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[Full Album] LAGWAGON | "Let's Talk About Feelings"
Added 2025-07-01 15:00:14 +0000 UTCWell, I finally heard “May 16” on May 16th, but now it’s time to talk about feelings. And, this album has a lot of 'em.
Having now heard two Lagwagon records, this one hits a completely different part of my brain than 1994’s Trashed did. I love when a band can pull that off—it’s always a sign of a discography worth exploring deeply.
Every album I’ve reviewed on Patreon so far has hit me in its own unique way, but none have landed quite as squarely in the gushy “feels” as this one. Sonically, it’s just beautiful, which really elevates the whole experience; all of the melodies and layers shine, the rhythm section rumbles with power (that friggin' StingRay tone is RICH, y'all) and Joey Cape’s vocals float above all of it like a dreamy, fluffy cloud.
How did they cram so much substance into just 25 minutes?!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
3:04 - "After You My Friend"
11:59 - "Gun In Your Hand"
20:26 - "Leave The Light On"
25:09 - "Change Despair"
30:11 - "Train"
37:03 - "Hurry Up And Wait"
39:09 - "Everything Turns Grey"
44:18 - "Love Story"
51:35 - "Messengers"
56:22 - "The Kids Are All Wrong"
1:00:09 - "May 16"
1:06:44 - "Owen Meaney"
1:14:11 - Final Thoughts
Comments
You gotta check out this one next....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRRFh6mgnAY&pp=ygUMbGFnd2Fnb24gZHVo
Mike C.
2025-07-11 23:51:05 +0000 UTCThe Used - I Caught Fire
Astronaut Tiger
2025-07-10 20:35:35 +0000 UTCDo Hoss or Blaze next! Lullaby is an amazing song.
Chris McGrath
2025-07-10 17:29:50 +0000 UTCSo many of us spent the 90s and 2000s in love with these albums but most people wrote them (and us) off because it was called punk. It's so nostalgic and heartwarming to hear you bring an educated appreciation to the musicianship. It means something to us deeply that you're on this journey of discovery so thank you for what you're doing.
Chris McGrath
2025-07-10 17:29:23 +0000 UTCThanks for doing this album. Fav Lag album for sure. Every year me and my friends would celebrate May 16 like its someones birthday. We had a cake on one of those years.
zooliejoe
2025-07-06 17:08:34 +0000 UTCYo for real, so happy you gave a shout out to Alaska. That album is seriously over looked in the metalcore/prog list. What an absolute unit.
Jeremy
2025-07-06 05:04:29 +0000 UTCDouble Pladinum is my favorite lag record
Tim Rankin
2025-07-06 04:31:48 +0000 UTCIt is so awesome to hear you explain why I love lagwagon so much...like you are putting it to words why their music is such ear candy!!!
Tim Rankin
2025-07-06 04:14:36 +0000 UTCAgree. As someone who bought the Leftover CD Day 1, it’s almost weird to me to see those on streaming platforms as part of this album.
Aukai Ligairi
2025-07-06 00:58:07 +0000 UTCFirst record with Chris Rest of RKL too
Mickael noel
2025-07-04 16:35:07 +0000 UTCFor TETA, one has to go with the Remix and Remaster, just like 88 Fingers Louie's Remix and Remaster for Behind Bars and Back On The Street, the bassist is so amazing, he was a bit hidden on Behind Bars and that album benefits the most from it. Same for TETA, bought the Remixed and Remastered version the day it came out, pre-ordered from Fat, I bought it on CD because I'm Canadian and I would have been ripped off otherwise, but it is worth it over the very clinical Ryan Green original production.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-04 04:35:52 +0000 UTCI've softened on "Everything Turns Grey" over time, but I always thought it was the weakest song on the album and disrupted the flow a bit. It was always the song I'd skip when listening to the album from start to finish. Recently I stopped skipping the song and don't mind it as much as in the past. It's growing on me a bit.
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-03 22:40:36 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing. I like that you've got insight into which musicians went through voice changes due to smoking. I wonder if Chris from Propagandhi is another case now. My friend noticed that his vocals sound raspier in the song "At Peace" than they had in the past. I can relate to some things you said. I've gone through a lot of heartbreak in my life too...but I didn't get addicted to any substances as a result. I'm glad music helped me avoid going down that path. It was a huge source of consolation for me. Many of Lagwagon's albums are examples of that. I hope Mark will hear more of Derrick's work someday, reviewing albums like "Hoss" and some Bad Astronaut.
