The Starting Line - Eternal Youth (September 26, 2025) • Page 10

I can't tell at all wtf he's saying in the verses but its cool i guess

 

Hey
No dancing to the DJ
They won’t put down their phones
This lot on some kind of mission
Some people cannot be left alone

Murphy’s Law in the next room
Open with Quest For Herb
Now everybody’s moving
Matt Gray still knows every word by heart

Slow burn
Billowing
Your turn
Meet me at the front
Rotation
Circulate
Cloud burst
Right before it’s done

Post show throw on Transmission
Tempo is taking hold
Maybe I should write it down
To say no one wrote a song as good as Love Will Tear Us Apart

Cultural demolition
Never was set in stone
In the midst of repetition
Subtle changes manage to occur

Starting to permeate
A shifting paradigm
And always taking place
In a race against time
I wouldn’t hesitate
The work is never done
In a continuous race against time

 

God, I love this band.

 

Starting a discog run now solely because of how much I like this song lol. It’s been since high school.

 

Really hard to do but really glad they didn't go for the low hanging nostalgia fruit while remaining in the genre not trying to be artsy-indie at the same time. Would be really great if this caught traction outside the scene of current fans too.

Probably my most anticipated since Why Would I Watch.

 

This is going to be their best album yet huh?

 

I wouldn't go that far, but it's shaping up to be promising.

 

This is me - I've liked, but not loved, their older albums and could not get into a full project after many attempts, even if I loved some of their songs from each album.

Really anticipating this new record based on these two songs

 

Same.

 

I love it. I don't have issues with the mix, I do think Kenny is a bit mush mouthed on it but that's fine. Wish this was coming out sooner

 

just blasted both of these singles a couple times. they're sooo good! i have no issue at all with the mix, production, etc. fucking rocks.

 

Another case of the Yips

 

Kenny can't sing like a 16 year old anymore, but love the way his vocals have evolved to fit the music. 2/2 here

 

I've long said that TSL's discography is the most solid progression of any band in the scene. Each album pushed a little further and further without going too far forward or falling back. And this is another example. Can't fucking wait.

 

ok i take back what i said about the mix. it was my shitty wireless carplay. listened in headphones and this sounds awesome.

 

If the rest of the album is as consistent in quality then I think we have their best record on our hands IMO.

It took me a minute to get used to Kenny’s vocals but now that I have? I’m thrilled with the (no pun intended) direction they’re going with here.

 

I saw this in the Hayley Williams thread recently too and it got me thinking ... why are we so quick to rank things from our favorite artists? I've lived with SILYMI since I was 18. That's like 24 years of my life. I won't know where this album sits, really sits, in the band's catalog pantheon for years. Living with it. Growing with it. Experiencing it. I struggle with seeing this race to declare things the best, the top, the worst, and all the context of what makes albums great being speed-run. Time! Experiences! Life! These are things that make albums great great.

I worry all my music listening is now boiling down to needing to compare it to what I loved as a teenager. Is the new Yellowcard as good as Ocean Avenue?! I dunno man that album saved my fucking life when I was going through hell. How does The Starting Line match up to the album you played your entire freshman year of college? I'm, uh, 42 with a mortgage and a job while the world burns around me, like, one makes me feel like my life is in front of me and is connected to my skin and tissue? shake shake Ask again later?

 

Also probably on my mind because of @Craig Manning's recent writings on his 35 years of songs feature. Totally worth reading if you haven't yet: My Life In 35 Songs • chorus.fm

 

Really digging this one

 

I think its pretty common for albums that came out when you were 16-25 to just hit different than they do when you're 40. Its kind of a bummer to think that as a 43 year old, I wont have the same emotional connection to songs/albums I did when I was 19, but I think thats just the reality. So yea, its tough to rank albums that came out at the time when I had ALL THE EMOTIONS relative to now, when Im just a dude not going through the emotional ringer of being young. its not really fair to the albums put out later.

So yea, thats all to say, I 100% agree with you. And I just listened to Circulate for the first time, and it really rips and Im pretty excited for this record to come out. Im gonna hold off on not playing this single anymore until the album is out.

 

Loving the energy of this and Sense of Humor. Stoked for the album.

 

This is damn good

 

I think the reason that a lot of people stop resonating with new music as they get older is that they fail to acknowledge exactly what you just said. New music just isn't going to feel the same way at 40 as it did at 14 or 18 or 21. So yeah, the ranking/comparison mindset can set you up for disappointment, for sure. When it comes to some of these bands that we're getting new music from after years of hiatuses or breakups, I just try to approach those with a totally different mindset -- less, "Is the new Yellowcard as good as Ocean Avenue?" more "Isn't it fucking cool that this even exists?"

Thanks for the shout! Also, one of the interesting things with this series is definitely which pivotal artists I chose "later" stuff from. (Most of those, I haven't gotten to yet, but they're coming soon.)

 

Another thing that probably attributes to the urge to rank stuff right off the bat is because of the streaming era we are in. We get tons of new albums/songs to listen to almost daily, so we don't sit with albums as long as we did back when we only had a few CDs in our bedrooms, and couldn't get another one until we mowed a couple more lawns or whatever. Now it's all so constant that we need to make up our minds about it hastily so we can move onto the next album, and it might be days or weeks before we ever revisit an album a second time.

But also, I have this distinct memory from when I was a kid: I fell in love with the band Everclear after hearing "Everything to Everyone" and so my parents bought me the So Much For The Afterglow CD. I wore that fucker outttt. And they were the first band where I wanted to seek out their previous albums next. So I got Sparkle and Fade. I remember hearing it and almost asking my parents to take it back to the store I could get a new CD, because I reallllllly didn't like it. It was more raw than SMFTA, less pop hooks to latch onto my 11/12 year old self. But I decided to keep it and listened to it a lot more. The more I listened, the more I loved it, and it eventually became my favorite Everclear album, even over SMFTA.

I can't imagine a 12 year old now would have as much patience with an album. They'd probably skim through a couple songs, come up with an overall verdict, and just delete it if they don't love it right away.