Yellowcard Band • Page 66

Here's an interesting bit of trivia: Boys Like Girls are, for some reason, the only band I've ever seen three times in one calendar year.

 

Oooh, can't agree with that, it's definitely on par with the best songs on Love Drunk imo

 

I think "Crazy World" is a better song than anything on Love Drunk. I also like his voice a lot more than Alex Gaskarth's.

 

Shoot is greaaat

 

You had me and then you didn't, I like Martin's voice a lot but will take Alex any day of the week

 

It's fine. I don't dislike it like I do some of Love Drunk but I don't like it very much either.

 

"Shoot" is terrible.

 

Now that I look at the track listing, Crazy World definitely is decidedly weaker than the first two, but it still is like half really good songs

 

and here i thought we were getting along better

 

Honestly kind of baffled at the love you guys are giving Crazy World. I listened to it again today thinking I was underrating it. I wasn't. I'd probably give it a 5/10.

 

probably 7/10 or so for me

 

I wasn't kidding when I said Crazy World only had two good songs.

 

Theoretically, I should like "Crazy World" because it's a co-write with the guy from Better Than Ezra. But alas, I do not.

 

I'm just really surprised given how much you like country leaning things

 

I'd give CW like a 6, ha. I'd give LD like a 5.5 and the selftitled an 8.5.

 

Self titled is a 9.5, Love Drunk is an 8.5

 

I think that's why he hates it, because he actually likes real country, haha.

 

Hahaha touche

 

I think it's just a bad, calculated attempt at the mainstream country sound. They don't commit to the stylistic shift enough for it to be interesting and they don't retain enough of their previous strengths for it to be as catchy as it should be. With co-writers like Kevin Griffin and Luke Laird, that album should have their best hooks, but by far the catchiest song is the one Martin wrote himself.

 

Haha, more or less.

 

Just checked the writing credits and I like all the songs those two guys co-wrote. I still think the title track is catchier than The First Time. I also think songs like Stuck in the Middle and Cheated have pretty good verses that don't have much of an effect because the choruses are so weak.

 

I literally recall nothing about those songs and I listened to them like an hour ago.

 

Haha, I actually haven't listened to that album in quite a while. Maybe I'll put that on and have a fresher opinion.

 

I do remember Jason's first impressions of the album said something about the songs having a similar pop sensibility to Butch Walker

 

Crazy World? I would disagree with that. Butch has a much better sense of how to meld country into his style. I do think there are similarities between Butch and Martin though.