The Saint

I think those that ordered deluxe AFTER the mixed variant sold out will get the pokeball cause that's the next limited variant, if I'm understanding the wording correctly on the description on RFC's store.

I think you're right. Unfortunately, I ordered mine after it sold out just to try and see if I could maybe get the mixed variant. Out of curiosity, what description on the RFC store are you talking about?

haha eDicks...i love it

Got the TGG one. Thanks. Now I don't have to keep streaming it off Youtube. Waiting for my copy will be a little less painful

Both the splatter and tri-color are out of stock. That's crazy for a split. Maybe they have some set aside for Warped or something.

In for a deluxe. Hopefully, it comes with the mixed color. Can't wait to get this!

Picked up a splatter. I like how soft this new song is. The guitar threw me off at first, but I think it works nicely overall. 

I really want that package. I don't know though. Also, it's a bit weird that the first press is 2900 total copies...

bump. looking to straight up buy these 

With them wanting to prevent flipping on Merch Now with the bundles and prices, I don't understand why they let people buy multiple copies of the LP at the shows.

Seriously though. They know how intense people get about their vinyl. It doesn't make sense

That red is looking very orange. But the cover is schweeet

I just wish I had it in me to pull the trigger on this. Such a sweet looking package but I can't justify the price at this point.

I can't help but think of this video every time I listen to "I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral."

I hope Jake is able to figure something out. He's a cool dude! He worked his ass off to help promote Handguns, and was a reason for a lot of their success. 

I'm just saying that I really liked the concept of the egg variant. It would've been sweet if it could've been pulled off.

it is downright incorrect.  They definitely didn't coast on this record.  It's okay if you dislike it but to say they didn't try hard or they just phoned in everything is wrong.  And it's okay if you have the total opposite opinion as me.  I don't give a shit.  But everyone here has only heard the album as of 8 or so hours ago and everyone is already making snap judgments on this album, which is why I'm not taking anyone's opinion too seriously.  There is a lot of nuance and really cool stuff musically on this album that their previous albums didn't have.  I didn't truly start to appreciate this album until a few weeks after I first heard it.  So give it some time.  Or just blow it off, I don't care.

Unfortunately, first impressions mean everything in the music industry. You can't stop anyone from writing off a record immediately. We've all done it. 

There is no excuse for the last track on this album.  I'm sorry, you cannot copy and paste the choruses of the singles from the album and put them together into one song like that and expect us to believe that you truly worked hard on every single track on this record.  There's a difference between a recurring theme and a copy and paste.

It's their art at the end of the day. You can't say that they didn't work hard. I don't think that that song shows a half-assed effort at all. This was their vision for how they wanted to close the record. 

I had to get one. I don't know why I didn't see this until now

I agree with every thing that is being said here. I think this album is consistent with everything else that they put out. They didn't change their game, and that's ok. I don't like this album cause I feel like I have to like it because I love TWY. I like it because it has all the same qualities that made me like their other releases. And that's enough for me. I don't listen to every new album I hear and  expect to be WOWed. I just listen and hope to find comfort. That's what music has always done for me, and this album is doing just that. 

I just really hope that this record builds off of what "Gravity, Metaphorically" was. I was super impressed with that song, and I hope that means that we can see songs similar to that. And that also means songs over two minutes. 

Let me put it in perspective. Using "it's pop punk" as an excuse is bs. Nobody ever had to say that about NFG, TGUK, Lifetime etc. I used to go to TWY shows and listen to them and relate. I was in college when The Upsides came out. I was broke, living in Philly, doing the same stuff they were and getting over a bad breakup. It got me hooked. This record does not have that level of relatable lyrics, unless you count the line about everyone you graduated with getting married and having kids.

 

That being said, I am going to guess you're a few years younger than me. I don't like Modern Baseball, I don't wear pop punk tank tops. I don't necessarily expect my opinion here to be common.

I'm not using it as an excuse. I guess that a lot of the reason I listen to the music I listen to is because of the lyrics. There's just always a number of lines that stick out to me on a TWY record. That begin said, a genre is a genre for a reason, and I don't always expect there to be something new and amazing on every pop punk record. You can't really reinvent it, in my opinion. But at the end of the day, this IS a TWY record and that is enough reason for me to love it. 

Hearing a line or chorus for the first time and instantly connecting with it is an incredible feeling. It's just nice to reminded that you aren't alone. It relieves you.

I have seen people say that this album is nice because it's something new or a breath of fresh air or whatever. If you think that, I believe that you might need to expand your musical horizons. This isn't anything new, and it sure as hell does not show that we hadn't seen all that this generation was capable of (as Soupy had said it would in the interview on the Gunz show). 

 

Also, people knocked the Shone record for having theatrical vocals, but at least Andrew Accardi can pull them off with finesse. Soupy is a good frontman, but he is not necessarily a good singer. While it is good to push your limits to expand your abilities, doing so on a record where a listener can pick out that trying to do certain things with your voice isn't natural is not a smart idea. 

 

 

The Transit one was a different type of album than they'd done before. They tried to do more of the summer jams and anthems, compared to what they had done before the lyrics weren't as touching and didn't feel as sincere.

The breath of fresh air for me is the lyrics. It always has been. Pop punk is pop punk. But there's a connection between myself and TWY lyrics. They've helped me through a lot, and will always continue to make me happy and keep me grounded.

I enjoyed all four. 

Sweeeeet 

I love it cause it's The Wonder Years. This album was a breath of fresh air for me. Something I really needed. But I will say that after the first listen, "I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral" does sound a bit weird. It didn't seem like it totally gelled together. But I love it, nonetheless.