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SamLevi11 liked Thrillcollinz's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
What a fucking great record and I'm so glad it's got the mix it deserves. I always thought the band, especially Dan sounded absolutely exhausted on Palm Reader and it just sounded incredibly muddy and rushed which is reflected obviously in him saying they just wanted to get the album out and over with, but it sounds absolutely huge here. Think overall this is third for me behind TGG and Suburbia (for different reasons) but man their run since Upsides has been ridiculous.
Oct 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Band The Wonder Years.
Hum is fantastic, and is more consistent than this record, but the highs on here are absolutely stratospheric. I still don’t really care about Palm Reader much, and I find the title track boring. But everything else is very good to world-beating. I’d be interested to hear this with SC, as it’s the only record of theirs I’m lukewarm on. Some good stuff on it, but it just never really clicked as a whole.
Oct 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Carrow's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
HOLY SHIT I JUST LEARNED THIS EXISTS, GOOD GRIEF PEANUTS HEATHER MAUVE TEE
Oct 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM -
SamLevi11 liked VanMastaIteHab's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
Omg that guitar part in Bluest Things. That was there before???
Oct 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM -
SamLevi11 liked sawhney[rusted]2's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
Holy shitttt guitar work in Blues is insane
Oct 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Carrow's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
Heck yeah, Matt. (you should revisit their most recent couple records too)
Oct 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Band The Wonder Years.
The backing vocals have to be re-recorded. The ones on You In January in particular sound miles better now.
Oct 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Carrow's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
I WANT THOSE YEARS BACK reflexively says 'me too'
Oct 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Album Deaf Havana.
Didn’t realise the bassist from The 1975 played on this. That’s super cool.
Oct 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Wow, Sweden are SO bad. They have Isak, Gyokeres, Elanga, Bergvall, Barghji, etc, yet they lost of Luxembourg and are losing to Kosovo. Unreal. They’re going to come bottom of a group containing Slovenia, Kosovo, and Switzerland with that team…
Oct 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM -
SamLevi11 liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Cape Verde going to the World Cup, lads! Got out of a group containing traditional powerhouse Cameroon. Best player plays for Kocaelispor in Turkey, and he's called Ryan Mendes - not the guitarist from Yellowcard!
Oct 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Band The Wonder Years.
That London album show gonna hit extra hard now LFG
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Band The Wonder Years.
I am so hyped to fall more in love with this record.
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Band The Wonder Years.
Fucking hell, this is such an improvement. I like the original album a fair bit, but this is unreal.
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Album Deaf Havana.
Finally checking this. Definitely my favourite of theirs since that run of F&WL, Old Souls, and ATCN. Feels like they're inspired again.
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Yellowcard - Better Days (October 10, 2025).
This is far better than I expected it to be, honestly. Crazy to get such great comeback records from MCS, TSL, and Yellowcard in quick succession. One of those albums where I basically added every song to my “currents” playlist as I was listening.
Oct 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Rowan5215's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
yeah we're not losing the part that entire song builds up to lol
Oct 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Carrow's post in the thread Band The Wonder Years.
I've always got on with the JAB feature so no thanks!
Oct 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Accountability in Music II.
I was referring to the second one, but that one with Geoff sounds interesting for sure! I’m not a regular listener but I’ll have to check that one out.
Oct 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Accountability in Music II.
I’d advise listening to the interview Stu did with the Sappening Podcast a few years back. As far as I know, it’s one of the only times one of them has publicly talked about it. The hosts aren’t for me, but one of them was in a band from Wales called The Blackout, who had Ian feature on their breakout single. Goes into how in the final five or so years of the band, Ian was distant, aggressive, secretive, travelling separately, etc. They even lived in separate countries, and got into physical fights a few times. Stu says he had a drug addiction which he refused help for too so they were going to break up. You can hear the hurt and anger for sure. So, I dunno. Maybe educate yourself before you go throwing this shit around based off one out of context joke.
Oct 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM -
SamLevi11 liked irthesteve's post in the thread Accountability in Music II.
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Oct 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Faroe Islands just beat Czechia. They’re now one point off a playoff place and on their record points total. It has a population of under 55,000.
Oct 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Accountability in Music II.
It's seared into my brain that in about 2007/2008, Kerrang! magazine did an interview with him that at one point asked, "What do you get through more of in a month, girls or hair products?" I think he said "Lots of both" of something. I wonder if that journalist ever thinks about that. Anyway, a group of us went to our friend Kirsty's house after school one day and I remember her giving away the Ian Watkins poster inside, saying she couldn't stand him and felt like there was something off about him. Crazy how right she was, and probably shows how blind people were to the blatant sexism and "lad culture" of the time that allowed predators like Ian to hide in plain sight. Hopefully his victims have found peace.
Oct 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Blainer93's post in the thread Accountability in Music II.
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Oct 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM -
SamLevi11 liked Carrow's post in the thread Accountability in Music II.
Buddy, you should see the shit Ian H Watkins from Steps puts up with
Oct 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM -
SamLevi11 attached a file to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
In Newcastle for the weekend and ended up in the St James’ Park fanzone last night for a bit. I don’t recommend unless you LOVE over priced IPAs and a weird mix of young students and finance bros. But, I tried to get a photo of St James Park. Turns out, drunk me can’t use a camera for shit lol
Oct 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
I do hope we see a team outside of Europe / South America winning the world cup at some point. But it seems pretty unlikely when you look at the teams right now. Feels like some of the African teams like Nigeria, Senegal, etc would have a chance if they had the finances and infrastructure.
Oct 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Love this [MEDIA]
Oct 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Also I think Rooney was slightly better, but Bale had a more impressive career. It probably also doesn’t help that Wayne was a charisma vacuum who sounds like English is his sixth language.
Oct 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this.
Oct 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM -
SamLevi11 liked Thrillcollinz's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
I think I would just about take male pattern baldness Rooney from 09-10 over any Bale season, although I do appreciate he couldn't get United over the line to win anything that year. I just remember thinking he was absolutely terrifying, and could do just about everything better than anyone else at the time. I would definitely take Bale in clutch moments though. He was just ridiculous in the UCL final vs Liverpool (although again I can appreciate that Karius was completely falling apart lol)
Oct 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM -
SamLevi11 liked MrCon's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Not clear at all, no. Rooney was never very marketable, because he's got a face like a bowl of smashed hammers and so I don't think he ever had a profile quite like Bale. Bale's relationship with Wales was also very different to how England's media treated Rooney, which colours things quite a bit. On seeing the premise above, my initial thought was to think Bale might have edged it as the better player, but Rooney maybe had a more impressive career. Then I went to Wiki and now I'm finding it hard to convince myself that Rooney's career isn't a bit underrated and that if you could only pick one, you'd be mad not to pick him. Like, for one season, it's hard to argue against Bale (he's got a couple of utterly astonishing appearance/goal ratios), but Rooney was consistently a monster for a decade.
Oct 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Sometimes, you can convince yourself that maybe San Marino aren’t THAT bad, they just play in the toughest confederation. Then you see they lost 10-0 to Austria, and yeah, they suck.
Oct 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread The Traitors.
Great second episode. Obviously the but it was still very fun. Sad that was the first one gone, I really, really like them, but them's the breaks I guess. Looking forward to seeing how long can last, too. I suspect not long given the amount of sweating and looking shifty they have done in just two days lol... And then they'll need to recruit wisely. I would go , depending on how they want to play it.
Oct 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM -
SamLevi11 replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Missed this, but love it. [MEDIA]
Oct 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM