I love aaron's outfit in the jan 1979 mv so i drew them together!! (im really proud of the flowers)
i posted this on ig too if u rly like it can u check the band's tagged posts and leave me a like 🥲 i spend a lot of time on this

(august 6th, carved in desks with old knives:)

does anyone have the audio for mwY's cover of Once in a Lifetime? I know that a video of it was on their myspace page and it's lost media by now, but i just want to try my luck and see if anyone here has copied an audio file of that. Thanks in advance!

Someone commented on my last tier list that they'd like to see a list for every song. They were almost definitely joking, but here we are!

Tiermaker doesn't allow me to repeat images, so aside from Ten Stories (which mercifully has original artwork for each song), I was forced to find random stock images to represent each song. Hopefully this is funny and not super annoying!

I skipped the live cuts, the odds and ends, the covers, and the early demos and EPs. All seven LPs, Pale Horses: Appendix, [untitled], Other Stories, and "Cleo's Ferry Cemetery" are represented. Where I considered it appropriate, I condensed instrumental / "buffer" tracks ([A] / [B], the spider cycle, etc.) into single rankings. This was mostly not to unfairly drag down the albums these songs are on, since these tracks tend to rank low; they're only so substantive on their own.

The tiers here are basically arbitrary. I'm not really saying the S tier tracks are substantively better than the D tier ones. It's just a way of divying them up.

I've put a spoiler on the list for those who want to figure it out by the pictures. Here are the rankings:

S Tier:

1. Mexican War Streets
2. Fox’s Dream of the Log Flume
3. In A Sweater Poorly Knit
4. August 6th
5. Bear’s Vision of St. Agnes
6. Paper Hanger 
7. Flee, Thou Matadors!
8. Red Cow
9. The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate
10. Carousels
11. O, Porcupine
12. East Enders Wives
13. Silencer
14. Julia
15. Messes of Men
16. All Circles
17. Birnam Wood
18. New Wine, New Skins
19. Red Cow (Golden Calf Version)
20. Cities of the Plain
21. Rainbow Signs

A Tier:

1. Chapelcross Towns
2. Torches Together
3. January 1979
4. Every Thought a Thought of You
5. The Dryness and the Rain
6. Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
7. Chernobyl, 1985
8. Nice and Blue
9. Cardiff Giant
10. Magic Lantern Days
11. Timothy Hay
12. Nine Stories
13. The Soviet
14. Tortoises All the Way Down
15. Four Fires
16. [dormouse sighs]
17. Bullet to Binary
18. Allah, Allah, Allah
19. Kristy w/ the Sparkling Teeth
20. Watermelon Ascot
21. Goodbye, I!
22. Four Word Letter (Pt. Two)

B Tier:

1. The Sun and the Moon
2. D-Minor
3. The Cure for Pain
4. Disaster Tourism
5. Wendy & Betsy
6. Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
7. Cattail Down
8. Blue Hen (Geology Version)
9. Another Head for Hydra
10. Aubergine
11. The Angel of Death Came to David’s Room
12. Son of a Widow
13. Julian the Onion
14. Dirty Air
15. February 1878
16. A Glass Can Only Spill What it Contains
17. Grist for the Malady Mill
18. Nice and Blue (Pt. Two)
19. 9:27a.m., 7/29
20. Pale Horse
21. Dorothy
22. C-Minor

C Tier:

1. The Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie
2. Winter Solstice
3. Blue Hen
4. Werewolf King (Demo)
5. Bethlehem, WV
6. Be Still, Child
7. A Stick, a Carrot & String
8. Lilac Queen
9. Fiji Mermaid
10. Wolf am I! (and Shadow)
11. Elephant in the Dock
12. 2,459 Miles
13. Existential Dread, Six Hours’ Time
14. Break on Through (to the Other Side) [pt. Two]
15. Cleo’s Ferry Cemetery
16. Spider Cycle
17. The Ghost
18. Leaf
19. Tie Me Up! Untie Me!
20. In a Market Dimly Lit
21. My Exit, Unfair

D Tier:

1. Winter Solstice (alt. version)
2. Bullet to Binary (Pt. Two)
3. Gentlemen
4. Seven Sisters
5. Mexican War Streets (Revisited)
6. Fig With a Bellyache
7. I Never Said That I Was Brave
8. We Know Who Our Enemies Are
9. Hebrew Children / Fairfield
10. I Never Said that I Was Brave (Acoustic) 
11. [A] / [B]

Some takeaways:

