John Mayer - The Search for Everything (2017) Album • Page 8

Helpless is everything I've been waiting desperately for from this man since 2006

People have been clamoring for Contiuum pt2 for a decade, and he places this perfect jam sandwiched in this weird, experimental project just as a quick little reminder of the fact that nobody does it better. So good.

 

So we're going to be able to piece together like three seperate John Mayer albums when this is over, huh?

Continuum pt2
Born and Rasied pt2
Untitled Randy Newman Project

 

Love Wave 2... Helpless is perfect.

 

Love this group of songs, keep playing Roll It On Home over and over. My wife and I are visiting Wyoming and Montana this summer and this track and Changing really fit that vibe I think...especially since he lived in Paradise Valley. Whatever he's doing, the "replayability" with these songs is high for me, keep 'em coming!

And for anyone that's not heard, there's talk that he's releasing an album entitled Zero full of unreleased tracks from his past few albums after TSFE is over.
A fan asked John about it when he met him and recounted it here, don't know if it still holds true but that would enforce his "way too much music to release all at once" talk.

 

I feel like those songs might just be merged into this project at this point. Who knows though.

 

John Mayer Reveals Personal Stories Behind Four 'Wave 2' Songs

Rolling Stone walkthrough

 

Well this answers that question:

 

yo, that's crazy. exciting.

 

So we'll get six new songs as well as the eight that have already dropped them?

 

If it's not 14 new songs he's fucking up.

 

Yeah he's not very specific so it's a wait and see I guess. Six new songs is still so cool though considering he's released eight in two months already.

 

I just think if the album is 14 songs including the 8 we have, why did he bother with the waves? Plus I can't see the 8 songs we have being on any sort of cohesive album.

 

That made me laugh.

 

hell yes

 

The waves and the hype for them were definitely stupid if this is true. And 4 of the 14 songs really suck, so that's not boding well ... weird rollout.

 

so will there be no more waves after the album drops? weird.

 

I'm hoping these 8 were just the songs that didn't make the album and were just like an appetizer. If not I'll be disappointed.

 

My guess is that this is either 14 new songs, or this will be something like what the Dear Hunter did with the Color Spectrum (just throughout the year). In other words, I wonder if these 14 songs could be like a greatest hits of The Search For Everything ep series, and then he would continue releasing waves throughout the year. But then some of those waves would potentially include songs released on the album? Or maybe this is just the main album and then he's going to keep releasing the waves almost as never ending B-Sides.

The other alternative is that the album is just a particularly long wave, and then he'll return to the 4 songs per wave system. I swore he said he was going to release a wave every month this year, didn't he? If that's the case I can't imagine he would put out an album that was wave 1 + wave 2 + 6 new songs, then go back to releasing normal waves.

I suppose the other alternative is that there will be multiple albums that are included in the Search For Everything. This is really intersting and confusing but as long as he keeps pumping out quality tunes, it's ok by me.

I'm sure the motivation for releasing the album, whatever it ends up being, is because he wants it out by the time he starts his tour (March 31st I believe). So I expect the album March 24th.

 

"Even once the LP comes out, Mayer plans to continue releasing small batches of songs. "This record is alive and being made all year," he says. The Search for Everything is over when I tweet it's over."

Craig posted this on the last page from this months Rolling Stone.

 

It's all very confusing.

 

the rolling stone article makes it sound like these previous waves will be included on the album. At least the big tracks like Moving On and Still Feel Like Your Man will probably be on there.

 

I wouldn't mind if a couple were on it. Namely those two.

 

For me it sounded pretty clear: He already released 8 songs, the next wave has the whole thing. 14 songs, 8 of them are the ones we already heard.

After all, these waves weren't just titled "Wave One" and "Wave Two" - it was "The Search For Everything - Wave One" and "The Search For Everything - Wave Two", which most likely means that these 8 songs are part of the full album.

 

"search for everything" could just be a broad name for the whole project though

 

His word choice of "the next drop" makes me think the album is 14 new songs. But I can't claim to understand what he's doing.