The Wonder Years Band • Page 28

Strange tracklist, cool cover tho

 

Is that a shoutout to Cursive's Burst & Bloom EP?

 

Lyrics from "You in January"

 

Amazon UK says the label is "Rude Records". Is that a thing?

 

It's one of the European distributors for Hopeless Records.

 

Solid stopgap considering the album doesn't look like it will be out until 2018 at this point. It's the first time they're missing the two-year window ever, by the way. Crazy how prolific they've been, and how high the quality has been in that span as well.

 

band needs a break to retool

 

I'm not criticizing them for it, it's just a fact that I'm pointing out. They definitely do deserve an extended break, they've put out a new full-length record every two years since 2007. That's a lot of writing/recording/touring. And it's all been great. If they need time to come back with something new and great, they should take it.

 

Seeing the setlist talk, I quickly made one:

1. Washington Square Park
2. I Don't Like Who I Was Then
3. Coffee Eyes
4. Dismantling Summer
5. Woke Up Older
6. Local Man Ruins Everything
7. Cigarettes & Saints
8. Everything I Own Fits In This Backpack
9. Raindance In Traffic
10. Hostels And Brothels/I Was Scared And I'm sorry
11. Hoodie Weather
12. Stained Glass Ceilings
13. Melrose Diner
14. Cul-De-Sac
15. The Devil In My Bloodstream
16. Cardinals
17. Don't Let Me Cave In
18. All My Friends Are In Bar Bands
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19. There, There
20. Passing through A Screen Door
21. And Now I'm Nothing
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22. Came Out Swinging

 

I will absolutely buy an acoustic Wonder Years EP, would be cool to get even 1 new song though...

 

Man, they played this at one show I was at and I had the biggest smile on my face.

 

Yeah I'm stoked for the EP. Seeing them full band acoustic at the one VIP session they did was fucking great. Really wish there was one or two new songs on there but it's cool.

I'm assuming we'll get a new album in early 2018

 

Hope the ep is a little more than just those songs on acoustic guitars. I know someone mentioned Hope earlier, and I agree that would be very interesting.

 

I think this is a semi-realistic dream setlist

1. Washington Square Park
2. Woke Up Older
3. I Don't Like Who I Was Then
4. There, There
5. Passing Through A Screen Door
6. Everything I Own Fits In This Backpack
7. Local Man Ruins Everything
8. Dismantling Summer
9. Don't Let Me Cave In
10. My Last Semester
11. Cul-de-sac
12. The Bastards, The Vultures, The Wolves
13. You In January
14. I Was Scared & I'm Sorry
15. You're Not Salinger
16. A Song For Ernest Hemingway
17. Cigarettes & Saints
18. I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral
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19. Brother & / Cardinals
20. The Devil In My Bloodstream
21. All My Friends Are In Bar Bands
22. Came Out Swinging

 

Acoustic EPs or versions of albums is such a Hopeless records band thing.

 

1. Came Out Swinging
2. Passing Through a Screen Door
3. Hostels and Brothels
4. Cardinals
5. Patsy Cline
6. Devil in my Bloodstream
7. I Wont Say the Lords Prayer
8. Don't Let Me Cave In
9. Melrose Diner
10. Glass Ceiling
11. Dismantling Summer
12. Palm Reader
13. Cul-de-sac
14. My Life as a Pigeon
15. The Bastards
16. Raindance In Traffic
17. Bluest Things
18. Thanks for the Ride
19. You're Not Salinger
20. Woke Up Older
21. Bar Bands
22. Sell Out My Funeral


Encore:
Washington Square
Cigarettes and Saints

 

Hope this bears resemblance to the acoustic Upsides bonus tracks that were totally different from the album versions. Logan Circle A New Hope is still one of the best from that era.

 

That'd be awesome if they did the songs in the same vein as that but I definitely don't see it happening

 

In my mind I like to think Logan Circle: A New Hope is the actual closer to The Upsides just because of how beautiful it is and how well it ties in with the rest of the album.

I'm sure it'll be more in line with something like Hope or LC:ANH. I doubt theyd just release these songs with some acoustic guitars. Probably have more keyboard/organ parts and slower pace overall.

 

It's actually just electric guitars mic'd acoustically played faster than the record and we compiled audio from random people in the crowd singing along for the vocals.

 

This is perfect.

 

this is what ive always wanted thank you nick

 

i listened to the first half of TGG today (ran out of time for the rest), holds up very well mostly, dismantling summer was the only song i was pretty eh on

 

love that song, i think it's much more memorable than "We Could Die Like This"

 

TGG is their best album IMO