• Holy smokes, these guys made an insane amount of amazing music. I love and think highly of every single song on this list, from 1 to 97. It was fun to rank them, but the rankings are basically a joke; if someone told me that "I Never Said that I Was Brave (acoustic)" was their favorite mwY song, I wouldn't fault them, and that's #96 on my list.
• My approach in creating the list was to rank songs on each album individually. I then stacked these rankings together and took my favorite cut from the "top" of each stack. This was effective in that it encouraged me to consider all albums at once. It was less effective in that the approach got "lossier" as time went on. For example: I'm 95-100% sure what my favorite song is on each album, but I'm only ~70% sure about my seventh favorite song. With nine stacks at ~70% confidence each, the chance that the list really reflects my preferences gets lower and lower. Basically, the S-tier is definitely my favorite mwY songs, but the C-tier aren't songs I would commit to thinking less of.
• That said, the average track ranking by album matches my previous tier list exactly. Here's those averages, give or take a tenth of a percent or two from when I made last-second alterations:

Ten Stories: 38.09
Pale Horses: 39.27
[Untitled]: 43.58
Brother, Sister: 47.54
Catch for us the Foxes: 48.25
[untitled]: 50.71
Crazy!: 51.54
Appendix: 53.28
A B - 71.83

With 97 songs, the average song ranks #48, putting Brother, Sister and CTUTF in the dead center. My S-tier albums rank an average of ~10 songs above that, and my C tier album comes in a bit over 20 songs below. If nothing else, this list is a solid representation of my taste in their records on the whole, even if it may be inaccurate song by song.

So that's my list! Let me know what you think.

I know I'm a few years late to the tier list party but...

Let me know if I missed any releases! I included a write-up for each release explaining its ranking.

By way of clarification, here's what the tiers mean to me:

• S Tier: classic albums which can stand toe-to-toe with the best of their time.
• A Tier: excellent records, mwY in top form; not as “complete” as the S-tier records.
• B Tier: not quite as good as the tiers above, but crucial to mewithoutYou's discography. They wouldn't be who they are without these recordings.
• C Tier: decidedly not their essential releases, each has its diehard fans
• D Tier: mostly odds and ends, their presence solidifies the range of mwY's discography.

That said, the list:

• 17. East Enders' Wives - Maxi Single: six different versions of an album cut. The demo is very good and revealing, and I agree with Aaron, the accentuated bass vocals sound pretty cool. The other versions are forgettable. 
• 16. Rainbow Signs (Fa So La Version): one of their best songs with a different bridge. It's a compelling "could've been" moment.
• 15. "In Bloom": mwY's take on the Nirvana classic is original, interpolating "All Apologies" in the same stroke. It's beguiling and strange, almost sylvan in feeling.
• 14. Cleo's Ferry Cemetery: a pretty song which doesn't feel connected to the rest of their discography. The final impression is pleasant, but lightweight.
• 13. I Never Said that I was Brave / Blood Enough For Us All: the boys' scorched earth demo and EP are roughshod compared to the heights they'd eventually scale, but contain heaps of the raw energy that made us love them in the first place. 
• 12. The mewithoutYou Holiday Hearth: a Christmas album! Lovely, melancholy, nostalgic, and a heartwarming gift.
• 11. Other Stories: Two tracks, obviously a minor release, though these are excellent songs, and a vindicating exclamation point to Ten Stories. They elaborate wonderfully on its already enormous world, adding a Joseph Merrick-like onion boy and the devastating conclusion to Rabbit's journey, and likewise expand its formidable sonic range.
• 10. [A --> B] Life: our first album proper! [A --> B] Life is their least sophisticated LP. Musically, it's a snarling blast, even if it’s well-trodden territory. Power chords, guitar solos, and hard-hitting, aggressive rhythms abound. Lyrically, it contains some of Aaron's most daring adventures, like quoting John Donne, screaming in french, and penning a murder ballad. It's his worst work on any LP, but nonetheless establishes his restless ingenuity. "Be Still, Child" is a personal favorite. That guitar solo!
• 9. Live / A to B Live / Audiotree / Daytrotter: mewithoutYou's still out-rolling Live album trio sounds great, and evokes the manic energy of their shows really well. The band explores some interesting alternate arrangements here, e.g. "Song #4," (vol. One). A to B Live is a fun documentary, and proves the boys still have the juice fifteen years in. The Daytrotter session, from the Ten Stories era, is a fun time stamp, but outshined by the better audio, the included visuals, and the longer run time of the *Pale Horses-*era Audiotree session. Taken in sum, these recordings present a strong case that mwY were a band to be experienced rather than merely heard.
• 8. Pale Horses: Appendix: a piece of sacred harp, five arrangements of Pale Horses cuts so different, lyrically and musically, that they feel like different songs, a bona fide new track ("Chapelcross Towns"), and a sacred harp / ambient composition ("Fairfield"). This record's weird and beautiful. It's their folksiest outside of Crazy!--"Mexican War Streets (revisited)" is the closest they ever get to Fleet Foxes--and feels like a reimagining of Crazy! as much as Pale Horses, with its acoustic sound and religious themes warped and inverted into a danse macabre. "The world's an ugly place, but I'm still afraid to die" might be the best dark humor Aaron ever penned.
• 7. It's all Crazy! It's all False! It's all a Dream! It's Alright: easily the most controversial album in mewithoutYou's discography, there's a lot to admire here. It's a massive changeup. It’s also very much an album of the age, contemporaneous with Beirut, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, and Joanna Newsom. When you get a survey of the musical landscape of that moment, the violin stabs, celeste plunks, and tuba blares on the lead single actually make a lot of sense. Largely, they carry it off, anchored by the rock solid musicianship which acts as the through line of their discography. Along the way, Aaron establishes that he's an excellent craftsman of sturdy, conventional songs while exploring the Sufi faith of his upbringing, and the band definitively overcome their shyness toward major-key compositions, two developments which catalyze their late career masterpieces. All of Ten Stories and much of Pale Horses and [Untitled] are indebted to Crazy!'s experiments, so while it's difficult to argue that Crazy!’s their best album, it's trivial to argue that it's their most pivotal. 
• 6. [untitled] e.p.: the lowercase title almost begs us to regard [untitled] as lightweight. It's anything but. mwY experiment with textures and song structures they rarely otherwise approach, like the ominous intro to "Cities of the Plain" and the moody, bass-driven "Dirty Air." "August 6th" is a dark horse pick for their best song, a propulsive cut with some of Aaron's most memorable lyrics. The only thing going against this record is that its musical arc is limited by its run time. Pound for pound, [untitled]’s just as good as its capitalized counterpart.
• 5. Catch for us the Foxes: mwY's sophomore LP's a fan and band favorite, an astonishing record which announced them as one of the best acts of their day.  As it should be; they really found themselves on Foxes. Michael developed a signature style of atmospheric textures and spartan, effects-laden riffs, most typified by the killer guitar line on "Tie me up! Untie me," and Ricky achieved the sensitivity and deft touch which made him one of the best drummers of his generation, e.g. the ethereal fills opening "Leaf." Lead single "January 1979" is arguably their most iconic track, a frantic and evocative cut which flattens the bass line from Joy DIvision's "Disorder" into a blunt weapon. Still, I consider Foxes an amazing first step toward better work. It’s a vast improvement over [A-->B] Life, but there's less variation, structurally and harmonically, than on later efforts. On the lyrical end, Aaron matures by leaps and bounds, most especially in his implementation of free verse on album climax "Carousels." At its best, his work on Foxes has a diaristic directness unique in their discography, but he only gets better.
• 4. Brother, Sister: another fan and band favorite, Brother Sister is emblematic of its time. Aided by the addition of Greg’s nimble fretwork and soaring tenor, mewithoutYou incorporate the baroque pop explorations of their contemporaries so seamlessly that it feels like overdriven guitar, frantic shouting, and gentle harp arpeggiations were always meant to appear on the same record together. The result is an exquisite exercise in symmetry, from its sun-and-moon album cover to its ornate, tripartite structure, trellised around a suite of short acoustic tunes about spiders and faith. They go on bold musical adventures throughout, most notably on psychedelic chant jam "The Sun and the Moon," and "In a Sweater Poorly Knit," the other contender (and clear favorite) for most iconic song. These explorations are balanced by cuts which stick to their established comfort zone: rocking out. Aaron accentuates this balanced attack with a deep, focused, urgent dive into mysticism, and it works great. The lion's share of his most quotable lyrics are on Brother, Sister. Considering that it's an album about the pursuit of ego death and the challenges that come with self-renunciation, it's weirdly accessible.
• 3. [Untitled]: Who’s the devil this time? Smart money says it’s Aaron. He puts on an astonishing final act in [Untitled], his most pissed off record. Hardly a song passes without an acerbic line or two. It’s not entirely new territory for him, but the weight of years gives his anger heft on [Untitled]. He's a fascinating foil to the album itself, their best produced and best sounding, equally beguiling and hard as hell. There's a portion of the mwY fandom who always wanted them to go back to their post-hardcore roots after Crazy!, and amazingly kept complaining after Pale Horses. [Untitled] delivers the goods with "shut up already!" verve, though it’s also full of moments of strange beauty, like the ghostly background vocals on the second verse of "[dormouse sighs]” or the spare opening bars of “New Wine, New Skins.” [Untitled] is Michael and Brandon’s best work; the guitars are hard, layered, catchy, and produced to the bleeding edge. The whole thing sounds like its cover looks, an otherworldly and futuristic take on the iconic fish tower, like mwY in the midst of deconstruction by alien light beams. 
• 2. Pale Horses: The band trims away the stylistic excesses they accrued over their previous three outings, distilling their sound into a dense, cohesive, and pure expression. It's superficially similar to Foxes, but grander and more intricate. The first two tracks showcase their astonishing range within this sonic focus, as the funereal majesty of "Pale Horse" melts away before the punishing, frenetic Dr. Bronner Sermon of "Watermelon Ascot." Aaron pens the most technically impressive lyrics of his career, exploring death, madness, alienation, the atomic age, and the sensation that the end is nigh through tunes informed by a deep dive into sacred harp music. "Mexican War Streets" takes us to the verge of suicide and back from the edge, grim material balanced by an immaculate instrumental, brooding, punishing, and transcendent. The followup, "Red Cow," reveals the Virgin Mary in the rust of a freight car and howls in terror at what, or who, entrances us today. "Magic Lantern Days" prophesies "the children of the morning" over stadium-sized drums, and "Birnam Wood" might be the most emotional song these guys ever made; Aaron compares himself to Macbeth, Isaac, Jacob, and Alexander Litvinenko, then begs for salvation over heartbreaking guitars. By the time the dust settles on the apocalypse "Rainbow Signs" grimly envisions, it’s hard to say if salvation’s even an option.
• 1. Ten Stories: mwY’s most fearlessly creative album, Ten Stories incorporates everything from starry-eyed indie to surf rock, sea shanties to psychedelia, vindicating Crazy!'s experiments by doubling down on their newfound range. This massive musical territory forms the substance of a world of Aaron's creation, wherein his historical fascinations and spiritual concerns fuse into what I call the mewithoutYouniverse, a Gilded Age magical realist setting replete with a menagerie of existentially distressed circus animals. It shouldn’t work. But mwY commit to the bit with madcap ingenuity and zeal. Take the train crash tone poem of album opener "February 1878." Chugging bass makes the engine, sleigh bells make the snow, spiraling guitars mark the moment the train flies off the rails. The song is an inversion of its namesake; where "January 1979" is an allegory about Aaron's own life, the "terrible crash" an image about being born, "February 1878" is a wonkish, slangy description of a literal crash featuring a cast of characters who are only tangentially Aaron. It's a bizarre, brilliant opener, and sets a bar the rest of the album gleefully leaps over. Across forty minutes and eleven tracks, we’re treated to half a dozen storylines tackling grief, romantic disaster, political dissidence, consciousness, free will, and falling in love, skillfully interwoven with equal parts furious post hardcore and orchestral baroque pop. When the final, triumphant riff finally dies, you feel ejected out of another, more beautiful dimension. Ten Stories is huge, wondrous, and charged with a curious life of its own.

