I think in the conversation about losing songs off of Manchester Orchestra albums, I would choose not losing songs off of Manchester Orchestra albums. Also Ocean and Virgin are both amazing and have been on every ManOrch playlist I’ve made since they came out.
cannot stand that song. the only one on that album I don't like lol I've accepted that I have unorthodox manorch opinions
I know it was intentional, but being a fan since the release of i'm like a virgin, being blown away by mean everything, and just anticipating for months the closer for simple math. Then interviews were released saying that they weren't going to do a crazy closer and it was heartbreaking.
I remember watching live videos of songs that later appeared on METN and thought they big loud songs sounded similar live as they did on the record. Stuff Pride and Shake It Out and so on. I’ve always felt the record sound should be the best version. When you’re live you have different factors, like indoor/outdoor, the size of the room, the people in the room, the people mixing the show on the board and so on. I want the record to feel like the record and the live show to be the live show. If you chose to record in live style in the studio with the band members all playing, I want to feel where they are standing in the room and not have it muddled. Again, good songs, I just don’t like how it was recorded considering they’ve had really great sounding records on everything else since LAVLAC and Bad Books. I get the production choices of Right Away Great Captain for the story of the music. My thoughts. I don’t go back to Cope as often because of it. I’d rather they just do a live record if that’s the goal.
Agreed. Crazy big closures have added to the lore of bands like Jimmy Eat World and Thrice to some extent. If you got one, put it on the record. Fans love and appreciate those songs and what a great to end an album journey.
As a counter point, I’ve had a couple good friends who absolutely love the band live but never listen to them otherwise because they say the songs sound a lot weaker/thinner/softer. And I can see that - they may be the loudest band I’ve ever seen live, and they play with dynamics more dramatically than any band I’ve ever seen. I don’t know that I’m here to defend the choice they made on that record. I do understand it, and I personally don’t think the album suffers for it. But I also can tell a difference between it and other albums (though I can tell the most dramatic recording difference with Black Mile. It makes all the other albums sound muddy in my opinion. It’s just so crisp and clean and perfect). So I get folks not loving that aspect of things. I do think, though, that when you’re as powerful live as Manchester Orchestra is, capturing that in a studio is always going to be really, really difficult.
agree with all of these except in my teeth. The first five tracks off METN are perfect & in perfect order. virgin is too overproduced for me. that choir is so unnecessary IMO
Fair, Fair Fair. I just think it was the wrong choice the for that record and it suffers for it in their discography. They kind of succeeded at something and didn’t need to make a change. I realize that BMTTS was probably a a big change too, but it wasn’t distracting change, in was a complimentary change.
I disagree with all of this list except In My Teeth. I think it messes with the pacing of the album and feels like a b-side. I don't hate the song, but it doesn't make me feel anything.
Anyone know what the email surprise was for those who were suppose to attend the cancelled show? It was sent out yesterday.