The Wonder Years Band • Page 73

It was a difficult decision for me, but I have to go with Cigarettes & Saints.

Current Totals:

Came Out Swinging - 15
Cigarettes & Saints - 14

 

A half hour to go I'm going with Cigarettes & Saints, but Came Out Swinging is my second favorite Wonder Years song and it was very close. Which puts us at 15-15.

WHO WILL BREAK THE TIE?!

 

I think @nicksteinborn needs to weigh in

 

Came Out Swinging

 

Cigarettes and saints

 

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

But he was late and @beggars05 evened it out anyways.

 

Someone please save this thread from this tie so I can be freed from my hell.

 

But all heroes do have an archnemesis apparently.

 

Can we just call it an honest to god tie and say these 2 songs are both way too good to actually say either is better or more loved than the other?

 

No I must know the people's choice.

Someone get in on this.

 

Aww c'mon man, I literally make an account to break this tie, then you come in right after and tie it back up

 

Came Out Swinging.

 

The people have spoken!

 

It is over.

 

A worthy winner. The video is sensational. First time I've watched it in years.

Still feel sorry for Hank.

 

Let's face it, almost every song in this contest was fucking awesome. We are lucky to have a band with as solid a catalogue as The Wonder Years.

 

Well said!

 

Looks like member berries win again

 

Happy with the turnout

 

I still think NCTH is a bad album and Cigarettes is a great song. Swinging is a weaker song on a significantly better album.

 

Surprised Local Man Ruins Everything didn't get further if I'm honest.

 

Came Out Swinging is TWY firing on all cylinders, doing their signature sound better than anyone else could, and to me, it's far more worthy of the "best TWY song" title than C&S, which is also great, but is more of an outlier in their catalog. I think TWY's main legacy at this point is the legitimization of pop-punk as a genre that can and should be taken seriously, and Came Out Swinging is probably the song you can best point at to justify that legacy. Glad it ended up winning this matchup, although I probably would personally choose Cul-De-Sac, Funeral, or Washington Square Park as their best song.

 

I'm at the point now where I'm starting to love No Closer To Heaven as much as the three previous album. I've been listening to it a lot recently and I've grown to love songs that didn't click with me at first like The Bluest Thing On Earth and Palm Reader.

 

I've come back to NCTH a couple times recently hoping it'll click, but no dice. I think it's better than I initially gave it credit for, but there are too many mediocre songs and the production makes me not want to stick it out through the whole album.