Say Anything - Oliver Appropriate (January 25, 2019) Album • Page 9

I still love IRAB and I think his tone connotes that we are not supposed to be agreeing with what he is saying. Also, I swear that album has the some of the best sounding guitars I have ever heard on a rock album.

 

can't say why but i was way more squicked out listening to "property" than almost anything on iarb recently (i know the song is a joke, it's just not a good one). possibly i have really selective listening with iarb

 

Death For My Birthday is an excellent song. And I love the Modern Baseball cover. This might be a top 5 song from them.

 

Can we get a bit of clarification on this one, please?

 

yeah i gotta be honest there are points where it comes close (the bridge of "molly") but... idk, seems way too self-critical in its every expression of desire to ever really reach sexist. i'm also not counting was a real boy at all

 

"spidersong" to me seems a surprisingly respectful song about being super horny

 

IARB doesnt hold up nearly as well as people say it does imo, self titled is a little spotty but has his most mature and realized songwriting on it (mara and me, cemetery, fed to death, ahhh men). while IARB may have some of the most interesting songs (the writhing south, belt, yellow/red cat, chia like), its ultimately very immature both lyrical and songwriting wise and pretty scrappy and raw compared to the polish of self titled.

 

the most sexist song he ever wrote was property though, and the irony its coated in doesnt make it any better

 

i'll agree with all of that, but i like some of the immaturity on iarb. also it features extremely little of "max weighing in on rap" which... is not absent from the s/t

 

what does that even mean

 

idk stuff like "died a jew," several of the lyrics in "hate everyone"

 

i also hate the "committing hate crimes" lyric in "hate everyone"

 

Died a Jew is on IDOTG

the rapper in the Lexus line is about his love/hate relationship with Kanye which I’m pretty sure most people could understand

 

yeah, that line isn’t great and I don’t even know why he put it in the song tbh

 

hate everyone is the worst song he ever wrote first of all, second of all i still like IARB i just like self titled better. i also like probably half of IDOTG

 

i know "died a jew" from idotg i was mostly making a point about iarb lacking any of... that

 

Just noticed that IDOTG is not on Apple Music

 

the takes in here are singeing my eyebrows off

 

John McClane into the opening notes of Six Six Six is in the conversation of best moments in the catalog for me. Hebrews has some real duds but overall it's one of my favs. songs like Lost My Touch took a long time to register with me but i adore them now.

 

Lost My Touch is perfect until the screaming comes in.

 

yeah well i love it OK

 

That whole song is perfect.

 

I like this take, though the constant energy to the guitars and songwriting on IARB make it work as a record to me a bit more as a whole than the inconsistency on self titled. They’re the only two Say Anything records I’d call good, though Defense has a few solid high points.

 

The ending of Woe is the best minute or so of music he’s ever written, too beautiful

 

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