Say Anything Band • Page 4

Not even going to bother listening to Two Tongues and I'm not that interested in Perma but I really hope the next Say Anything album is good.

 

I enjoyed Anarchy more than most people, too, but I do think it's my least favorite era of the band, in retrospect. The mix issues confuse me, because Tim O'Heir (sp?) nailed it on IARB, like, a decade before. I always chalked it up to budgetary issues, not having a major label anymore and stuff, but even that doesn't hold up imo.

Hebrews also has mixing issues, I think. Some songs just sound muddled to me ("Kall Me Kubrick," namely) and the instruments never sound right. I think the album has some of their strongest and weakest songs, but the first half is really damn strong. I love its "concept" but feel that he might have messed up in recording the album at two separate tjmes. I think it's very noticable. (You can also hear when he stopped doing more varied vocals and just started sing-shouting everything, which is another thing I wish he'd grow out of soon.)

Edit: I also really enjoyed the new Eiskey song and love the production on it, much more than Max's last two albums...oddly enough, as a casual Eisley fan at most.

 

I really dig Perma. The first Two Tongues album I haven't listened to in years. In HS I loved it, but now it would probably only be for nostalgia sake. All the reactions surrounding the new TT I'm kinda hesitant to even give it a chance.

 

I like Perma a lot. I am a pretty big Eisley fan as well as Say Anything, so Max and Sherri doing a cute little side project is kind of perfect for me. I like Two Tongues first record, but don't love it and would probably still put it below most of both Saves the Day and Say Anything's discographies. Two Tongues Two I find even worse than I Don't Think It Is (and I fucking hate that album). After this year, all of my hopeful expectation for Max is gone. I would love for future material to be great (I would kill for a return to a self-titled type album, production and music wise), but I just don't expect it to be great anymore. Which is fine, I have IAARB-Hebrews that will all always be really special to me.

 

Is a Real Boy really hit the spot this afternoon.

 

Love those afternoons

 

So Say Anything just posted that they are opening their song shop again. Cool. But they allege they have written 5-10 thousand songs in the 10 years they have been doing it.

WAT

 

Also lol'd at "I know how to make things sound good in Logic."
Apparently you can commission an entire album. Wonder if someone could do that and get a better album than the last few SA ones.

 

If I had the money to before IDTII came out, I would have totally done an album. But now I'd be worried that whatever I got would still have the production of IDTII or that Two Tongues album and I don't think I could do it.

 

Can we kickstart commissioning an album in hopes of this happening?

 

I have officially lost all hope in this "band"

 

Max writes bad music when hes happy. So. Good for him. I guess.

 

I agree honestly


I have enough already

 

IDTII had some really cool and good ideas, it's different, could've been better, but I'm happy with it. But that new Two Tongues album is nearly unlistenable save for two songs.

 

If you hadn't lost all hope after the flaccid dick that was Anarchy, My Dear or the over-processed hamstering of Hebrews, I'm not sure what IDTII did to dissuade you all aside from pumping out some of Max's more smartly written jams in years. Seriously, Rum alone makes that album worth repeat listens.

 

I'd happily take every song on Hebrews and pretty much every song on Anarchy over anything on IDTII.

 

Rum is awful

 

I like Rum.

 

Musically, I like Rum. But it feels like a shell. The production is bad (as expected from the album), but the song feels like it just needs more. Also, the second verse is inexcusably bad.

"I think tonight I’ll feed a timeless alien being
Who pleasures me at whim despite the time of month I’m bleeding
I was born too numb to leave here without semblance of a feeling
Hey, come take a ride on this double entendre
Praise your mother with her teat of plenty
I’m ready to be sliced up and served cheap
A deli, we all come from the depths of the belly
Of someone stripped of dignity by history"

That whole group is just like, cringy line after cringy line. That, 17 Coked Up, and Bret Easton are all songs I might enjoy if the production and lyrics were better.

Also, Hebrews was great, and Anarchy was still pretty solid.

 

Can we all please agree to never quote lyrics from that album in here again? I actually forgot just how bad it was.

 

How Can People Have Different Opinions Tha Me?: The Thread

 

ill happily put my head in a blender than listen to any

 

what a strange thing to say

 

well, anarchy was limp and unexcitable

 

much like a flaccid penis