Yellowcard - Yellowcard (September 30, 2016) Album • Page 14

It's been a long time since I last listened to Lift A Sail, but Transmission Home is one of my favorite songs on the album. I loved it the second I heard those drums. I enjoy Crash The Gates and One Bedroom too, but Make Me So is definitely a drag. I always felt like that song stuck out as Yellow card doing their more typical, pop punk sound.

Overall, though, I always felt like the album was all over the place and not in a good way. I think the back-to-back of Fragile And Dear and Illuminate is the best part of the album. Othwrwise, from there, the only other songs I enjoyed are the title track and California.

 

Agreed 110%

 

Yeah, that's my favorite part as well. Lift a Sail has really become my favorite Yellowcard album recently. I'm either reaching for that or Southern Air usually, so I'm really expecting to love the new one.

 

The first 10 songs on SA are my favorite stretch of YC songs

 

Unpopular opinion here, Southern Air is overrated, When You're Through Thinking Say Yes is a better album. I'd much rather listen to See You Smiling or Be The Young than anything off SA. That album never had much replay value to me. I'm glad they changed direction with Lift A Sail and tried something different

 

I also think Crash The Gates, Lift A Sail and Fragile and Dear are the best songs off Lift A Sail. MSK and Madrid are the ones I skip most

 

lol very unpopular opinion. that album has the most replay value, at least for me.

 

Yes. Best songs hands down. I honestly think Illuminate is one of their greatest songs they have done

 

I was texting @Deathco_019 about this last night, and I've talked with @FTank and @Craig Manning about this also

SA just feels like Yellowcard at their peak, firing on all cylinders and pushing their sound just enough to keep things fresh and interesting. To make a comparison to another staple scene rock band, SA is their Futures (Lights & Sounds is their Invented, OA their BA, OFTK their SP, LaS their Damage, the similarities in fan reactions are eerily similar). SA is just the band doing everything right, lyrically it's Keys best imo, the drumming and violin are top notch, the guitars and bass are in a good spot, it's all just wonderful.

Not to discredit the rest of their discog because yeah it's pretty stellar too

 

Sorry, but Paper Walls is by far Yellowcard at their peak.

 

PW is a close second

 

I agree with this post.

 

I love Paper Walls the most. I always go back to that album. It has the nostalgia of OFTK and OA, the beauty/darkness/musicianship of L&S and LaS, and the intensity and fun jams of WYTTSY and SA. Plus, I really like the production on that album. SA is definitely the runner up for me then followed by L&S.

 

Paper Walls is obviously great, but I think the songwriting on Southern Air is just at another level.

 

yeah i adore PW, but I think SA does everything that album does but better, and its more concise. SA doesnt have a Dear Bobbie

 

SA doesn't have Dear Bobbie, but it does have A Vicious Kind which I've just never enjoyed from the get go.

 

It just feels more refined to me. I think the hooks are stronger and I think Key was more tapped in lyrically.

 

i completely agree. SA is also more dynamic, with heavier rock tracks and slower ballads and acoustic tracks and some pop rock and excellent use of violin throughout.

 

They're both pretty dynamic in terms of the types of songs they attempt, but I think SA feels more successful in that regard because the hooks are better.

 

God damn, it's so hard for me to choose between these two, but I do think I tend to lean towards SA.

 

They occupy different spaces for me, though. PW is more sprawling while SA is virtually the definition of concise. I can put each on to satisfy different moods/feelings.

I also love Dear Bobbie, but SA doesn't have a track nearly as weak as Light Up the Sky. Without that song and Five Becomes Four, I'd say the albums are dead even.

 

Craig and I made the comparison of PW being their Clarity, more sprawling and "epic" so to speak, while SA is their Futures. More lean and taut, but still featuring some good experimentation and dynamics.

Theyre both scene classics and I dont think less of anyone that has PW as their favorite, but yeah like you said above its got some weaker tracks (i really dislike Dear Bobbie, not just because of the grandpa vocals either)

 

Staggering that it didn't get radio play, honestly. Also thought With You Around should've made it.

 

Only listened to the first single once. Waiting until I can listen to the whole thing before I listen to anything else.

 

Wait, that's a man on Dear Bobbie? I always thought it was an old woman for some reason. I almost never listen to that song unless I'm listening all the way through the album though