Circa Survive Band • Page 39

Nesting Dolls, Spirit of the Stairwell and Child of the Desert are my faves for sure

 

In Fear And Faith
Stop The Fuckin' Car
We're All Thieves
Living Together
The Difference Between...
On Letting Go
Your Friends Are Gone
Get Out
Glass Arrows
Through The Desert Alone
Lazarus
The Lottery
Schema
Nesting Dolls
Descensus

 

I really disliked Nesting Dolls the first couple times I heard it.

Now I love how emotionally resonant it is after hearing Anthony talk about his marriage and addiction.
Really captures the moment

 

Top 10 in no particular order that no one ever asked for

Stop the Fucking Car
House of Leaves
Living Together
Kicking your Crosses Down
Frozen Creek
Blood From a Stone
Lazarus
Only the Sun
Act Appalled
Get Out

 

Blood From A Stone fucking rules

 

The end of that song is goosebumps everytime for me

 

the actual worst circa survive song

 

if your favorite circa song isnt your friends are gone or lazarus i dont fuck with you

 

Your Friends Are Gone is really really good, my all time favorite is probably the demo of Great Golden Baby that's just named Juturna that I think I got from limewire.

What's the closing track that's like 8 minutes too long? That one is probably the only thing I'll skip

 

This Charming Man
A Box Full Of Sharp Objects
Mr Brightside
The Absence Of God
Helena
Some Red Handed Slight Of Hand
Lovesong
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Holland, 1945

my top 15 Circa songs would prob look something like this idk

 

As hard as I tried, I'm with @cwhit with this....can't get into anything else by the band besides BSN and Appendage. But both of those are phenomenal

 

I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy are borderline embarrassing, and mark the transition of the band from infallible (pre-BSN) to good/great but spotty at times (BSN onward). I feel like anyone who loves those two songs is probably a newer fan who discovered them post-BSN, and hardly anyone who fell in love with their early sound would gravitate towards those.

 

Great Golden Baby

 

ggb best song on juturna

 

I like most songs on Juturna more than most other songs

 

in fear and faith is one of the best songs I've ever heard

 

Hard to think of a melody better than the one in the verses of that song.

 

Haha, I'll ammend, there's a few questionable songs on VW which are the worst, but the two I listed are my least favorites probably. Imaginary Enemy is cringe for me for some reason.

 

I've enjoyed some stuff post On Letting Go but I haven't been able to connect to anything on a deep emotional level like I did with Juturna and OLG. Songs like In the Morning and Amazing and Your Friends Are Gone transport me to another fuckin' planet. I know that's just a personal thing but 'tis unfortunate. Love love love Frozen Creek tho.

I remember being really upset that they were on late night and played Imaginary Enemy instead of Get Out, which is easily one of, if not the best, song on BSN.

 

Those fuckin' drums. So good.

 

Or maybe anyone who loves those two songs just enjoys music?

Do y'all who shit on I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy shit on Strange Terrain, Get Out, and Dyed In The Wool too?

 

I like that stuff because it shows that they can make straightforward, fantastic alt rock songs, and not the (gonna get a lot of shit for this one) more self-masturbatory aimless progginess of the early stuff

I exaggerated a bit but I've always been bored with the early stuff, it's never once caught my ear at all.

 

For seven years now, some fans act like there's something inherently wrong with this band writing these alt rock songs like I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy (there is definitely a prog feel to the latter) and I just don't get it. Saying things like "I feel like, if you listened to this band before BSN, you wouldn't like these songs" is just so weirdly dismissive. There is room for listeners to enjoy both aspects of Circa's sound. Sure, you can certainly prefer one over the other, but when most of the criticism being hurled BEN's way is over I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy for reasons such as "If you were into this band before BSN..." you need to let go of the past and actually listen to these songs for what they are instead of thinking "Well I like this band more when they're proggy/atmospheric so this is bad." Both songs are really good alt rock songs and BSN is a fantastic alt rock album that gets shit on so much because fans just keep holding onto the first two albums and it bothers me that no one can really field an argument against those songs other than going "Lol these lyrics are bad/cheesey," which in itself is a weak argument because you can look at the lyrics on Juturna and ask yourself "What the fuck is Anthony going on about" and you'll never know.

If y'all don't like I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy, or BSN as a whole, then so be it, but don't make it seem like someone who was around before BSN is incapable of enjoying those songs or that album. I came on board in 2009 and OLG and BSN are two of my absolute favorite albums of all time, so I think that argument can go right out the door.

 

Dyed in the Wool amd Strange Terrain are phenomenal and Get Out is pretty sweet too. Imaginary Enemy is just annoying and I Felt Free is a solid rock song but doesn't fair too well as a CS song imo

 

I love those songs, and I've loved this band since Juturna.