Silverstein - Misery Made Me (May 6, 2022) Album • Page 11

Just realized that album is 10 years old

 

I bought that record when I saw them one time and got home and the vinyl was just completely missing a chunk and no one ever replaced it lol

 

One of my favorite records in my collection.

 

'stand amid the roar' has one of the all-time greatest riffs in this genre imo

 

I have been on such a Silverstein kick for some reason. Pretty much stopped listening to them after Shipwreck (I don't know why, because I adored that album) but last week I went through and listened to Rescue, Wind, I am alive, Reflection, Drown and Misery.

 

Man what I’d give to hear In Memory Of and Good Luck With Your Lives for the first time again. And much of Wind and DR, but Rescue is the criminally underrated one. Multiple top tier songs on there.

Silverstein have always been one of my favorite bands but they lost me a bit with the last couple records. I’ve been revisiting Wind a lot this week for the first time in a long time.

 

Yeah Rescue is super underrated. Texas Mickey has always been one of my favorites

 

Does any band work harder than these guys

 

they're dropping a deluxe edition of MMM soon, 2LP

 

April 7th for the deluxe

 

Welp, it’s a bonus track lol it’s not bad but I like it a lot less than most things on the album. Very modern rock

 

yeah it's pretty bland. glad it's just a bonus track.

 

It's okay, I don't love it. Don't love MMM either though.

 

Song is fine. Wonder if this was another song that was written for another band that was repurposed like some of the other songs from MMM. Also wonder if they’ll discuss it on an episode of their podcast.

 

i really like it

 

Which MMM songs were those?

 

I don’t remember which ones specifically but Paul Marc talked about it on the MMM podcast. He wrote a ton with Cody of Wage War, I believe there were others he worked with too.

 

I like the chorus a lot, and this band can still write 2 great songs for each clunker, but the guitar work in this era of Silverstein sucks the life right out of the songs. Sounds like a mainstream band trying to sound heavy rather than the other way around.

 

Yeah I like a few songs on the past few albums (Mostly the heavy ones) but overall I miss the classic Silverstein sound. I hope we get one more album in that vein before they call it quits.

 

found my notes on this:
Bankrupt - written with two guys from Sweden
It’s Over - written with Carson and Grant from The Atrium production group
Ultraviolet - written with/by Cody from Wage War
Die Alone - band written
Our Song - originally called Get Out written for the band Dragged Under
Live Like This - co-written with Lee Albrecht
Slow Motion - written with Daniel Bronstein (from Volumes, writes Spiritbox stuff)
Don’t Wait Up - written with Lee Albrecht
The Altar/Mary - band written, two-idea mashup
Cold Blood - band written, from an old riff
Misery - demo by Shane

I believe one of these other tracks was also demo’d for another band but I can’t remember.

 

Won't ever be one of my favorite bands but my god, these guys WORK. I have nothing but respect for them. I'll see them every other time they're in town, they're just so fun.

 

I have two tickets for the stroudsburg show that I will sell for half price.

(My buddy was supposed to come, but he caught Covid and I am not trying to drive 90 minutes each way solo)

 

Silverstein Setlist at Bronson Centre, Ottawa