Say Anything ...Is Committed (May 24th, 2024) • Page 47

i have no idea what i just watched

 

Well that was within 24 hours

 

No new song today?

I hope Max is okay.

EDIT: Dammit, it just popped up after I posted this…here we go again…

 

I'm just gonna pretend Say Anything existed only from IARB up until Anarchy at this point.

 

I listened to the IARB 20 demos last night. That was fun.

It was like watching Goonies and loving Corey Feldman.

 

listening to iarb demos because you like max bemis = broke
listening to iarb demos because you like forrest kline = woke

 

Would It Kill You is still in the top 5 most underrated albums from this scene

 

Huh

 

Is the Scene Max Bemis' myriad of projects?

 

I guess I mean the APnet days haha

 

Totally. The fact that album wasn’t massive still bums me out to this day.

 

i remember being excited for Skinny, Mean Man being released

 

One of my favorite aspects of his music that made them such a formative band for me was the instrumentation, guitar riffs, etc. there was such a likable, catchy, and quirky approach. It’s wild that I can’t really find any semblance of that these days. I haven’t been in any SA thread or keeping up with anyone’s mental state, I just miss the vibes offered from a time when this band motivated me to pay attention and spend Saturday nights updating the accuracy of all of the song pages on plyrics.com

 

The guitar solo in Do Better is honestly still one of my favorites.

 

Yeah all this bad Max content has just made me listen to s/t. Crush'd and Property my only skips on there. Love the rest

 

s/t > iarb any day of the week honestly. it's the only say anything album that kind of sounds like max is trying to grow up.

 

Fed to Death is their best opener and one of my favourite songs by them

 

This is not saying much but tonight’s song is the most listenable out of the batch so far. Haven’t read the lyrics yet though so… that could change everything

 

I wish he had expanded upon the self titled sound and done that polished rock sound. Instead he just continued to regress more and more upon each release. So extremely disappointing.

 

Someone described IARB as a golden handcuffs album and that couldn’t be more accurate. Like, even Rivers Cuomo stopped giving a shit about people saying Pinkerton was Weezer’s last good album and just made whatever he wanted.

Max seemingly could never shake people constantly comparing everything he did to IARB.

 

Every single bit of music he released after though he made comments like "This is the next IARB or spirit of IARB" the weird thing is all his music before IARB was really awesome and soulful with that sense of attitude that resonates, so it's not like it came from nowhere.

 

To this day I’m still confused about the random stray shot fired at Kings of Leon on Mara and Me

 

I rewatched this live set the other day and got depressed because 1. how the hell was this 16 years ago 2. his/Say Anything's career went in such wildly different directions than what I expected that it doesn't even feel like the same band anymore.

S/T got me into Say Anything and was a formative album taste wise. I'll always mourn what could've been next had he decided to continue in that polished direction.

 

It was just trendy at the time to hate them because they were one of the biggest rock bands out there. The lyric makes no sense.