Summertime - 10
Homeward - 9
Folk Song - 8
She - 9
When I’m Thinking About You - 8
I Can’t Wait - 9
Cry - 9
Another Flavour - 9
Leave This City - 8
Your Eyes - 9
So Much - 9
Monochrome - 8

Overall Score: 88

Favorite: Summertime
Least Favorite: When I’m Thinking About You

Fight Fire With Fire - 9
Ride The Lightning - 9
For Whom The Bell Tolls - 10
Fade To Black - 9
Trapped Under Ice - 8
Escape - 8
Creeping Death - 9
The Call Of Ktulu - 9

Overall Score: 89

Favorite: Form Whom The Bell Tolls
Least Favorite: Escape

Airbag - 9
Paranoid Android - 10
Subterranean Homesick Alien - 9
Exit Music (For A Film) - 10
Let Down - 10
Karma Police - 10
Fitter Happier - 9
Electioneering - 8
Climbing Up the Walls - 9
No Surprises - 10
Lucky - 9
The Tourist - 10

Overall Score: 94

Favorite: Paranoid Android
Least Favorite: Electioneering

This is an album that would have been better if it was shorter. Cut a bit out of a few songs, leave the last two off the album entirely, and you're looking at a 9/10. Instead, this hovers around a 7, maybe an 8 if you stretch it, which is a shame because the instrumentals are peak. Also HOW IS PASSPORT ONLY AN 81! That song is a masterpiece.

Angry - 9
Get There - 10
Wasted - 9
Believe Me - 8
Courage - 7
A Girl - 7
Daylight - 8
America - 8
Older - 7
Passport - 10
Standby - 6
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Don’t Come Down - 9
Bad Behavior - 8
Black Butterflies and Déjà Vu - 10
Taxi - 7
Do You Remember? - 8
The Sound of Reverie - 9
Lost in Nostalgia - 6
I Only Wanna Talk to You - 8
Lonely - 8
How Do You Feel? - 8

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: Black Butterflies and Déjà Vu
Least Favorite: Lost in Nostalgia

The Ballad - 8
St. Charles Square - 6
Barbaric - 7
Russian Strings - 7
The Everglades (For Leonard) - 8
The Narcissist - 10
Goodbye Albert - 6
Far Away Island - 6
Avalon - 6
The Heights - 7

Overall Score: 71

Favorite: The Narcissist
Least Favorite: Far Away Island

Spiderhead - 5
Come a Little Closer - 8
Telescope - 8
It’s Just Forever - 4
Take It or Leave It - 7
Halo - 8
Black Widow - 5
Hypocrite - 8
Teeth - 4
Cigarette Daydreams - 10

Overall Score: 67

Favorite: Cigarette Daydreams
Least Favorite: It’s Just Forever

My Own Summer (Shove It) - 10
Lhabia - 9
Mascara - 7
Around the Fur - 9
Rickets - 8
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) - 10
Lotion - 9
Dai the Flu - 8
Headup - 7
MX - 8
Damone - 8

Overall Score: 82

Favorite: Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
Least Favorite: Mascara

Meatplow - 8
Vasoline - 8
Lounge Fly - 7
Interstate Love Song - 10
Still Remains - 8
Pretty Penny - 8
Silvergun Superman - 9
Big Empty - 9
Unglued - 9
Army Ants - 8
Kitchenware & Candybars - 9

Overall Score: 85

Favorite: Interstate Love Song
Least Favorite: Lounge Fly

Cutting My Fingers Off - 10
New Scream - 10
Humming - 9
Hello Euphoria - 9
Dizzy On the Comedown - 10
Diazepam - 9
Like Slow Disappearing - 9
Take My Head - 9
I Would Hate You If I Could - 8
Intrapersonal - 10

Overall Score: 93

Favorite: New Scream
Least Favorite: I Would Hate You If I Could

Dramamine - 10
Breakthrough - 10
Custom Concern - 10
Might - 9
Lounge - 10
Beach Side Property - 10
Ionizes & Atomizes - 10
Head South - 10
Dog Paddle - 7
Novovain Stain - 10
Tundra/Desert - 10
Ohio - 10
Exit Does Not Exist - 10
Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset - 10
Make Everyone Happy - 10
Space Travel Is Boring - 8

