The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature (June 14, 2019) Album • Page 49

I wish the record had come out before the tour or the tour had happened after the record came out. Would kill to hear basically any of these songs live and I don’t wanna wait lol

 

SO/SD out tomorrow as a single. When AJ said that I thought they were going to play it. Everyone there had heard the record anyway

 

No! Haha.. I just had black Tshirt on and was by sound guy booth

 

Glad to hear this!

 

I just got an email from Merchnow saying that there's a "new version" of the album available for download. Anyone know what's different?

 

The new single

 

Love SO/SD, drums at the end remind me of Surfaced, just less of a buildup haha

 

Oh someone asked, the tour vinyl they’re selling is clear

 

Was curious. Have Mercy had the guitarist and Bassist of Modern Chemistry play for them last night. And someone said the Have Mercy drummer isnt the one on the new album. Is Have Mercy more or less a solo project for the singer with a rotating lineup? Or was there a breakup recently

 

It is now essentially a solo project with rotating members. Brian can’t keep members around him to save his life.

 

The former.

 

I’m kinda wondering why that is. A guy that plays in local bands here is the drummer on the new album, but he wasn’t drumming for them at their show here last week.

 

Is there a reason he cant keep members? He seemed funny onstage and friendly. Bit eccentric lol

 

Especially at a step and a half lower than the record.

 

Lemme tell ya folks this album hits different on a brisk morning bike ride through your local forest preserve

 

I noticed that last night ! Did they do that for sheer heaviness?

 

Probably because it's song 14 or 15 or whatever of the set and screaming through the outro at pitch would be quite difficult lol

 

I think it’s just for ease of less switching between instruments etc for multiple tunings and it also has a emotional benefit that works well live. So why not?

 

Question for @Samuel Pura: I remember talking to Ben he said that if you listen real close with headphones you can hear the sound of flushing a toilet on the last downbeat of Way Down, but I can't hear it. Is it really there?

 

I hope he just trolled you racking up an extra 100 plays.

 

I’d have to pull up the sample to verify it actually made it. I think it’s true. It’s AJ doing 2 takes at the ending screaming so hard on the hallway with a room mic. And I think I was like “Ben flush the toilet on the downbeat” not sure how that came up but it was like some in the moment joke of if we’re going this far hit the toilet flush as well. I think I even gave him headphones to monitor so he could be on time. Lolol. Then AJ almost passed out from screaming so hard. So he’s laughing so hard. We are. And he’s simultaneously dying and trying to catch his breath. Was just a moment where everyone was in it and it felt important to throw on top of the end.

Also the ending key hold of that song is Matt playing with the filters on my Moog. I was like “we need this type of sound” and I was like “play this” and he did like EXACTLY what I heard in my head. And I was like PERFECT 1 more. And it was even better. So we kept them both and it creates this sick ambience and like creative feedback instead of using a feedback guitar or something easy and lame to do.

 

Forgot to mention having seen them last year, and now last night. AJ looked like he lost about 20 lbs. Good work! Getting in boxing shape for album of the year time

 

Lol. Classic! And of course you can also hear Ben at the opening of It is real saying " dude that's so sick" with his crazy low voice #eastereggs

 

First off, I can’t believe there is a 50 page thread on a dangerous summer album. Super awesome. Secondly, The Dangerous Summer is one of my all time favorite bands because their music off RFTS and especially War Paint got me through one of my biggest bouts of depression, where I was contemplating what it’d be like to end things. Hearing songs like Good Things, Parachute, A Space To Grow, and the musical catharsis that is Waves (among so many more) let me realize that there are people out there who can verbalize what I was going through and it was going to be okay. For any type of music, lyrics are my main draw. Sing-ability and relatability. Second would be catchiness. Third would be the musical arrangement and its uniqueness.


For me personally, RFTS and War Paint, I could glean meaning in the specific lines from pretty much every song – those which identified with me, even if that wasn’t the authors intent for his own meaning. GR and S/T seemed to move away from that, in my life. Not to say it entirely went away. Songs like Sins (I turn my back to the rope tied to my ceiling), Color (AJ and band realizing how much TDS meant to the fans), This is Life (With everything at our disposal, we stayed inside, most our lives, hoping to god for a better one after we die), and Infinite (We never looked up once but that’s where the stars were) still provided me with that meaning I could interpret for my own life. But I still took great pleasure in songs like Catholic Girls, Fire, Miles Apart, Wild Again etc. just from a musical standpoint.


For TDS specifically --- Do you prefer to know the author’s (AJ’s) meaning to the song OR do you prefer to find meaning in their songs on your own?