mewithoutYou Band • Page 16

the sign of a great album is when everyone has a different favorite song and obsesses over it

the sign of a great band is when everyone has a different favorite album and obsesses over it

 

The sign of a great sign is a Rainbow sign


:)

 

Rainbow Sign crushes me every time

 

Let us know what you think! Band - The Dismemberment Plan

 

pale horses and brother sister are tied for me, not that into the rest

 

Brother, Sister is slightly ahead of Foxes for me, then Pale Horses is slightly ahead of Ten Stories then AB Life is a good bit behind and then Crazy behind that.

 

Will do, I'm gonna listen to it at least three times, and at least once with the lyrics in front of me. No #hottakes here.

I know we've had this conversation before but it legit brings me pain to see it's all crazy that far behind haha. But it's cool, it's cool.
I need more time with Pale Horses, because it has the potential to skyrocket to Brother, Sister heights for me. Also when I lumped all the rankings together earlier that was solely because they all range from excellent to very excellent in my eyes, except AB which is good to great depending on the day

 

this got out of hand

 

Binging their whole discography with @Iago right now. Just wrapped up A->B Life, going through Catch For Us The Foxes.

 

I think I need to revisit A to B. It's been a minute since I listened to it. Ten Stories too.

 

undisputed

 

After a full day of nearly nothing but mwY, I can finally rank their albums.

Ten Stories
Brother, Sister
Pale Horses
Catch For Us The Foxes
A to B Life
It's All Crazy!

Every album has its redeeming qualities and all of them are great, some of them just speak to me more.

 

10S tooke me a while but now I think it's great... Aubergine is so beautiful

 

Love that song. I always have to stop myself from replaying Nine Stories when it comes on.

 

yesssssss that's the other one, 9S

 

Honestly my only problem with Ten Stories is that it has eleven tracks and not ten (but I'd never actually complain about more mwY music)

 

eeh, I guess there are 10 stories and All Circles ties everything together like some sort of meta-commentary on the album/life or something... I don't want to think too much about this rn but aren't there some references to Heidegger's hermeneutic circle on the album or booklet too?

 

Ten Stories is, in my opinion, one of their denser records lyrically. I need to revisit, but there was a lot of wordplay that went by so fast that it went over my head because of the style of the story telling.

 

Yeah TS is a fantastic piece of music. That albums story is so interesting and the lyrics so descriptive. The "Other Stories" are really great too. Julien The Onion is both incredibly clever and devastatingly sad.

There was someone a long time ago who made this huge post explaining Ten Stories story and the progression of the animals, I wish I could find it. It clarified a lot of things for me. I had no idea Fiji Mermaid was about the carnival decline after losing all the animals. The only thing is even that person who posted all of that didn't quite understand what the fuck Aubergine was about. Something about a talking eggplant and the elephants last meal before she's executed.

 

that would be a super interesting post to read

 

Yeah the elephant from hang the elephant is about to be executed so its having a spiritual conversation with the aubergine. Haha. I think I get the gist of most of the story, that was a great post though.

 

I think it was Oh Doubters on tumblr that has a whole mwY breakdown of both 10S and PH

 

These are both worth a read. Really helped me get into some of the more obscure references (particularly some of the geography) of Ten Stories.

 

Just dropped 20 bucks on the purple and green vinyl variant of Ten Stories.

 

mewithoutYou - Ten Stories: The Glossary

edit: this is just the glossary, but you can get to the rest of his stuff from there.