Thrice Band • Page 34

Beggars was def a grower. I'll never forget putting it in and driving with a friend, we were like "where are the jams at?" and kept skipping through the album. I grew to love it but at first I was jarred from how soft it was throughout.

 

I feel ya. Same boat here.

 

beggars has variety. this one and m/m have the least variety

 

M/M? The album that has Yellowbelly, Cataracts, Words in the Water, Treading Paper and Anthology on the same album?

Beggars is earth 2.0.

 

mm is their most homogenous post artist. or this album. no debate

 

Well, yeah, if you don't allow debate, then of course!

 

so from Vheissu through TBEITBN...you're saying that MM and TBEITBN aren't the most homogenous??

 

My comparison of Beggars to Earth wasn't a dig since I love them both, but any track besides All The World or Talking Through Glass could be on the Earth disc. If you take away your preconceived knowledge of Earth and Beggars, I don't think anyone would question them being Earth songs since they have that Folk/Indie feel.

 

I agree with the new album. Not M/M. I'd go Beggars for reasons above.

 

Ok lol

 

M/M definitely inspires a wider variety of moods for me than Beggars. Still not as good as their mid-career material but I found myself more engaged by that record

 

Perhaps we can be more specific as to what it is we are discussing. When you claim Beggars has more "variety," in what sense are you using that term? Lyrical content? Tempo?

 

styling

 

Bingo

 

As in the style for a majority of the songs are mostly all stripped down folk/indie sounding songs? hmmmmm

 

Folk?

 

Folkish lol. If you took In Exile, Double Speak, The Weight, Beggars and compared it to anything from Illusion and Artist and then modern folk inspired indie bands I would assume anyone would say they sound more like the latter.

 

that album has influences from more genres and is more dynamic musically than mm. blues, post rock, indie, folk. more is going on. not to mention it's a better album and the songs are better written. mm is vanilla af

 

i dont think anyone would say any of those songs sound like folk. maybe beggars

 

I can't aruge because I'm not a listener of folk. Aren't groups like Mufford and Sons and The Lumineers folk influenced though? Beggars makes me think they went in that style a bit.

Post rock? I may just be old but I'm not into sub genres. I get the blues one though. Still think M/M has more variety but if we are talking about which is better, that is a different conversation. You seem to not like M/M very much where I love both so I think you may just be a little biased.

 

i dont rly hear that for the majority of the album. still think most of it is too heavy for that kinda sound, especially the weight and doublespeak ha

the end of circles is p post rock influenced in particular

 

am I biased by not liking something? Sure. But I'm not blowing smoke. I listen to alot of music. MM is very homogenous by comparison to Beggars and Alchemy.

 

Oh sure, no argument that it isn't heavier compared to those indie bands but I still wouldn't call them heavy in the least bit lol. I guess I'm looking at it from the point I made earlier about comparing them to early Thrice as opposed to those bands and they would sound more like the indie folk bands.

 

I also listen to a lot of music. Point made sir.