The Maine - You Are Ok (March 29, 2019) Album • Page 49

I rarely come back to this record at all. I don’t connect with any of the songs. However to say the songs are “not good” is a whole other thing.

This is definitely not a favorite of mine though. And I put it a full tier, maybe even two tiers below AC and LLL.

 

Its not as good as LLL but its still fantastic.

 

It’s not as accessible as LLL but this is their best record. LLL close second.

 

Everyone ranks differently, but I don’t get how you could adore LLL, and just outright say that the songs here aren’t good. There are a lot of similarities between the two.

 

This.

 

I think LLL is def better with this one a close second.

 

From a pure I’ll put this on whenever /enjoyment side? I go LLL - AC - this

 

LLL is def the best. I'd then go American Candy as #2.

 

This is the only one that really grabbed me.

 

It seems I'm a weird fan because my favorites by far are YAO, FH, and Pioneer, then a step down is LLL (which is still great, obviously), and then AC (also good), and then way down there are the first two records. I like their debut a little more than B&W for nostalgia reasons, but yeah, those are just the records I relate to.

 

I wish I liked American Candy more. I want to sooo bad. The highs are incredible. Miles Away, Same Suit, Diet Soda, English Girls, and Another Night. The rest just seem to just really drag the whole thing down a notch, though.

 

Eh this one's just kinda boring to me. It's not "bad" though.

 

The fob cover is pretty cooool

 

I thought it was fantastic!

 

This album has skips for me, so it'll never be their best (again, for me, taste is subjective after all). I do think it has their highest career highs though. When this album hits... it HITS.

(It's a great album and I love it very much, I just do not personally share the opinion that it's their best.)

 

Prefer LLL but Heaven is a top five Maine song for me.

 

I would say I enjoyed OK more than LLL and American Candy but the Pioneer era is where it’s at for me. Forever Halloween Deluxe too.

Ice Cave? Come on, man.

 

I feel you on the top three.

I would rank their albums as such:

Pioneer > FH deluxe > OK > AC > LLL > Black & White >>>>> CSWS

 

Prolly my least favorite stretch of their records are Pioneer and FH.

 

My ranking for this band is definitely unusual:

LLL
Black & White
You Are OK
American Candy
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Pioneer
Forever Halloween

 

LLL
American Candy
Black & White
You Are OK
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Pioneer
Forever Halloween

 

You Are Ok
LLL
American Candy
Idk, haven't listened to the rest

 

You are OK
LLL
Forever Halloween
Black and White
American Candy
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Pioneer

 

y'all are hurting my soul with this Pioneer/FH (Deluxe) slander

 

As someone who was a fan of this band in the early days, they definitely lost me on those two album cycles. It seemed like they hated the experience of making/promoting Black & White so much that they actively rebelled against writing catchy melodies. I've come around on those albums a little bit, but they still strike me as a band casting around for its own sound and identity (which they found on American Candy and Lovely Little Lonely, to great effect).