thread of the best band ever which is joyce manor

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think beach community is my favourite 100 seconds of music

thank you all for calling attention to this band, was at a loose end tonight so gave Never Hungover Again a spin. and then another. and then another. even on the fourth listen i keep getting 30 secs into every song like "pshaww where are these so-called "hooks" at ive been gulled" and then before i know it i'm flat on my back with a big giddy grin on my face. this is exactly what i wanted to hear tonight and id never have known

Thread of the best band ever which is joyce meyer

whoops

Never Hungover Again is about as perfect as pop-rock music gets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMns-abKjWw

hmmmm

It's pretty but I fear they may have streamlined a touch too much

This is my new favorite band

It's pretty but I fear they may have streamlined a touch too much

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, August 15, 2018 10:47 AM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was worried about this initially but now i think: it's a jam

big interview in Stereogum

To those familiar with Joyce Manor, any acknowledgment of super rock ‘n’ roll behavior does not constitute an endorsement. In fact, their biggest controversy to date occurred in 2014 when Johnson admonished a Florida crowd for stage diving; some Joyce Manor fans did not take kindly to being asked to not wild the fuck out at a Joyce Manor show. Even if the album cover for Million Dollars To Kill Me features the band in an at least somewhat rock ‘n’ roll formation — all black background, bottle of champagne in hand — “It’s not sketchy, a bunch of scary-looking shoegaze guys,” guitarist Chase Knobbe notes.
It recalls a similar mindset behind the cover of Joyce Manor’s 2014 stand-out release Never Hungover Again, which featured Ebert in a friendly embrace with Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan. (As Johnson described it when I interviewed the band in 2014: “It looks like two people partying, but there’s nothing dangerous or sexy about it.”) Joyce Manor admit to serious Weezer idolatry and they’ve internalized one of Rivers Cuomo’s most powerful songwriting tools — when a “pencil-necked geek” is making heartbroken pop about girls and loneliness, they’re also grieving their metal-god dreams that never stood a chance.

In fact, while Million Dollars To Kill Me sounds like the name of a lost Motörhead album, it’s the result of Joyce Manor actually being too wimpy to stick to their dorkiest impulses. This has happened numerous times in the past. For a while, their fourth LP was going to called Dear Nora Jonestown Massacre (“I liked that one for two days”) but they settled on Cody. Other candidates included Born Again In The USA, Self Titled II, and one that completely replicates the essence of Joyce Manor by presenting like total SoCal pop-punk when it’s actually a Teenage Fanclub homage: Songs From Northern Torrance.

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/joyce-manor-million-dollars-to-kill-me-interview/

man, "big lie"

think these guys outdid themselves again

promo stream?

it's only by some kinda weird luck that i'm listening to it rn lol

the title track sounds amazing in context! i wasn't convinced by it before

"friends we met online" is the new best joyce manor song

listening now, pretty great so far

"girls can be kind of controlling" / i wanna be controlled, i think it'd be alright

omg, dying at them going kinda sarah records on wildflowers

ok, listening now. wooooo still the best band though I will never not be mad when their albums end

so weird that Kurt Ballou ended up producing their gentlest, most colorful album

unexpectedly almost two minutes shorter than cody

christ the first side of this record is outstanding

"Silly Games" is such a weird little song

I'm ready for the next album pls

"Friends We Met Online" is ILX's new official theme song

lol

that song really reminds me of early goo goo dolls (in a way that, say, beach slang approached but never got to)

don't you ever feel lonely
baby i've been lonely my whole life

"big lie" song of the year

dude brad i am not trusting you when you say a band is the best ever. pshaw.

more joyce manor for me then

also does everyone agree with me now that this is their best album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYcSezXsXKw

If the second half were as good as the first I would agree, but I do think it falls off a teensy bit. Still great but I think Cody and Hungover are still tops for me

ok but: the second half is better than the first

hmmmmmmmm

i interviewed barry yesterday and we spent a lot of time talking about "wildflowers" it was great

pls link that when it goes up!

this band rules so much. i love how even within the niche they're carving for themselves, they're still making interesting songwriting decisions/calculated risks

BIG LIE

a perfect (vocal) hookless song.

I never noticed the way she had it out for me
I should suppose it's like that for everyone?
So understated, we're never friendly anyhow
Just tell me what you want me to do

if you are aimless, i'll be what you are aiming for
if you get anxious, i'll put on law & order for you

SO OVERSTATED... WE'RE NEVER IN THE MOMENT NOW
until we're WASHED away child............

until we're WASHED away child....
until we're WASHED away child....
...........
until we're WASHED away child........
until we're WASHED away child........

otm

@simon https://www.spin.com/featured/joyce-manor-million-dollars-to-kill-me-interview/

ahhhh you did a great job! Barry seems like such a sweet, smart fellow.

god I would love to hear the Joyce Manor discards/alternates vault (all like 30 minutes of it or whatever). iirc they recorded a long Smiths medley for Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired but I can't back that up at the moment

i saw these dudes the other night ... hard to imagine a tighter rock band/show.

also, barry has to be the smile-iest frontman going, right?

Was anyone else there tonight in Islington? A real shame to see they have done 20+ songs and 2 encores everywhere else and tonight they complained Barry has had voice issues and it was just about an hour long. (Were dope for the hour tho)

it's wild that these guys have written like 30+ perfect songs

First half of this comp, the early lofi stuff, is kinda revelatory (think a peppier Freed Weed-era Sebadoh):

https://joycemanor.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-northern-torrance

only joyce manor could get me slightly stoked for a 15-minute rarities comp with a few songs I already know

30-minute acoustic set on the Anchor Brewing instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCr0VOjH9zN/

OMD cover to start off the album.

haha, finally felt compelled to check this band out, ^that was not at all what I expected to hear first. a nice shock though, and if you're gonna cover a perfect song might as well put it up front.

i did a discog run this week and i definitely overrated million dollars to kill me when it came out but it's a way better record than their fans think and "big lie" is still the best song ever

cody is totally their best though. perfect, cohesive, breaks my heart

cody
tie between never hungover again and the s/t
tie between million dollars to kill me and 40 oz to fresno
of all things i will soon grow tired (hate to be someone who thinks of this particularly weird charming little record (in a catalog of weird charming little records) as their worst but something has to be)

Cody is my favorite too.