John Mayer - The Search for Everything (2017) Album • Page 16

I'm also not a big fan of that clap sound throughout the song. Not sure why it bothers me so much, ha.

 

Oh, I actually really like that about it.

 

Hey, if anybody lives in the Kansas City area, I have a free ticket to tonight's show up for grabs.

 

Very much like that deep slightly grumbly tone in his voice in In The Blood.

 

I still think my top 3 songs from this are Still Feel Like Your Man, Moving On and Getting Over, and Helpless, in that order. In The Blood needs to sit more with me I think.

 

The lyrics are just so perfect, it instantly jumped out at me upon listening to the album as exactly what I was looking for.

 

Favorites: Moving On, Love on the Weekend, In the Blood, Rosie, Still Feel Like Your Man

 

Well, this was just a great little read!

 

Listened to Wave One, but not Wave Two aside from Still Feel Like Your Man.

I consider myself more of a casual Mayer fan, but that said I am enjoying the album a good deal, and now that the warm weather is here Love on the Weekend is getting spun so much, what a jam.

 

Only listened once, but I enjoyed this. I didn't spend too much time with the EPs so most of this still feels new to me.

 

It's tough to reconcile my overall disappointment with the fact that this also gave me 3 songs that will probably be top 10 Mayer songs when all is said and done.

With a catalog as large as his, why should I feel entitled to more? 3 classic songs on one album? The misleading rollout really blurred the fact that I SHOULD be satisfied with that output.

 

I'd be happy with that, ha.

 

Wrote about this.

John Mayer - The Search for Everything • chorus.fm

 

There are already too many good songs on here for me to be disappointed. Couple that with the fact that I sit on most John Mayer albums for 5-10 years and I'm sure I'll love this album down the road.

 

I can agree with most of that.

 

I also enjoy most of this but this is still easily his worst album after a few spins. The good thing about this botched rollout is that it prevented me from being TOO let down by the entire thing

 

This album is standard John Mayer, which is never bad, but it's not very exciting. It would've probably served the songs better to keep it three separate "waves."

In The Blood and Never On The Day You Leave are heartbreakingly beautiful though.

 

I endorse this much better track order:

1. Theme from 'The Search for Everything'
2. Still Feel Like Your Man
3. Helpless
4. Love on the Weekend
5. Changing
6. Never on the Day You Leave
7. In the Blood
8. Moving on and Getting Over
9. Emoji of a Wave
10. Roll It On Home
11. Rosie
12. You're Gonna Live Forever In Me

With this, I feel like the first half is the post-relationship fallout while the second half is the moving on part. I like it way, way better.

 

Pitchfork mostly shit all over this album

"A Fleetwood Mac heart and a Jack Johnson brain" - can't entirely argue with that though

 

Why would Pitchfork even review this album? Haha

 

They have to throw some recognizable names in there with their 90% quota of underground hip-hop and atonal thrash-punk

 

And yet they still have yet to review a single Taylor Swift album.

God, this review reminds me why I'm so glad I stopped reading Pitchfork.

 

Will definitely give this order a shot. Your review was spot-on, by the way.

 

Yeah, it did work much better. Album still lacks the cohesion and sense of direction that his best projects have, but thematically it at least makes more sense and the rise/fall of the track ordering just flows better.

 

Glad you enjoyed it. I went back to Continuum after rejiggering the track order, and yeah, there's still no contest. His best records feel so naturally sequenced, and it's something I don't think he's ever struggled with, so it's weird that the order feels so off on this one.