Anthony Green and The High and Driving Band - Boom. Done. (July 22, 2022) Album • Page 27

Awesome!

 

cant be satisfied is so great

 

that song with Chino has one of the catchiest hooks, it's so good

 

Assuming this song on my Release Radar is by a different Anthony Green lol

 

yeah I was very confused

 

It's happened before with him and something like that, I figured it was fake when I saw the art

 

i think theres a male porn star that also shares his name

 

Anyone looking to offload any of his vinyl? Aside from this new one, his stuff seems pretty tough to find.

 

I could be wrong, but, if you catch a solo show of his, he should be seeing WYABIL and/or Pixie Queen. I know he had copies of Pixie Queen at his BD record release show

 

L. S. Dunes is coming to Pittsburgh, but not him solo. I guess if anyone catches him solo anytime soon and feels like doing me a solid, let me know!

 

There hasn’t been an official announcement, but I know he’s said he wants to do a proper tour for BD so maybe he swings by your way in the fall!

 

Hopefully, he's a bucket list artist for me (with or without Circa) and I'd love to do an interview with him. Anyways, probably gonna order a copy of this and try to hunt down copies of Pixie Queen and Beautiful Things if possible. Avalon repress remains a distant dream.

 

I need to grab myself copies of Beautiful Things, Young Legs, and Pixie Queen. Who knows when I’ll ever see the former two. Good luck on your journey. Hope you find affordable copies

 

I love Anthony but saw him solo opening for Thursday and it was just him and an electric guitar and it was bad. Would love to see him with a full band.

 

He’s usually great whether it’s him solo or with the band, but I also thought his set on that Thursday tour was the weakest and strangest set I’d seen him play.

Might have been the only time I’ve seen him play exclusively solo as well, but I’ve certainly seen him play ~solo~ within the grand scheme of a full band set.

 

Like two weeks later, I think Pixie Queen and Boom Done have surpassed Beautiful Things for me, in that order. I adore Pixie Queen.

 

I've been on a Boom Done kick lately and that is still my favorite album from them. However, you got me wanting to revisit the rest of their discography, especially Pixie Queen, Young Legs, and Beautiful Things, which are admittedly the three I've probably spent the least amount of time with over the years

 

I’ve seen sober and not sober Anthony solo, with Circa, and with Saosin over ten times and the man never had an off night thankfully with me. Incredible sounding live sometimes.

 

Just finished revisiting Anthony's solo discography for the first time in about a year and it's so clear to me that he and the band just really leveled up on Boom Done. Far and away my favorite solo album of his, but Avalon is close behind. I love both of these albums so much, but I just find myself connecting and empathizing with Boom Done so much. Powerful stuff.

Interestingly, I found myself enjoying Pixie Queen more than Would You Still Be In Love this time around. I think I prefer when Anthony has more full band arrangements than when it's mostly just him acoustic. It's not that I dislike the latter. I just usually find myself more interested in full-band stuff.

Beautiful Things is still my least favorite. You can tell he really went full dad-mode on that album, understandably so. Just some of the lyrics don't really hit for me like they do on other albums of his. I could say the same for Young Legs, but to a lesser degree.

 

I usually see it around here that BT and YL are not liked that much by many, and I think after your comment I finally get it why is that - the dad stuff, maybe ;D I personally love most of it! For what it is.

 

I just feel odd about Beautiful Things because it's not like I think anything about that album is outwardly bad, but you can tell Love You No Matter What, James' Song, and Lullaby are definitely about James and they kind of take me out of the album a little bit. I also don't think there are many highlights on that album relative to his solo discography. Can't Have It All At Once is definitely the best, to me. Unfortunately, I don't feel like anything else on the album comes close to it aside from maybe If I Don't Sing.

I think Young Legs is pretty similar in that, the highs on that album don't really hold up as well for me when compared to the highs throughout his solo discography. I think the sequencing of the album is odd too. The first three songs work so well, then Too Little, Too Late feels so jarring transitioning from 100 Steps before getting to When You Sang to Me and Anytime, which together comprise of my three least favorite songs on the album. I think the album rebounds a bit from there, but I'm just not into YG as much as I used to.

I think he really started hitting his stride with his solo albums with his three most recent albums and has definitely started writing stuff that stands amongst the best solo stuff he's ever done. Of course, at least half of Boom Done would appear on my favorite solo songs of his, but even Pixie Queen and Would You Still Be In Love offer stronger songwriting, to me, than Beautiful Things and Young Legs.

 

I love "Moon Song," "Get Yours While You Can," and "Love You No Matter What." That album definitely clicks with me more than it used to, while Young Legs has taken a step down for me, as has Would You Still Be in Love. He writes about sex a lot, which is fine, but "A Little Death" might be the only song of his that makes me cringe. I do love "You're So Dead Meat" and "Changing Shape," though.

 

I get it, I definitely agree with the last paragraph, adding Avalon to the more exceptional work, it's mostly because the debut album had songs collected from many years of writing for different projects, having a backing band to work it out smoothly, and then I'm pretty sure I was more than fine with having new albums from him that definitely sounded like throwing fun ideas around, not trying to create a full body of cohesive output, pretty much up until PQ suddenly felt like a strong production

 

Yeah that is a very apparent theme on Would You Still Be In Love, but I don't mind it. I think the only lyrics that make me cringe are in Love You No Matter What when he sings "Even if spike grow out of your head, and you're shooting vomit fire all on the bed" and "And you're shitting spiders all over the bed"

 

Agreed. Avalon is a strong album. I know Beautiful Things was written over a lengthy period of time as well. Hell, he announced the album in 2009 and it wasn't released until 2012 lol. In fact, he announced Young Legs before Beautiful Things came out too. I just get the sense that he was throwing a lot of ideas at the wall on those two albums and seeing what stuck. I think Pixie Queen was strong return to form.