Thrice: To Bracket Everywhere is to Bracket Nowhere Bracket • Page 18

Paper Tigers
Blood Clots and Black Holes
The Artist in the Ambulance
The Abolition of Man
Under a Killing Moon
Stare at the Sun

 

All That's Left
Silhouette
The Artist in the Ambulance
The Abolition of Man
The Melting Point of Wax - 4
Stare at the Sun

 

Paper Tigers
Silhouette (though I love the main riff of Blood Clots and Black Holes)
Don’t Tell and We Won’t Ask
The Abolition of Man
Under a Killing Moon
Stare at the Sun


Are Motion Isn’t Meaning and Eclipse considered part of the album? I might have gone with Eclipse over Stare at the Sun but I don’t view it as part of the proper album.

 

I was surprised to see them included. It's very weird they're in this and yet That Hideous Strength wasn't included for the Illusion of Safety bracket. That song is just as good, if not better, than both of these (although I like both of those songs better than a bunch of others that are doing well in this bracket, like Stare at the Sun). Same with Red Telephone.

 

I'm honestly just shocked and happy it made it to the finals.

- All That's Left (As much as I like the heavier stuff more, this song is so catchy and jammin)
-Silhouette (Dang, this is like choosing between children)
-The Artist in the Ambulance
-The Abolition of Man ( That ending.......)
-Under a Killing Moon
-Stare at the Sun (maybe has my favorite bass line of all time)

 

There were versions of The Artist in the Ambulance that included these two songs, just like Madman for Identity Crisis. I don't think it was the case with Illusion of Safety for That Hideous Strength. And honestly I thought it was just a song that was included with If We Could Only See Us Now.

 

Will there be a b-side bracket with Hideous Strength, Lullaby, Flags of Dawn, The Weight of Glory, Answered, Red Telephone and Sea of Change?

I'm down either way, if it's included I can't see any of them winning against the winner of another album anyway (expect maybe Red Telephone)

 

I figured that the b-sides would be lumped in with their respective albums. A b-side bracket would be interesting (and probably more fair since b-sides are unlikely to win album rounds as you said)

 

Ah that makes sense. That Hideous Strength was an unreleased b-side from IOS, only released on IWCOSUN as far as I know.

 

Paper Tigers
Silhouette
The Artist And The Ambulance
The Abolition of Man
The Melting Point of Wax
Stare At The Sun

I love this album

 

Let’s just put Flags of Dawn in the championship round as it’s far and away the best b-side.

 

Vheissu's b-sides are far and away my favorite non-album Thrice tracks

 

Flags of Dawn is better than entire albums they’ve put out before and since tbh haha

 

I love Flags of Dawn, but I can't decide if I agree it's their best b-side. Red Telephone and Answered are both so good.

 

The B-sides have been included within their respective albums. I don't have That Hideous Strength or Lullaby though, as I don't think they were ever associated with any album. Also having a b-sides bracket would get us to 9 songs in the Champions bracket and would make it weird.

 

That Hideous Strength was recorded and released in 2002, same year as IOS. It was played on the tour promoting that album along with all the other IOS songs. It was first released on Hopelessly Devoted to You Vol 4 lol, along with Betrayal is a Symptom.

 

Oh well, too late for it now. It probably wouldn't have won in the album or a b-side bracket either.

 

It's all good! I appreciate you running this thing!

 

Current scores :

Paper Tigers - 12
All That's Left - 7

Blood Clots and Black Holes - 4
Silhouette - 15

The Artist in the Ambulance - 14
Don't Tell and We Won't Ask - 5

The Abolition of Man - 16
Motion Isn't Meaning - 3

Under a Killing Moon - 13
The Melting Point of Wax - 6

Eclipse - 2
Stare at the Sun - 17

 

Paper Tigers

Silhouette

Artist

Abolition

Killing Moon

Stare at the sun.

 

Not ok with Blood Clots being so far behind tbh

 

Yep. The ending to that song is unreal. Also, Don't Tell and We Won't Ask is one hell of a closer.

 

but it's not even the best B-Side, let alone better than most of the 5 albums that followed.

It's better than Wake Up and As The Crow Flies, I'll give you that

Silhouette though.........a Thrice staple

 

All That's Left
Silhouette
The Artist in the Ambulance
The Abolition of Man
The Melting Point of Wax
Stare at the Sun

 

well this is just a straight up falsehood.