This album is perhaps my favorite. the other albums are totally amazing and i'm not refuting that, chris and everyone else are just excellent on all the stuff they put out, but this is like the first time std has been cynical and funny and sarcastic. every other album has either been really sweet7th grade type of relationship cute stuff or just really exotic harsh things and going overboard with how much he's in love with a girl. on this album a lot of the songs make jokesabout the person and show how he can now deal with stuff more realistically and think of other way for things to end than with the person, that every relationship isn't going to end i marriage and that he can stand up for himself. also the musical style is just different as is every album they have put out. and chris' voice for a good deal of these songs is subdued because that is the goddamn message in the songs. for an excited example, look at anywhere with you, i don't think you can find many std songs more energetic than that.
This album is perhaps my favorite. the other albums are totally amazing and i'm not refuting that, chris and everyone else are just excellent on all the stuff they put out, but this is like the first time std has been cynical and funny and sarcastic. every other album has either been really sweet7th grade type of relationship cute stuff or just really exotic harsh things and going overboard with how much he's in love with a girl. on this album a lot of the songs make jokesabout the person and show how he can now deal with stuff more realistically and think of other way for things to end than with the person, that every relationship isn't going to end i marriage and that he can stand up for himself. also the musical style is just different as is every album they have put out. and chris' voice for a good deal of these songs is subdued because that is the goddamn message in the songs. for an excited example, look at anywhere with you, i don't think you can find many std songs more energetic than that.