Album Rating: 5.0

again, no need to apologize - your outlook is probably more correct in the modern era. i'm an old man by sput standards, hauling around my 31 yr old ass and still trying to promote BN/mwY/Thrice to the next generation of internet music geeks

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm 29 and with you on all of those except Thrice. Find them bloody boring af but damn do I ever love Illusion and Artist

Album Rating: 5.0

@gyro - A->B is great, I still like it more than It's All Crazy...but yeah it is still at the lower end of their discog simply because of how good their CFUTF--->[Untitled] output has been. Also I feel like I promote Thrice pretty infrequently compared to MO, so maybe sub them in there lol.

Album Rating: 4.0

It's All Crazy is probably their weakest album agreed. King Beetle is one of the best songs ever tho imo, maybe some of their best lyrics. Besides that and Fox I don't find myself returning to the album very often

I'll Play. There were probably 10 others that I could've justified to fit on here; they just haven't stuck as well. Sorry, "Sweater." I really wanted to include "Silencer" or "Gentlemen" but some of the newer tracks just edged them out. Also, I'm not sure where either [Untitled] release fits on here yet.

1_Messes of Men
2_My Exit, Unfair
3_Bear’s Vision of St. Agnes
4_C-Minor
5_The Soviet
6_In a Market Dimly Lit
7_Disaster Tourism
8_Mexican War Streets
9_Lilac Queen
10_Every Thought a Thought of You

Album Rating: 4.0

really loving the Catch For Us love on here. My Exit is such a good song but Paper Hanger edges it out. Also think the closer is really damn good (Son of A Widow). Bear's Vision and Messes are also on mine.

Yeah, the last 2 tracks of CFUTF work so well together.

My Exit is packed full of Aaron's peak wordplay.

I said "water" expecting the word would satisfy my thirst
Talking all about the second and third
When I haven't understood the first

This sentiment always reminded me of The National's "Brainy":

mwY:
And she'd always weigh me down
But, afraid I might need her
I dragged her around

The National:
I've been draggin' around
From the end of your coat for two weeks
...You might need me more
Than you think you will

Sowing, sorry this has turned into a general mwY manifesto. I'm sure it'll return to form once we all have the new album.

1. Michael Row Your Boat Ashore
2. Rainbow Signs
3. Nine Stories
4. Messes of Men
5. Carousels
6. Tortoises All The Way Down
7. Red Cow
8. King Beetle
9. Julia
10. Flee Thou, Matadors!

Album Rating: 4.0

You guys are whack. Sweater is obv top 10

Definitely in my top 15 at least

Album Rating: 5.0

1. The Dryness and the Rain



2. King Beetle



3. Silencer



4. Tie Me Up! Untie Me!



5. Red Cow



6. O, Porcupine



7. Messes of Men



8. My Exit, Unfair



9. Grist for the Malady Mill



10. Four Word Letter (Pt. Two)



Almost impossible to do but I've had a go anyway.



Not received my pre-order yet, c'mon.

Album Rating: 4.5

@freddie nice to see someone else showing Nine Stories some love

Album Rating: 4.3

Love the variety between people's lists - so many great tracks to pick from < 3

Could some of y'all explain the love for My Exit, Unfair though? Never quite got that one



1. Nine Stories

2. January 1979

3. Rainbow Signs

4. Carousels

5. Mexican War Streets

6. Red Cow/Dorothy

7. In A Market Dimly Lit

8. In A Sweater Poorly Knit

9. Magic Lantern Days

10. Nice & Blue/Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt (love how those two feed off each other)



Really rough list though, Fox's Dream, Bear's Vision, O Porcupine, Paper Hanger etc all lost out

Album Rating: 4.3

"This sentiment always reminded me of The National's "Brainy":"



Nice point dude, gonna relisten to both with this in mind

"You guys are whack. Sweater is obv top 10"

I had it in there then switched it out with Market Dimly Lit at the last second after re-listening to that bassy intro with the accordion layer. "Sweater" is one of the songs that originally sucked me in to mwY, though.

C-Minor needs more love. That simple guitar melody overtop those drums with Aaron's weird, rhythmic, syncopated vocals (almost percussive itself)...such an addicting pacing right off the bat. And that ending, "I'd rather never talk again than to continue to pretend that this never ends" (It Never Ends, It Never Ends, etc.).

@johnnydeking29

With a lot of mwY songs, I'm not always immediately sucked in. Usually there's a moment that grips me and everything unfolds from there. Or maybe it's when I really dive in to the lyrics. Either way, there's still usually some found clarity that makes a song click.

My Exit, Unfair starts slow, so it's easy to dismiss. I was shuffling their discog, and it was this part that pulled me in, when the band falls back and it's just one guitar, then the foreboding/emotional explosion follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVrc1_6C5E&feature=youtu.be&t=2m34s

And the rest unfolded. I do think this is some of their best writing, lyrically. A perfect mix of personal accounts relating to preexisting literature. The instrumentation is interesting/weird/enticing. I guess this formula makes sense for a lot of songs, but it's surely strong here.

Album Rating: 4.0

My Exit is definitely one of my most played mwY songs. Making a top 10 seems too hard, probably will do a top 20. I have to add songs like Wolf Am I and The Dryness

Album Rating: 4.5

1_Rainbow Signs

2_O, Porcupine

3_The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate

4_Mexican War Streets

5_Bear’s Vision of St. Agnes

6_C-Minor

7_Torches Together

8_Red Cow/Dorothy

9_Messes of Men

10_Silencer

11_In a Sweater Poorly Knit

12_Nine Stories

13_The Soviet

14_The Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie

15_Magic Lantern Days

16_Cardiff Giant

17_A Stick, a Carrot & String

18_Son of a Widow

19_Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume

20_Pale Horse



my contribution to the upcoming staff list

Album Rating: 4.0

Aren't you forgetting Fig With A Bellyache? ;D