The Hotelier - Goodness (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 235

Maybe if people weren't wrong

 

Same. Although after initial negative critiques there's no reason to harp on something. I don't like the 1975 album at all but I don't go in the thread because no need to keep going in to something I don't enjoy.

 

That's how I feel, maybe if you are excited about something and it disappoints you and your a fan than fine. But if you don't like the hotelier then why go in the thread to say you don't like it lol

 

i got slaughtered in the blink-182 thread when i thought California was awful, it was messed up. i pretty much avoid threads of albums i dont like. but i pretty much ditto what teebs and thewaters just said.

 

I'm all for negative opinions that add discussion but being a dick just to be a dick doesn't make sense. Give me something to work with

 

I was really disappointed with the blink record I was excited with rabbit hole and bored to death but didn't enjoy anything else minus one or two songs

 

I just tweet about how awful California is. So disappointing.

This post was 100% just to be a dick I'm sorry

 

how can a record be disappointing it there was zero chance of it being good in the first place???????
i mean it

 

They were dark? I definitely missed these debates. Can you expand?

 

I hate it when you have to poop right when you get IN the shower.

 

I really like California tho....

 

Not rly wanting to get into it tbh, it's bothersome for a lot of people/probably not my place

 

Fair enough

 

I liked this album when it came out but I love it now that there's snow on the ground.

 

The feeling in your fingers
Right back from where you started?- Settle The Scar

My wounds healed while my fingers fixed- The Scope Of All This Rebuilding

Little connection I never noticed until my recent listening of both albums.

 

finally updated my concert archives and once the end of this year hits, i would have seen this band 12 times, all in the last three years

...should have been 13 but my ride bailed on me for the tour right before home came out, haha.

in six states too, plus DC, and that 13th would have made it seven, haha.

 

but did you drive to see them 13 hours from Canada? i win.

 

Just got my tix today to see Hotelier open up for Title Fight. Stoked since the only other time I've seen Hotelier is during an absolutely miserable cold and rainy day during Riot Fest 2014. Wonder how the crowd is gonna be lol

 

LITERALLY CAME IN TO SAY THE EXACT SAME THING. This album rocks the fuck out of a Minnesota winter.

 

I saw them open for title fight two years ago and the crowd for the hotelier was not huge in comparison to when title fight started. Two years is a long time though, don't know how big the draw is now though when I saw them on their tour with told slant that wasn't a HUGE crowd either, but certainly bigger than the first time I saw them. I would expect a pretty tame experience, maybe a couple of douchey hardcore kids starting something if they play life in drag

 

Last time I saw them I saw some people getting pretty rowdy for Your Deep Rest and maybe Scope. Can't remember much. But I do remember people saying in this thread over summer that people were moshing to some of the stuff from Home which is bizarre but I can't say I'm surprised

 

Without attempting to churn out paragraphs upon paragraphs about this album, I just want to say that in a year defined by a lot of darkness, a lot of tension, and a lot of pain, this record has been a vessel of light and a beacon of hope for me. But that light and that optimism isn't cheap and disposable, it isn't naive or phony or forced like a Hallmark card. I mean, the themes here deal heavily with loss/grief, heartbreak, and... the circular nature of life and death, for lack of a better term. There is so much positivity and optimism present here, but it is optimism rooted in realism. This record never claims it has found the keys to happiness, or moved totally beyond struggle and pain, but rather opens its arms to you in that place of darkness and beckons, "come here, I will sit with you in this and remind you that there is hope in everything." It is holistic, honest, vulnerable, and expansive. This record is not "the answer" nor does it claim to be, but it makes sense of all the hurt, the aching, the general fucked-upness of the world the best it can. And that is just really fucking valuable to me. After writing one of the heaviest, pained, emotionally dense albums out there, what better to follow it up with than a journey of healing and acceptance.

I don't know, this band is amazing, and I am so grateful for the music they have given us. 2016 really needed this record, and so did I.

 

End of May thru mid June I hit a lot of lows, and I really almost lost it all including my own life. Somehow this record was able to act as a guiding force of light throughout my recovery process, constantly reminding me that things can get better, and they did. They continue to get better every day.

 

I would say that Soft Animal is one of the most reassuring songs this year. I posted a thing in the Chairlift thread about how that album offered me an escape. This album helped me nearly as much, but instead of an escape it helped to face what I was going through and the dark thoughts circling around my head day in and day out. I know a lot of you love this as its whole work, and I do too, but the importance for me comes from the moments that stand out. The lines that make me feel less alone or put into words what I can't figure out or what I might be too scared to lay out. I feel a moment of crystallizing clarity every time I hear "Make me feel alive, 
make me believe that all my selves align" or "Make me feel alive. 
Make me believe that I don’t have to die," because this is all I've really searched for this year.

 

Feel exactly the same about soft animal and those lines. And end of reel was a big stand out for me too in terms of helping me come to terms with everything that happened and finally moving on and putting it behind me