Best/worst Timberwolves at New Jersey/Head Club Set Phasers To Stun/This Photograph Is Proof My Blue Heaven/Error Operator Swing/Cut Me Up Jenny This Is All Now/Money All The Way/Like You Do All Excess/Homecoming
I'll try it for fun. Lotta ties though.... Bike Scene, You're So Last Summer, You Know How I Do/Head Club 180, Little Devotional/New American Classic Makedamnsure, My Blue Heaven/ Error:Operator Everything Must Go/New Again Call Me in the Morning/ Tracks 4-9 We Were Younger/They Don't Have any Friends I Feel It Too/Tidal Wave
Holy Water is for all intents and purposes a good song, but it would’ve worked better if they recorded it in a different key, preferably a half-step down like they do when they play it live.
Also, I Felt It Too is one of the top 3 best tracks on TW. That final minute and a half of that song is one of the best things the band ever put on an album
I guess following the best/worst trend, here's an update to my post from earlier There's No I in Team/The Blue Channel 180 By Summer/The Union (hate saying that b/c there really isn't a bad song on WYWTB) My Blue Heaven/Up Against EMG/Cut Me Up Jenny (Swing is a close 2nd for best song on NA, so shout out to all you folks stanning for that song out there) Call Me in the Morning/Money Gardens/Like You Do (We Were Younger Then is a close 2nd best for this album, I wish the band played it) Fences/Homecoming
I don't hear anything wrong with the production at all so when people say that I'm just confused I don't really listen to the b sides because there isn't a convenient way to do so and I always feel like they're overhyped
Eric Valentine's kick and snare drum sounds have always bothered me on any album he's produced. The guitars always sound extra compressed and the basses always sound like they were strung with old flatwound strings so they hardly cut through the mix. That's just a personal observation though. I know a lot of people/bands see it differently and like his production. To his credit though, whoever mixes his albums (not sure if it's him or someone else) is a wizard. I agree though that it sucks there's not a convenient way to access the B-sides. That being said, "You Were Right" "Semi-Automatic" and "Mackey Sasser..." are all great songs imo
He did great work on Third Eye Blind and Songs For The Deaf. Outside of those, his style doesn't work that well.
Valentine did Louder Now and I have no issues with that production. S/T just has a lot of boring/bad songs, you can blame Valentine but he didn't write those tunes.
Savior & This Is All Now are the only songs there that I would consider close to among their best work. Maybe Faith as well, but probably not.
this is so correct even though i like "since you're gone" (i like p much every song on the s/t and i think its major flaw is that it's the only tbs record that doesn't cohere as a whole at all)
valentine's drum sound on third eye blind's blue is great, i have no idea what happened to him between that and louder now with all those plastic tones