State Champs - Living Proof (June 15, 2018) Album • Page 15

Dead and Gone is terrible though and that song with the Mark Hoppis vocals is pretty bad.

 

I said this in another thread, but the transitions between the verses and choruses of Mine is Gold are jarring as fuck.

 

My MerchLimited vinyl bundle still hasn't arrived, I can't stand it.

 

This album is pretty good, I didn't really dig Dead and Gone when it first came out, but it's growing on me. Criminal, Crystal Ball and Lightning are bangers.

 

Update.

This album still rips.

 

I saw State Champs on Warped and unfortunately it appears Frozen doesn't really translate well live. Surprisingly Mine Is Gold does though.

 

Not a crowd pleaser? Or are they just bad at performing it?

 

I thought Frozen sounded great at Warped

 

They performed it well, it just sounded hollow in the mix. Like there was something missing from the guitars or Derek's voice. I'm not sure. Hopefully it'll sound better on the Living Proof tour next spring.

 

The new songs are fine live, but none of them are bangers like their singles from Finer Things/ATWAB.

 

This was really cool to watch!

 

Frozen made its way onto my top Spotify songs of the year, still super catchy

 

Yeah, this is still a v good pop punk album. It’s surprisingly good for road trips.

 

This holds up well

 

I'm still listening to this a lot

 

I've got a better one:

You defended a rapist and an enabler and perpetuated abuse against women in a shitty, toxic, dying scene.

 

This is such a baseless take that you keep leaving in this thread, isn't it easier just to post in other threads?

 

I don't want to be that guy but it isn't false.

They backed up Harry Corrigan when all of that happened and he still pops up at shows. I've literally seen him stage side for bands like Knuckle Puck. He's still very close to people in the pop punk scene even if he isn't a part of it anymore.

I don't know enough about JJR to comment on that.

 

It's not false, but it seems a bit excessive to "cancel" a band based on a deleted tweet from 5 years ago.

Not to say I know everything behind the scenes and obviously I'm going to respect the choice not to listen but I think repeating the same thing in this thread doesn't really solve anything.

 

I’ve been through this conversation with you regarding the same exact topic a few times. No, it isn’t excessive that this band helped a rapist and rape apologist remain in the scene.

“Baseless” implies it didn’t happen. I do post about them in other threads. Seeing as this one is full of people still cool with supporting the band, why not post here where it can’t be ignored?

 

Yeah it’s totally valid and reasonable to keep bringing that up, it was a horrendously tone-deaf/ignorant/abuse-enabling tweet which, unless I missed something, he never even acknowledged again much less apologized for? Deleting a tweet is light years away from an apology.

PS Light Years still works with JJR, screw em!

 

Listened to this album yesterday. It still holds up and is a fun summer album.

 

I wish I liked this more but it’s been my least favorite album cycle. These songs just don’t hit like ATWAB/Finer Things

 

Dont support them