The Dangerous Summer Band • Page 25

i love the whole of War Paint, but Golden Record loses me in spots. Catholic Girls and Wait In The Fog are high spots on that album.

 

This band meant/means so much to me and I never got the chance to see them and if I did I would probably ascend to heaven on the spot or something

 

I'm very ready for more from them

 

I love War Paint and Reach but only listened to Golden Record a couple times. I like what they had going on with those first 2 records. Cool mix of ambient pop rock stuff.

 

Well this is exciting. RFTS and WP are two of the most meaningful/favorite/top played albums for me ever

 

I'm trying not to get my hopes up until we hear something in the form of music or a statement.

 

I remember stumbling across these guys from a youtube video of them covering Feeling This. A couple years later I remember trying to find that same video.I found it then decided to look them up on myspace. By this time their EP was out and they only had Surfaced on their Myspace page and RFTS hadn't been released yet. I was immediately obsessed because it sounded like The Starting Line and they had just broken up/I was super bummed. Then RFTS came out and the rest was history. That CD didn't leave my car for months.

 

Damn, surfaced is prolly my favourite song on the album too, haha

 

Same here. Such a good song. The Drums are fantastic in it too.

 

I'm getting so hyped for this. I believe AJ now has full control of the twitter account --- all their old tweets besides for the past few months were dumped.

Also of note is that AJ has been attending the Hopeless holiday party these last few years from past tweets, so he obviously still has plenty of connections there. TDS was signed to one more album beyond GR back in the day...

 

So I had never actually listened to this band before yesterday. Having heard all these rumblings about them potentially coming back, and having always seen people on here talking about how amazing the band was, I thought I should check them out after all this time. So I listened to If You Could Only Keep Me Alive and Reach For The Sun. I can say with absolute certainty that if I had heard those records back in the day (when I was 16-going-on-17 and 18-going-on-19, respectively) this band probably would have been my whole world. I don't know how I never got into them back then. Listening to them today, at 26, I can say that they are really damn good collections of songs. I totally get the praise for Reach for the Sun, as well. That album could come out today and still sound fresh. AJ's vocals remind me a bit of Jason Lancaster but with less of an affectation on them, and I'm a big Go Radio/early Mayday Parade fan so that was a cool association to make.

It's funny, I always see people in threads of bands that I love talking about how they just discovered them now, years after they were in their prime, and relaying an outsider's perspective free from nostalgia goggles, but I've never really been one of those people myself until now.

Listening to War Paint at work right now. "No One's Gonna Need You More" is a jam.

 

I'm one of the few (I think?) that holds War Paint over RFTS. I love both of them, but War Paint just crushed me when it came out, in a good way.

 

War Paint >>>> RFTS

I feel like I would've loved RFTS if I discovered it when it was first released, But Warpaint was what got me into them and is one of my all time favorite and important albums.. There isn't one dud on there

 

I'm one of the few who heavily prefers poppy dangerous summer to the heavier stuff. The tracks I'm likely to skip on War Paint are Work in Progress, Good things, in my room, etc. I don't think they're bad, I just don't like them nearly as much as songs like "War Paint" "no ones gonna need you more", "parachute" etc

 

Honestly, after initial listens for each album, my first impression is that I think War Paint is equally as good as Reach For The Sun. It might be one of the most perfect examples I've ever heard of a band having huge success refining and elaborating on the sound of a beloved album (another example being TBS's Where You Want To Be). There isn't much in the way of evolution on War Paint, but it doesn't feel at all like a retread either despite there being a clear through-line to it from RFTS.

I'm rambling but I really like both of these albums and will be listening to them more. But first, once I get a chance to play music again, I'm going to check out Golden Record. Seems so divisive, interested to see how I react coming from having no background with the band.

 

You're definitely going to hear more of an "inflection" in his voice that you didn't hear in the first two records

 

RFTS worked wonders for my 20 year old angst and heartbreak. It will forever be held in higher regard to me because of that.

 

I never thought of the jason Lancaster comparison but it totally fits

 

Ehh

 

Front half of war paint is top notch. War paint / no one's gonna need you more / siren are probably my three favorite songs by the band.

 

On War Paint I also got a bit of John O'Callaghan. I've also been known to make weird connections between vocalists that other people don't hear, though, so that could just be me.

 

I don't listen to the Maine so I can't speak to that one, haha. Glad you're liking the band tho!

 

I guess I hear a little bit of Lancaster, but that comparison wouldn't have come to mind because I don't like him much. I'd take AJ over him ten times out of ten.

 

Close the Distance is a better War Paint follow up than Golden Record.

 

Close the Distance is the only good record Lancaster has been involved with, but it doesn't sniff any of the TDS albums.