I feel like I can make a case for a number of albums to be ranked #2 after LLL. LLL is their opus. So so good.
I feel like my Maine ranking is probably not standard... Lovely Little Lonely XOXO Black & White American Candy The Maine Pioneer You Are OK Can't Stop, Won't Stop Forever Halloween Too early to say on Dyed. Probably slots in around that self-titled/Pioneer section.
Lovely Little Lonely American Candy Black & White Dyed The Maine XOXO Pioneer Can't Stop, Won't Stop You Are OK Forever Halloween
LLL Pioneer Self-Titled YAO Forever Halloween AC CSWS XOXO B&W Only part I'm not pretty solid on is AC & CSWS - could arguably swap those two. Dyed is somewhere under YAO but above XOXO. It's also interesting to me that the first year after YAO came out I think I felt a little let down by it, but it's really stuck out to me over the last couple years. And with XOXO I really thought I loved it at first, and lately I'm realizing a lot of it does nothing for me. Sticky, Lips, and Pretender are great, but I really don't care for High Forever or DPB. The rest is good it just doesn't stand out in their discog for me.
YAO was such a disappointment for me when it came out. I find the record to be quite un-uplifting compared to LLL, which I think is my biggest problem with it.
LLL AC Self Titled YAO XOXO Pioneer FH CSWS B&W LLL is by far out there as their absolute best and coherent album. Absolutely my most prized possession of my whole record collection.
Yall are about to make me do a early discog run. I never listen to those first 4 albums. LLL The Maine XOXO American Candy YAO the rest.
Boy that’s tough because I like all of them since American candy almost the same amount haha XOXO YAO LLL The Maine
LLL The Maine American Candy Pioneer XOXO You Are OK Dyed Can't Stop Won't Stop Black & White Forever Halloween I think? Need to revisit this band's discography when I have the time
i'm so upset i didn't buy this when i had the chance. it's probably my favorite record that's come out in the last 10 years. i will never not preorder their records again.
Lovely Little Lonely American Candy The Maine XOXO You Are OK Pioneer Forever Halloween Black & White Can't Stop Won't Stop i got into this band around the time of American Candy. i like the older stuff, it was just harder to get into in my 30s.
do we have any idea why they do such limited pressings of things? they could obviously sell out a pressing of AC, LLL. also weren't they going to re-record black and white?
LLL S/T XOXO YAO AC Don't really care about the rest, other than Dyed, but it's too early to rank that one.
Lovely Little Lonely The Maine XOXO Dyed You Are OK American Candy Can't Stop Won't Stop Black & White Pioneer Forever Halloween
I didn't realize it was relatively common to have gotten into the band at/around AC. Thought I was probably one of the only ones. Admittedly, I still haven't spent much time with any of the earlier records. I probably should.