Thursday Band • Page 70

Nothing about CE was a step backwards, more of a step to the side. Another angle on what they did with city

 

Yeah sure I agree with that stance now, it took me a long time to accept that.

 

Haven't heard Friends in the Armed Forces mentioned yet and I'm sad.

I can feel the desert's heat....

 

Common Existence is bookended so well with Resucitation and Last Call at the beginning and Love and Cancer at the end. Then with Spectrum right in the middle you've got yourself a great album that people seem to always underrate.

 

I did a thing on this in 11th grade English where we had to analyze lyrics to a song following certain criteria. My teacher, a middle aged white woman, wrote "these lyrics are great!" on my sheet

 

i was gonna say i think FITAF might be a better quintessential song than cancer or lovesong, though i also just personally like it more so take that for what it's worth. i feel weird giving a quintessential title to a long closer, and between the lyrics, instrumentation, and atmosphere, i think armed forces could easily slide into any album

also, unpopular opinion, but to me the chorus to turnpike almost kills the song for me. just doesn't flow well, and the rest of the song slows beautifully

 

Here are some images from where the No Dev artwork came from.

 

no dev white pre order 2xlp with etched d-side is one of the crown jewels of my vinyl collection

 

Spinning CE right now. Always reminds me how good of a writer Geoff is. I know he doesn't favor this album because it's less personal than other records, but start to finish it's really impressive to see how he pulled off all these lyrical themes. And Beyond the Visible Spectrum is like, top five.

 

Do y'all fuck with Turning Point? It must have been very influential to them early on. I assume that's where the name is from as well?

 

Can't vouch for the legitimacy or anything, but someone on this Thursday fan page is saying they've spoken to the Thursday merch guy and they say Thursday are going to do a 5 week US tour with Touche Amore/Basement this April: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1063706246977566/

 

its also got a lot to do with the bands touring life at the time. They toured with Bring Me The Horizon and a couple other really kind of shitty bands and it bummed a lot of them out, especially Geoff since hes very socially progressive and a lot of the bands they toured with at that time werent using homophobic and sexist slurs, etc. Its a shame because its probably my favorite Thursday record :/

 

CE is very much a transition record, nothing wrong with that at all and its a necessary staple of their discog, id even call it a definite high point. it bridges the gap between the ACBTLD sound and the no dev sound.

 

Listening to the Envy split, specifically the different mix of Dark Mountain, does anyone else really dig how that sounds? I think the drums sound pretty sweet.

 

I also tend to listen to it more than the album version. The background screams and the drums sound way better. Common Existence's drums sound weird at times.

 

I haven't listened to the Envy split but now i want to. The drums sounding weirdly hollow (that doesn't even make sense??? drums are hollow what does that mean, self???) were my initial complaint about Common Existence

 

Do it! There are some great songs on there.

 

It's basically a really sweet mix of Dark Mountain, two post rock jams based around their Kill the House Lights theme, and one of the most underrated Thursday songs ever. Seriously that line like "We're running as fast as we can, down a street with no end" is chilling. And Geoff's shouts in the verses are really powerful.

 

Thank you. That song is criminally underrated. It's spectacular.

 

In Silence and An Absurd And Unrealistic Dream Of Peace are both fantastic songs

 

In Silence is in my top 10 Thursday songs. The Envy split is essential to their discography for me.

 

That part in Appeared and Was gone where it turns into You Were the Cancer.

 

im on in silence right now, im so mad at myself because jesus christ. I want an album like In Silence, that sounds like a midpoint between Common Existence and No Devolucion because goddamn it sounds so good

 

wait how are these b-sides, an absurd and unrealistic dream is incredible