Bayside Band • Page 34

Vacancy is 9 today.

 

Insane. Feels like the odd one out of their catalog but I really enjoy it

 

I still think "Mary" is their best-written song.

 

That hook is unreal. Every time I hear it, it's sure to be stuck in my head for a couple days.

 

I love Vacancy. Lots of good songs. I like "Mary," but I probably like it less than most. "The Ghost" is the one for me.

 

Vacancy and Cult definitely feel like the ones that are uniformly at the bottom of people's discography rankings.

 

I like Vacancy a lot! Mary may be my all time favorite song by them. Soooooooooooo good.

 

Vacancy and Cult are both pretty good but they’re also both lower tier Bayside for me

 

Vacancy fell pretty flat for me, but i think Pretty Vacant is an all timer as a song (one of my favorites of theirs), as well as Two Letters. I also really appreciated Anthony’s mindset on mental health in interviews and even his music at the time.

Cult + Vacancy both were pretty bottom tier Bayside to me. Interrobang was sooo good. The new one was back to doing absolutely nothing for me, but I also hated the rollout with all of the various EP’s, and maybe didn’t give it a fair shot.

also, I could have absolutely lived without Mary existing as a song.

 

Killing time > the rest of their discography

 

I’d recommend giving the newest another go. The rollout wasn’t my favorite either, but there’s some really good stuff on there

 

There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive is my favorite of theirs...their songwriting is just so good on it. This band keeps getting better and better with each release.

 

Shudder and Vacancy are probably my bottom 2. I’ll jam both though, but easily the ones I go back to the least.

 

BOYS TO THE BACK AND MEN TO THE FRONT OF THE ROOM!

 

Cult is one I never get people being down on but whatever. Vacancy is easily my least listened to but still good.

 

The first one is the only one I don’t revisit

 

Shudder, TWW, Killing Time top 3 for me (in that order). I rarely listen to anything else but enjoy Vacancy more than the others - It Doesn't Make It True is pure Bayside imo.

 

Cult stinks. I’ve always been more surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for Vacancy. Good album.

 

Still a tiny bit salty they played Indiana and Objectivist On Fire from Cult on their Errors Tour...I'm also not a huge fan of that album but there are a few really good songs on it, and they played those two instead.

 

Interrobang is easily my favorite Bayside record and I think vacancy is tied for 2

 

I love Interrobang but Killing Time is easily 1 for me.

 

I love Cult. Such a great gym album. Underrated album.