I really like this concept of greatest hits collections for bands that don't have them. As you state, this is a band where every record is just that. I enjoyed this article (i'm calling it an article) and while reading I had so many thoughts, I could probably write as much. I will bullet point:
- my wife still can't tell the difference between the singers and I simply can't imagine how this is possible?
- i had the pleasure of fanboying out to Jeff at Bar Pink years ago, he took it all well but it was shameless yet very sincere.
- timpopkid sent us on the outside in a trade for something, that stayed in the cd player of my silver Saturn for quite a while
- unlike you, i have one single song in their catalog that i don't like at all but out of 4 albums that's pretty good i'd say
- i'd agree with you on the tracklisting, with one huge exception. one of my genie wishes would be to move Cool Devices before Still Waiting. Still Waiting > 4000 Times > Master Wicked is more powerful than anything Beethoven wrote. i can see why they didn't because it's 3 Jeff songs in a row but try it out sometime, it will blow your hair back.
- Ghosts will always always always remind me of the great house search of 2009. we drove around all the neighborhoods (still in that Saturn) with Ghosts just on repeat. true story, i wasn't the biggest fan of that one after the first few listens and now it's my favorite. whenever i drive by houses that we looked at, ghosts songs come into my head
- my choices would be a lot different yet yours still rules, that's how good they are. take any 20 of their songs and it's gonna be a great listen.
if that wasn't long enough, i forgot to respond to the hi-hat comment. so glad you brought that up. his hi-hat work is dare i say it, even better than Tommy Ramone's. you will be in pain after air-hi-hatting to just one Marked Men song.
So many great tunes. Saw them a few years ago (what a surprise that was when it was announced!) and it was one of those amazing gigs where it just felt like hit after hit after hit. So good. Much like the reigning sound when I finally saw them. Good times, come back live music!
Joe Ayoub is a therapist in El Paso, so the MM have gone four for four in confronting demons artistically & professionally!
I really like this concept of greatest hits collections for bands that don't have them. As you state, this is a band where every record is just that. I enjoyed this article (i'm calling it an article) and while reading I had so many thoughts, I could probably write as much. I will bullet point:
- my wife still can't tell the difference between the singers and I simply can't imagine how this is possible?
- i had the pleasure of fanboying out to Jeff at Bar Pink years ago, he took it all well but it was shameless yet very sincere.
- timpopkid sent us on the outside in a trade for something, that stayed in the cd player of my silver Saturn for quite a while
- unlike you, i have one single song in their catalog that i don't like at all but out of 4 albums that's pretty good i'd say
- i'd agree with you on the tracklisting, with one huge exception. one of my genie wishes would be to move Cool Devices before Still Waiting. Still Waiting > 4000 Times > Master Wicked is more powerful than anything Beethoven wrote. i can see why they didn't because it's 3 Jeff songs in a row but try it out sometime, it will blow your hair back.
- Ghosts will always always always remind me of the great house search of 2009. we drove around all the neighborhoods (still in that Saturn) with Ghosts just on repeat. true story, i wasn't the biggest fan of that one after the first few listens and now it's my favorite. whenever i drive by houses that we looked at, ghosts songs come into my head
- my choices would be a lot different yet yours still rules, that's how good they are. take any 20 of their songs and it's gonna be a great listen.
if that wasn't long enough, i forgot to respond to the hi-hat comment. so glad you brought that up. his hi-hat work is dare i say it, even better than Tommy Ramone's. you will be in pain after air-hi-hatting to just one Marked Men song.
gone away's placement is perfect. the record starts out great but this song in the #3 spot is the aural equivalent of stepping hard on the gas.
So many great tunes. Saw them a few years ago (what a surprise that was when it was announced!) and it was one of those amazing gigs where it just felt like hit after hit after hit. So good. Much like the reigning sound when I finally saw them. Good times, come back live music!