” With steady hands like O’Brien and Chamberlain backing them up, Ruess and Means didn’t have to worry about second guessing the implications of following up their past work-the act of creating new sounds kept them entirely occupied. The results are diverse, from the power pop charger “Depressed,” which hinges on buzzsaw guitars and close harmonies, to the folk ballad “Right Where I Belong,” to the rousing anthem “No You Don’t,” which sounds like a lost Pinkerton B-side. Even as they disbanded, The Format never closed the door entirely to future collaboration. Steadily resisting the “emo nostalgia” bucks offered to them, Ruessfocused on new projects, and Means devoted himself to solo musical work and his independent music merchandise company, Hello Merch. When Ruess contacted him in August 2024, he didn’t realize that right away the band was actually flipping the switch into “new Format music mode”, though the work quickly revealed the path, and the two found that their years apart hadn’t dulled their creative psychic connection. “At first, we weren’t even sure,” Means says, noting that when Ruess reached out with set of guitar-based demos, a new mode for the mostly vocals-based composer, he thought they might be songs intended for the follow up to Ruess’ solo debut Grand Romantic(2015), but as they bounced ideas back and forth, it became clear what was happening. “It was like, ‘Well yeah, this is a Format record,’” Ruess says, “What else could it be?” Though Means admits he knows some people will read the words “boycott heaven” and immediately form an opinion, Ruess says the title came to him more or less by accident. “It was a hashtag on Twitter. I read ‘boycott heaven’ but it was ‘boycott Heineken,’” he says, stifling a laugh. “But I just thought the words sounded beautiful together. It’s not an anti-religion record—I think religion can be a beautiful thing—it’s just when something is out of balance, sometimes a boycott is in order.” Ruess cites Paul Schrader’s Ethan Hawke-staring masterpiece First Reformed (2017) as a major inspiration on the album, and just like that bleak, beautiful movie, Ruess doesn’t avoid thorny topics-from religion to fake friends, all while maintaining an empathetic stance that’s less about preaching and more about observing. “I would love nothing more than to write about the world in a cheesy way,” Ruess says with a wry laugh, but instead, Boycott Heaven portrays the world as it is: full of beauty, sadness, and always, no matter how hard to see, possibility. Following sold-out reunion gigs in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and New York, where songs from Boycott Heaven were debuted live, the new album signifies both a rebirth and continuation of The Format. When the band originally disbanded in 2008, their goodbye note made reference to a Twin Peaks DVD boxset Ruess and Means were passing back and forth, in an attempt to unravel the show’s mysteries. While cutting Boycott Heaven, Means insisted they devote a deep dive watch to 2017’s revival series, Twin Peaks: The Return. The mysteries-and the magic-remain. Like Mark Frost and the late David Lynch returning to their beloved fictional Washington town, Boycott Heaven is the product of two longtime confidants creating something they could only create together, changed by time but still tied to their roots. “Been gone for way too long,” Ruess sings on album closer “Back To Life.” “I never meant to say goodbye,” he follows up. The song signifies a new start, a new beginning, and a new chapter in the story of The Format.
Oct 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM -
Allhailburnzy liked Carrow's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
This remix and remaster job makes it sound like there are actually three guitarists in this band, as it fucking should be. HEY HANNAH, DON'T GO
Oct 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM -
Allhailburnzy replied to the thread Band The Wonder Years.
The Palm Reader Alternate Version is amazing
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked ragnarokstar's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
Oh my god. This is possibly the best remaster I’ve ever heard that isn’t just an entirely new recording.
Oct 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM -
Allhailburnzy liked SteveLikesMusic's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
YouTube quality kinda defeats the purpose of a remaster imo haha
Oct 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM