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  1. 1. What are your favourite songs from Sirens?

    • Drive By
      17
    • Next to Me
      11
    • A Star for Nick
      26
    • My Momma
      10
    • Bad Disease
      13
    • Out with a Bang
      12
    • Dear Elliot (Westbound)
      7
    • Try Tonight
      13
    • Peace
      13
    • How Do You Know Me So Well? (I'm Indebted to You)
      5
    • Pretty Baby
      16
    • Aviation
      8
    • Move (Find My Own Way)
      7
    • Junky Pride
      13
    • Birds of a Feather
      5


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At first I wasn't a massive fan of Sirens but I warmed to it. Whenever I'm in a folk-y mood (most of the time) I'll listen to Sirens. I wonder if this was the music she always wanted to sing, rather than pop, but she knew she would be better off in the long time with pop music hmm maybe 

It was probably because she wasn't very advanced in making music. She probably didn't have the equipment/facilities and at that time it was a lot easier for her to simply find the right guitar chords to go with the songs. I really like the simplicity, it really shows off her raw voice and she probably liked that style because Pawn Shop Blues was from around that time and was then featured in AKA but I think she's probably a lot happier with her recent music, more layers and more professional and of course, she's famous.


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My nerdly 2 cents:

Sirens has at least 2 masterpieces (which are just songs I think are as good as her other “masterpieces”) and maybe 4 or 5 near misses. So Sirens would be an uncommonly good release relative to average, imo. It is a good example of her “colliding worlds” aesthetic, which I remember her mentioning in an interview (don’t know which one). That is, there are two meanings to the word “sirens”, one suggested by her moniker May *Jailer*, and songs like For K, and the other, of course, suggested by her and her face on the cover. Also some of the songs are both beautiful and tragic. While it can seem repetitive on one listen all the way through, the similar songs (for me) makes it harder to memorize, and perhaps the songs stay fresher longer for that reason. Sirens is an awesome contrast to what follows it (… AKA Lizzy Grant), both in song content and singing style. I don’t think the Jailer style of songwriting has left her. Not counting the unreleased songs in that style, Bel Air and Body Electric seem Jailer-ish, imo. As with … AKA Lizzy Grant, I wonder at the motivation for not having Sirens commercially available and/or I wish she would talk about it more. 

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I've always been convinced that "Out With a Bang" is my favorite Sirens track, at least since the album leaked. But in the past week or so, "Find My Own Way" has sort of randomly taken that spot. It's so beautiful, dear god her twang and her repetitive guitar and her little talent show voice. The final "I don't care what you think" could probably bring a tear to my eye at the right moment.

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On 9/5/2021 at 3:21 AM, Party Favor said:

a star for nick is that bitch. giving me apocalyptic, impending doom vibes 

 

if I were to describe A Star For Nick with one word it'd be haunting, for sure. :defeated:


If I get a little prettier can I be your baby?

 

Beskrivning saknas.


I believe in Flipside/Is This Happiness?/Your Girl supremacy

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I realized i never did my rank for this album so here it is now x

 

Key

Top God tier trinity

Honourable Mention trinity

Center-average tier

Songs I like but don't always vibe with tier

Songs that I'm ok with forgetting tier

Songs I want erased from existence tier

 

  1. Dear Elliot
  2. Out with a Bang
  3. Bad Disease
  4. Pretty Baby
  5. Junky Pride
  6. My Momma
  7. Aviation
  8. Try Tonight
  9. Drive By
  10. Find My Own Way
  11. Next to Me
  12. A Star for Nick
  13. How Do You Know Me So Well?
  14. Peace
  15. Birds of a Feather

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here's how i would rank sirens (i was going to rank aka but i simply can't rank it, all of the songs are fantastic)

 

1. peace

2. out with a bang

3. dear elliot

4. i'm indebted to you

5. try tonight

6. pretty baby

7. find my own way

8. a star for nick

9. aviation

10. bad disease

11. junkie pride

12. next to me

13. my momma

14. for k 

15. birds of a feather

 

@The Siren i love seeing another dear elliot stan! 


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Just now, Surf Noir said:

here's how i would rank sirens (i was going to rank aka but i simply can't rank it, all of the songs are fantastic)

 

1. peace

2. out with a bang

3. dear elliot

4. i'm indebted to you

5. try tonight

6. pretty baby

7. find my own way

8. a star for nick

9. aviation

10. bad disease

11. junkie pride

12. next to me

13. my momma

14. for k 

15. birds of a feather

 

@The Siren i love seeing another dear elliot stan! 

sometimes i forget how these songs sound since theyre all acoustic but i revisited the ones i forget when i do my ranks :true: 

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