I’ll smash hits that I feel like should get through the infield and the CPU seems to teleport to the ball at the last second. Also CPU pitchers are insane at catching comebackers. That’s all.
Overall, a really fun show. Aaron did a great job of getting the crowd really engaged for such a neutral venue. He also mentioned they’re working on some new songs right now.
Wanted to share for anyone in Colorado! Friday Pilots Club will be opening who are a fun, up-and-coming band.
Welcome to the AWOLNATION Song of the Day post and discussion! We are going through AWOL’s entire discography, beginning with Megalithic Symphony and concluding with The Phantom Five. Discussion can be focused on, but not limited to, things such as:
As a reminder, my goal is to do three Song of the Day posts per week, typically on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (but subject to change).
Today's song is Shoestrings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnyHvsRmdWQ&list=RDGnyHvsRmdWQ&start_radio=1
This is one of the few songs on all of Megalithic that is forgettable to me. The instrumentals don't really grab my attention and it feels like it's just kind of there. Lyrically, the line "the ones that we love are the ones that we hurt" definitely hits hard emotionally. Not a bad song by any means, but it doesn't get my energy flowing. I'm sure this is somebody's favorite song out there, though!
Welcome to the AWOLNATION Song of the Day post and discussion! We are going through AWOL’s entire discography, beginning with Megalithic Symphony and concluding with The Phantom Five. Discussion can be focused on, but not limited to, things such as:
As a reminder, my goal is to do three Song of the Day posts per week, typically on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays (but subject to change).
We've now moved past the original 14 tracks on Megalithic Symphony and are now entering the tracks released on the deluxe and 10-year anniversary releases.
Today's song is THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTlKcldFRc4&list=RDbTlKcldFRc4&start_radio=1
The beginning of this song always cracks me up because it's so relatable - "I still don't know what I'm doing... FUCK!" A fun fact is that this song was actually released as part of the video game soundtrack for Injustice: Gods Among Us and there's also a cool lyric video that was released alongside the song. I always felt like this song could have made a cool intro for some type of animated show. Overall, I really like it and it definitely belongs with this awesome group of songs on Megalithic.
Here's a good video of them performing it live at National Concert Day (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqy9qUMSBEk
Alright, we're going to try this thing out. Some tracks might get a lot of discussion and others hardly anything, and that's OK.
Welcome to the first AWOLNATION Song of the Day post and discussion! We will be going through AWOL's entire discography, beginning with Megalithic Symphony and concluding with The Phantom Five. Discussion can be focused on, but not limited to, things such as:
My goal is to do three Song of the Day posts per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).
To kick things off, we're starting with the first two tracks on Megalithic Symphony as they're shorter tracks.
Megalithic Symphony (Megalithic Symphony) - https://youtu.be/XwnUdhFeKlY?si=PJ0Q68kv2iFlOybs
Some Sort of Creature (Megalithic Symphony) - https://youtu.be/2rz0d-85eAU?si=qTBazkHLVTIp6_L5
As an album, Megalithic Symphony feels more to me like a collection of bangers than a cohesive album. With that said, I feel that the title track "Megalithic Symphony" is an appropriate introduction to what we’re about to experience, and I like the “AWOLNATION” robotic voice. I believe they used to play this at the beginning of their shows very early on.
I don’t really have any thoughts on “Some Sort of Creature”. Aaron has mentioned that it's based on something that happened to him, but nothing more. If you went to any of the shows in 2025 for The Phantom Five Tour, I really liked that they played distorted audio for Some Sort of Creature as the guys came out on stage before transitioning into Jump Sit Stand March. You can hear it pretty well in the first 35 seconds of this video, which is a video of the full show played in Warsaw, Poland. Big shoutout to the ‘I Saw It Live’ YT channel for posting this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNtIWEivL4&list=RD3SNtIWEivL4&start_radio=1&t=1500s
I've seen other music artist subs do a recurring song of the day or week post where they go through the artist's entire discography. I was thinking it would be fun to do that here, starting with Megalithic Symphony and going all the way through The Phantom Five. Would anyone be interested in this? If so, a daily thing? Weekly? Multiple times per week?
The idea would be to post the song and then discussion/comments could be centered around things like:
I'd love to take this on if there's enough interest!
They absolutely kicked ass again. Easily the best and most fun of the openers for Poison The Well. Makes me happy to see Aaron and the guys having so much fun with this project. Fingers crossed we’re still getting one or two new AWOL singles and maybe that stripped down/acoustic record this year.
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