The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True (October 13, 2023) • Page 47

I mean I agree a decent amount of that outside of the take on Some of It Was True. Hello Exile definitely diluted my interest in the band mostly due to the production, but Some of It Was True brought me back. It’s anything but a snooze fest.

 

Bad mix aside, I definitely prefer HE to the last one.

 

HE is really great don’t understand the hate and never have but I get not liking SOITWT

 

Hello Exile and After The Party just don't do anything for me at all unfortunately.

 

Hello Exile kind of falls into where Get Hurt did for me. Has a few top tier songs, but ultimately falls short of am an amazing 4 album run proceeding it. SOS-Handwritten and CW-ATP are two of my favorite stretches by any artist and I feel pretty similar about the follow ups to those stretches.

 

I love ATP and HE, this seemed fine but didn’t grab me at all and I don’t remember it

 

I love this album, but I am a bit more of a casual fan than most people here. I like all of their albums a lot, but they aren't really that next level for me. I'd say Hello Exile is probably the weakest if I had to pick one, but it's still one that I liked a lot at the time and I still throw it on occasionally. I usually love their b-sides / one-offs that they release between / after albums.

 

hearing everyone say this one is their weakest album is bumming me out - it really undersells and ignores how much Tom brought his A-Game this time around

 

There are some days where I think "Try" is a top 5 Menzingers song

 

I'm also someone who tended to prefer the Greg songs usually, once I went back and looked at it, but on this one it's all Tom and it's not even close. honestly, Greg's sad sack relationship stuff over and over and over kinda drags it down a bit overall.

 

Last 3 albums are easily the best and the only ones I listen to but they were never one of my favorite bands.

 

yeah tbh their loosies tend to work well for me. the less pressure on them the more theyre able to crank out bangers. like my fav release of theirs overall is the hold on dodge ep

 

lol

 

Where did you find the confidence to post this?

 

Tell us how you really feel.

 

Must have pulled it out of the same place this opinion came from.

 

I mean, Hold On, Dodge is a cool release. But I also prefer everything else after, haha.

 

I just listened to this again for the first time in a bit, and it definitely doesn't get nearly enough love - one banger after another

I kept waiting for a weaker song to come up, and they don't stumble until Track 12, which is a pretty damn good run

my major critique of the album would be Greg's lyrical content being kinda immature and repetitive, but I think Tom absolutely bringing the heat in all departments definitely offsets that

 

Tom gets better with every record and I'm glad he's getting the love he is now. I think this was the only album where I preferred his songs over Greg's. Alone in Dublin is a blast however.

 

The back half of this record is some of my least favorite material from the band, but the front half is everything I expect/enjoy. Agreed about Tom having the strongest songs on here though.

 

"High Low" might be my favorite song on this album

 

I concur

 

Which ones tom and which ones Greg

 

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