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-03 22:37:33 +0000 UTCListening to the reaction and having a great time, but you likely remember Trashed, Joey can be soft as clouds but he can scream and have vibrato, he does sometimes on Trashed and Duh and started again later when 25 years of smoking cigs made it so that they started tuning lower from the 2008 EP and the albums following it (Hang, Railer), and he's got no choice but to be a bit lower and raspy in his delivery on some songs. That's how they got a rich discography, almost as much as Propagandhi.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-03 19:49:10 +0000 UTCGun In Your Hand is a great song, and I think he was directing this to their first drummer on their first 3 albums, Derrick, one of his best friends, who couldn't kick heroin and if you ever get to the Resolve album, you'll know he didn't make it unfortunately, and Joey wrote Resolve in a week after he died, he was sick and tired of his addiction and I can relate to that, I've been on methadone, suboxone and here in Canada thankfully when your body doesn't agree with either of those (methadone made me gain 110 pounds in one month, messed with my testosterone, Suboxone is a Mr Clean acidic lemon pill you gotta suckle on for 40 minutes everyday upon waking, I had 2 little fillings at 32 years old, now 10 years later, the doctor changed me to 24 hour release Morphine, which they can do here when you have 2 unacceptable side effects and even as you progress and lower dosage, it takes time, and that time made it so I have no teeth that has no fillings now, I had perfect dentition, Suboxone pills destroyed my teeth + the ungodly constipation (lol), they must have tried 8 different things for it and it only worked temporarily. So I'm on Kadians, 24h morphine capsules that cannot be abused, not that I would want to and I haven't gone to the dentist for a filling in a year, I used to go about 8 times a year and I'm no longer afraid of the bathroom and the pain it represented, it's much less severe now, thank god. But at least I'm not calling people for pills or H everyday when leaving work. All that was caused by heartbreak - sounds silly right? I thought I'd never feel it, it was the only thing that took care of it, not even drinking did it anymore, weed was giving me panic attacks, man I had just finished my Masters degree and I was a mess, so I understand the despair, at least the help I sought gave me a new lease on life, only wish the government had better options in 2012 because their remedies were at the cost of my dentition which was perfect and so was my hygiene, and ungodly pain when it was time to "go". But I could work in my field for 8 years straight, even during covid times due to what my job entails to. Even the way out is hard work and psychologically draining, so please, be careful and don't let a succubus destroy you - you're better than them and they are not worth your emotional despair.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-03 19:19:16 +0000 UTCI think for those that wanted B sides you most likely didn’t listen to the album when it was originally released. I have to admit I love the B sides but the was a totally different album, Let’s Talk About Leftovers. Most of the B sides ended up there and weren’t added to Feelings until its rerelease. I think it’s perfectly fine to review the album in how it was intended.
Justin Schroeder
2025-07-03 15:05:50 +0000 UTCHahaha chocolate half-price!
Corey
2025-07-03 07:59:55 +0000 UTCYou could not have hit the nail much harder on the head - thx for sharing
Corey
2025-07-03 07:52:27 +0000 UTCMade me chuckle too
Jackson Rowley
2025-07-03 07:50:46 +0000 UTCThis album changed me and I’m still recovering 27 years later - before this, it was all Christian Rap & MxPx - LTAF opened up the world of anarchist punk and NOFX was too far out there at the time (loved the Decline and still do). This album was a perfect bridge from puritan to punk for me. Now, Propagandhi is my favourite band and this Lagwagon album is still my deserted island album. I owe it all to Derek from Sunday youth group who covered Owen Meaney acoustic, and on that brisk Winnipeg Sunday morning, I had to find out who wrote those lyrics and I’ve listened to LTAF more than any other album to this day. This was such a great watch and I specifically loved your melody similarity catch in May 16 & Kids Are All Wrong. Double Plaidinum is so freakin good too. 2 in the morning here I am…
Corey
2025-07-03 07:46:01 +0000 UTCIts considered better because it is better. Cool to be is only ok. If we're comparing to Everything Sucks for example then we can have a discussion.
MrBD
2025-07-03 04:55:31 +0000 UTCShoutout to NOFX and their cover of “Strait Edge” for the loungecore.
