Saves The Day - 9 (October 26, 2018) Album • Page 23

Come on

Please pick up the phone

 

in case anyone is wondering: yes, 29 is the entire B Side

 

As it should be. :)

 

Just catching up here... I never realized how much of an influence Nerf Herder had on Chris. I mean expanding their one song idea into a full length?!? Impressive!

 

Rose is so good

Nice to hear some grit in his voice again too

 

Great song. But who is it about?! Haha.

 

I think i'm gonna drop 29 into audacity or something and slice it up in case there's a section i want to listen to.

 

wonder if i'm ever gonna see your call
but you already know i loved you all along
and it's all in the past and i can't forget
cause I still hear your voice echo in my head

Damn.

Lyric sheets are great.

 

The whole album is a glorious wall of text on Apple Music, haha.

 

It reads just like a Kerouac book

 

fuck man I love this album - most I've loved a new STD record since STA

 

New album reminds me of Sound The Alarm and Under The Boards era Saves The Day. Catchy yet aggressive

 

I listened. It's not my kind of music. I don't like pop-punk and I know I don't fit in talking about this stuff on here but it doesn't seem there is anywhere else on the internet where anybody gives a shit about Saves The Day.

But yeah, "29" is by far the best thing on the record. I personally really, really liked the first section. His voice sounded really nice too. But I must say after that each section got continually worse. But regardless I give him credit for the undertaking.

Now everything before "29"? Lyrically it's just so bad that even if the music were great (which it isn't) that probably woulda cost it points. I don't have a problem with bands being self referential, but I think I do have a problem with self-mythologizing. And I kinda get that vibe from this record. Like, I think Chris Conley is an interesting guy, totally. I'd love to have a cup of coffee with him. However, I don't care which record he wrote with this or that acoustic guitar. The lyrics about his (ex) wife are interesting and a bit heartbreaking, but once again, I think he's creatively better at creating via something less literal. For instance, I love John Lennon, but when he was writing songs called "Dear Yoko" it kinda makes it hard for to draw a picture of the song in your head that didn't include Yoko Ono. It gives the songs a much smaller scope. And for someone who talks about the universe and stuff, Chris seems to have been keeping it small and insular for a bit now. And writing a unironic theme song as the first track? It's not meta, it's cheese.

However, then part of me thinks, shit man, maybe this guy was always this literal. I mean, he was the guy who wrote, "Ted's out on the seat right next to me, yeah he's droolin' on his sleeve, woah." Maybe the stories about Dave steppin' on the gas and this and standing on top of rooftops were all true? But then you had story songs like "Holly Hox" on Through Being Cool. And though mostly all of Stay What You Are, In Reverie, Sound The Alarm and Under the Boards sounded intensely personal, they surely did not sound literal. And I think that made them a lot easier to listen to than things like "Undress Me", the self-titled album and this one. It's so Conley specific. Am I wrong?

Lastly, I like when he does mellow music and I never understood why he hasn't pursued it more. I mean, the man has written "This Is Not an Exit", "Freakish", "Nightingale", the entire In Reverie record and more. But he continues to pump out more pop-punk. He must really love that kinda music. I would just think for a guy who has written some great slow songs, he hasn't done much of that lately and it's a shame.

 

I don’t love this album but I love “29”. The only real notable thing that I think is great throughout the record is the guitar tones.

 

Not really feeling the first 2 tracks at all, love everything that follows. 29 hits fucking hard and I adore it.

 

Probably my favorite STD record since SWYA. His voice sounds better than any record since then. I can get by the lyrics because he sings them sincerely.

 

Fun album. I’ll be coming back to this one.

 

I listened for the first time.There is a part of a song that reminds me of Green Day’s Geek Stink Breath. Echoing 23 and Rendezvous as my favourites upon first listen. Every time I hear a long song I think of NOFx The Decline. Also, the end of 23 reminded me of Tokyo Police Club.

 

“29” is surprisingly a few minutes longer than “The Decline.” I remember when NOFX released that, and I thought it was the craziest thing, haha.

Both are top tier songs for their respective band though.

 

Considering NOFX songs are usually only like 2:20 seconds I’d say it was quite an accomplishment for them. Plus, they tied the whole thing together as one song where 23 feels like parts of a story.

 

I know we're not supposed to do this but whatever I want to:

In Reverie
Stay What You Are
Through Being Cool
9
Sound the Alarm
Saves the Day
Daybreak
Under the Boards
Can't Slow Down

 

This looks alarmingly like the list I made when my buddy asked me last night, haha. Same top 4, same bottom 2. Wow!

I love them all, so it was hard to choose a least favorite.

 

They're also grouped into three distinct categories for me: love, really like, and medium.

 

I can't decide yet where this falls in the ranking!

 

Which one is the really amazing one around 15 mins ?