Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 99

Juggernaut is a top 10 coheed track

 

Juggernaut is one of their songs available as DLC in Rock Band and that drum chart is insane.

Edit: I lied, it was Guns of Summer lol

 

I honestly still don't think I've ever listened to the whole album

 

The way an album starts/ends has a big impact on my overall feelings towards it, and I can’t explain how underwhelming the title track was the first time I heard it. When it finished I seriously sat there like, “wait, that’s it?”

I also had highly unrealistic expectations after TLATG/2113, Final Cut, and On the Brink. Can’t keep nailing closers forever I guess.

 

Took me a long time, but I think the title track is dope. Love how gloomy and haunting it is, especially once it kicks in

 

YOTBR has a good few highlights for me, but is probably the least consistent Coheed album imo. The highs are some of my favorite Coheed songs though. I remember at one point desperately trying to get the novel but ultimately deciding I didn’t wanna spend hundreds on a second hand copy.

 

Is it really worth hundreds? I should sell mine lmao.

 

I haven’t looked for a few years, but I think cheapest I could find was like $200-300 back when I was.

edit: very briefly checked again and was only able to find one for $280

 

If you’re in the US I’ll send it to you for like $50. I just looked at it, it’s missing the actual album CD, not sure where that ended up. Probably in like a CD case I used to keep in my car somewhere. But everything else in the deluxe edition (art/lyric book, making of DVD, hardcover novel) is yours. It’s just not something I really want to keep moving around anymore lol, the album/band doesn’t have the same attachment for me that it once did.

 

Holy shit for real? I’ll DM you.

 

Good vibes

 

That’s dope. I capitalized on it being worth a lot probably 5ish years ago when I was strapped.

 

The beginning parts of Made Out of Nothing are so good

 

I'm sure this has been rehashed in this thread before, but YOTBR is just another Joe Barresi muddy production casualty. Can't stand most of his work other than with Tool, who he mysteriously finds the competence to mix reasonably well.

Just Juggernaut alone, it's easy to imagine how great it could be if produced exactly like GA1 or something.

 

GA1 is my favorite production on any album ever, I’d settle for it to sound like… literally any of their other albums. The behind the scenes of that one is bleak, real easy to see why they almost broke up. So glad Josh and Zack came (back) around when they did.

 

And speaking of GA 1, listened to the first half last night/second half this morning. I really think it's a perfect album. catchy, just enough progressive tendencies in the guitar work/song structure, and the last time Travis felt fully locked in with Claudio with the leads (NWFT was good in that regard too I guess). Also it's wild that they have The Writing Writer and decide to put the exact same song with a reworked structure and callback bridge on the album a second time and I've never seen anyone question whether it was a good idea and everyone seems to love it. Kind of crazy.

 

Me and my young, curious music brain back in 2006 hearing The Writing Writer basically a 2nd time on the album but in a cooler way:



Thankful I got to see the song Year of the Black Rainbow live. I know what I'm listening to today.

 

Yeah IKS is perfect, top 5 album all time for me

 

First nine tracks on YOBR is a really solid run of songs. I'm getting flashbacks to when this album came out, they played a small venue down the street from my college campus and literally all my roommates and friends went, it was such a great time. I had so many friendships that were forged from common love of this band

 

So I'm listening to YOTBR, and honestly, I'm totally cool with it front to back. As time tends to do, I like the stuff I like more, and feel less strong about stuff that's bothered me in the past, especially having added context that Afterman and Vaxis will come afterwards and get back on track closer to what I personally want Coheed to sound like. I could probably say the same for TCBTS.

 

I bought a copy of the book/dvd set in 2021 for $120. I got all of the comic rarities for less combined.

 

It's cool if you want the book for collecting purposes/morbid curiosity, but it is not a good book.

 

I need to read the book if someone has it and would lend it, I'll pay shipping!

 

I have an epub copy if you’re interested. Don’t remember where it came from, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it

 

Sick, I'm in!