The Menzingers - After the Party (February 3, 2017) Album • Page 150

Oh my god. The greatest shirt of all time

 

released 6 years ago today. give it a birthday spin.

 

Still holds up. Pretty damn close to a perfect album.

 

Holds strong as my second favourite behind OTIP, and that may be driven by sentimentality.

 

Those are just impossible (yuck yuck) to compare.

They both just encapsulate a specific feeling so well. OTIP being young and reckless and ATP on growing up and being forced to move on. Right in the feels.

 

It’s still their best

 

Not too long after this album came out my friend and I went on mini road trip from Phoenix to LA. On the way back to Phoenix we played this album on repeat, basically the whole ride. Especially Your Wild Years. We kept starting it over when it was close to ending.

This album is the soundtrack to a lot of good memories but driving through the desert with my best friend, windows down, music up is one that I'll hold 'til eternity, cause the future ain't coming for it.

 

I almost missed my flight home to Australia from America just to pick this up from Amoeba. Had to run down Sunset Blvd to meet the waiting cab. As soon as the opener kicked into gear I knew it had been worth the stress. I loved OTIP and was lukewarm on RW. ATP was The Menzingers back at their absolute peak.

 

This is the Menz at their peak

 

I wish I could go back and listen to this again for the first time haha, these were my first reactions posted.

This album has probably vaulted up there to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

 

I still listen to that album a lot and one line that never ceases to really shock me to my core every time is “I was there when the wall fell down, I’ll be there when the ocean rises”. I’m not sure I ever heard a more succinct and devastating line to describe my generation lol

 

Tom gets a lifetime pass from me for that one line

 

“Building castles with can and bottles / drinking like they do in novels”

One my favorite Tom lyrics

 

Finally got this one on vinyl yesterday, go to give it a spin and the record skips all the way through Telling Lies.

 

Cheers to six years of my favorite Menzingers album (followed by Exile and Impossible Past).