Commit Yourself Completely

an album a day '25: 41/365

Solid live album. The back half hard carries this thing, Cute Thing, Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales, Destroyed by Hippe Powers, and Beach Life-In-Death are all just about the same quality as the studio equivalents if not better. Cosmic Hero and Drugs With Friends were slightly slower than the studio version and it kind of ruins both of them, it makes the two feel a lot more dragged out than necessary. The cover of Frank Ocean's Ivy stops the back half from being perfect though, it's by far the worst on here and probably mentionable in the lower tier of CSH songs. This version of BLID is really special though, same with Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales. I think the song choice is pretty good and has a good balance of TF and TOD, though I would've preferred if Ivy got replaced by a song like Vincent, NYI, or in a perfect world something off HTLT like America. Not bad, if everything was the quality of the second half it would be significantly higher but the start just feels super mediocre especially compared to the originals.