On the Impossible Bracket (The Menzingers Bracket) Bracket • Page 56

Love Gates but definitely seems to be overrated as it’s beaten out a lot of better songs imo... like Obituaries obviously deserves this wild card spot!

 

Gates

 

Justice for Obituaries and Mexican Guitars

 

How can Gates be overrated when Casey exists lol? It’s in the losers bracket

 

I'd pick almost every song on OTIP over Gates

 

Gates by miles

 

Gates isn't a bad song at all, its just overplayed and many songs on OTIP are much better imo. Give me Sun Hotel, Mexican Guitars, I Can't Seem to Tell, Burn, Obituaries and Good Things instead. I'd compare it to Devotion and Desire in terms of super popular songs that I like, but are overrated compared to the bands entire catalog.

 

Devotion and desire is so dull, gates at least has some good verses and a killer bridge.

Sure there are better songs on OTIP but I don’t think it’s a bottom tier song on that album at all.

 

Gates

 

if i never heard devotion and desire ever again both live and through speakers i'd be fine with it tbh

 

Gates

 

Same. Sometimes I feel like the only one who isn’t going off when they close the set with it. So many good songs they could end with and devotion is just a buzzkill at this point.

 

Lookers

 

Lookers

 

yeah for sure. i feel that way with so much of Bayside's early material. I stopped going to see them for a few years because the setlists were just too predictable.

 

Or was a waitress who met a guy that smokes the same cigarettes. thankfully we both quit. happiness is just a moment or whatever

 

I wish Greg sang “to throw my fucking soul away” at the end of the recorded version of Gates like he does live

 

Big shame too, because they are such a tight live band. The perfect example that you don’t have to be sloppy to play hard / heavy.

 

RT

 

Gates - 9
Lookers - 13

 

Lookers doesn’t have the “happiness is just a moment” verse, c’mon folks

 

Lookers

 

Gates

 

Gates

I love both songs, but the "it's not hard to fall for a waitress, when you both smoke the same cigarettes" verse is too good. Gotta go with Gates.

 

Gates - 11
Lookers - 14

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