Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (September 19, 2025) • Page 13

I think all three songs have been really good and give me that nice MCS feeling. I’m not as excited for this as I was for One More Time, but it’s definitely the most excited I’ve been for an album since.

 

they'll never write another my favourite accident or L.G.F.U.A.D and i don't know what people my age are supposed to listen to but new music from my favourite bands don't feel the same anymore.

 

they'll never write another my favourite accident or L.G.F.U.A.D, and i don't know what people my age are supposed to listen to, but new music from my favourite bands don't feel the same anymore.

*Added some punctuation cuz I appreciate what you’re saying but it’s breaking my brain to read it hah

 

Even with the punctuation, I don't like it.

 

Well yeah, probably true, but they can still write a solid, catchy tune.

 

Yeah, I meant I empathize with their struggle...even if I disagree.

 

damn, i try to be good with punctuation but maybe i'm not as much as i thought. i'm ashamed to type that so i just wrote it as a run on sentence.

 

It's all good. I hope you're able to find some new tunes from old bands you like:)

 

it's not bad music. it's not attack! attack! or AI trash but i've heard it before. it's just music. in 20 years no one will be humming "you know who the fuck we are" like they do with the future freaks me out. you know?

 

Sure, but I think we can blame how society has changed rather than the songs themselves. Nothing that was popular in 2005 would garner the amount of attention now.

 

thank you. it's difficult not liking anything as i get older and the old stuff i do like doesn't make sense to listen to now. no one in their 30's walks around jamming drop dead, gorgeous, haha.

 

Totally. I will say I'm guessing a lot of folks around here, at some level, recognize that but choose to embrace the new music for what it is at this stage of life--and it's pretty dang good for what it is. Maybe try being more open to things that don't fit your expectations, and perhaps you'll find some music that gives you echoes of those feelings you had with the older music.

 

you think if LGFUAD was released today it would go unnoticed? i can't listen to newer bands because to me it just sounds like a parody of that time. i think great music died at a certain point and now it's all pollution. quantity over quality.

 

never beating the bot with a bit designed to make my blood boil allegations

 

Great music is still made every day. Defeatist take

 

I do think it would be largely ignored, mostly because this genre of music does not have the cultural cache that it used to.

I also want to say that I mostly agree with you that a lot of new music does not affect me in the same way that music used to.

 

they say they recognize it but laugh at my opinions when i say it publicly. i don't think a band should have 15 records, after you write your masterpiece, get out so future music isn't tarnished.

 

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is the best band in the world right now and they put out 27 albums in 13 years with no sign of slowing down. Everyone has their own path that works for them and their artistic output

 

I mean, no band is going to release a song that impacts you in your 30's the way it would have if you were 13. But it doesn't mean these new songs are any less special. Seems like an unreachable standard to hold. Personally, I think these new songs are fantastic and its amazing to see these guys releasing music in 2025.

 

you have a point. i feel like everything has been done and music is just there now. everything seems less creative.

 

I mean this with all due respect, this is a you problem, not a music problem.

 

it 100% is but i can't be the only one who feels this way. someone has to be lying if they say they like everything their favourite bands put out. my favourite bands are releasing music again and i can admit i don't like it.

 

It's quite a sad mindset to have. Not the best person to say this as I struggle with shame in regards to aging and the likes but... what's wrong with continuing to listen to the music you liked in your formative years? Is someone actually watching you and judging you if you don't follow arbitrary rules? Why does it matter?

It's better to embrace your tastes while accepting what's in the past, including how the music specifically made you feel, can't be recreated. Approaching it that way is much healthier than setting yourself up for disappointment with such barriers while also unfairly holding bands to expectations they can't meet anyway.

 

All I want is for my favourite band to make more music lol.

I'm thrilled to be getting new MCS songs, even if nothing is ever going to rock my world quite like Even if it Kills Me and Commit This to Memory did back when music was all I had.

 

It will if you want it to. The songs you're playing when you meet your life partner. The album playing when you buy your first house or move into your dream home? The songs that help you get through the death of loved ones? Hard weeks at work. I dunno, I find comfort and joy and love in music every year that stay with me in similar ways. I still go back to the albums of my youth all the time, but I'm finding new music regularly that gets added to that collection, and keeps piling up plays as it gets to be a part of my life for the next 40 years. By the time I'm 80 I'll have had 40+ more years of my life from now, let alone 60ish since I was a teenager, I sure as fuck will have all kinds of albums from that half-century that will have impacted me.

The new MCS album isn't CTTM, but that's not even my favorite MCS album or the one I think is their opus; it's something new, something you get to make new memories to and experience. Something you can show your kids. Or put on while going through life. Expecting to feel like you're a teenager again when you listen to music means you never get to live in the now and experience who you are today. Spinning "Design Ideas" after a brutal week on a Friday evening with a cold beer on my balcony? Man, I dunno, that shit has been just as transcendent as being a dumb ass 16 year old listening to a Blink record. I'll carry that song in my fucking bones going forward.

I find all of this defeatist "things were better in the past" talk so self-fulfilling and, frankly, silly-depressing. If everything good or great has already been created then it's all worthless and pointless and art means nothing. I would rather stop breathing than believe that kind of artistic nihilism. (Only quoted you/this part to make a larger point.)