Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power (January 1, 2023) Album • Page 32

All I Have to Offer is Visible Confusion About Why It's Been Out of Print for 13 Years

 

And it was only a pressing of 1000 across 3 variants

 

They should press the old records in existing pressing colors.

As someone with a fairly large collection, I am pro fucking with scalpers.

 

Finished the album on my drive home, and I agree with the love for Blood In The Milk, Woods II, and How Did It Used To Be So Easy. Love the instrumentation.

 

not repressed even ONCE wtf

 

That’s wild, I had it and had no idea it was worth a lot, I think I sold it for $50ish years ago. I only have bonfires, gospel and OCL now

 

You could always ignore thread, get on with your day, and let the people who are comfortable listening to this band enjoy the album and discussion surrounding it.

 

Nah fuck off with that. Listen if you want, but if someone calls them out either ignore it and post like it didn’t happen or acknowledge they did a shitty thing

 

I haven’t said anything and wasn’t going to this go round (unless those scumbags come back around the band) because I’ve certainly said enough, but you losers aren’t gonna dismiss someone else calling out the band. Deal with it in your own way. Listen or don’t, praise the band. Whatever. But you’re not gonna “let people enjoy things” rape apologists.

 

There is blatant passive aggression in that quoted reply so no I won’t fuck off. There is nothing educational or productive about it. Now you’re branding me as a loser and completely taking my message out of context to say I’m ignoring allegations that literally every person in this thread is aware of.

 

I find it so weird that these discussions always attract people with relatively low post counts and names I’ve never seen before. Like, these people just lurk the site and then HAVE to chime in to defend their faves when someone very calmly reminds them of a band’s questionable past.

 

If you don’t see what the user was getting at with their post you must be blind - which would make sense since you’re talking like I’m not here right now for whatever reason?

This has been spoken about multiple times in the thread and I haven’t said anything because I have nothing to contribute. The only reason I responded was because the post was a clear dig. I was speaking specifically to that user about letting people enjoy the discussion.

I have no issues whatsoever with things being brought up and discussed - inflammatory comments like that do nothing.

 

To be fair,

Is equally inflammatory and very clearly an attempt to get a rise out of Romy by dismissing the point of their post and then put them on the spot about the album. Either that or they're just being dumb.

 

Lmao god I hate this fucking website

 

Seeing Pepitito in a lot of threads here, I really don’t think that comment was inflammatory. It felt like their way of acknowledging what’s happened and shifting conversation back to the album.

EDIT: Seeing comments that are happening later in this thread I might be wrong here.

 

I definitely think it’s inflammatory to ask someone if they listened to the album when they just brought up how people may want to second guess their choice to listen to band based on some shitty associations. Like why even ask them that question, it’s obviously going to provoke people.

 

Yep. I don't really care about this record and thus have no skin in the game (happy folks are enjoying it even if I'm not interested), but if you think you need to report someone for bringing up the band's association with JJR or responding to a passive-aggressive post targeting them about it...rethink that. Lol.

 

Yeah definitely come in here and tell us about the modmail you're getting lmao

 

It was a dorky report and I'm trying to prevent more dorky reports

 

The Dork Report is absolutely the name of an incel nerd site.

Don't even try to tell me I'm wrong, or whether or not it exists, I care not.

 

I mean if it doesn’t exist it should def redirect to chorus dot fm

 

If you had told me these guys would put out this type of album when I was watching them run through Southeast Michigan in the late 2000's, I'd have called you crazy. Goddamn, those last 5 songs in particular, but this whole thing was put together well.

Bloooood innn theeeee miiilllkkk

 

The whole thing is ripe with religious references, but I just got that “milk and honey” is usually used to refer to Canaan as the promised land “flowing with milk and honey”, so that’s gotta be what they mean with, “blood in the milk and pesticide in the honey”.

The lyrics kind of read like someone not totally sure on the existence of God, and maybe even believes some of the Bible, but it’s extremely clear they don’t think that churches in America are lining up with what is in the Bible.

 

I’m a little taken aback by how much I like this. I loved Fireworks when Gospel and Oh, Common Life came out but wasn’t expecting much from this since I don’t really listen to the genre any more. There is some really great stuff on this. Megachurch, Blood in the Milk, and How Did It Used to Be So Easy? are my early favorites. They’re not all that much alike, and I kind of hate myself for saying it, but this album reminds me a bit of Goodness. Hits similar notes for me.