Somos - Prison On A Hill (Oct 11, 2019) Album • Page 13

This album is obviously my favorite, but First Day Back is still solid!

 

All three of them are great. TOP is probably my favorite. That one is very special to me

 

Agreed, they’re all great but I have some strong memories of Temple of Plenty

 

Yeah in no way would I say Temple is their “best” but I most certainly have the strongest/most fond memories attached to it. Would be very hard to dethrone it as my favorite

 

Honestly... I think Temple of Plenty is the best. But this album was great, despite some qualms I have with the vocals. I haven't listened to First Day Back in years.

 

If I listened to their discography all when I was 21ish, TOP would def be #1, but at 28 hard to argue other than Prison

 

They’ve only gotten better with each release. PoaH is a masterpiece.

 

This album is so damn good, constantly go back to it, my favorite of 2019 and nothing in 2020 has touched it yet.

 

Thanks for bumping this thread again and reminding me how much I love this album. Playing this on repeat all day today

 

Agreed! This album is pretty much perfect and, even a year or so later, its still just as good as the 1st listen

 

Albums one of the best politically-centric records of the Trump presidency imo. Captures a sense of desperate hope and melancholic fight that sums up how a lot of people have been feeling. Not many alternative rock albums have nailed it to this degree

 

Anyone that hasn't heard this band Rich People should check it out. Their new record has a lot of sonic similarities to PoaH.

 

Haven’t listened to this in a while, and when I do it takes me right back some very vivid, apolitical memories, but yea hopefully it’s blasting from the speakers during the revolution.

 

I listened to this album this morning based on the thread getting bumped. Forgot how much I love it! I ended up listening to the whole Somos discography this morning. Such a fantastic and consitently good band...

 

So true. I listened to the first half of TOP on my drive today and it always brings back great memories. Used to listen to that record all the time driving to school back when it first came out.

 

I listened this morning, such a good record

 

There’s like... 5 albums that I’ve discovered in the past few years that got me as excited as I’d get about new music when I was in high school. Temple of Plenty is definitely one of them. I was obsessed with that album when it came out. It blew my mind. Still does. I can’t listen to it only once through. I always listen to the whole thing at least twice in a row.

 

still pissed abt the vinyl

 

Bumping this because I’m bumping the record and also looking for the lyrics to young believers if anyone has them. Thanks!

 

YOUNG BELIEVERS

She was waiting she was patient
But she could not deny
Even in dreams she was hurt
And, you have to think about it
Nothing for us without us

Charging down the wide boulevard
Chasing it on the east side
You can turn it around
And nothing for us without us
Nothing for us without us

Dull star
You are my dull star
You are my dull star
You are my dull star
Nobody wants to face it all at once
Nobody wants to face it all at once
Even in dreams
We know it’s right
Even in dreams
We know it’s right

Even if I had enough money for the surgery
I’d be afraid of the drugs that they’d give to me
Young believers with murder in their eyes
Feed them a steady diet of lead
It would be a quick fix for them, they said

You are my dull star
You are my dull star
You are my dull star
You are my dull star
Nobody wants to face it all at once
Nobody wants to face it all at once
Even in dreams
We know it’s right
Even in dreams
We know it’s right

 

Damn, this album is still so good

 

this basically never left my rotation, I listen to it all the time

 

This is going to be one of those albums everyone looks back on in ten or twenty years like ‘damn, that really captured its moment in time perfectly’

 

an all time favorite of mine

 

Whoa I never got around to this. Gonna spin it tonight