Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair and Eyeballs (January 26, 2024) • Page 42

I'm a poor comparison because my hometown's alt-rock station is Q101 and of course they played both especially with Trio being from here.

 

Correct, I remember We've Had Enough and Time to Waste in particular being huge on Q101 back in the day. Q101 rules, around that time they would play Give it Up by Midtown and AFI and shit...The United States' best radio station lol

 

I grew up in a town where no one knew either band and likely still don’t

 

So what you're saying is you're not from New Jersey or Chicago lol

 

Correct

 

Yep, I owe a lot to those late night shows on Q101.

 

Fuse is the only reason I know about any of these bands.

Specifically, I saw the “Help Me” music video and couldn’t get the song out of my head after that.

 

Fuse (and back when it was Much Music) was so awesome

 

New one isn't good either

 

We used to havea station like that in Philly, Y100, that played "alt rock" but really played a lot of the scene music and pop punk at the time. I heard Trio on there once or twice. THey died in 2005 though and our replacement didn't really hit until 2007 with Alt1045 and by then emo was cresting and they got heavy into the indie and stomp clap hey stuff that shortly followed. They still play some pop pun and emo (and in fact do weekend emo events for Valentines Day and Halloween I think haah), but not nearly as much.

 

Why did you wake up this morning and choose violence

 

It is such a pet peeve of mine when people say things like "it isn't good". History Books is objectively a good album (I think it's great). Maybe try saying something more like "I don't like it" but to say it's not good is ludicrous.

 

Sometimes I forget this site is the one place they're so beloved

 

Maybe he came to get hurt

 

Wow that joke is one for the history books

 

No, we debate song titles here.

 

History Books is great. Bad takes are relegated to the Private Jet Thread.

 

clown behavior

 

I for one, am SHOCKED, that you feel this way

 

Regardless of how I feel about History Books (I like it), I’ve enjoyed more new music in the last six weeks than I did for most of 2023

 

I’m still coming off the high that was October 2023, but finding some great stuff early on here in 2024 (this record included)

 

I’m a casual gaslight fan at best and I thought history books was pretty great

 

I'm also super casual with Gaslight and I listened to a few of the songs and the only one that really grabbed me was the title track. Really do like that.

 

This year is unbelievably stacked, even if only half the announced albums so far are good it'll still be a banner year

 

Tell me more about this


Apologies to the thread for my ill informed innocent Gaslight comparison