Thrice - Palms (September 14, 2018) Album • Page 216

Bingo. Maybe I was spoiled by my 311 fandom and seeing them play vastly different setlists from night-to-night. I'm sure it's much more streamlined to have the same 21 songs at each show, but for me it takes away some of the fun of hoping for a song to be played.

 

The Manchester Orchestra album was def my favorite release from them.
Certainly topped the recent Thrice output for me. Also enjoyed their latest live sets more.

I still like Thrice overall more than the other two, but the recent releases haven't stuck with me as much as anything pre-beggars

 

That problem occurs with bands that have like 7-8+ albums. You have so many fan favorites across different albums that you "have to play" + songs from the new album that it leaves little space to change up the setlists. Thrice are at a point where they can put a song for "the old fans" but sadly it always ends up being the same two tracks.

 

I felt like this tour set was great.

Image of the Invisible, Anthology, Beggars and Avenge all haven't been played since their Farewell tour. The set itself is pretty different from the last few years supporting TBEITBN

 

Thrice are one of those bands that could totally get away with 2+ hour sets and play 25 songs or so a night honestly

Dustin's voice might perish is the only thing.

 

I surprisingly really liked seeing Image live again. Don't love that song on record but it killed at the SF show

 

Wasn't MO last year?...

 

Black Mile didn’t even have I Know How To Speak in it. I’ll take METN over it any day. Not saying Black Mile is a bad record. I think sound quality wise it’s much better than Cope was.

I still like Palms. Beyond The Pines is still amazing, and it’s sort of slots in like a Major/Minor to me where I absolutely love some songs, and others I just listen to from time to time when I have the full record on.

 

Sci fi and black mile were better than palms.. at this point I just expect thrice to put out solid rock records, I can appreciate that

 

the amulet was better than all three imo

 

I feel like Thrice has atleast one more amazing record in them other than a few more “solid rock albums” to end their career.

 

They are still writing some of their best songs though? Beyond the Pines, Long Defeat, Black Honey, and so on. Still some Top Tier stuff going on.

 

At first I thought Palms was weaker than their previous albums, but after seeing some of the songs live and spending more time with the record, I just realized that Thrice continues to kill it album after album and any change is just them evolving and me trying to catch up.

 

Palms was like Beggars for me, disappointment at first because of the direction but grew to love each song and now both are 10/10. Palms was a faster grow on me because it has some real bangers on it and the bass sounds amazing.

 

Beggars is probably the best Thrice album in my opinion, but I wouldn’t even say it has a top 5 Thrice song (for me).

Every album has a song or two that gives me chills just thinking about them they are that good.

 

People will ask me sometimes "What do Thrice sounds like? What other bands are similiar?"

I was talking to a stranger at the show on Tuesday and we came to the conclusion that Thrice is our favorite band because they are a culmination of the best things from all the other bands we like.

I could easily make a 20 song compilation and almost every song would sound like a different band. It's incredible to me to think that Digital Sea, Come All You Weary and Deadbolt are all from the same band.

 

I have actually done this before. It’s amazing because it’s like a musical journey. The songs transition really well between albums (maybe the older stuff from Illusion Of Safety stands out a little), but there is so much variety it doesn’t get tiring.

I echo the idea they take a lot of the best aspects of other bands and bring them together. I think a big part of that comes from having four members who write music and have different and shared influences. Plus, it’s been the same four guys since it began, so there is a sense of give and take, or honesty there that obviously works.

 

I hate describing Thrice to people that aren’t too familiar with the scene the band came from. I should just start saying guitar band that’s changed a lot.

 

thrice is like if Radiohead had skatepunk/metalcore roots instead of Brit pop

 

unfortunately, this album did not stick with me :(

The Grey is still a killer track though.

 

I was glad to see that Epitaph splurged on two bus bench ads.

 

This album is very good

 

Well damn.

 

Looks like I'll be passing on seeing Thrice for the first time in a while.

 

also cool to see BMTH using the old WCW logo.