youuuuuuu are ok with touching underage girls if you still listen to this albummmm

Album Rating: 5.0

not far and away their best but yeah it’s their best for me too

it's moved into second place for me, honestly. if this came out in 2006, it would probably be my #1. TD&G was released at the perfect time in my life.

"TDAGARIM: cheating on your wife with teenage girls and feeling bad about it

Daisy: Still feeling bad about what you did

Science Fiction: Telling people what you did but you still feel bad about it"

lmao

Album Rating: 5.0

So anyway I have been really digging Batter Up lately

Album Rating: 4.9

Batter Up has always been my favorite, really got me through some shit last year

Album Rating: 4.5

I need to spin my vinyl again. Been too long. And gee it sure would be nice if the “limited edition” came with an actual case and not the paper bullshit they gave me. Also still mad that none of the trinkets and pictures in there meant anything or had any real significance

Album Rating: 4.5

One of my favorite lines in the song is “I saw something in the night sky over Camden. I turned around and drove the opposite direction ‘cause I fear them.”

What do you think that’s all about?? So eerie

Album Rating: 5.0

It's about UFOs. That line about Camden is one of my favorites on the whole album. I don't live far from there so it's kind of a cool shout out.

Album Rating: 4.5

UFO seems like the obvious answer, but I don’t understand how it really fits into the song.

Album Rating: 5.0

Seems like there's two separate themes in the song but UFOs are definitely one of them. The whole "turning up your gravity and pull me in" verse as well as the eerie outro makes that clear. Lacey also has an obsession with the Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah forgot about that other line. Still wonder if there’s any more significance to that choice

Album Rating: 4.9

I'm sure It's using UFOs as a metaphor for the fear of what a life without Brand New as a creative outlet will be like or some shit like that

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm a conspiracy theorist at heart and I still think that Lacey knew the allegations were coming. The UFOs are a metaphor for the women he hurt but he finally feels prepared to face them even though it will end his career. Give me your best shot. Batter Up.

Similarly "knowing" lines can be found throughout the record. Lit Me Up is like a prophecy for his demise. Can't Get It Out has that line about finally finding his courage. Waste details him and this mystery person being stuck like glue, and also "every night had you laid low, it's going to feel so good to let it go" - which alludes to him feeling confined and unable to move on, almost like he was being blackmailed and couldn't wait for the burden to be lifted... tons and tons of references across the album that feel all too coincidental.

Album Rating: 4.9

Yeah I've read into In the Water like that a bit

Album Rating: 4.0

i kinda doubt all of that, he probably wasnt even thinking about what he did way back when so many years later. maybe when the whole #metoo thing came about he got worried but idk.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah it's definitely a far fetched idea, albeit not totally impossible.

Batter Up is incredible. In my Top 10 BN songs for sure. TD&G is still my favorite overall album of theirs, but Sci-Fi has the best Opener/Closer combo without a doubt. Starting on Lit Me Up and ending on Batter Up, insanity.

Album Rating: 5.0

Lit Me Up was one of my least favorite songs on this album when I first heard it and now it's in my top 5 BN songs of all time

I never had that initial aversion to it, but I concur with the last part for sure. Probably in my Top 3, actually. Even that pre-recorded intro gives me chills now.