Josh Ott
2025-07-03 00:17:14 +0000 UTCHoss was my first album and I’ve never heard this album because..well idk why but it definitely has some of the vibes for sure.
Josh Ott
2025-07-03 00:14:53 +0000 UTCGreat choice. The only thing i don't like about this album is the cover song especially when you hear some of the B sides they could have easily replaced the cover. Great band, if you do Riches to Rags from RKL you'll hear more of Dave's drumming.
MrBD
2025-07-02 23:56:32 +0000 UTCLagwagon has only ever har two drummers; Derrick and Dave. Derrick is on Trashed and this is Dave. Dave also played in RKL and Me First and he is on the album featuring Betrayed.
Mitchell Hedden
2025-07-02 22:12:52 +0000 UTCThis whole band is awesome in every iteration. I’m a big Joe Raposo fan, but I actually prefer Jesse Buglione in Lagwagon. Derrick Plourde is one of my top punk drummers ever, along with Jord Samolesky, Josh Freese, and Travis Barker, but Dave Raun is fantastic too and still in my Top 10 punk drummers. Chris Flippin is flippin great. Chris Rest is a punk legend, thanks to RKL and what he’s done with Lagwagon and NUFAN. But Joey Cape is a poet and sings like an angel. He’s up there with Chris Hannah and Matt Skiba as my favorite all-time lyricist and he’s up there with Greg Attonito as my favorite punk vocalist.
Aukai Ligairi
2025-07-02 21:40:51 +0000 UTCMark, hear me out, while I 100% appreciate what you’re saying about hearing the albums as people would have at the time, I think there’s a good chance (as a recovering perfectionist and tone aficionado) that you’ll prefer the Remaster of Propagandhi’s Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes. Chris is also a perfectionist and tone aficionado and he was bothered for years about that original mix, in which Chris could not reach the guitar tone he was striving for and Producer Ryan Greene relied so heavily on drum samples that it just didn’t sound like Jord anymore. Personally, I fell in love with that original album, but I was blown away when for the 20th anniversary in 2021, Chris took the original recordings to Jason Livermore who had mixed and/or mastered Potemkin City Limits, Supporting Caste, Victory Lap (and now, At Peace)—not to mention Let’s Talk About Feelings! The album now fits so much better into their discography and (I suspect) especially so for someone like yourself, who started from the back and is moving forward. There is one song I preferred the buried vocals more on the original, but overall it’s a much heftier and tonally rich listening experience. That’s my 2 cents, but I respect your decision either way.
Aukai Ligairi
2025-07-02 21:13:14 +0000 UTCThe LL Cool J cover / parody "Back One Out" is actually on "Trashed", which Mark did review as part of his first Lagwagon full album reaction video. I was surprised that he didn't recognize the inspiration for that song. I figured the LL Cool J song is well known by pretty much everyone, even folks who don't generally listen to rap. I wasn't sure if Mark would address that song, since it's not officially part of the tracklist. Apparently it's included on the spotify tracklist, so Mark heard it.
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-02 19:29:34 +0000 UTCThe first Lagwagon album I ever bought, completely based on hearing May 16th. Never regretted it, fell completely in love with it and listened to it all the time for a good couple of months. The mix of small technical nuggets sprinkled with solid melodies and Joey Cape, one of my favorite singers. Not because he is the best, I just love his voice and his lyrical style. Very interesting getting your thoughts on it, you notice things I hadn't thought about after hearing these songs like 200 times, so these album reviews are really some of my favorite content on the channel. I either discover something new about albums/songs I love or I get to hear something from a band I haven't really listened to enough. PS. There is actually a hidden track on this one, Mama Said Knock You Out, a cover of LL Cool J's classic. Probably not worth reviewing other than for it's novelty, but well worth a listen just for the fun of it.
Daniel Karlsson
2025-07-02 17:28:32 +0000 UTCYou cracked me up calling Owen Meaney a cover. A Prayer for Owen Meaney is a novel by John Irving. A damn funny and sad one at that. They made a shitty movie of it a while back. Great review, although missing out on their covers of Want and Bring on the Dancing Horses stung more than a little.
Matthew Gladys
2025-07-02 16:45:56 +0000 UTCeven if Trashed is special for me, Let's Talk About Feelings stay their masterpiece for me. Its so well written. I always have a strong feel of nostalgia when I listen into this one. And I must say it aged pretty well!
