The Hotelier - Goodness (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 291

I know the convo is way past this but it's super close. Still think Long Neck has the edge but I could also see that changing

 

best Hotelier song

@ me but you're still wrong

 

What about Soft Animal though?

 

Very close and worthy adversary

I heard that song for the first time the day my little kitten had to be put down due to seizures so I can't listen to it as often but it gave me great solace

 

I heard it a couple days after my kids were born. It’s permanently etched into my heart.

 

Very cool how songs can take on lives of their own - for me it was death and for you it was life and I like that

 

you in this light is kind of me and my girlfriend's song that makes us think of each other.

 

i have a real hard time choosing between dendron, discomforted, soft animal, two deliverances, and end of reel as their objective best song.

 

Tbh they're all worthy, one of few bands where I don't believe in an objective best as they all mean so much to us in very different yet visceral ways

Still Sun for me tho

 

I’m going for it. SA is #1, rest is no real order.

1. Soft Animal
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Dendron
An Introduction
In Framing
Discomfort Revisited
Title-Track
Two Deliverances
You In This Light
Among the Wildflowers
An Ode to the Nite Ratz Club

 

my favorite is sun, but i think end of reel is the one that i think of as their best song

dendron is close and was definitely there before i ever heard end of reel lol

 

D e n d r o n

 

The first time I heard the end of It Must Get Lonely from the new TWY record it reminded me of Sun for some reason.
Specifically the "It must get obvious enough that I'm not ever gonna change" but made me think of "Carved your name across the sky in a fit of exiting".

 

End of reel is my favorite very easily. Been listening to dendron a lot and thinking a lot about the line at the end “cut off my arm at the bone in solidarity, capital teaches that there’s less when you share.” I think that’s one of Christians best songs, lyrically, and I think that line stands out even still

 

Two deliverances is their best song and the best song period

 

Christian is just the best lyricist in the game

 

end of reel is really close

 

I would love some literary analysis of thier albums. I know that Christians political stances play a role lyrically and there are some obvious ones like Dendron and Your Deep Rest, but a deep dive into the concepts he's conveying could be very cool. He's an anachro-something, yes?

 

IM ON IT RIGHT AFTER I GET OFF WORK

yeah they/he are an anarchist, I’m not sure if Christian has ever put a label on it beyond that but it boils down to believing people can congregate and delegate without the need of institutions which ultimately cause more harm than good. There’s more nuance to it but it’s very much a philosophy I subscribe to as well, it just comes with the recogniztion that most people don’t believe that and it’s making small changes and tiny impacts where we can.

 

Yo whoever made a beat Hotelier songs list and didn’t have Scope on it, just see yourself out

 

I know some of you would hate how high up I'd put Life In Drag on my list lol

 

Oh shoot, didn't know they preferred they, my bad.

 

christian is never really clear about that stuff and it seems like they prefer to keep it personal

 

I'm pretty sure Christian doesn't go by they/them anymore

 

My top three songs are still Your Deep Rest (which got me into the band and also is just great), Introduction and Dendron.
And I love the entire Goodness album lol