Manchester Orchestra Band • Page 132

oh wow yup that’s a take for sure haha

 

Girl Harbor is my favorite on Cope, and it’s not particularly close

 

I like that one a lot too. Choose You and Girl Harbor both really shine on Hope too

 

"Girl Harbor" on Hope is like top 10 material for this band

on Cope it's..... good

 

Cope is the only track i listen to off of Cope. Cope with it.

 

I’ve always found Pride to be insanely and mindboggingly overrated. Glad to see @Leftandleaving agrees.

 

it's not in my top 5 from the record but I've always thought it was great. live, though, it is incredible

"Tony the Tiger" is the one that always sneaks up on me. I love that one

 

But dude what about all the chunky stops at the end? c'monnn

 

I agree with this! I like the song, but never understood the amount of praise it gets.

 

Listened again and yeah I just don’t care for it at all. I much prefer their melodic side though

 

I remember back in the day when METN came out, I had my guitar teacher listen to PRIDE and he was like "oh they did this right didn't they?" Prior to that he always ripped on my music taste because it was basically Blink 182 and their descendants.

...he was a huge grunge guy.

 

Cope’s production doesn’t do it any favours. Heavy parts sound muddled to me. Lots of cools songs on that record and Hope is a fantastic companion.

 

Cope would be awesome if it didn’t sound so muddy

 

Cop out or not, I think that was the intention.

 

Many of the renditions on Hope are exactly what Cope needed. Some slower, softer numbers to break up all the pace.

 

Curious what the motivation would be. The record has so many big rock moments written that I’m surprised they wouldn’t highlight those moments in the production, mixing, mastering stages. Also, they had succeeding doing it on previous records.

My only guess is that they wanted the album to feel different than the previous two. I would be curious to hear it get tweaked and re released. I’d probably listen to it a lot more then.

Songs on it are still good though.

 

If I haaaad to lose a song off each album it'd be:
- Don't Let them see you cry
- In my teeth
- Virgin
- The ocean
- Parts

 

In my teeth? Virgin? The ocean? Maaaaaaan

 

Virgin is too good!

 

Shoutout to See It Again

 

The last third of “See It Again” is one of the best moments in their discography.

 

That all this money doesn't matter
When the money only pays
For narcissistic medals we would kill for yesterday
But this, it has no price tag
Just a tag around a toe
That's slowly going back and forth
From warm to pretty cold

Is the best part of Cope that isn’t Every Stone

 

See It Again is their most underrated track. An absolute barn burner.

 

As I recall, they said their music never sounded the way it did when they play live, so they wanted Cope to sound like a live show. And I think they got that done.

 

What would you choose? It’s a lose lose game. Ocean is way too repetitive. Virgin just never worked for me, like I know what they were trying to do, but it just didn’t seem like they hit it - just not heave enough.