Stephane Houde
2025-07-02 16:18:25 +0000 UTCDerrick also played with RKL and I find him to be insanely more talented than Dave, and Dave's very good. Derrick learned to play drums from jazz and thrash metal, all the RKL guys loved their thrash too so there is some common ground, but there's no song post-Derrick that impresses me as much on the drums compared to what the complete machine Derrick was, he was so good it was creating tension in the band (see old interview with Joey aftr Derrick and Sean left, from 1996 on punknews.org, probably the first interview they ever made and they reposted it and you can feel the resentment from just the written interview. I'm glad they made up and Derrick played drums for Joey's side band Bad Astronaut, music that's a bit too soft for me, but I'm very glad Joey had made up with him before D commited the ....unthinkable in 2004 or 5.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-02 16:05:21 +0000 UTCPlease god, not DP. I think Hang is the choice since he already listened to Obsolete Absolute and he was very much into it. You can skip DP by listening to the extended version of Trashed and listen to the original version of "Choke" and be blown away by that version, no need to hear the butchering it went through on DP.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-02 15:57:48 +0000 UTCI love watching Mark do these videos. I still have no idea how this album is considered better than Cool to be You. I’ll be honest, for some reason Lagwagon, Good Riddance, Propaghandi, NUFAN…pretty much the Fat Wreck bands, never appealed to me. Not sure why, they just never hooked me, no matter how many times I tried to listen. I mean, to me, this album was meh at best. But that’s just my opinion.
CJ LoBaido
2025-07-02 15:51:15 +0000 UTCYeah, it's just average, thankfully they would reall get back on track on 2003's Blaze, the period after Derrick and Sean left the band was a long adjustment.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-02 15:46:07 +0000 UTCYou like Trashed a whole lot and the song you hear from Hang too. I hope this album won't be too much of a bore like it was to me. Some great songs for sure, May 16th, After You My Friend and the best song, a cover of an 80's punk band, Agent Orange's Everything Turns Grey which I only learned later was a cover as I discovered Agent Orange, because Lagwagon seems to have been inspired musically by the band, Everything Turns Grey sounds like it could have been on albums previous to it (not Double Plaidinum but the first 3). To those who were listening to Lagwagon since their debut, we wondered what was going with them starting Double Plaidinum and with this one, which is an improvement, but they would only get back to themselves, fully, with Blaze the next release, 5 years later, Never Stops, Dividers and the title track blow this out of the water. It's that Ryan Green production I overdosed on after No Use For A Name's Making Friends - their last real NUFAN album, after that it's more Tony Sly plus some guys who rotate in and out of other bands, including the Foo Fighters, they are HDCD's both of them and I had a stereo that could handle them, a red light would turn on when I would play this, Making Friends or NOFX's The Decline, only NOFX's pure punkness saved it from sounding overproduced. The ear does hear the difference with HDCD's, which boost the songs to 24 bits, our ears can ear the ~20 bit, so they do sound subjectively different than 16bit audio on stereos that handle it, many optical drives on computers can read them that way too, if you listen to your cd's with dbPowerAmp, a great multi-purposes app for WIndows that can even rip your HDCD's to sound the way they sound when you play them on your computer, the difference is more obvious when one uses the spdif optical sound out on a sound system that does have spdif in, I do, since a good while, Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph were kinda being elitist by pressing HDCD's for punk, they stopped doing so soon after the year 2000 though, the last album I own that is HDCD, one pressing is anyways, and I have that one, is NOFX's Pump Up The Valuum, unfortunately the best and eponymous track for that one ended up saved for Punkorama 6 or 7, Epitaph had slowed down its production of those cheap comps, they didn't put them out every year, neither did fat after a while. It's also a very average NOFX album that only has a few interesting songs, especially Take Two Placebos Then You Can Call Me Lame, Total Bummer and Hero-Juana. The one album I own that I think is actually helped by HDCD is Good Riddance's Guide To Moderne Rebellion, it was an early used of the technology, but it makes the album sound just as intense as their debut, For God And Country, an album I cherish dearly, so that's a compliment for sure, Ryan Green likely as a producer wanted to take advantage of that technology and it did create the clickety drum sound so many people into poppy skate punk love, I had my fill with I consider NUFANS's swan song, Making Friends, the intro to the Answer is Still No illustrates what I mean perfectly.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-02 15:40:21 +0000 UTC"Let's Talk About Feelings" is my favourite Lagwagon album, but I understand why it might feel more 'same-y' to you than others. It doesn't have as many whimsical departures like the "Brown-Eyed Girl" cover, jokey songs like "Mr. Coffee" and "Stokin' The Neighbors" (other than "Hurry Up and Wait"), or weird flourishes like the bass on "Move the Car." I do feel there are more standout songs than "May 16." I've always loved "Messengers" and "After You My Friend" a lot. The latter was what made me a fan of both Lagwagon and the Fat Wreck sound more than anything else. In my opinion, the first three songs are a textbook example of how to start an album strongly. I love them almost equally, with "After You My Friend" having a slight advantage due to nostalgia and its many virtues like the killer start and charming relaxed interlude.
