The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven
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Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 15th 2015


48424 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

The songs I disliked at first like Bluest Things and Ernest Hemingway are growing on me pretty hard. I reckon if you re-shuffled the tracklist so I Don't Like + Cigarettes weren't so early in the album and it didn't feel so frontloaded this would be on par with TGG

bubbahotep92
September 15th 2015


30 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Not exactly related to this album but i see a lot of people hating on Madelyn. But i personally love that song so much.

dimsim3478
September 15th 2015


8987 Comments


not a bad song and it fits well into its place on TGG but noticeably subpar of course

The songs I disliked at first like Bluest Things and Ernest Hemingway are growing on me pretty hard.

agreed, starting to realise that "Bluest" is really well composed + have come to love Soupy's over-the-top vox on that song. "Thanks for the Ride" is also growing on me.

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 15th 2015


48424 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

Thanks for the Ride and Bluest Things are two of the funnest jams on this imo and they're totally necessary. I Wanted So Badly To Be Brave and Patsy Cline are the weak points imo

dimsim3478
September 15th 2015


8987 Comments


lol complete opposite over here; i think Brave and Patsy are really strong points.

Rowan5215
Emeritus
September 15th 2015


48424 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

Fair fair. What do you think of the t/t will?

fallenbird
September 15th 2015


4493 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Brave is spectacular in the second half

EddieMarais
September 15th 2015


230 Comments


how can a review like this totally fail to mention Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties? This album has been massively influenced by it.

Feather
September 15th 2015


11497 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I support the (re) feature.



@eddie I don't see how aaron west had a "massive" influence" on this and I think its appropriate to not mention.

Toondude10
September 15th 2015


15372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

this did get featured beforehand, but who cares because this album is great.

Mutantsnowstorm
September 15th 2015


514 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

While I'll stick with my rating, I'd say the only weak tracks are I Wanted So Badly to be Brave and Palm Reader, but the alternate version of palm reader from target as well as slow dancing with san andreas help make up for both of those



also I can hear the aaron west influence, with the 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures and I'd say cigarettes and saints could be an aaron west song if they added a banjo and took a guitar or two away

YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
September 16th 2015


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Palm Reader is the only weak spot

dangerousdarrin
September 16th 2015


847 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is such a grower. I didn't like it much at all on first listen and now almost every track I love

Feather
September 16th 2015


11497 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I love this album (obviously), but I can't help but think that this album has made me realize even more how much I loved TGG. I have been listening to TGG on repeat the last couple days, after listening to this on repeat for about a week and I think TGG might be a bit better than this.

Crawl
September 16th 2015


2953 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Someone please explain why Palm Reader sucks, because I dig it.

YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
September 16th 2015


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Alternate version rules but the regular version is really instrumentally empty during the verses and the choruses kind of just plod along

BrushedRed
September 17th 2015


3895 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"Someone please explain why Palm Reader sucks, because I dig it."



The one by Protest the Hero is the bees knees

Clumseee
September 17th 2015


1847 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Even Third Eye Blind's is better.

dangerousdarrin
September 17th 2015


847 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I love the verses on Palm Reader but I'm not a big fan of the chorus.

fallenbird
September 17th 2015


4493 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I dislike you already



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