Yellowcard Band • Page 39

and that was the case for Southern Air, Lift A Sail, and now this one. At least I believe Transmission Home was the leadoff single wasn't it?

 

no One Bedroom, then Make Me So, then Transmission Home, then Crash the Gates

 

"Awakening" was the second track (or third?) that they released off Southern Air. "Always Summer" was the leadoff.

 

Damn, my memory is bad. Maybe I didn't hear Always Summer before Awakening, because I remember it being the first one I ever heard.

 

With You Around was not a single from WYTTSY.

Still crazy to me.

 

With You Around is my favorite Yellowcard song. I hope the Saves The Day record is SWYA or IR.

 

Yeah, the fact that that song wasn't and "For You and Your Denial" was is pretty nuts to me.

 

I'm not exactly a big Yellowcard fan but "For You and Your Denial" was the song that got me to check out that album. I don't think "With You Around" would have.

 

Yeah I think that was a good single coming out of hiatus, "With You Around" could have been a lead single if it wasn't from the album coming out of hiatus

 

With You Around is a far better and catchier song though

 

I disagree. I listened to both after I posted and I definitely prefer "For You and Your Denial".

 

I think that song and The Sound of You and Me are just miles ahead of the rest of that album

 

for you and your denial is prob my least favorite on that album

 

It's in the bottom half for me, definition of a pedestrian Yellowcard song. Though I'd say See Me Smiling and Be the Young are the worst songs on the album.

 

The minute I listened to With You Around my mind was saying "Radio! Single! Radio!"

I couldn't believe it wasn't even an official single.

Btw, that album is awesome. Soundtrack is so underrated.

 

"The Sound of You and Me" is just the ultimate "coming back from a hiatus" song.

 

I like "For You and Your Denial" fine, it has just never struck me as a lead single. Granted, "One Bedroom" didn't either.

 

Always Summer was a great single choice. I understand For You and Your Denial being a single, it's a totally safe YC song. One Bedroom...yeah, don't get that one. I'm not sure what I would have picked for the first single from LaS though - probably Crash the Gates?

 

Am I the only one who likes One Bedroom? Haha

 

I think it's okay, just didn't like it as a single choice.

 

Lift a Sail is so bad. People who like it / defend it - is this really the one album in a span of the eight that you're going to go back to in 10 years and re-listen to when you want some YC? I'd argue no, so does it really deserve defending from those who really don't like it...?

 

Why can I only listen to one Yellowcard album?

Will I still be listening to it in ten years? Yep.

 

And again, there's a difference between you not liking it and it being bad. It is not a bad record.

 

It's not for me, so I think it's bad. Compared to the rest of their amazing discography and the quality they've produced, it's trash, but in the grand scheme of "all music ever created" then I guess it's not awful. And my point is, when you go back and listen to YC albums every so often I doubt anyone's first-second-third-or fourth choice will be to play this over Paper Walls, Ocean Avenue, Southern Air, or Lights and Sounds. So is it really worth defending if it's not going to have that lasting value anyway? I consider lasting value to be a very, very important component of deeming something worthwhile / fantastic / great etc.

 

I understand this. In fact, I spent a lot of time feeling this way. Coming off of the Southern Air album cycle I was legitimately excited for something else that would drive me into summer with a classic Yellowcard sound. For those who say that gets boring, I say that this band could write and expand within that sound without changing so drastically.

But i've realized something in the past year. Lift a Sail is exactly what I would've wanted out of Yellowcard at the time. For them to challenge themselves and really try to expand their sound and write something different than before. I think that in the future I will go back to Lift a Sail just as much as the others because they did just that.

Maybe they didn't create exactly the record all of the summer-loving, windows down, beach bumming Yellowcard fans wanted. But is it really fair for us to label that as their identity? I, for one, have grown glad that the band tried to expand that identity and work toward a different sound. Lift a Sail is a creative piece that we will always have in their catalog that goes along with the droves of other great songs they've written. And i'm glad to have it.