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-02 14:17:51 +0000 UTCMy favourite Lagwagon albums are this one and "Hoss", but "Blaze" has a special place in my heart for a few reasons. First of all, it has "Falling Apart", which is both my favourite Lagwagon song and on my top 10 list for favourite songs of all-time by anyone. Second, it's the first proper full length Lagwagon album to come out after I became a fan in '99 based on "Let's Talk About Feelings" (not counting the B-sides album as a 'proper' one, although I love that release too). Third, there was a longer gap between albums after "Let's Talk About Feelings." Lagwagon was so prolific for awhile, with albums in 1994, 1995, 1997, and 1998. Five years was an unusually long gap between Lagwagon albums back then, so "Blaze" felt like a 'comeback album' that was worth the wait. I think "Burn", "I Must Be Hateful", "Dinner and a Movie", and "Never Stops" are brilliant too.
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-02 14:09:33 +0000 UTCOften one of the best things about these videos is how they give me insights into albums I thought I'd already known everything about. My favourite example here is that I never realized how much "The Kids Are All Wrong" and "May 16" are connected melodically. I like how Mark zeroed in on that, coming up with a theory and finding the proof to back it up. I'll add to the praise of drumming from everyone (and I love the way many of you are referencing "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah" with the Dave mention). I've always described Dave's style as 'galloping horses drumming' and this album provides some of the best examples of why. I'm also impressed by how Mark's reaction to the interlude in "After You My Friend" was partially to offer an example of another band doing something similar in another song. That's a nice way of filling in a gap in my music knowledge. That interlude is a personal favourite Lagwagon / music moment. I hadn't heard anything like that before, the closest equivalent I could come up with (until Mark gave us his example) was the music playing when Homer is in 'The Land of Chocolate' on "The Simpsons." 😊
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-02 13:58:09 +0000 UTCyou kiled this, you get it, ive been critical when you havent, but you got it here. AND DAVE RAUN ON THE DRUMS EVERYONE! both him an cape are founders of me first
Dan P
2025-07-02 09:30:38 +0000 UTCLagwagon is the cure for what ails you. Technical, thoughtful and epic. Blaze should be next. Don’t remember if the bass is front and center, but it probably is. Plus, I really like that album. Who’s got a smoke for the Caper?!?
Christopher Kelly
2025-07-02 02:55:17 +0000 UTCWould this fall into the medio core genre? Me thinks so.
Johnny Carcinogen
2025-07-02 01:35:22 +0000 UTCWould love to hear your follow up thoughts after playing uninterrupted?
Eric Busker
2025-07-02 01:31:23 +0000 UTC1) I found your reaction to this album to be very interesting. I think you were significantly more positive on this album than I thought you would be. Given that, I am sure that you’re going to like almost all of their other albums even more (other than Double Plaidinum, which is fairly straight-forward). I’ve always considered “Let’s Talk about Feelings” to be one of their less interesting albums. However, watching your reaction, I realize that the intelligence in the songs is much more nuanced than I was giving them credit for. Songs from other albums might be more overt in what makes them appealing to me. 2) Lagwagon doesn’t generally play LTAF songs live. I’m thinking about the live Lagwagon shows I’ve seen over the past decade, and I can’t remember a single song from LTAF being played, other than May 16 of course. This is very interesting to think about! How many fans list LTAF as their favorite album? Other than May 16, how often do they play songs from LTAF live? It’s so strange! I strongly feel that when many people think about LTAF, they consider May 16, and then their brain stops. All of the above said, I don’t know what their setlist was like in the early 2000’s, as I never saw them live then. I feel like “Owen Meaney” would play really well live today. 3) I’m happy that you mentioned Lagwagon’s ever-varying progressions. This is the one of the primary things that makes me love the band. In general, I get very bored and annoyed by overly-repetitive music. Lagwagon songs seem to be constantly changing the progression in a given song. And, even when they repeat the same progression, they’ll change up how they play / sing the notes / beats, so that it sounds different. Plus, Cape never tries to artificially make his lyrics rhyme, which I always really appreciate. Within the context of punk, I can’t get enough of that type of stuff. In other words, I never get bored with Lagwagon songs.
