Bayside Band • Page 9

Cleveland. It's still in Albany right now.

 

Just saw its out there. Gonna listen when I get back to work. Can't wait

 

This is great. The songs that were already on Acoustic Volume 1 are rearranged enough on this one that it doesn't feel stale. Bayside does acoustic like nobody else does.

 

Bayside did an acoustic session on Facebook live yesterday. The three songs they played (It Don't Exist, Mary, and Sick, Sick, Sick) sounded amazing. They talked a bit about the recording process and the new tour. In all, it was 24 minutes of talking and playing, and it's well worth the listen.

 

i think i always underestimate how important this band has been in my life. they were huge in my musical development 12 years ago and i still lean on their first 4-5 albums heavily. even though i dont like their last two im undoubtedly a life long fan at this point, i see them any chance i get still

 

got my hands on a leak. super super super into this version of "I cant go on." was iffy on how a full band acoustic album would sound for them but this is just awesome.

 

I'm so glad that I'll Think I'll Be OK is on this. I think it's one of the more underrated songs in their catalog that never gets talked about ever.

 

I Think I'll Be Ok's rendition is definitely my favorite from this

 

Really weird to me that they put Blame It On Bad Luck and Devotion and Desire on this. Would’ve rather had new renditions of other songs that weren’t on the first one.

Other than that, loving this. Great soundtrack for making coffee on this Saturday morning.

 

devotion and desire was always gonna be on it and I think this version of blame it on bad luck is different enough from the first acoustic to justify its existence

 

VERY stoked for this tour.

 

God I love this band, time to give cult and vacancy another shot and see if I warm up to them. Been a while since I listened to either. I remember liking vacancy more than cult but killing time is the last album I loved. I’ll report back later with how I feel about the last two

 

I think Vacancy holds up very well. Cult still has some MAJOR jams but overall one of their weaker albums.

In my eyes, this band has never made a bad album. One of the more consistent bands of the past 15 years.

 

Vacancy is great. Cult is not great

 

yeah im starting with vacancy because i remember it being significantly better, i just never returned to it. when i wanna listen to this band i always go to one of the first four albums. i used to be way more into killing time than i am now but ive gone back to it recently and fell back in love after not really digging it for a couple years.

 

the weather is right now for my constant listening of shudder. cannot believe its been 10 years since it came out, instantly takes me back to being 16

 

yeah im halfway through vacancy, i can see myself coming back again now. amazing opening track

 

cult is off to a bad start though, not digging anything yet. feels very....low stakes and low effort. its the kind of album where i feel like they were too comfortable with where they were as a band. not that they didnt try to make a good album but the biggest criticism this band gets is that they dont change their sound up at all, which i find to be mostly false, besides on cult, where these songs sound like worse versions of bayside songs that already exist across their discog. but some of its still pretty good, this is bayside we're talking about after all

 

I remember playing You're No Match for my buddy a few years ago and he was like "why does this song sound like 6 other songs mashed together?"

Something's Wrong and The Whitest Lie is easily the weakest closing of a Bayside album.

 

Whoa, I LOVE the whitest lie. Somethings Wrong is bad tho.

 

Yeah the Whitest Lie and Big Cheese are good on Cult. So at least they keep the trend of solid opener and closer. Pigsty and Stuttering are also great but I can’t even remember another track on there

 

I love every Bayside opener a lot.

Boy is my favorite.

 

Boy and The Walking Wounded are the best

 

Cult has a couple great songs, aforementioned Cheese, Whitest Lie, I personally love Hate Me

 

Openers:
Boy
Walking Wounded
Masterpiece
Already Gone
Hello Shitty
Two Letters
Big Cheese

Closers:
Dear Tragedy
Killing Time
Popular Science
Moceanu
Guardrail
Whitest Lie
Depressing