The Menzingers - After the Party (February 3, 2017) Album • Page 112

Yeah this is my favorite Menzingers release now.

 

Yeah I was a little skeptical at first. Didn't expect it to beat OTIP

 

i might honestly prefer RW over this and OTIP but i mean thats really just splitting hairs at this point because I think all 4 of those albums make up one of the best catalogs in punk

 

This is easily my favorite Menzingers album, my AOTY, and I'm so excited they're finally coming to Portland on this album

 

This is more or less my ranking as well.

 

ayyyy team RW!!!!

 

i need to spend more time with this. think im ready and far enough removed from where my life was at to listen again without breaking down lol

 

i think it has the bands best songs and is their most diverse sonically but thats not a slight against the other records at all because Menzos are always good about diversifying their brand of punk rock just for me songs like Asshole, Transient, Rodent, The Talk, Sentimental Physics, Where Your Heartache Exists, Nothing Feels Good Anymore are like top tier Menzos

 

For me:

ATP
RW
OTIP
CW

 

yeah rw came out at a time where i really connected with pretty much all of it, and that spring 2014 season was defined by four punk infused albums that i associate with that time and hold very dearly. rented world, oh common life, glass boys, and here and nowhere else all dominated my life for a good few months.

 

Chamberlain, Impossible Past, and After the Party feel like a cohesive transition and Rented World doesn't quite fit. It just kind of feels like a bunch of songs thrown together.

 

This album just continues to mean more and more to me. I turned 30 like a month before this came out, I connect with it on a really deep level. I'm sort of in a "time to grow up" part in my life, engaged, house, job, all that fun stuff. But part of me still clings to my 20s going to bars, drinking way more than I should all of that. I'm glad I've moved on from that stage of my life but I look back on it sometimes. Idk I'm done now lol.

 

Rented World is the record where I'm least likely to skip a song when played front-to-back, with Sentimental Physics and The Talk being the weakest. On the Impossible Past is definitely their strongest in terms of loving every track on the thing, but I am less drawn to listen all the way through, partially due to how much time I've spent with it.

This is definitely my least favorite of the three but I still adore it and hold it in high regard.

RW = OTIP > CW > ATP > ALITAOIT

 

OTIP and CW are my favorites but RW and ATP aren't lesser or anything like that

 

I feel like you could rearrange Rented World and I'd like it more. I Don't Wanna Be An Asshole is a great live opener but for that album it feels much more natural to end on that note. And Rodent would've been a hell of an opener.

 

i actually like when you died as a closer, i kind of like when bands go the more low key route for a closer than a huge big epic. which is why ive always been a "handcuffs" apologist lol

 

There's really no point in me ranking their albums because I consider ATP so far ahead of the rest of them. I enjoy CW, OTIP, and RW about equally

 

Why would you have to be that? Are you telling me people don't like that song?

I like When You Died at all, it just feels weird for the band and the placement. I still throw the song on and listen to it on shuffle, it's just kind of a weird mark to end the album for me. It's not so much the epicness of I Don't Wanna Be an Asshole as it is the message. Though I will say the same about Freedom Bridge. It's a really good song that's weirdly placed.

 

i kind of get that but i think its kind of a good respite from their usual focus on really detailed cohesion, its almost like a menzingers playlist, i dig the more loose feel it has. but like i said it really comes down to my personal connection to those songs and where they take me when i hear them

 

At first I thought Manchester would easily take this over as my aoty in a few weeks, but it's got a lot to really blow me away. I could listen to this record everyday for the rest of the year. Paramore is still a dark horse.

 

theres an entire faction of brand new fans who think handcuffs is a terrible closer. i think those people are insane

 

That's a good way to put it actually.
Oh yeah, I completely get that. Not knocking anyone for liking anything, especially an album I myself like, I just think it's not as focused as their other three. But good lord is it so much better than their first one haha. The songs I don't like as much off this aren't even bad songs, they just don't feel like Menzingers tracks to me, if that makes any sense. Their problem is making consistently phenomenal albums so Rented World comes around, which is very good but not up to par for me, so the difference seems more drastic.

 

Handcuffs is one of their best songs. That's crazy to me. That's an amazing song and the perfect closer for that album.

 

Rented World has their most dynamic songs imo. Nothing Feels Good Anymore is criminally underrated. I love all the out of key crowd members singing "what was I supposed to ddddoooOOooOooOoOOO" when they play Where Your Heartache Exists. Transient Love is a jam. My Friend Kyle is up there with Nothing Feels Good Anymore in terms of underappreciated Menz tracks, I'm glad the band seems to love it.

 

dont get me wrong i appreciate me a good huge closer (my fav jew song is dizzy (and also heart is hard to find)) but sometimes you need a breather after going through the emotional ups and downs of an album like tdag.