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It's not out of the spectrum of possibility. Idk, IARB just sounds so motivated and driven and resolute, and that contrasts hard with the hollow insecurity and tired-veteran-of-the-trade satire of Ugly Organ. Max is still trying to change the world with his talent on IARB while Tim at that point is done convincing each new wave of naive teenagers that he's bigger than he is. I can't compute them as being similar because in my view you use a guitar far differently to express those emotions.

 

Ribbons And Sugar is a very good album

Although this may not be the thread to say that in

 

Some days it's my favorite GAD record. So ahead of it's time

 

The Room's Too Cold is an absolute jam the whole time. Not enough people really give them credit for how many things outside of typical pop punk they did. I love Jeff Kummer's drumming for example - most pop punk drummers are looking for any opportunity to fill space whether with overbearing cymbals or just slamming the snare with constant fills. Jeff on TRTC meanwhile, his drums are so tasteful about leaving space for the song's atmosphere to breathe, and also more than half the record is in 3-4 waltz or 6-8 ballad timing rather than standard 4-4

Also a very dynamic record. Plenty of the softest soft to contrast with the climaxes, so when Ace hits his upper register it is fucking ON and you hear the band go crazy. Most pop punk at the time was always a brisk tempo, high volume. TEN slowed it down and mellowed it out with some NICE clean grooves and that makes the hard hitting moments that much more impactful.

 

Yes! Jeffs a stellar drummer. TRTC is my favorite and is the definition of a true classic. It's dark, inventive, and incredibly well constructed/produced.

 

Bedtime for me. Gonna be a few days before I can go back home to Jacksonville, so im meeting my bands old bassist at his parents house in MS and we're gonna jam and go see Kevin Devine in Baton Rouge tomorrow. Woo!

 

I was originally going to quote you to dispute this, but then it kinda hit me that....shit, you might be totally right on the money here

 

I have never liked a single TEN song I've listened to and the self titled is the only Say Anything album I can listen to.

 

My fav

But y'all knew that one

 

i think the drumming and guitars definitely took inspiration from Ribbons & Sugar. Great album to take ideas from haha

 

Could never get into say anything. I remember hearing soooooo much hype on ap so when I listened to them I was all excited like let's do it, and then I heard it and was like ????? I think I even double checked to make sure I had the right band. Oh well. Not the first or the last band I'll go wtf to when I finally listen after the hype on here lol

 

Wow missed a lot. American Idiot is my favorite concept album, TBP is up there, Coheed has a mostly great discog, don't like Say Anything, really don't like TEN

 

American Idiot has the most confusing narrative to me.

TEN rule

 

I can definitely follow it more than TBP, and way more than anything Coheed - granted, I've also never tried to understand the Coheed story

 

I think Simple Math is one of Manchester Orchestra's best songs.

 

I did with the first two when it was all vague and mysterious. Once they hit Good Appollo and started taking the plot super seriously I started just loving them for the music

 

from them i only heard the album that was everywhere in '14. wikipedia says it's their latest. it was ok but didn't do anything to pull me back in again. i might as well check the rest out, thanks!

 

It's scene af but I've really liked silverstein's concept albums, particularly Shipwreck in the Sand. As mentioned, BTBAM and TEN put in good work as well. But man I gotta get back into metal, I've mostly been listening to indie metal and whatever I had listened to growing up rather than keeping up with some of these groups. But getting into concept albums now just isn't possible it seems, like I don't have time/energy to listen to music and analyze it in a literary fashion which is too bad.

 

Carrie and Lowell is a concept album, I suppose. So that

 

ASITS feels kinda dated and IAAIEIT was just ok, but TIHTWS is still great

 

I want to say De-Loused or Frances but if we're talking about concept albums with a lot of clarity...

 

the fragile great double album great concept

 

Because it is.

 

I like a lot of concept albums.

I don't think I've ever bothered to suss out the plot of a single one though.

 

It took me a few weeks of deep reading to understand the plot of Deloused