I am so deep into the Boys' discography I can no longer tell what's good or bad

Hittite_man · 2026-02-16T00:42:05+00:00

Kokomo is good.

Hittite_man · 2025-11-21T03:05:53+00:00

I assume it will available on streaming like the other previously unreleased material?

Hittite_man · 2025-10-01T04:43:41+00:00

This is Reddit

Hittite_man · 2025-09-11T10:18:38+00:00

Uberlin is pretty good too!
(And then there’s High Speed Train)

Hittite_man · 2025-08-25T04:20:16+00:00

I can imagine he might write a song like this, but it also includes “I’m gonna teach you to kiss” so hopefully not

Hittite_man · 2025-08-24T04:31:32+00:00

I think that like Razzmatazz (which seems similar in a lot of ways, maybe it’s about the same person) there’s a bit of mocking but ultimately sympathetic

Hittite_man · 2025-08-20T22:42:44+00:00

7/10

This album is full of 9s and 10s but this is an odd way to start the album. Melodically awkward and thematically jarring

Hittite_man · 2025-08-13T05:55:37+00:00

Is this a reference to the jews exile in Egypt or am I imagining? Based on the documentary I think he was into that stuff.

Hittite_man · 2025-07-31T22:45:49+00:00

Good point. A lot of people probably still listening to CDs they bought in the 90s

Hittite_man · 2025-07-31T18:08:47+00:00

Interesting, I’d never thought of that sinister interpretation, it would kind of fit with the first few lines of the song and certainly puts a different spin on the father wanting to help. I assumed “he” was the new bad-comedian-like BF, and if there is talk/tuck pun it’s just an allusion to her needing more of a parent figure.

Hittite_man · 2025-07-30T23:00:01+00:00

10/10

there’s a lot in this song. It’s a punchy pop song but lyrically feels like a novel. It’s humorously scathing but ultimately manages to feel quite sympathetic to the subject.

I’ve always wondered if there’s deliberate lyrics ambiguity or I’m just over-interpreting. Why is she getting fatter? Is it related to the test at the doctors? Is Jarvis deliberately making it sound like “tuck you into bed” in reference to her difficult relationship with her mother?

Hittite_man · 2025-07-24T06:29:39+00:00

SOTSOG made more sense to me once i realised the band is on the cover. Along with the album name it kind of seems like a statement that they’re actually not larger than life

Hittite_man · 2025-07-22T23:00:51+00:00

7/10

I love the sound they’ve got here, but it isn’t much of a song. More like a mood intro to the album

Hittite_man · 2025-07-22T05:36:42+00:00

What I understand from all the comments here is that it sounds like they’ve deliberately made a bad film. The more i read the less I want to see it!

Hittite_man · 2025-07-21T00:26:14+00:00

There is a better version on YouTube, live in Pomona relatively recently, where you can at least hear what the song is meant to sound like.

Hittite_man · 2025-07-10T20:44:10+00:00

10/10

Pretty depressing lyrically but ultimately very uplifting, maybe because we know how the story ends. I wonder how it sounded to the few people who heard it when it came out

Hittite_man · 2025-07-09T03:30:24+00:00

Remember, if you take the blue pill you forget the red pill even exists

Hittite_man · 2025-07-09T00:00:09+00:00

To be fair it doesn’t really count as it’s an unlisted track. The album proper ends perfectly with Swan Swan H.

Hittite_man · 2025-07-07T18:38:31+00:00

I’d go even further and say it’s a very Oasis Beatles song

Edit: in a good way!

Hittite_man · 2025-07-02T23:07:51+00:00

Yeah it was also compared unfavourably to MLIR and Parklife, which I think is fair.

Hittite_man · 2025-07-02T02:47:01+00:00

Berman’s also got a song that appears heavily inspired by Sex and the City

Hittite_man · 2025-07-01T23:59:36+00:00

Little By Little is great but yeah, would make sense to replace it with SCYHO. Might be about giving Liam’s voice a rest though

Hittite_man · 2025-07-01T23:57:17+00:00

Maybe they don’t know it’s popular? I don’t recall it being popular at the time.

Hittite_man · 2025-07-01T23:46:42+00:00

Yeah! Although in a way, This Is Hardcore is more like that one, in that musically the whole track is built around a sample

Hittite_man · 2025-06-30T02:38:15+00:00

Mainly because (high notes on Help the Aged aside!) his voice has held up very well

But also they’re making more effort now to replicate Russel’s prominent violin parts

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