The Wonder Years - Sister Cities (April 6, 2018) Album • Page 198

I’m so glad YWTC has been a staple now that they’re back together. That song is wild

 

easy top 5 song

 

Top 3 probably tbh

 

i like to be conservative with this sort of thing until i know for sure!!!

 

full collapse then go in order

 

thursday sucks

 

you were the cancer is only the third best song on common existence


last call and love has led us astray are better

 

that outro though...

 

out here with the good takes for once

 

I only really listen to ND and ACBTLD. the former is my far my favorite

 

I should listen to more Thursday, have listened to all of their albums maybe a handful of times total.

It's disrespectful really. Gotta dig back in there.

 

I've never listened to Thursday :(

 

Came out swinging and woke up older are the best songs on suburbia, and me vs. the highway >>>

e: also hoodie weather is overrated af imo

 

And Now I’m Nothing is the best song in their catalogue. I agree that Hoodie Weather is overrated though.

 

Rank Your Records: Dan "Soupy" Campbell Rates The Wonder Years' Five Albums - Noisey

REALLY enlightening article with Dan ranking all of TWY's albums.

"The thing we hear most often is that people don’t like the mix for [No Closer To Heaven] [...] As anyone who has some depression issues will tell you, you go through highs and lows, and I was really, really low. I remember when we got the mix I didn’t even listen to it. Steve Evetts produced the record again and he called me and said, “Did you hear this mix, man? We can’t let this come out.” And I was like, “Steve, I don’t care. I don’t care if it comes out at all.” I was just in such a bad place that I didn’t give a shit."

 

that's the most autocritical Rank Your Records i've seen yet. glad he didn't put NCTH at the top and addressed its glaring issue. i had no idea his depression influenced the mixing process.

also i'm gonna guess the Suburbia and TGG songs he'd cut out: tracks 5 6 and 11 (Suburbia), tracks 9 to 11 (TGG).

 

Not to be like that but reading that article and with Burst & Decay out and LPOE running, it seems that some boys are trying to escape the hopeless records ship

 

I realized after reading that how Sister Cities is the perfect length. It never feels stale-keeps a good pace, and there aren’t too many songs.

The Upsides will always have my heart, but SC for sure is the best one.

 

This makes me hopeful for a set of remasters from this band eventually... I would do terrible, terrible things for a better mix on NCTH and SC.

Edit: I literally just read he loves the mix on SC. Whelp, I'll keep dreaming.

 

SC's mix is just fine in my book. I think a lot of people who have issues with it have been listening on spotify, where the files apparently sound atrocious.

 

He loved the mix on NCTH when it came out. I forget where it was but I listened to a podcast with him when the record came out and he was really stoked on how the record sounded, to the point where it was almost a brag.

 

Didn't @nicksteinborn say he was working on his mix of NCTH in his down time?

 

I have the CD in my car, the vinyl, mp3s I got from an online download, and I listen on Spotify. It's rough to listen to wherever I am. I mean, it sounds better with higher quality and the EQ I have on it, but it still gets in the way of listening sometimes.

 

Kyoto
Flowers
Pyramids
Ocean
Ghosts
Lonely
Sister Cities
Sad and Sober
Orange Grove
Blue
Lightening

 

I would love a better mix of NCTH. I don’t know how people even listen to it, lol. I love this band but I can’t think of a more sensitive way to say it - no matter how many times I try I just can’t listen to it front to back because it sounds so bad.