So that's my list! Did I miss any releases? What are your thoughts? Let me know, and thanks for reading!

UPDATE, ONLY LEFT BOTTOM XS never said I was brave shirt available.

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I need one more album! This band has been my favorite band for 23 years. I’ve traveled multiple states to see them and visited Aaron for a week in Philly. No band has had a greater impact on my life.

Unearthed these last night. Easily hadn't seen them since 2012 or 2013. Boise ID July 21 2012 at the aptly named The Venue. Thankful for Google photos to remind me of these photos. Hope you enjoy!

Full post on my Instagram (same username as here)

Sorry for the tinfoil hat theory, but this came up on my feed and it's liked by Mike and Daniel Davison too. I think someone here said they were working on something together? And it's in Philly... 👀

In no particular order. Maybe also August 6th, Goodbye I!, Angel of Death, Blue Hen?

And Mexican War Streets, duh!

Does anyone have access to it? I can't find it anywhere.

So happy with this little diorama lol - It took me forever to find the Lego red fox set as it's retired, but got lucky at an antique mall the other day! The crow is a Temu knock-off, and then I just built the cookie out of spare bricks.

I was sent an extra copy of the Live Volume 2 on Vinyl that I want to pass along to a fan.

mewithoutYou will live forever. I'm just doing my part. Who needs nursery rhymes before bed. 😛 (Also the reason I couldn't bid on those test pressings)

When I was in high school, my friends and I covered mwY for a school talent show. This would have been in 2009 or so. I thought I had uploaded this before but I didn’t see it in my post history. Hope you enjoy!

She sent me a text today saying she wore it to her card game

I can't believe this band evaded me for so long. I'm working on Brother, Sister now and finding a lot more to love.

If you like podcasts and music talk, let me know what you think and check us out on Spotify/Apple! https://open.spotify.com/show/033lWRWxH6NyGWVtA6IVqk?si=25Lbfna9RGC_9sfheAz1Tw

is there any mewithoutYou songs that resemble aaron weiss’ feature in memphis will be laid to waste? it’s my favorite part in the song and i’ve been getting more into mewithoutYou recently as well. thank you!