CM
2025-07-01 23:58:54 +0000 UTCAlso BtBaM Alaska and Colors got a good amount of rotation from me (especially the latter) back in late high school and early college. Fellow metal-enjoyer here lol 🤘
Ray Dweck
2025-07-01 21:55:32 +0000 UTCWould enjoy if he reacted to "Rifle"--some of the best drumming on a Lagwagon song IMO and that's a high bar (Also, a great entryway into Hoss)
Ray Dweck
2025-07-01 21:45:48 +0000 UTC🙌 Great reaction! Glad you enjoyed this and yes "regal" and "soaring" are excellent words for it musically. Hopefully next for Lagwagon--Double Plaidinum, Hoss? And, Let's Talk About Leftovers...? That's a b-sides / rarities compilation, with some great songs on it. Would cover the additional bonus tracks requested for this album as well as the other Lagwagon LPs preceding this one (I believe, would have to double check if that's 100%). Unless you are planning to sprinkle in those bonus tracks in other videos, with mixed or mixed-discography playlists for bands, etc (I forgot if this was mentioned in the video or the comments somewhere lol). Anyway, watched this one all in one sitting and enjoyed it. So many great albums to check out still including from other bands--your full-album reactions are probably the best I've seen on YT.
Ray Dweck
2025-07-01 21:41:03 +0000 UTCAhhhhh one of my all time favorites, and definitely one of the great driving albums to your point! So good. Great review!
Cptbownz
2025-07-01 21:31:50 +0000 UTCThis album is pretty special for me. I got it unexpectedly for my 18th Birthday when it came out. My Aunty got it for me, which totally blew my mind. I remember listening to it and immediately calling my friend to talk to him excitedly about each track Bring a drummer, I was so delighted when Leave The Light on started. I endlessly listened to that intro and all the other tasty drum bits. As others have said Dave Raun drums on this album, whereas Trashed was Derrick Plourde. Dave is my favourite drummer of all time. He also plays for RKL and most of the Gimme Gimme albums. I know this is a bass channel, but a lot of the bands in this genre feature stellar drummers and are worth a bit of ear time. On this album Dave soars!
Alex Scott
2025-07-01 21:18:13 +0000 UTCHighly recommending giving a full spin to Double Plaidinum and Blaze if you dig Feelings!!
Ian
2025-07-01 20:39:18 +0000 UTCFucking eh, Mark! Love to see a fellow bassist get so much out of this album. Soaring is a great descriptive word for it.
Tom Bilodeau
2025-07-01 19:55:13 +0000 UTCI’m sure you get this a lot, but you never have to apologize for pausing or talking about a certain subject to much. As much as we love the songs we also love seeing your reaction and hearing your input. Keep doing what you’re doing, we love and appreciate your work 🍻
McChud
2025-07-01 19:53:25 +0000 UTCOwen Meaney is so underrated. One of my favorite LagWagon songs.
MondayPL
2025-07-01 19:43:38 +0000 UTCLagwagon reactions are just the best! Can’t wait for other albums to be reviewed (still not over Hang not getting a reaction). They have so much diversity in their sound which is displayed in their discography.
Ivan ignacio Larenas lolas
2025-07-01 19:41:55 +0000 UTCRight call with going with the original album track listing. Most of us discovered the b-sides and outtakes on compilations, etc anyways
Ian
2025-07-01 18:49:13 +0000 UTCConfession time: I hadn’t heard this album in full before today, and wow does the intro of “Owen Meaney” resemble something in the style of the band Braid, so I’m excited for Mark to get to them whenever he does. Lots of good stuff by them. My condolences for your patron/friend. That’s always sad to hear. Obviously a grey area for any bartender. I was probably headed towards a similar path, so I’m thankful and happy to have the many months sober I do now. Another great review in the books!
