Manchester Orchestra Band • Page 17

ILAV and METN are perfect

 

Agreed. METN is phenomenal. It's easily my favorite MO album with ILAV being my second favorite

 

What's more surprising is that Cope is a lot of people's favorite album. I'm generally interested in what people like about Cope. Maybe you guys can enlighten me into giving it another shot.

 

Well somebody already said they like the songwriting on Cope. I do too. I think that could have been right up there with ILAV for their best if it actually had good production.

 

Cope is so good live, songs translate incredibly well.

 

I love Cope and the songwriting but I wish there were more dynamic choruses. I feel like that's more a production issue than anything

 

I hope you are proven correct!

 

ILAV is easily my least favorite MO album. It's the only one I don't have downloaded actually. Just ended up skipping the tracks when they would come on.

 

The best part of Cope was the deluxe edition that featured the HAUNTING After the Scripture track. One of my favorite MO songs ever.

 

Forgot about that song. I used to have it but lost it when my laptoo died on me. But yeah that's one of the best songs to come from the Cope sessions

 

ILAV took a long time to grow on me. I'm still not too big on Alice & Interiors, and some days Golden Ticket, but Where Have You Been is my favorite Manchester song. I'd still put ILAV over Cope and Hope though.

 

This is definitely true! Love that song.

 

I have the live version and the studio version. Both are fantastic.

 

ILAV is my fav. I prefer indie rock ManOrch over straight up rock ManOrch

 

Cope or Simple Math for me

 

SM > METN > FYOE > LMPBWLB > VLAC > COPE > NSA > BNAGE

 

Mean everything
simple math
i'm like a virgin




cope

 

Personally I think an argument could be made for any of their albums being their best.

But whenever I recommend them I always start people with METN.

 

acronyms are a bit more confusing when you leave out a bunch of the words. especially for brainstorm (which is also ranked too low)

 

Lazy

 

MO is my favorite band, and I had to think about these acronyms. I don't even know what FYOE is?

Edit: oh jesus, you're going for EVERY ep, where's 5 Stories?

 

lol I thought he same thing

 

Seriously though. Cope doesn't even compare to the other three. Tried listening to it today. Hope'a versions of Girl Harbor and The Mansion are absolutely fantastic.

 

I skip almost every song except Where Have You Been and Colly Strings

 

Just listened to mean everything so good