Overall Score: 97

Favorite: Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
Least Favorite: Dog Paddle

Strange - 10
The Host - 10
In Your Mind - 8
Alarmed - 8
Trimmed and Burning - 10
Happiness - 9
Don’t Try - 7
You Are - 8
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - 9
The Weather - 9

Overall Score:

Favorite: Strange
Least Favorite: Don’t Try

Lightning Rod - 9
Satellite - 10
Manifest Destiny - 6
One Man Wrecking Machine - 8
The Captain - 8
The New Underground - 9
Ruby Falls - 9
C’mon - 7
Empire State - 8
Dear Valentine - 8
The Beginning of the End -7
Hang On - 8

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: Satellite
Least Favorite: Manifest Destiny

Marching Bands of Manhattan - 10
Soul Meets Body - 10
Summer Skin - 9
Different Names for the Same Thing - 8
I Will Follow You into the Dark - 10
Your Heart Is an Empty Room - 9
Someday You Will Be Loved - 9
Crooked Teeth - 9
What Sarah Said - 8
Brothers on a Hotel Bed - 8
Stable Song - 7

Overall Score: 88

Favorite: Soul Meets Body
Least Favorite: Stable Song

Training Montage - 10
Mark on You - 9
Wage Ward Get Rich Die Handsome - 9
Extraction Point - 9
Bones Don’t Rust - 8
First Blood - 9
Make You Suffer - 8
Guys on Every Corner - 9
Hostages - 9
Need More Bandages - 7
Incandescent Ruins - 8
Bleed Out - 7

Overall Score: 85

Favorite: Training Montage
Least Favorite: Need More Bandages

Morbid Stuff - 8
Kids - 8
Free at Last - 7
See You at Your Funeral - 6
Scorpion Hill - 9
Closure - 7
Bloody Mary, Kate, and Ashley - 7
Sibling Rivalry - 7
Full Blown Meltdown - 9
Bare Hands - 8
City - 8

Overall Score: 76

Favorite: Scorpion Hill
Least Favorite: See You at Your Funeral

Don’t Pretend You Didn’t Know - 9
Watch The Corners - 9
Almost Fare - 9
Stick a Toe In - 8
Rude - 5
I Know It Oh So Well - 8
Pierce the Morning Rain - 9
What Was That - 8
Recognition - 8
See It on Your Side - 8

Overall Score: 81

Favorite: Don’t Pretend You Didn’t Know
Least Favorite: Rude

I thought this was better the first time I listened to it. On the second listen, however, I discovered it's fatal flaw. It's boring as shit.

Once Upon A Poolside - 6
Eucalyptus - 6
New Order T-Shirt - 7
This Isn’t Helping - 8
Tropic Morning News - 9
Alien - 7
The Alcott - 7
Grease In Your Hair - 8
Ice Machines - 7
Your Mind Is Not Your Friend - 7
Send For Me - 6

Overall Score: 70

Favorite: Tropic Morning News
Least Favorite: Eucalyptus

Animal Instinct - 10
Loud And Clear - 8
Promises - 9
You And Me - 9
Just My Imagination - 9
Shattered - 10
Desperate Andy - 9
Saving Grace - 10
Copycat - 7
What’s On My Mind - 8
Delilah - 8
Fee Fi Fo - 8
Dying In The Sun - 8
Sorry Son - 8

Overall Score: 86

Favorite: Animal Instinct
Least Favorite: Copycat

This album is poetry, putting feelings of loss and disappointment and grief and hope into song in a beautiful and impactful way. I feel that John K. Samson is spilling his soul out to me, and I understand completely.

Benediction is also my favorite song (period), so I may be biased here.

(Manifest) - 10
The Reasons - 10
Reconstruction Site - 10
Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call - 10
Plea from a Cat Named Virtue - 10
Our Retired Explorer - 10
Time’s Arrow - 10
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