The Dangerous Summer Band • Page 15

I was trying to pick out the lyric that hooked me. I know it's from If You Could Only Keep Me Alive so I'm listening to it now and I really really love all of the lyrics from this and can't pick what one hooked me in. Probably the chorus and second verse of the title track

And then the sun, it hit my face
And made me think of all the things that made me pray
Like when I stood up all this cocaine hit my heart
Then all the sudden I'm in love
Oh God, it's almost summer

I hope addiction took my heart because I'm
Looking for a hook that could just
Hold me back from tearing out these speakers
It's not the sound that drowns me out
But all this doubt that broke me down
You were my friend, but now I'm taking you to hell

 

Ain't that the truth

 

"Knives" kind of reminds me of brand new just with the darkness and themes about God

 

Musically, Knives also reminds me of Manchester Orchestra

 

yeah I get some TDAG era Brand New mixed with some METN era Manchester Orchestra with that song. It works really well.

 

big time

 

i remember when golden record came out everyone who had heard the record before me was like "yeah knives is definitely gonna be jake's favorite" and well it was lol

 

I really love the first 4 tracks of Golden Record but I can't really remember any of the rest.

 

I really don't like "Drowning" or "Knives". "Miles Apart" is my favourite.

 

"Drowning" is the only song on GR that is just kind of ok to me.

 

Drowning is top 3 on GR imo

 

cathloc girls and knives are the only two on gr i like at all

 

Hearing Catholic Girls first made my expectations for GR way too high. I still think that's their best song. I do like the album though, aside from the last few songs.

 

Parts of GR grew on me but nothing on it comes anywhere beat the first two albums for me. AJs voice on it, the muddiness of the way it sounds...perhaps all intentional, but for me those things take away from the excellent melodies that made me love the band.

 

this may have been my problem because that song is so fucking amazing

 

The "I turned my back on the rope tied to my ceiling, there's a reason I won't go there anymore" line on Sins gives me chills every time.

 

A tornado leveled my childhood home in WI right around the time Catholic Girls was released. That line "even with the walls around me, I'll always miss the place where I grew up, it made us tough." always reminded me of my childhood and my siblings. The entire song reminds me of just growing up and leading four very different lives now. It brings back such fond memories considering we were all so close in age and now live all over the nation and aren't nearly as close as we were.

 

that line is devastating to me and extremely real

 

Still makes me sad thinking about what this band might have accomplished if they had been able to hold it together. I'm just glad I was the age I was when Reach and War Paint came out, because those records were serious soundtrack-of-my-life shit. Despite everything, they'll always be one of my favorite bands.

 

It really is. One of their most relatable songs for me, and they have a lot of those.

This thread has me listening to all their albums for the first time in months. They really know how to write openers, my favorite song on every album is the first.

 

Same in every regard

 

I adored Reach for the Sun so, so, so, so, so much. Like, threatens to be included with my albums of the decade, it just hit the perfect spot with me at 17-18 years old or whatever and I just fucking treasured it. Which is why it's so weird to me that I am so cold on every single other thing this band did. Even War Paint I just didn't connect with at all. I'm not sure there's another band or artist who made one thing that meant so much to me and then I just couldn't connect with anything else they did in any way.

 

Most people probably have a band like that, agree that it's super weird though

 

Like others (I'm sure), I just decided after they stole from me on multiple occasions that I couldn't support them anymore.

That said - I honest to God didn't dislike a single song throughout their four releases. RFTS was a top 5-10 record for me, and undoubtedly the most listened to album between, say, 2009-2012. Just so good. And the acoustic version may well have been better.

It's really too bad - I just couldn't listen to them without feeling like I was being lied to and taken advantage of (I still have the RFTS 'signed' chord book in a drawer next to me). Maybe that's an issue with me; maybe I should be more forgiving or just separate the people from the music or whatever. But I just couldn't after awhile. They really are a 'what could have been' band for me.

 

I love how atmospheric the guitars are on this bands music. Cody lays the foundations with a steady chord progression and then Matt/Bryan drop these textured, intricate lead lines that add so much to the songs. Then AJs bass beefs up the backdrop with a buoyant, deep tone that adds even more dynamic to the tracks. The subtle tempo shifts and key changes throughout also add a lot of variety. I guess I've just never quite understood the "all these songs sound the same" critique. Surface level they do but once you really listen you can hear how diverse this band is.

Basically what I'm trying to say is this band is decent I guess idk