PRDinPDX
2025-07-01 18:19:49 +0000 UTCYeah. We must tell Mark that he was also the drummer for the vast majority of the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes song he's heard. All on the mixtape and 2/3 from the Youtube video. :D
Mihael Dreo
2025-07-01 17:55:03 +0000 UTCThen one from the last boy scout on Trashed was always my favorite one.
Mihael Dreo
2025-07-01 17:49:48 +0000 UTCThis taken from the movie Welcome to the Dollhouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8ArKy1Ihw
Mihael Dreo
2025-07-01 17:48:14 +0000 UTCWhat a great album, I remember being a kid and hating it for the poppy tunes and the way Joey's voice changed. I didn't want Lagwagon to go that poppy side, but then I grew up a little and learned to love this album to death.
Alejandro Carrillo
2025-07-01 17:34:33 +0000 UTCDave Raun is a beast on drums!
MondayPL
2025-07-01 17:17:10 +0000 UTCIf anyone is wondering and doesn't know where the movie references are from: the dialogue at the end of "Gun in Your Hand" is spoken by Kevin Spacey in the movie "Swimming with Sharks" (1994) and the scene after "Leave the Light On" is from "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1996). This album has some of my favourite integration of movie quotes on a punk rock album. It's not the only one to do this, but definitely among the best.
Quote Unquote Sir
2025-07-01 17:07:27 +0000 UTCHey Steve, I think your singing was a little flat that time Barry, why don't you play an A for Steve? You got that Steve? Fuck this shit What's got into him? He can't take criticism Oh great, there goes the band
Mariana
2025-07-01 17:03:00 +0000 UTCDerek was an amazing drummer. He was only on Duh, Trashed, and Hoss for Lagwagon but he was also the drummer of Joey Cape's side band Bad Astronaut and the drummer of The Mad Caddies for a few albums each. RIP.
Ceej Luige
2025-07-01 17:01:50 +0000 UTCYou’re my boy Chris! lol I was shouting the same thing in my head 😅
Mariana
2025-07-01 17:01:25 +0000 UTC“Dave Raun on the drums!” he shouts at the screen
Chris Ortman
2025-07-01 16:57:45 +0000 UTCI knew I would love this album reaction, but didn’t know I would love it this much. Knowing this would be your first time listening to After You My Friend had me so excited lol. Also, every time I hear it, just takes me right back to when I started dating my husband, him showing me the CD and this track. The chaos that it starts out with, but then all those changes that just captures you and keeps you hooked. My non punk rock listening ears couldn’t quite appreciate it back then as much, but I knew right away there was something special about the band. This just made today such a great day!
Mariana
2025-07-01 16:52:46 +0000 UTCThank you for doing this one!! Easy top 10 for me
Ian
2025-07-01 16:33:04 +0000 UTCThat slow part is always awesome when they play After you my friend live.
Mihael Dreo
2025-07-01 16:23:35 +0000 UTCThank you! My favorite album! The last track is a taste of a new sound direction for Joey Cape that resulted in the formation of his Indie side project called Bad Astronaut - DEFINITELY worth checking out
Kyle Adamski
2025-07-01 16:18:13 +0000 UTC“One of the things I notice about Joey Cape’s vocals is he doesn’t use a lot of vibrato” I always enjoyed that about his vocal style. In his more recent singer-songwriter stuff, his voice is almost pure vibrato. Great reaction. Amazing how well this album holds up after all these years.
Nicky G
2025-07-01 15:59:42 +0000 UTCThanks for just doing the original tracklisting! In 1998/99 my bus to school was exactly 25 minutes and I used to listen to this every morning for a couple of years front to back. I always think of this as an album, never the individual tracks.
Tom Wheeler
2025-07-01 15:33:50 +0000 UTCYes! Big BtBam and Lagwagon fan here, both have so many influences that they got to weave into either their metal or punk.
Gir
2025-07-01 15:27:18 +0000 UTCWatching now, but pausing to note that The Low End University drinking game needs to add a rule where you take a shot whenever Mark gathers himself to say “Obsolete Absolute” correctly.
Daniel Maunz
2025-07-01 15:22:48 +0000 UTCCan't wait to devour this once my kiddos are tired out!
Tom Bilodeau
2025-07-01 15:17:40 +0000 UTC
