As Cities Burn Band • Page 6

Yeah I think Aaron had a kind of passing comment in the podcast saying that people didn’t like them. Which too be fair, I didn’t.

 

Yes, someone said something along the lines of "with TJ back in the mix you could follow up the debut and really do well" and Aaron said "we tried that with the two songs we released but the fans didn't really like it".

I don't know. I'd like them to follow up the Hell or High Water sound. TJ integrated SO WELL with the songs he featured on there. That kind of style would be well received. I even think a record like Come Now Sleep would do so well in this market - not mainstream success obviously but in the old T&N crowd.

I need to revisit those two songs but I don't think they represented either era of As Cities Burn well.

 

those two songs were awful

 

I don't know. The last minute or so of "Goldmine" is pretty great.

 

The ACB Labeled episode is awesome. Gives me some hope.

 

They were awesome live. Those two songs I mean

 

By some weird twist of fate I've become friends with one of Cody's good friends and acquaintances with Chris Lott and all I've heard is that Cody has like a mountain of songs in his arsenal but he gets easily discouraged and just thinks that people wanna hear SILY part 2, which I can understand. I've only met Cody once but he's like my hero and people say don't meet your heroes so I stayed away lol.

#LowkeyBragButTrue

 

Met Cody a time or two and he was always super nice.

 

He was a nice fella. He and Chris asked if I wanted to grab a drink with them but I honestly couldn't lol.

 

Aaron on the other hand... haha.

 

Lmao....yeah.....

 

Aaron is made out to be a victim in that podcast -- and to some degree he is -- but like his blog posts are beyond obnoxious. If he's like that in real life he'd drive me absolutely insane.

 

I really understand where Aaron is coming from, but he's a really extreme type of guy (something I can relate to) and it's something a pure creative like Cody likely has trouble dealing with. Which I'm pretty sure is exactly what's going on ha. They need to chill out and find a middle ground, it's clear the band is something they all want to do and have it succeed.

 

Also, I feel like the couple songs we got that were lackluster could be attributed to the band coming together but lacking to address actual issues. I've got to imagine those writing sessions don't have the communication that's needed to craft the songs to the best of their ability.

 

I thinks ya hit the nail on da head.

 

i'd take a dozen more Hell or High Waters or Hawkboys over a SILYAYD pt 2.

 

Come Now Sleep > HOHW > SILYAYD


what is this hawk boy you speak of

 

Hawkboy is dope as hell. Loved both EPs.

 

Hawkboy was so good

 

I genuinely didn't know what it was haha I wasn't criticizing it

 

CNS > all though. Possibly my favorite album of all time, depending on the day

 

Oh I know, just saying it's very good. Check it out

 

It's up there with a couple of mewithoutYou albums for me.

 

I'd take a whole album that sounded like Capo next

felt like that could be their next sound. they change so drastically every album. great band. we need them to just have faith in themselves and do their thing again if they decide to do anything. those 2 new songs they did were not "their thing"