I’d say my top five are: Rescued, Bruised, Dark Blue, The Mixed Tape, Into the Airwaves. Really consistent album though.
Round 3 bedtime update Holiday From Real - 6 I’m Ready - 8 MFEO: Part 1- Made For Each Other, Part 2- You Can Breathe - 6 Dark Blue - 8
Holiday from Real MFEO MFEO is either my favorite or second favorite from the album...the first part is a decent JM song, and part 2 is just ridiculously good and probably my favorite part of the album. That song is also one of the few good memories I still have of one of my exes who I don’t have very many good feelings towards these days haha. She put it on a mix for me and while other songs from that mix sometimes remind me of her in a bitter way, MFEO just makes me think of the good stuff.
"Dark Blue" is one of the best scene songs ever, so it easily beats out whatever song it's up against on this album.
This record would be so incomplete without MFEO. You could say that about most of the songs but particularly this one.
It literally wraps up the parts of the record about his friends and about his love life. The 2nd part is so good. You waited for me in the rain, in the parking lot Cold hands, lips blue, clothes stuck to you You could have phoned me for a ride, it’s a mess out there You said the rains the rain, some air’d be good for you
Round 3 current totals! Holiday From Real - 10 I’m Ready - 14 MFEO: Part 1- Made For Each Other, Part 2- You Can Breathe - 11 Dark Blue - 13 Sorry for the lack of mid day update. Work was a total cluster fuck today. Round will close around 8est as it it close in both matches.
There's not a song on the record that you could lose, though. “Dark Blue” is probably THE key track anyway. That’s the one Andrew quotes in the liner notes to the 10th anniversary reissue. Something like “the girl I boxed the stars with ended up marrying me” or something like that. “MFEO” is definitely pivotal, but it’s not the core of the record.