mewithoutYou Band • Page 23

their best opener imo. Absolutely blew me away the first time i heard it.

Foxes is my favorite on TS and TS might actually be my second favorite mwY record. But honestly Foxes, PH, and TS all have a stake at being my second favorite mwY record.

 

AB Life is also really underrated, very aggressive and raw but its still got that mwY sense of melody with great lyrics.

 

Agreed with all of that, ha.

 

Such a great album. Would honestly be most hardcore bands best

 

Revisiting their discography made me remember why they were my favorite band for so long.

This bands music feels like it was just made for me. Being a queer southerner surrounded by religion and redneck masculinity, I totally relate to Aaron's deeply honest, sometimes even ridiculous, thoughts and beliefs and experiences. His struggle with God and gender roles and depression are so eerily relatable, right down to the fact that my abusive ex and his troubling ex are both named Amanda. His constant struggle between physical and mental health, in addition to spiritual understand, is fascinatingly similar to my struggles in an almost twisted Bhuddist sense.

So yeah I like this band a bit I guess

 

I listened to their first four yesterday. AB is much better than I give it credit for.

 

This band is beautiful and everything hurts

 

man, ive fallen back in love with this band. Its almost nostalgic in a way. They mean a lot to me, and have a very good shot at being my all time favorite band but then again i have a lot of those.

 

She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know
"So the peace you had," she said, "I must confess, I'm glad to see it go"
We're two white roses lying frozen just outside his door
I've made you so happy and so sad, but which should I be more sorry for?

like, fuck. Aaron is the best lyricist in rock music i stand by that like i stood by it in 2011

 

Aaron is my favorite lyricist ever in any genre. He is a true poet.

 

Not in any genre. I prefer Sam Beam and John K. Samson. Kevin Devine is another that's gotten more and more consistent over his career with lyrics.

But as far as punk and post-hardcore related music yeah I can't think of anyone I like as much as Aaron Weiss.

 

Aaron is definitely in my top 3 of lyricists, not sure who else is up there with him though. Perhaps Kevin Devine as well.

 

My favorite lyricists are Aaron Weiss and The National's Matt Berninger, but there also aren't really any bands I listen to specifically for the lyricism, so yeah, lol.

 

How could I forget Berninger? I love his lyrics.

 

She's as green and delicate as a stem
And I walk heavy on this delicate ground
Oh... there i go... showing off again
Self-impressed with how well I can put myself down
AND THERE I GO AGAIN, TO THE NEXT STEP
A NEW LEVEL OF THAT SAME EXACT FEIGNED HUMILITY
And this, for me, goes on and on to the point of nausea

Shadow am I
Like a suspicion that's never confirmed
But it's never denied

Wolf am I
Eh, shadow I think is better
Cause I'm not something
More like the absence of something
so SHADOW AM I!

The whole material world seems to me like a newspaper headline
It explicitly demands your attention, and may even contain some truth
But what's really going on here?


^^ that section KILLS it

 

BERNINGERRRRRR yeah

 

these are mine as well

 

Yep Matt and Aaron are two of the best in rock.

 

He walks that perfect line of being an extremely clear and eloquent communicator, but not spoon feeding you a meaning -- it's still wide open to interpret and relate to in different ways. Hyper specific and universal at the same time, really really great lyricist

 

Aaron might be the best writer ever. Maybe not my favorite, but maybe the best.

 

I love how ambiguous this is, hahaha

 

Berninger, John Darnielle, Weiss, Craig Finn, Joanna Newsom. These are my favorites ( in rock / indie music ). Also hard for me not to throw Leonard Cohen in there, and Mark Kozelek's 'Benji' album although I don't like the rest of his music really.

Hip-hop lyrics are a different ballpark entirely, though.

 

The last Hop Along record slayed lyrically as well. Frances is one to watch.

 

hip hop i think MC Ride is my favorite lyricist

 

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But doing this inventory, I still think Weiss or Newsom are probably the two with the most "oh fuck" moments lyrically for me.