Joyce Manor - I Used To Go to This Bar (January 30, 2026) • Page 21

We both know that they can't fix you
They haven't got the parts

 

Perfect album perfect band :')

 

i like this a lot. i also may have slightly overhyped myself for it. right now id say its definitely better than million dollars, as good or possibly better than 40 oz, but still a step down from everything else. however this is joyce manor, so that still means it’s a good record that i will play a ton this year. grey guitar in particular rules.

 

Never really got into Joyce Manor, but this album is great.

does the vocal pattern in ‘all my friends are depressed’ remind anyone else of ‘degenerate’ by blink?

I hear this every time in the 2nd half of chorus:
‘Smoked a bong, killed a cat, had my nuts attacked by rats, dad got nude, wore a thong, (all my friends are so…)

 

I think this might be my favorite thing of theirs since Never Hungover Again. Really digging this.

 

this rocks

 

The guitar in Well, Don’t It Seem Like…at the start of the bridge is so satisfying.

I personally feel no need to rank album by album but this is definitely up there with my favorites

 

I mentioned it early, but the verse melodies are super close to "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn" by Hellogoodbye

"Shimmy shimmy quarter turn/Feel like I can never learn/How can I search lost and found/All my friends are so depressed..." lol

 

never made that connection but god damn that’s spot on lol

 

Definitely my favorite since Never Hungover Again. I love every song so much.
Grey Guitar rules so hard, but every time it starts I think its Speeding 72 by Momma.

 

I had this exact thought haha

 

the only song i’m not completely enamored by is Well Don’t It Seem. not big on those styles of tracks. would probably go crazy on a travel bus tho

 

in the short time i've had with their discog this sits with million dollars & cody as my favorites

 

This is the only one I keep skipping. Otherwise a flawless album.

 

Don’t it seem rules. Feels weird to skip a 2 minute track on a 19 minute album.

 

I have a strong and perhaps irrational aversion to harmonicas.

 

after a bunch more listens and a discography runthrough:

nha
s/t
cody
of all things
million dollars
bar
40 oz

I do like the new one a lot but a few bland refrains and vocal melodies keep it just a notch or two down

 

Not sure about the order but the new one, Cody and NHA are for sure my top three. Been listening to these guys pretty much nonstop.

 

Same. This is a comfortable third, but the other two are SO good,

Relistened to Cody today, and couldn’t believe how good every song is. Front to back bangers.

 

went through the discog during lunch and cody and MDTKM are pretty easily the weakest imo

40oz was much better than i remembered, been a while since i listened

 

I’m the opposite; the harmonica saves it for me. I have an aversion to sing along adjacent songs. The only one that really works for me is All Circles by mewithoutYou

 

“Last You Heard of Me” is their best ever song still.

 

Grey Guitar easily a contender for my new favorite Joyce Manor song. Unbelievably good.

 

"Well Don't It Seem . . ." is so good. Probably my favorite track.

I love this whole thing and really need to revisit the rest of their discography. I dug NHA and Cody but never spent much time with the other stuff.

 

Make Me Dumb gotta be the most underrated JM track