Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 10

Mother Superior, Hound and the Title Track are 3 of my favorite Coheed tracks

 

Holly Wood definitely redeemed itself with the prechorus and chorus, but man those verses are rough for me.

NWFT is way better than YOTBR.

how do people feel about The Afterman? i feel like if it was slightly more focused (13-15 songs instead of 18) it would be my 3rd favorite behind IKS and GA. Heck, it might be even with the filler.

 

Slightly lower than NWFT, but ahead of their lower tier releases. Some of the songs are beautiful, but I think something about the production holds it back some

 

Agree, there's a lot of fat that could've been cut out, especially on Ascension. Descension is fantastic, but some combination of the two would have put that album up there with SSTB and IKSSE for me.

 

yeah, if it had more consistent production (somewhere around domino, sentry, gravitys, and goodnight fair lady) and fewer songs its on the verge of being top tier coheed.

oddly enough YOTBR turns 7 today, so there's that.

 

lol, I'd say "The Hound" is worse than almost every song on YOTBR. Absolutely epitomizes every reason why post-GA:IV Coheed is such a dropoff from early Coheed in a four-minute statement of utter cheese.

 

I definitely felt this way when Descension was released, and still do today: it could've been legitimately up there close to the first three LPs if it were a single disc with filler cut out. And yeah, better production would've helped its cause, too. Production has been a downfall for this band ever since YOTBR.

 

For me, it's:

IKSSE3
SSTB
GA:IV
NWFT
Afterman Ascension/Descension
Color Before the Sun
YOTBR

I kind of dropped off on them after not loving YOTBR, didn't even listen to the subsequent albums when they first came out and only really came to them in the last year or so. Those top three are all-time classics for a reason, though.

 

IKS
GA
SSTB
Afterman
NWFT
TCBTS
YOTBR

YOTBR is the only one that is subpar to me though. There is a lot to enjoy about each on a full listen through on the rest though.

 

Here's my list of top 35 Coheed songs, in case you care about that sort of thing lol. Two #1s because I literally can't decide.

 

IKS
GA1
SSTB
Afterman
NWFT
TCBTS
YOTBR

The Hound rules and I don't get singling out that song to despise and say is everything wrong with Coheed after GA1

 

Doesn't get any more epic than Willing Well I-II. Absolutely no question those are in my top 10.

The sheer musical imagination that went into those riffs and chord progressions. Jumping seamlessly from one musical idea to another that's on the opposite side of the universe, then back again, all within one song... yet, sounding like a pop song at times. The essence of what makes (made?) this band special. Unfortunately, that part of them all but died at the end of that record.

 

Domino could easily fit in on GA1

 

Yeah, that is definitely the one big exception post-GA. It even sounds like a lost "Willing Well" track. Main difference being a lot of clipping and subpar production, sadly.

 

It's weird how all over the place production wise those two albums are. I know they wanted to scale back after YOTBR was overproduced and fucked with, but it was just odd.

I still absolutely love The Afterman albums. Was a great return to form.

 

Gravity's Union? I always thought that song sounded like YOTBR fully realized.

Just made a 13 track playlist of the afterman that opens with Sentry and ends with Domino, Vic, Evagria, Gravitys Union, and 2s my favorite 1. flows awesome. sets up kind of like GA with welcome home and ends with the entity extractions and gravitys union that plays like willing wells.

 

I think its probably 3rd for me behind IKS and GA. Too many good songs on it, and I think "Evagria" is one of their best kept secrets. "Number City" also.

The Hound is such a good song, one of the better tracks on NWFT. Don't get this sentiment at all, especially with the greasy butt crack that is The Running Free right after it.

 

Hound, Running Free, Gunslingers... it's all the same to me. Absolutely unlistenable cheese.

I find NWFT to be actively obnoxious and embarrassing (except a couple songs), whereas YOTBR sounds more like songs that were admirable on paper but weren't executed like they should've been. Neither is great, but I can at least sit through the latter.

 

No Al the Killer, Welcome Home or Here We Are Juggernaut!?

Still, nice list

 

watched a few live vids of the neverender tour on youtube, and man claudio is sounding great!

 

I'm seriously so excited for this tour. Just a few more weeks!

 

Trying to order this vinyl on their site right now is a nightmare. Site is bogged down and crashing, but it's now in my cart!

(I reallllly want the RSD release but I totally forgot about RDS on the morning of and made plans to help my mom....... also my store prob didnt even get it so oh well. Its $110+ on eBay right now)

*EDIT: Gateway timeout. Now its out of my cart.

 

Currently trying to proceed to checkout. This is crazy. Yep. Bad gateway as well.

 

Same here. I got to final page and now its a spinnign wheel on "credit card type"

My buddy is at same stage. Not sure how to proceed.

 

Chrome and Edge never worked. I got to checkout on my iPhone, entered in my card number, selected shipping, clicked complete order and it said "processing billing address"...... then bad gateway again.