The Story So Far - Proper Dose (September 21st, 2018) Album • Page 67

I mentioned before, but I never really got into this band overall, but a few months ago realized that Proper Dose is actually really good. Listening again now and "Take Me As You Please" is really a fucking great song, huh. Really has that classic feel to it, like it's been a scene staple for years

 

Catchy melodies can’t be more creative?

Like you can’t listen to songs like Heavy Gloom or Mock and tell me Parker isn’t going section after section just copy and pasting the same short run of notes four to sixteen times ad nauseum

 

Upside Down is the one for me. Something special was brewing when they made that album. That would make my personal “top 10 songs from pop punk bands” list.

 

Totally agree that is a standout as well, those two with Let it Go back to back to back are what make my ears perk up and go "wait, do I actually like this band" haha

 

There’s some songs that tugged at my heart strings lyrically but musically I wish this sounded more like Letterman….



Or the songs mentioned above me lol

 

find it hard to believe this band will ever write an album as good as PD again

 

S/T is 100% the band just running it back for a third time. It works in spots but easily their worst record. If PD had been their third album I think they would be looked at differently as a band.

 

Pretty strongly disagree with that as I feel it bridges the transition to PD but feels like we’re beating a dead horse at this point lol. It has a overarching feeling of melancholy that the other albums before it don’t have. And as someone said before, the drumming is spectacular on it.

agree that the band would be viewed very differently if PD was #3

 

Very.

 

Torf has always been the secret juice that makes the band go, he is actively playing something more interesting than like 90% of pop punk drummers literally every single song

 

I think the guitarists (at least one of them) write some pretty interesting parts too. The one that also does Elder Brother I think.

 

You can actually hear the third guitar they use live pretty distinctively on the new album but Kevin definitely writes the majority of the cool parts

 

I didn’t like S/T too much when it came out. I’ve always thought Nerve, heavy gloom and solo were top tier. But I did listen to it for the first time in awhile the other day and liked it/knew it way more than I thought

 

I mean any pop punk band that makes it past 10 years has a good drummer.

 

This is growing on me pretty hard. I just hate that closer so much. Big blind still kinda sucks too.

 

You can be good and not write interesting parts and he writes very interesting parts

 

Spent some time with it, album is pretty underwhelming. Almost feels phoned in. I do REALLY like "you're still in my way" though. Some early 2000s NFG vibes.

 

Don't let Turnover's drummer read this

 

Turnover's drummer is good thanks

 

I'm not a drummer, so if they aren't being flashy I don't know how to tell if they're good/bad. But he's the definition of "playing what the song calls for". I don't think anything he's done has perked my ears up as a normie.

 

I am a drummer and that's why he's good

 

I have no logical reason to argue here

 

This album goes - pretty good/standard tssf into meh filler into very good close to Proper Dose tssf into wtf is this closer.

 

Still love that song. That and If I Fall are the highlights for me.

Hold me down
Help me drown ♫